All in all the week has been pretty good! We have found 9 new people to teach this week!
one of them, we were looking for an investigator, and she wasn't there, so we turn to leave and the guy that we talked to calls to us, so we go back, sit down with him and end up teaching him a lesson! Turns out that he helped to renovate the Bedforview Chapel! And he'd met the missionaries before but nothing had happened! So it was amazing to meet him! We shall see where it goes with him!The other was this family! So I talked to this guy on the street, just as we were going to the car, after an investigator wasn't home. I walked all the way to the end of the street until I finally got his number, address and an appointment!
I didn't think much of it, and my companion said that he thought he wasn't too interested, but I thought that we could get something out of it. Anyway, we go to the area and we were struggling to find the house, so we decide to try and go to one of our other appointments and come back in about 30 minutes. So when we come back, we get out and walk around a bit. Then this lady calls to us, so we go over and she invites us in! Turns out it was the house that we were looking for. And they had been expecting us!! It was amazing! It is a mother with 3 daughters, and her boyfriend (her husband passed away a couple of years ago) They are so nice and kind! They loved it when I spoke my limited Zulu to them. And they ended up giving my companion a South African name.
So my name that I was given back in Potchefstroom is Sizwe. (Sea s way), which means "the nation" and they gave my companion the name: "Lungile" (lun gi lay) which means; "Innocent one"
So it was a lot of fun!
One of the members, her name is Heather Wood. She is a returned less active that has a lot of health problems. We visit her every week but this week I took my photo album to show her, she really enjoyed it, and she told me to tell you that I have a very nice family! And that I should be very grateful for them!
Something else as well was when I got one of the members in Glen Ridge to sign my journal, she wrote in it that I need to thank you from her for raising me and allowing me to come to South Africa. She is grateful for you being my parents.
I remembered that just now :3 She was very nice to us and a wonderful family!
In other news, you may have heard that there have been some protests about the President of this country, Jacob Zuma. There were some protests in London I heard.
For us there was a couple of protesters, but for the most part we were okay, we only saw them once and that was in the richer part of town.
But apparently, in Central Jo'Burg it was very bad! There was a massive crowd and apparently if you didn't join them on their march they beat you up! Anyway it's all up in the air but we as missionaries don't really pay much attention to it!
We managed to watch Conference this week! All 10 hours of it!
The hardest part was on Sunday when we watched (with breaks in between) from 8am till 3pm
By the end I felt like it was night time.
But all in all it was really good! I enjoyed it, got a lot out and had a few questions answered! So it was really really nice!
I liked a lot of the talks from the Seventy, they were very good talks. The apostles didn't speak much and Dieter F Uchtdorf didn't mention planes once!!! I was very sad! he he.
I felt like it focused on the Godhead, the Plan of Salvation and Charity. Well at least for me, they were the areas that were emphasised!
I love my mission and it is going really well! One of the things that I've learned on my mission is that it is just easier to let things go. Some things don't matter so no point worrying about them.
Love Jack
