Monday October 1st
we started the day off by going on a hike on Sentinel Peak, it was easily the most beautiful hike Ive ever done. it was so cool! the pictures dont do it Justice:) ill try and send more this week but the internet cafe we use is super slow and we dont get a long time!
Either way we had a lot of fun!! and they had this one part with these super long metal ladders! it was so cool!!! hahaha you'll need to see the pictures!
But we made a HUGE MISTAKE! we thought we made it to the very top of the mountain but apparently we still had like another 2 miles or something and we missed the best part! so were gonna go back next transfer!
also, Elder Harper gave me a call today and delivered some awesome news! Kwaasa, Pelile, And nthombi All passed their Baptismal Interviews!!!! SO I'M Super HAPPY FOR THEM:)
October 2nd, 2017
Well today I had my first door slammed in my face... so that was new! hahaha But its okay, Elder Abel and I had a pretty good attitude about that! hahaha
Also, I Found out that Elder Lichty Baptized sister mofokeng so I gave him the Phone call and told him that she passed away.. poor guy, but he was happy to hear that she was strong in the gospel until the end:)
Wednesday October 3rd
First of all today I met my first Queen! Queen of the Paballong Village, and were teaching her now:) Shes super nice! she had a lot of good questions
Also, Elder Takau and I were playing football OUTSIDE! and one of our passes may could have maybe possibly broken the neighbors electric fence...... I blame Takau for not catching a perfectly thrown pass... that was Slightly high. The problem was that I did nearly Seven Pushups Prior to playing catch.. so I put a bit of heat on the pass.
But all is well in Zion.
Hahaha
Thursday
Elder Abel and I went to visit Sister Leseho. Shes been Less active for a a while and her family owns a Tuck shop. SO we stropped by for Lunch, and practiced some magic tricks! Im Terrible at magic. But I must not be THAT bad because it got her to come to church this week and watch General Conference:) Nailed it!
Also, Weather Update: Its been raining a lot lately and I LOVE IT! It feels soooo nice, and everything is GREEN!!!!!!!!!!!! so that kinda pumps me up! when everything is dead... well, then I feel dead. But now that its all green and pretty it pumps me up! It looks so much prettier than When I first got here! I thought I'd share that with you guys:)
Missing the Oregon Rain!
ALSO! WE WERE FED DINNER TODAY! YES, I REPEAT; WE WERE FED DINNER TODAY! Man, I was beginning to forget what it was like to have Dinner appointments. Luckily, The Church is true and our prayers have been answered we had some delicious chicken and rice at the Uithelar Families house! God bless them!
throughout this transfer Takau's been teaching me how to Crock pot effectively. It truly is an Art, and I have a much deeper appreciation for them now!
Saturday October 7th, 2017
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARY!!! I hope you had an AWESOME Birthday! haha I'm sending you a letter in the mail but it'll be a little late! I Apologize! I heard you were Homecoming Princess:) Congratulations!:)) hahaha Keep up the good work and stay away from Boys!
But today we watched the first session of General Conference:) What stood out the Most to me was Elder Rasbands Talk about "Gods Divine Design, Not Coincidences"! and My favorite Quote that he gave was "One day we will look back at all the Meaningful "Coincidences" and see that it was all Divine Design". I dont know He said something like that something along those lines... But It's SOOO True! Its happened so many times on mission:)Its hard to put in to words but I've met a lot of people that made a really big impact on me, and If I would've been placed in that area a month, a week, or even a day too soon or too late, I Might never have met them. The spirit truly helps guide us to people that need our help.
Sunday October 8th, 2017
"The Greater the Light in our Life; the fewer the Shadows"
So today we had The Second half of General Conference and it was super good too! :))
Im not gonna write a lot cause we have to clean the Boarding tonight, but I thought it was funny today during conference. Everyone in the Chapel was struggling looking down, probably trying to stay awake but then one of the Speakers, I forget who, but he mentioned Nelson Mandela and Everyone sprang to life, all at the same time! I thought that was pretty funny! hahaha and when the guy quoted The Lion King he totally got everyones attention! including myself!
"Look Beyond What You see."
I love you guys so much:) I miss you and I hope you guys had an Awesome week again!
~CTR~
Monday October 9th, 2017
well we emailed, then we went to work... because were moving o
our P-day to Thursday:) so we went out and began to Find, Teach, and do other stuff regular Missionaries do..
Tuesday October 10th, 2017
well today was really really good:) Probably one of my best in this area! haha
Today it Rained super bad so we went to BiBi, the Grocery store, so I could teach elder Abel how to start up a conversation in a different environment.
He didn't know I was planning this so we got there and I was Like "Okay Elder Abel. Lets see if you can do this. I need you to get us one phone number from anyone in this store!"
Shockingly, He Replied "WHAT? How am I gonna do that, I dont even have Pamphlets?"
"Flash them the Name tag. Its got everything they need to know on it. our church, your name, Jesus. thats all they need for now!"
"Well Im gonna need an example!? come on!"
So I went to the first Gogo I saw, passed them as I said "Dumelang".. she replied "Oh, Hi you guys arent from around here arent you?
then she went on and basically made it the EASIEST thing in the world! I got super lucky! haha
Abel was Pretty Ticked off! but it was all in good Spirit hahahahahahaha then we awkwardly walked around the store for about 5 or 10 minutes while Abel tried to talk to them! the guys there weren't giving him the time of day! He said we'll come back tomorrow! haha
Wednesday October 11th, 2017
So we went back to BiBi and he was "Abel" to get three different Phone numbers! Im proud of him! haha We also had DDM, Elder Abel gave the Lesson. it was POWER. haha Hes doing awesome right now:)
Thursday October 12th, 2017
Our real p-day: Today was NICCEEEE! I Swear Depriest Takau and I played football outside the bethlehem Chapel for Hourrsss!!! We had to get our car fixed again cause the breaks sucked so we spent the day with our Zone:) and we finished at an ALL YOU CAN EAT PIZZA PLACE! Im not proud of how many slices I ate though. hahaha
FRIDAY THE 13th
Saturday October 14th, 2017
well we just got transfer news Elder Abel and I are Breaking up. He's gonna go to Richards Bay so I will no longer be training him... instead Im gonna train another Guy! I'll be Training Twice In a row! Im super excited, and nervous! So I dont know who I'll get until Next week:) So Im super Excited!
So More about today; Remember when We went and played basketball a few weeks ago at The University of free State campus? well they gave us a call and the recruited us, Missionaries, as a team in their Final Tournament of the year! so last night we called The Assistance (they said "Well.. you guys have been doing good work soo... as long as you have fun and win) then we started making Preparations. We Designed Uniforms, got our stuff for a Media stand, and well.. designed our uniforms some more! haha we found a bunch of old white shirts, cut the sleeves off and put tons of Mormon Messages on them! Mine had the Church Logo on the back, and the other 3 guys had "Where did I come From?" "Why am I here?" and "Where am I going?".. then we had another one that said WWW.MORMON.ORG! WE HAVE ANSWERS. we figured we'll have to Market this kinda stuff correctly!:) Gotta make people asking themselves these Questions:)
So the Games were super Intense. all in all we did pretty darn good, a lot better than I was expecting!!!! We ended up getting to the Championship game!!! We took Second Overall and we got some cool Silver Medals and a LUNCH! the team we lost to had 3 players that used to play for south South Africas National team..."So they say"... but it was two guys and a girl, they were insane at shooting threes! we couldn't keep up with those! we ended up losing that game 38-52. which is actually a LOT BETTER THAN I WAS EXPECTING! hahaha BUT WE GOT MEDALS! I feel kinda bad.. we didn't even practice.. BUT we met a LOT of super cool people that seem very interested:) Im excited to go teach these guys:)
then we went home showered, and taught a few more people today! it was nice! Elder Abel and I got hard core sunburns though!
Sunday October 15th, 2017
Church was nice:) Elder Abel said his goodbyes to everyone and then we went and had Lunch at president Moetas house:) I love that guy, He's so funny! hahaha
The Other Missionaries went and taught a girl named thabo that they met at basketball. She said that she read the Messages on the backs of our basketball Jerseys and then read the Plan of Salvation Pamphlet, that she picked up at our media stand, she Knows those answers now and it really helped for their Lesson! So that was nice to hear that people benefited in all aspects of that Saturday tournament! hahaha:)
~CTR~
More coming!
Tuesday October 17th, 2017
well today was Elder Abels last day... so we went and he said his goodbyes and stuff... they signed his journal, gave him typical Awkward Missionary hugs, and all that fun stuff! it was nice:) Im gonna miss the guy!
later that Night I played ELder Takau in a game of Rock paper Scissors boxing... It got Pretty competitive.. I ended Up Making a terrible deal with him. winner gets to cut the losers hair however the Winner desires......... Then I lost..... so I bet the the King sized mattress that we just found in the Garage! and Im not gonna make any excuses or anything but..... Yeah. I lost again. so Takau cut my hair..... reallllllyyyy flippin short. Personally I dont think Ill do it again like this, but its NOT TERRIBLE. Im more dissapointed about the mattress though! haha
Wednesday October 18th, 2017
I picked Up My Son Today! Elder BENNETT! From Sandy Utah! He plays the Violin, he's in to Physics, Pottery, and isnt a big fan of sports,also this guys hair is so Blonde it's White, ITS SO COOL!! He's not Much of a talker yet but I think he is still a bit nervous! I Know I was! haha we dont have too much in common yet but I think were gonna get along great! Gonna break this guy in and show him how we work here in AFRICA!! 
Thursday October 19th, 2017
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Friday October 20th, 2017
Saturday October 21st, 2017
Sunday October 22nd, 2017
Well Crap its already Sunday Night and I totally forgot to write in my journal thingy for you guys to read... sorry!! let me think? did anything out of the ordinary happen this week? not really... weve stayed pretty busy throughout the week so thats been nice:) we met some cool people, had some nice lessons:) Elder Bennett is doing really good right now, hes writing in his journal...Ill interrupt him and ask how mission is going... he said "Pretty good." hes a pretty exciting guy! hahaha
were getting along well! :) I hope... unless he secretly hates me and is good at hiding it... in that case, were in trouble! But Im pretty sure were good! I hope this guy knows how much I care about him though.. I really want to help him have a good mission! Hes getting a lot more comforatable lately and is talking a lot more:) than at first! so thats nice:) and hes a Natural in the lessons:)
and lets see.. Church was awesome today! it was combined with Bluegumboch again and it was the Primary Presentation!!!!!!! those kids are ADORABLE! I love listening to their testimonies and all that jazz! haha Church was PACKED TODAY though... luckily we had a pitcher of water at the Sacrament counter cause they Drank it all and we needed More:) it was a record Breaking day at church! :)
Also, I think dont think ive had more people ever comment on a hair cut more than I had today.... it wasnt you everage hair cut comment, I had people come up to me and say "Yep. I heard you got a hair cut!"
first of all... How do you respond to that? I just kinda stood there... paused for a second and was like 'yeahhh.. are people talking about it?' then theyre like "uhh.. no? it.. it looks nice." So I told him "Thanks. I grew it myself."
Remind me never to let takau cut my hair again! He sounded so convincing at first! he was like "Im kind of the best in the mission at cutting hair.." actually, after hearing what he did remind me not to let Any Missionary cut my hair! hahaha but It all grows back! hahaha no worries! :)) (Okay, Update: I had him fix it... it looks a lot better! Eish.. it was a struggle this week)
we went and talked with the princess and her brother the Prince again today:) haha it was a normal lesson nothing crazy happened. I just like saying that I got to hang out with the Royal family! hahaha then we had some extra time on the way to our next appointment so we stopped and took pictures on some big ol' Rocks. Yeah. it was about as exciting as it sounds! hahaha
Monday
Bethelhem district came down for a hike! Ill explain more next week when I have more time.... But it was a lot of fun:)
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