Christmas Week!!

December 19th, P-DAYYYY

today was a lot of fun! besides the heat! We went to Funland again and we hit FOUR JACKPOTS!!!!!!! We have over 1,000 tickets! I think were gonna save up till we can get matching RC Helicopters for 6,000? Either that or Monopoly the board game! hahaha 

Later tonight we went Christmas caroling! we went sooooooo far away though! I could have sworn we were out of our zone but apparently our zone is WAYYY bigger than I thought! we definitely need to buy a map of our area cause there's a lot we didn't know about it! We passed a place called Crock-World! Apparently they have a bunch of live crocodiles there, so were gonna go check that out next week! haha:) Anyways, we Christmas caroled for about 5 families and then gave them some cookies:) they really appreciated it! 

Wanna play a game? its called "GUESS HOW MANY BLIND PEOPLE ARE IN OUR WARD!!!"

not one, not two, not even three,... now try guessing four... well if you guessed four then youre 100% WRONG! we have FIVE blind people in our ward right now! most famously is our bishops wife! Well thats all for today, folks stay tuned for our next episode of "GUESS HOW MANY BLIND PEOPLE ARE IN OUR WARD!!!"

Thursday: December 22nd, 2016

Well today was a lot of fun:) I got lots of Birthday wishes from people at church! I really like these people, and I'm making lots of new friends:) a little 7 year old girl named Buthle called me and sang happy birthday to me:) she's adorable. We're best friends btw! Anyway, a few more families said happy birthday to me, and my mission Presidents wife called and talked to me to wish me happy birthday:)

OH!! and today to celebrate my birthday we went out to eat at a delicious all you can eat pizza place! well its all you can eat on thursdays, which was perfect! They even gave me a birthday chocolate pizza cake thing:) It was really good! haha

But this morning we had to do a SUPER INTENSE cleaning of our apartment because they're doing inspections to make sure our apartment is clean and were not just up here cooking meth all day...I hear the Wood's are super strict when it comes to their apartment checks so i guess its gonna be interesting in the morning! :/ 

 

But all in all my birthday was pretty darn good and im loving it here in Africa!! haha I guess its the first year i didnt see snow on my Birthday... but i did see plenty of monkeys! haha

Friday December 23rd

Today was aweessommmeee:)) we had lunch with sister bell, shes reallllyyyy old and adorable! haha shes really nice:) she even gave us some cookies so that was awesome:)

We just went on a walk and played catch! we walked down to the beach and when we got there a super cool lighting storm started! it was Beautifulllll!!!:) then we walked back because it was getting bad! haha i walked back without my shoes and it was so weird to feel hot water run down the street over my feet! it was so cool:)

Saturday december 24th, Christmas Eve!:0

Today was also a lot of fun:) This morning our entire zone went to kwaMashu and we played soccer for like three hours! It was so much fun and I got to know all the people in my area a lot more, so that was nice.. I think this was the first time in my life that i got a SUN BURN on Christmas Eve!

And tonight we got invited to a member house and we did a braai:) they live in the township of Isipingo.. its kinda like a ghetto area... but the food was delicious!!! they even brought their truck up and played a bunch of zulu music really loud and they taught us some funny zulu dances! hahahah it was so much fun!! hahaha And i was helping this guy cook some chicken and he was like ÿo whats yo name man?"... öh its Elder Merritt:)"And he was like, "Maaaann we all *iggas out here. ima just call you merritt. we cool?".. it was so hard to keep a straight face when he said that hhaha

Alright I'm gonna get some sleep:) I love you guys! haha