November 29th, 2016

Well I feel like we do almost the same thing each day so I'm not sure exactly what to write in this anymore... it would get pretty repetitive and boring if i told you guys everything we do each day... so I don't think my emails will be as long as the first few:/ 

hmmm... tomorrow I have a meeting with our mission president   he seems like a really nice guy:) we met him a few weeks ago when we got to Durban... but holy cow, no joke he's a BILLIONAIRE! he was telling us what his job was and he's a super successful business man and was like the CEO of DELL... he travels all over the world and was the guy that started opening more.. umm.. Units, companies,whats the word? stores? you know to help their company spread all over the world! Either way he made bank!

November 30th, 2016

The interview went great:) he's such a cool guy:) "now were gonna go get hair cuts and pick up some bread and stuff:) then drop it off shower, get changed and head to our appointments:)" 

.... well that was our plan.. it seemed pretty straight forward but after we changed and headed to our appointment we were driving down the road, all four of us, and there was a branch that broke and was hanging all the way across the road.. my companion was driving and didn't see it because it was right as we came around the corner...  he thought the branch looked small enough to go through...buuuuutttt, it shattered our windshield and now we cant use our car till it gets fixed:/ just one of those things that happen I guess.. nobody's fault, just kinda sucks.. so we had to cancel our Dinner Appointment and call to let the office know what happened... then we just watched the best two years...

I hope that doesn't happen again hahaha

DECEMBER 1st, 2016

Wow. its ALREADY December!! the days are FLYYIINNGG by right now! 

oh my haircut from yesterday looks great! I had to cut it cause people at church were judging me! oh well! I buzzed the sides and left it long on top:) talk about terrifying! I hate going to see new hair barbers! The guy barely understood English! I told him how much i wanted taken off in inches and I forgot they don't use those here, so it was an awkward conversation for a little bit. then I said he should just use scissors.. then he looked at me and started buzzing away....... whatever, it looks good.. hahaha

Today we TRACTED ALLLLLL DAY. Nielsen and Eastmond dropped us off on beach road, because we don't have a car yet, and we talked to almost every.single.person. we got FORTY peoples phone numbers! were gonna call most of them tomorrow and see if we can set up appointments to come talk to them:) 

so to celebrate an AWESOME day of work we went to an ALL YOU CAN EAT PIZZA PLACE!! It was Sooooo good! i had 16 slices of pizza and I'm soooo full! 

but holy cow these days are seriously going by sooo fast!! honestly I'm really happy our time difference is so different because I would drive myself crazy thinking "I wonder what mom is doing Right now?" now I know she's just sleeping so it's easier to not think about it.. then its harder to get homesick.. ya know what I mean? 

but I do miss you a lot! I wanna be at home more than anything,, so I can watch Mary, Jake, and Aspen play basketball, and watch Max, and Trevor at wrestling:) 

I miss you guys so much! i wish i could be with you!

but after what happened today, I know I'm here for the right reason. these people need to hear the gospel. And some for a few, I believe that I'm the only person that can help bring them closer to the gospel. If that is bringing them to church and baptizing them. or even showing them that they should change something super small in their life to help them become more Christ-like.

 

I love you guys so much. and I'm Super excited to see you on Christmas:) <3

December 3rd, 2016

well its been kinda hard to go place to place without our car because weve been sharing it with the other two guys... they wont let us drive ours because of the windsheild:/ so we haven't been able to get to all of our appointments, but we've done our best.. But this morning we did service at the church. Our church has a HUGGEEE Garden that wraps all around the building! it's really cool:) it was hot but i had a lot of fun:) one of my favorite people in our ward is Vicus! hes so cool! he played pro Rugby and is the coolest (most normal) guy here:)

then after the service project we got some McDonalds :) After Mcdonalds we went to Macro and I bought a new camera and i LOOOVVVEEEE it:))) i got the canon PowerShot SX620 HS:) ITS AWESOME! then we were gonna go talk to people but elder Neilson apparently got bit by a spider while we were in the garden so we had to call the Medical couple, sister Wood. she told us to go to a pharmacist and get some stuff.. but by the time we got there it was closed so we called her again and we had to go to our room so she could bring him some cream and stuff... So Elder Eastmond and I went on exchanges to a Members house that is in his area:) the Cebo's, and they were super nice:)))

Elder Neilsons fine... i don't think it was even a spider bite... I swear it's just a thorn. I think he's overreacting.. but the thorns here are super intense!! I dumped some weeds in the trash pile and a thorn stabbed straight through my SHOE! that was pretty eye opening and terrifying! but don't worry I put some ointment stuff on it, so I will be fine! hahaha

I LOVE YOU!

L-Durh Merritt

Sunday December 5th

Today was fast sunday... but whats nice about fast sunday's in this area is that we have a family that'll feed us after church so we can break the fast:) but their food was disgusting.. so that was pretty disappointing.. haha

oh and we've been practicing some skits for next saturday at our ward christmas party:) if they film them I will definitely send them to you! hahaha

after that we just kinda chilled all day  cause ya know, its sunday. and sundays are pretty slow.. but tomorrows P-DAYY!!! im excited cause we getta sleep in an extra hour:)) oh and I getta send you this email and hear how everybody is doing!:)

love ya, and I will talk to you next week:)