Getting on very well. The main thing for this week is that it has been MUCH cooler. It has been glorious! It was on Thursday we went out, I'm in my short sleeve shirt, Elder Bonifaz has a jacket on and there are people walking around with big blankets on because they are cold :') But honestly it felt just like home! It was overcast and a bit rainy which was nice and cool. So good weather! People were astounded when they saw me, but it was really nice.
Hopefully we will be having some baptisms soon in the next couple of months. We have 5 people scheduled at the minute. One of them will be a bit longer as when we went by him he was high as a kite on drugs, like over the rainbow and far away, he couldn't actually talk properly :-)
The other funny thing, we were out in Extension 6 trying to find this guy, he said his name was Mountain....... and he wanted money, but we had an appointment and resolved that everyone deserves to hear the gospel so we went out and looked for 30 mins but couldn't find his place, interestingly though we did see something funny, it's on one of the pictures. These tin shacks (they call them Mokhu khu) basically have the very basics but most of them still have satellite TV :') Made me smile.
Watched the General Conference this week which was very nice to finally see. I learned a lot actually and took some notes which actually was really important because later that day when we went teaching I actually used some of those notes in our teaching. Going out on Sunday afternoons though is probably one of the hardest times (apart from Monday night after p-day) because we always get fed on Sunday afternoons by the Louws and it's always delicious, and we are quite tired and I just wanna take a nap after, but we keep working! No p-day eve for us :P
Also learned that German is the celestial language :P but also when he was giving that talk and talking about the bombers, i realised that it was our (British) planes that were doing those things :S But it was a really good talk from Dieter Uchtdorf and it really motivated me and helped me realise, that this isn't our work. The fruit of our labours aren't the baptisms we have but the voice of warning that we raise! We are here to teach.
I also liked Patrick Kearon's talk about the Refugees, a lot of people could do with listening to that talk.
Also, in the Sunday Afternoon session, when they announced the last speaker was Jeffrey R Holland, me and Elder Bonifaz looked at each other and were just like yeahhhhH!!!! I really enjoyed his talk too and can''t wait to get the Liahona magazine so we can read them (click here)!
On to more worldly things, we ran out of water this week :') Luckily I still had R600 spare so we could go and by some (86000L) and I'll get reimbursed. So we were only without water for 1 or 2 days.
Then we also were fed Phuto. Now what Phuto is they make pap, then they take SOUR milk (which you buy from the shop) pour some of that on and then also pour fresh milk on and eat...... it is quite interesting, they love it. I finished my bowl, but I was 'full' afterwards :P
The problem we have as well is that many people are poor. They can't actually always afford to feed us, which means they cancel their appointment. which leaves us with a gap. But what we need them to know is that we don't mind not being fed, so long as we can still come and see/teach them! But it's in their culture to feed their guests and feed the best they have. Very humbling experience.
We've also been teaching kids as well 9+ which is interesting experience, we just use lots of pictures and simple words, like waking up for resurrection ;)
With primary, actually we talked to the branch president and thankfully said what we wanted, he said that the 8 and under are the primary responsibility and we shouldn't go and teach them, but we can teach them in their families, which we have done and works quite well actually. We use simple words and lots of pictures. Having the parents is also really helpful, one of the fathers referred to resurrection as waking up, which was very clever.
Thats about it for this week. Will have transfer news by next week and I will see if I am going or staying so that will be exciting.
I love you all.
Love Elder Jorgensen
