Ambassador and Advocate - Curry - Green Cream Soda November 10, 2014

So here is the news. Not a whole ton this week. But I'll try to stretch it! :)

I think last week, someone was asking about a Primary Program. And if they do them here. I don't know why I didn't answer. But our Primary Program was yesterday. They do them in the more developed wards. And Florida is definitely a developed ward. It was cute. But I missed the normal Cedar Hollow Fourth Ward Primary Program. They do a better job ;)

Okay. So Friday we had exchanges. Ambassador, one of our investigators was interviewed. So Elder Brasher, our district leader came here. Anyway. Ambassador is 18. Super sweet kid. He actually reads the pamphlets we give him, ALWAYS comes to church. And we will be baptising his little brother, Advocate on the thirtieth as well. Anyway. They are both super cool! But I had a great time with Elder Brasher. He is from Idaho. He is a year younger than me. But is older than me on mission. Anyway, it was just so great to talk to someone that I have things in common with. Long story short, got in bed on time. But then, ya know, a few conversations later, it was about 4:30 in the morning. Hmm. But it was fun. Good conversations! But the rest of my weekend was spent being very tired! haha! Still don't regret it though. :)

Saturday night was good. Well, weekends usually suck here. I have become pretty good at filling our week days, but Saturday and Sundays are hard. Anyway. Saturday we went to the Williamson family's house for dinner. I mean, not like we went far, they live in the same house as us. Ha! But they are a sweet family. They have two cute kids. One is five the other is seven. The five year old isn't in school yet. His name is Lincoln. He likes to entertain us during our lunch break. And in the mornings. He is so funny! He also likes to look at all of my pictures! So when we went for dinner he was telling his parents all about me! They were like, we don't even need to invite the elders over, we can just ask Lincoln and we will know everything about you! Haha! Anyway. The wife is Indian. She is from Durban. There are a lot of Indians in Durban. And they Husband is white South African. Anyway. They made us Curry. I LOVE curry. Anyway. The wife, Sam. She went somewhere in the Southern US on her mission. Very interesting. Don't meet a lot of people who went on mission to the US. Anyway. She loves Mexican food. So we talked about Mexican food! And because Mexican food and spices here are so expensive, she has learned to make a lot of it from scratch. Anyway. She is going to teach me how to make taco seasoning! And then some other delicious things. And I am going to teach her how to make salsa! I am also going to learn how to make home made tortillas. Cause buying like a pack of six here is about four dollars or more. Ridiculous. But I am just learning every day. I love cooking. Takes my mind of things for a bit. It will be nice to be able to make my Mexican food for a bit cheaper though!

So right now it is the rainy season. Also summer. Anyway. Today we had the plans to go to a Lion and Rhino park. Where you get to play with Lions and Cheetahs and stuff. Anyway. It decided to down pour on us. So yeah, won't be doing that. oh well. Instead we are going to go to a museum? And see Mandela's house? I don't really know, but it should be cool.

I hear from Elder Swan every week. Sounds like things are going well in my African home of KaNyamazane. I miss it there so much. But I just remind myself that I need to be thankful that I was able to serve there.

Here is an odd tidbit. So we email at our Land Lord's house. The Bray's. They are super nice. Anyway. I will probably be able to Skype here on Christmas. Anyway. That is a random thought inside of a random though. But here is the real random though. So they have cream soda here. But it's NOTHING like cream soda at home. I can't even begin to describe it. But the only thing I can tell you is that it's green. Gross. Anyway, I really don't like it. But people here love it. Anyway, Sister Bray just brought us both HUGE glasses of cream soda. So here I go. Chug Chug Chug... :( Haha! But it was still a super nice gesture! People here love to give us soda, but it's called cold drink here.

Anyway. I am running out of things to tell you. Things are going pretty well here. I am enjoying the members. Also enjoying new friends in our district. Elder Brasher, and Elder Ryan. Good to be around some more people that are similar to me. I love you. And miss you like crazy. Thank you for everything. I love you!