August 27, 2018

It was a nice week, other than the fact that i got sick again! haha It was my comp first getting sick and i tried so hard not to get sick from him but eh you live with the dang man so it’s almost impossible not to. hahaha

Last week for preparation day we went to this ice skating rink. Man i just killed everyone. I was like Michael Jackson doing the moon walk. It was so fun, but I definitely had the biggest crashes. I’m still working on my stopping skills hahaha.

We had a baptism this week! It was awesome. Sorry if i never talked about this guy but his name Sivuyile Manqumakazi. He’s this 12 year old boy who is powerful! His older sister is a member so we were allowed to baptize him but the rest of the family are not members. We invited the mom to the baptism and she absolutely loved it! i really hope it opens up a way so we can teach her now! It could be a super powerful family. There is no father in the picture. He died a few years back but hopefully we can teach the mother and the 18 year old son!

So I’m trying to learn Afrikaans in the 6 weeks i have left on mission. Now what africans sounds like with the accent is it’s reformed Dutch. Now make the reformed Dutch a super ugly/dirty language and that’s what it sounds like. hahaha It’s super fun to try to speak but hopefully and can learn fast.

These past few weeks I’ve been really studying with hard questions to answer! (such as the whole clarifications of speaking in tongues cause Pentecostal churches are huge here) man it makes learning so fun. Then i was with the senior couple here and he showed what he was doing on gospel library..... man oh so i wish that we could have gospel library! Man you have access to everything! It makes studying so much easier! hahaha But i appreciate my dinosaurs, nothing beats the dinosaurs haha. 

Love you,

Elder Shaw