Christmas in the summer

So Christmas is now over already.

Yeah glad that I can start to get back to normal and back into the normal swing of things. 

That'll be set in stone in the new year, after the zone activity (paint-balling or crocodile farm!) and everyone comes back from their summer holidays.

Christmas at home sounds awesome. Christmas for me was Jo'Burg and the talent show where we sang "As Elders in Klerksdorp": 


1.As Elders in Jo'Burg we all work together; The Blessings of God on our Labours we'll seek. We'll build up his Kingdom in deepest North-West; We'll Comfort the Gogos and strengthen Tsotsis."

Chorus: We are in Africa. We are Sharing the Gospel with all those that are free and not busy

2. The work as an Elder is not always easy, Afrikaaners are yelling and dogs like to bite. But ours is the duty to help them realise that no we're not schoolboys and yes we're Christians.

3. How vast is our purpose how broad is our mission, if we but fulfil it in spirit and deed. Oh naughty the children who call us Mulungu, Magoa, eta ola, ekse fede, chap chap!"

It was very fun to perform, but one of the best ones there was definitely the office couples doing an awesome skit and dance to a pop song.

President Dunn did a Kermit the frog skit, with a Kermit puppet.

One of the elders played the guitar and sang while they balanced 25 Book of Mormons on his head and he walked around the stage!

All in all it was pretty awesome and skyping you guys was amazing. Home seems pretty much the same, but we'll see what it's like in 6 months.

This week has been pretty good. Ups and downs of course but all is going well. Getting more and more confident. 

I am slowly starting to get to know the area we are in. Elder Benson knows the area well and I am still learning.

We've got a couple of people that are progressing well so we hope that they'll be baptised soon! within the coming month if we can! 

We had a Christmas Carol service at one of the senior couples neighbours which was awesome. It went really well, a good 10 people or so came and people loved it.

Hopefully we'll be able to teach some people there!

Looking forward for the weeks to come, continuing to work hard as I can and keep going.

Hope that everyone has had a good Christmas and wish everyone the best for 2016, the year that i won't be able to see at home :-)


Elder Jorgensen