December 5th, 2016:)

Today was our P-day and it was soooo much fun! I gotta email my family then we played football in the park for hours! There's a bar at the park? or a booth? of picnic tables and a bunch of older guys were drinking and watching us play catch! Elder Nielsen isn't very athletic, he's more of a musical/Theater kinda guy.. but the guys drinking we could hear them making bets on him, if he catches the ball or drops it, or if he throws a terrible pass! it was pretty fun cause Nielsen was really cool about it! Then as we were leaving the guy came out and said " do you guys wanna make some money?" and i was like "well it depends what we're doing!? haha".. he told us he'd give us 100 bucks (Rand) if we throw the ball as far as we can to Nielsen, and if he catches it we win! We were like "well i mean we can try? its worth a shot at least!" so he said you get 3 chances to do it.. so we sent Nielsen out in the field and we started filming him! it was pretty exciting! First throw Elder Lesueur threw it way to short and he dropped it.. and we were laughing so hard! it was a lot of fun! haha then I gave it a throw and he actually caught it!!!!!!! it was CRAZY!!!!! the guys went crazy too! it was so much fun! then he told us he'd give us an extra 100 bucks if he could throw it all the way back and he was like 50 yards or so away....... he probably through it a little over half way.. But still we won 100 Rand so we went to the store on the way home and we each bought 2 litres (yeah thats how they spell 'liters'.. I know its annoying.. and they spell 'fiber' 'fibre' ) of soda! haha it was a really good day:)

after we showered and got cleaned up, we went to the Reise's house for family home evening:) we ate rice with like chicken and peppers and baby corn all mixed together.. it was sweet and actually pretty good:)) haha then we gave a spiritual thought (a little mini lesson) , sang a song and then Vicus taught a longer lesson.. and then we played the Dictionary game again:)) it was a lot of fun! after family home evening we always draw a little coin that either says "lesson, Opening Prayer, Treats, song, closing prayer, and spiritual thought:) i drew Opening prayer so i think im gonna try and memorize a short prayer in Afrikaans and try to impress them! hahaha well see though! haha:)

love ya:) gonna get some sleep! haha

December 6th, 2016

well today was nice, we worked a lot:) we got the car fixed today so now we can drive around:) So we went tracting again and i got chased by a monkey! that was by far the scariest thing that's happened to me in africa! there was like 15 monkeys or so just doing there own thing right in the middle of the path and my companion and i had to walk right through them... We did manage to give one of them a pass along card though! hahaha but that wasn't the best idea because when we did that they all thought we had food and started walking closer to us.. so i walked a little faster.. and faster.. and faster.. then i just ran  because those things are creepy looking and will bite ya!

after we did that we went to illovo and interviewed a kid for baptism:) him and his family lived in a township in an old house made of Cinder blocks.. when my companion and i pulled up at their house about eleven little kids surrounded us, jumped on my back, hung from my arms, and really wanted to play! they were soooo cute! it was a lot of fun!!!

then we all drove to the Reise's house to practice our christmas skit and play some games!:) our skits gonna be pretty bad and totally embarrassing! so if someone films it ill be sure to send it to ya! hahaha

December 9th, 2016

The last few days have been a lot of work.. but ive been enjoying every second! well.. most of the seconds.. im still not very happy with that monkey from the other day.. but last night was so cool! there was a HUGE lightning storm and it was BEAUTIFUL!!! it lit up the entire sky, we got a few pictures of or view and you would think its the middle of the day but the lightning was just super powerful! i took a bunch of videos so ill try and send them to you! hopefully their not too big!

Today is my companions birthday sooooo same thing as yesterday! haha 

nah a member made us a big birthday dinner and we played some games, it was a lot of fun! hahaha

December 10th, 2016

today we our ward Christmas party and boy was it fun! i was in two skits and it was completely embarrassing! but in a good way! haha ill try and send you guys one of the videos! haha for our skit we were in a "car" with our "mission President" on our way to the air port as if our two years were up and we were going home! and... well.. i dont wanna give anything away but i can do a sick macarena! hahaha hopefully you'll see from the video.. they filmed kinda far away so its hard to hear what were saying so i hope it makes sense! haha

then we did a bigger skit but it was a huge flop, too long, didn't make any sense, and the old guys in our ward can't read their lines very well... i'm not even gonna bother sending it to you or explaining it.. but i wore a plastic bag and my name was "Mr. Price"

then i learned how to Brai.. i think thats how you spell it? its basically barbecuing but everyone bring their own meat and we all cook it together!

December 11th

Today i had to give a talk in church!  i crushed it by the way! but i felt really bad because i went first and the last speaker, our stake president or something, didn't have much to say cause i took all of his info!.... i felt really bad! this bishop gave all three of us the same topic.