Feb 23, 2009

Well it's an interesting story of where i'm currently at...i'll get there in just a bit...but it's been a good week.
Transfer news came in on Tuesday of last week and i found out that i would be serving up in Windhoek (Vind-hook) Namibia for the next little while. Usually when they send missionaries to Nam they usually leave them up there for 6 plus months. So that's where i'll be for the next little while. Well thursday came around and i got everything packed and we had to be in Cape Town by 9pm but me and Elder Power got things done pretty quick...well me...and we just drove down early and hit up Century City. A big mall here in Cape Town. Walked around forever cuz we hadn't planned anything for the day. And ate some all you can eat pizza which wasnt even that good. Well we picked up Elder Power's new companion and slept over in some other elders boarding for the night. We were a 5some. It was a terrible night's sleep. Woke up the next morning and we had Zone Conference here for the Cape North Zone. They kept us and we had planned on leaving for Namibia after the Zone Conference. The reason they had it early, the Zone Conference, is because we had Elder Watson of the Area Presidency come and talk to us. He was also going to speak later on that night in Bellville (part of CT) he served as Secretary to like 6 previous Presidents of the Church and the Quorem of the Twelve. It was a decent talk...he told some cool stories. His wife also spoke for a little while. Well after that we headed back to the mission home and everyone that had to hop on a plane did and the rest of us, (going to nam) had to wait til Saturday for our flight. Well we found out right then that all of our Visas had gotten rejected to go up to Nam so long story short...I'm currently in a 3some serving in Bellville for the time being. It's about 35 Kms from Paarl. Towards Cape Town...in the same area. My Comps are Elders Lotuleli and Gouws. Gouws came up from George in the Eastern Cape where he had been serving for a while. He's a skater...so we have much to talk about! ha! He's from SA. Elder Lu is from West Valley and he's tight. He's just been in Bellville for one transfer. He's a big Tongan guy...way chill. I dunno how long i'm going to be here in Bellville...maybe a week...maybe a few weeks. not quite sure. But it's cool either way. It's been pretty good this past few days.
Things in Bellville are a bit different. It's a HUGE area. As for the missionary work it's a bit more difficult as for finding anybody new and for teaching..compared to Paarl. They're lucky if they find 1 investigator a week. And for stats and everything...it's just harder to do stuff. Bellville in general is a beautiful place tho. Very high class. Got some very nice people that i've already met...O and funny story...
Yesterday at church we met a lot of people and one lady came up and when she greeted me she was like you're Irish huh. I was like yeah i think so. So she starts telling me that her family's name is Deviney or something weird and how they always used to pronounce it Devine. Basically she said that me and her are related some how...and she wants us to come see her. Apparently...as i'm told by Elder Lu that she's a little crazy. haha. But we're going to try to see her sometime so maybe i'll find out i have some Devenney's down here in Bellville. Funny stuff!
As i said we met some great families here and our Branch President in Paarl, President Kruger, lives here in Bellville so we're going to his house tomorrow for a FHE. Cuz i saw him at that Fireside on Saturday night with Elder Watson...So i have some connections here in Bellville. Actually a lot of people recognized me at church yesterday..and when i tell people i was up in Paarl they usually know somebody up there.
Well things are doing good and I'll keep you posted when i go up to Namibia. Thanks everybody!
Holly i got your package with alex's stuff and pics so thank you!
See ya!
Elder Devenney