My companion is Elder Mosweswe, he has been out for about a year now, and is from Botswana. Botswana elders go to this mission because Botswana was not letting anyone else in to share the gospel and only last transfer let people come in.
Elder Mosweswe is pretty awesome, he speaks English well though occasionally ill struggle to understand his accent i have gotten mostly used to it now. He teaches very different from how i like to teach and from how i was taught to teach in the mtc. In the mtc we were taught to teach simply and short. He teaches very long and in much detail. However that seems to be the way you need to do it here, because if you font the Africans have soooo many questions that you would then be stuck there forever.
My first investigator was a man named Tshephang (te-pong) He came to church with a friend right before i got here and so it was our first meeting. he had got a gospel principles book from somewhere and read it all before we met him. He had lots of questions and we were not really able to get into a lesson because the questions were all over the place. However he looks like a very promising investigator.
I have been fed a couple times since we got here, very large meals, i'm really worried i'll end up gaining weight in this mission because its rude to not eat everything. Though i have explained to a couple members that i really don't eat much food and they have been understanding. I have not eaten anything strange yet, the only thing different really that i have eaten is pap, which really does not agree with my stomach at all, and they eat a ton of it when they have it. The one things that will take a while to get used to is eating with my hands, it depends on the family and the meal but it seems as if they eat with their hands quite a bit.
On the subject of food, today is pday, so i get to go out shopping with foreign money, that i have to keep on my card with prices that i don't know, so figuring out what to buy is gonna be fun. Cant wait till i know the money and prices and then get transferred to somewhere with different currency. :D
We have a a few investigators and several of them are on date for baptism, though we just rescheduled a couple as well. The current goal is to have four baptisms before next transfer, so four baptisms in six weeks.
Driving on the left side of the road has been fun, it didn't take much getting used to, though occasionally i desire to turn onto the right side of the road. And i may or may not have nearly killed us the other day by starting to turn onto the right side of the road. :\ Luckily my companion was paying attention. :D
I have not seen a ton of animals, but there are often cows or goats crossing the roads or walking beside it. And there was a donkey on the way here.
My companion thought it would be fun to play a trick on me and had a member pretend to be and investigator for us to teach. He then proceeded to go hardcore question everything, and be very difficult just to be difficult, and my companion was not helping teach. so that was pretty chill.
Sorry i don't have any pictures this week, i brought the wrong cord for my camera and i cant put an sd card in this computer.
Anyway, i cant wait till i have more great experiences in Botswana.
How is everyone? What's up in your lives?
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