Its great to hear from everyone again! Sounds like the week has been mostly good and no one died so thats always a positive! My week has been somewhat hectic but very good!
Monday night Elder M left me :( That kid has become my brother and I miss him like crazy. Being my first companion, I don't think anyone will ever live up to his standard. He went to Chatsworth in Durban to be a Zone Leader. The good thing about that is that he gets a lot more Airtime so he calls me all the time and we chat and laugh. He actually just texted me and says that he is in the mission office and I have mail there like crazy! haha yes!!!!
Monday night, and all of Tuesday until about 6pm, I was in a fivesome with the Elders from Bethlehem and Elder K. We stayed up until 1 am playing Risk like super nerds! But no worries, I won all 3 games! Just call me General Peterson! Tuesday we just partied all day and ate food like crazy! We bought cold drinks (sodas), sno balls (deep fried goodness covered in coconut), and sweets and just pigged out all day while watching 17 miracles. It was a glorious time!
Tuesday evening, myself and Elder K got our new companions. His is Elder W who was companions with Elder S (went out from SLC with Cam). My companion is Elder N. He is also from Malawi! I think I am going to serve a mission there or something... He is 7 1/2 months on mission. So he is my follow-up trainer and I think he will be training here once I leave. But he is very very short! Like 4 inches taller than Jacey short! Its kind of like having her around, only a black, boy, missionary version ;) Totally just kidding! He is a very humble kid and kind of quiet. I guess I can't call him kid because he is older than me. He is 23. He really knows the scriptures, like a lot, which is cool when we teach, but he quotes them all the time. Like all the time. Elder K and I like to talk about music, and random things, and then he will always quote something or ask a question about the bible and its kind of awkward... But we will see how it goes! Its only been a week and so far its been good so I'm looking forward to a good transfer with him!
So yesterday, we were at FHE at Ntate Maloi's house, the guy that made me drink sour chunky milk, and I got a call from the Assistants. I went out and was talking to them and they told me I have to learn to drive manual. I am thinking that means I will be transferred this coming transfer to a new area! Im crossing my fingers for Swaziland! (I tried so, so many times to get him to practice--good thing he had the dune buggy and learned how, at least!)
But this last week, we got bunked like crazy! We would have about 6 appointments every day, but we would maybe only see 1 or 2. It was a very slow week. We were trying to make back up plans and back ups for our back ups but it seemed like everyone was just ditching us. Right now I am in charge of the area because I am the older, so I was trying to think of everything but nothing was working. It was a rough week. But yesterday at church we had 13 investigators show up! A lot that we hadn't seen during the week so hopefully this week we will be able to meet with them and get back on schedule!
Since this last week has been so hectic, I was depressed. The Valentines Day package I got last week, I finished all the chocolate way too quick haha! I really just feasted upon it and finished it all! I especially loved the pop tarts! I miss pop tarts so much...
I don't have any crazy story to share this week sadly. We learned a little more about the killer devil snake on the mountain and now we know exactly how to get there. We are going there after emailing today! Not really Mom don't worry! ;)
Overall this past week has been good. It was definitely not the best working week, but there were some good moments. I am excited to have a new companion and I am hoping I can learn a lot from him. We have a good teaching pool and a lot of investigators. Now we just have to dig in and see what fruits we can make help grow and hopefully harvest! I love you all so much and I look forward to hearing from you next week and sharing some more stories with you! Have a good week! Love Elder Peterson
