Questions:
We teach on a good week like 20
lessons, on a rough week 10
Preparation day: we have gone to
table mountain, waterfalls, or hikes, and in extreme cases we can go to game
reserves to see cool animals but i haven’t done that yet. The last 2 weeks we
just played sports though.
We have like 95 missionaries in our
mission i think
We have to be out of the
township/shanty town at like 7:30 and we”re usually home by like 8:30 cause
people dont let you in after 8 or schedule times with you.
My town covers like all of boise
valley so theres many towns, but mainly; summerset west, strand, gordons bay,
and stellenbosch
Drew lane is in eastern cape which is
like 4 hours away from me on a flight. .
Are you doing anything with the 25
days 25 ways? we visit member and emphasize a lot on that initiative! it’s a
cool idea but its hard for missionaries to do since we”re limited. I can
already tell Christmas is going to be different. ive learned to love serving
other people. Every time we get a service opportunity its the best!!!!
I miss mcdonalds sooooo much. i wish
we could eat out but we never have enough money. I don’t understand, because
some elders get fed so much and we’re starving over here. Tell Elder Brown im
sorry i didnt go on splits with them. now seeing how crucial it is to have
people to fellowship. our ward here does do much with missionary work. we don’t
get referrals from them and there’s so much missionary work to do here. We only
go to ward council when we are invited so like once a month maybe im not sure.
When you receive a referral study shows in the SACTM mission 50% of them get
baptized so they are really useful! but sadly. hopefully the Christmas 25 days
25 ways thing will get some referrals and good investigators!
Man we visited a member family where
the dad died because of cancer and the mom is left with 4 kids who are
treturous. Like the oldest who is 15 just plays video games allllll day and
does nothing. the next is 12 and is a piano genius like truman. the next is 7
and is a girl who hates being a mormon cause she can never hang with her
friends on sunday and the youngest has ADHD an ADD and Dyslexia, i dont really
know if he does but man i woudnt be suprized cause he is a challenge. Anyways
it just made me realize how blessed i was to grow up in such a good home and
environment, thank you soooo much. I can’t even fathom.
Tell dad to look up those pictures
that we saw of devision between white and black homes and how they live so
close but such a difference. if you look at that it is just like that here.
Like tin shacks with kids toys and tires on the roof to hold it down so it
doesnt blow away and then in the nice white areas you have in 2 Rivers area
with REALLY nice houses. its crazy
Love you lots
Elder Shaw
Sorry i tried to load picture but it
takes forever to load so ill try next week cause they didnt load in time.
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