Monday, July 23, 2018

July 23, 2018

Man i love Port Elizabeth! This area is awesome but super dangerous haha. My comp is from Brazil and learning English. He only been out for 3ish months so he’s new.

When we arrived on Sunday no one had played the piano in months for their ward so i jumped up there being over confident in my abilities and just slaughtered it hahahah. It was really funny but they were all grateful i could just play! But i got called on to give another talk. Man, i swear i talk every single week!!! but that’s ok. The ward here is awesome. I’m pretty much whitewashing again cause last transfer the elders in the area got hijacked and they had to close the area so we moved here and there hasn’t been missionaries here in a while so the members are all excited to do missionary work and giving us referrals, which is awesome!

I had to say goodbye to my mission buddies this week and it was really sad because I’m going to miss them all lot! Many of the people in this mission are from other countries then America so i won’t see any of them probably ever again. It’s really sad!

There are a lot of elders here that have some anxiety and sometimes they develops into depression.

What you said “You should be the most skilled you are ever going to be as missionary in your last area.  Be a waste to spend 21 months learning how to be a great missionary and then not use those skills” Is great advice and i actually read that in the Book of Mormon which was really cool! I forgot to write about it so maybe i will next week but i realized that! I need to trust in my companion to display and be an instrument even though he has a hard time with English.

Love ya,


Elder Shaw

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