So this week has been quite a good week, but of course as always it has gone super duper fast as always and it is already Monday, but we have had a really good week!We taught 16 lessons to investigators this week which is really exciting! Nothing big coming up soon, but still teaching and still progressing with these people. Sometime this week we are going to re-contact all of the ones that we want to start teaching again and hopefully it will all pick up! We have like 30+ investigators we just lost contact with many of them.
Holidays here can be difficult because for 2 weeks now it is the Easter holidays, so people are going to be hard to get a hold of and also all the college students that we teach will all have gone home or on holiday, so it might slow down for these two weeks but we will still keep working hard.
We are working hard though and I love it! It is awesome to come home at night and say yes we did work hard today. It's just teaching teaching teaching and the time flies by! Soon it's 4pm and then it's 8pm and then it's home for the day! It's kinda scary.
I also made dinner for myself this week.Mashed Potato, carrots and fish fingers! It was an adventure but it turned out to be quite nice. The most important thing though was definitely the tomato ketchup I had, that really is a missionaries best friend!
The weather is getting a bit cooler. Still quite warm at 29 Celsius today and very sunny, but nice and cool, and bearable! I was able to wear my suit yesterday without dying of heat! Although I think that I won't be wearing my suit again on Fasting Sundays :P
Elder Bonifaz was ill this week. He has the flu and a terrible cough. Although strength to keep working, he gets up a little late and we went and rested for an hour or two sunday afternoon, where he slept. But after that we went out and started working again which really pleased me.
Still driving a lot, but the car has a big rattle but we think thats just the spare tire not being screwed down, we're gonna have a look at it today before we go get it washed.
We went to see Sister Bobbie this week as well which was a wonderful trip. It was lovely to see her, and to help her and uplift her. she is really strong og a lovely lady. She as always gave us some encouragement and instruction on how to be better missionaries! Which we really want to be.Funny comparison, so we went to see a less active who lives about 15 minutes from the chapel by car. She doesn't come to church because she can't afford the taxi... which is like R40 or something (£2) But last time we visited her, someone gave her R100 to come to church....... which when it happened screamed against my basic instinct, but I remained quiet. So she came to church that week, but she wasn't there this week..... and when we visited her this week, she went in a kinda.... sermon (bit like what happens to born again's when they start reciting) about how we should do missionary work. At this point I kinda got a little defensive, I didn't say anything but I wasn't too receptive.
But I learned a lot from that. In that we have to be understanding and not preach to people, listen to them, but also that I need to be more humble. Something I am working on and something i am trying hard at so :)
The language barrier with some people is kinda a problem but we are getting through and the work is going well.
Elder Bonifaz has told President that I am ready to train another new missionary or something which I'm like, yeah I could do that, but being Junior Companion is very nice too. Although I hope I stay in Potchefstroom. I love it here and the people are so nice. the street names are quite funny as well :PLots of love,
Jack
