So lets just dive right in! I have hit my six month mark, which makes me officially no longer a greenie so that is pretty cool.
Also we had zone conference, That was pretty rad, we had some super cool presentations and lessons and stuff. But the most stressful part about it for me was that the AP'S called us the night before at 9:45 and told me that president just decided that he wants me to give a fifteen minute talk at the conference in the morning. The stressful thing was that i was already asleep and lights out is at 10. Also they generally give this assignments a week or two before. But none the less i think i pulled off a pretty successful talk as i saw people taking notes and even the mission presidents wife said she loved it. Job well done?
Black Friday happened.... We went to get lunch after district meeting on Friday and it ended up taking five hours.... Wow, frustrating!
We played some football Saturday morning which was pretty fun, it was raining a lot and we got totally soaked! But it was fun anyway, i much prefer playing in the rain than in the sun.
Saturday night we got transfer news, Now my companion and i were pretty sure that we would stay together because we are both fairly new in the area and there is less elders coming in than there are leaving so we thought the odds were stacked in our favor that we would stay together. (Actually everyone thought we would. ) But it turns out we were wrong! My companion is headed to mamelodi! (in Pretoria, it's similar to his first area.)
It turns out that the reason for Elder Çoka leaving is because president wanted me to train a new elder in Polokwane! So my new companion will be Elder Spence, I'm not sure where he is from but i will be sure to let you guys know next week, for sure though he is from The USA. (Also my first american companion except elder Hillyer who i had for two weeks.)
Not only am i training however but all three Americans from my mtc group are training, thats Elder Harms(i predicted that) and elder Spencer (he wanted to train elder Spence very bad.) Not only them either but also two elders who are younger than us! Wow, the mission is being trained by young people this transfer! Oh! And i found out who the Elder from ak is, its elder Palmer he is coming in a couple days from eagle river.
Anyway, come Sunday and elder Çoka gives his farewell testimony and i am asked to give a talk in church. People liked my talk, job well done? Also they were super upset to see Elder Çoka leaving.
Went around saying goodbye to people and ended up with two dinner appointments. I cannot say i am happy to see Elder Çoka go either, i have had a wonderful time with him and sure will miss him. He made several people cry because he is leaving. But i am excited to meet my new elder and bring him up to speed on the ins and outs of missionary work.
In other smaller news we have a wonderful new investigator named Silentino he came to church with us on Sunday and said that he only got three hours of sleep because he was so excited to go to church.
The work is coming along in Polokwane and if i do say so myself it is developing into one of the best areas in the mission!
The scripture for this week is 1 timothy 4:12 Remember that no matter what people say or do they cannot change you actions. Stand strong and be an example of Christ in everything you do.
Love Elder Smith!
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