Travis Mission Pretoria South Africa

Howdy ya'll! Merry Christmas to all of you! I apologize in advance for the super beefy email. I promise that it will be worth the read! Also sorry for not sending an email last week, it was a very very hectic pday. For that reason, I'll justs sum up the whole week with a spiritual story. Story:  It was the end of our day, and we decided we wanted to call one more person to see if we could meet them. When our guy picked up the phone, he told us that he was a very busy man because he was one of the few guys that delivered water to people's tanks (there's next to no running water in the Tickyline village). We said we understand, but Elder Muller was inspired to ask for his license plate number so we could be on the lookout for his water truck so we could follow him to a jo to meet him there if we ever saw him. We said goodbywe and hung up the phone, joking that we'd see him eventually because there were only about 10 water trucks, period. Lo and behold, 5 seconds later...

Howdy yall! Sorry for another late email. Hope yall enjoy! Monday: Not too much I remember. I don't think anything super special happened outside of me and a couple other elders went and layed some bricks for our branch pres. Fun labor! Tuesday: A pretty regular, standard day. Nothing too crazy happened, and nothing super out of the ordinary. Just lessons, contacts, and driving. Wednesday: Kind of an off day. We only taught one actual lesson, and resorted to helping branch president again with his bricks at the end of the day. We had some nice snacks after from his wife so that made the day a little better. Thursday: The best day of the week! All of our lessons went through, and we didn't have any real gaps in our schedule to fill. Busy and uplifting, a great day!! Friday: A pretty mid day. A couple lessons, a lot of contacts, and another brick session with President. The guy is 68 and wants to refuse our help with manual labor. What an insane man! Saturday: Saturday was ROUGH!...

Howdy ya'll! This was a spectacular week! Until the end... Monday: We got the car washed and I made tons of cookie dough. All of the ingredients were paid for by the mission! After that we had a fantastic Thanksgiving dinner at the senior couple's home! It was a good day. Tuesday: We had a very normal day. Nothing super special happened thay I can remember. Lots of lessons and lots of hope. Wednesday: The spiritual high from Sunday continued, even though almost every lesson fell through. One that didn't, though, was one that wasn't scheduled. It was a man named Charles, and ill go over it in my spiritual thought. The few we had were very good and fulfilling. That night we had a choir practice and I sang a solo. Thursday: Another day of not remembering much. I think we put a few more people on date but I'm not too sure if it was this day. Overall what I remember is a full day of teaching. Friday: Zone Conference! This was the Christmas celebration Conference so itbwa...