March 16, 2009

Hey everybody...this week was pretty good...just like most other weeks. We worked with Bro. Joosta...our Bdate canidate...well was. At the moment it's on hold becuase of his smoking still...but we got him the 15 step program like i think i might have told you...and it's going alright. We're hoping things will get back on track for him in the next week so we can have another date for him.
So i'm totally a chef here...well not in our flat and not for our companionship...cuz we never eat at our boarding. We get fed a lot by members, which is great, but we also eat out a lot...which isn't as great...haha. But saturday we went over to the Browns...great family. they have 4 sons and the father is the Elders Q Pres. They invited us over to cook our food for sunday after church. We went and we made Rooties...idunno how to spell it. Basically like tortillas that we made from scratch. We got to eat them yesterday with some curray and it was dang good. Spicey, but good. We get fed lots of hot food down here...but it's good stuff.
O something amazing happened this week...well sorta. A few weeks ago right outside our flat a guy came up to me named William (Villiam) and just talked to me while my comps kept walking up to our flat. He's like mid 20's white guy. I talked to him briefly and i just introduced what we did. He lives/lived at the same complex that we live. He always wondered about us cuz he saw us but never wanted to ask any questions. Well we chatted and i found out he was moving out on saturday, i offered for us to help and saturday came around but we got busy and i guess he got other guys to help him anyway. Well while we talked he said he wanted to meet with us and he was married and his wife was over in Hong Kong or something like that. Well i just had his address but then he moved. All the following week i was thinking about him and thinking how we could find out where he moved or how we could get his number...and then i kinda forgot about it this week. Well to make it short we were at the mall buying some stuff and we were in our whites and we decided to just go to one more store and as we walked in a guy came out, i double checked cuz he looked familiar, he did the same thing, and guess what! it was William. We greeted eachother and what not and talked for a bit. My comps kept walking cuz they had no idea who it was and they just assumed i knew him from Paarl. Well i got his details and he's stoked on us meeting with him. So we're planning on contacting him prob tomorrow to go meet with him and his wife. I think he just wants to learn more about it...idunno if he fully understands why we would come. But it was definitely a blessing to see as i had thought about him so much and figured we would never see him again. Heavenly Father definitely placed him in our path. But yeah i'll keep ya posted and let ya know how it goes this week.
We've decided to do a service project for the community...well at least me and Elder Gouws got this great idea. We're going to build ramps, or boxes or something for the skatepark here in Durbanville. (the skatepark i had said) it's a pretty decent park, just ouside, but some stuff could be better and we want to fix it up and clean it. So we made an announcement yesterday in church asking for old scraps of wood and what not so that people could help us get started. We're pretty stoked about it...well the idea at least...Sounds good eh? O and i learned how to do a pole jam!
President Probst called the other night and let me know that they've met for a 3rd time up in Nam to find out details..but he doesnt quite know for sure yet. It just needs to be approved. It's still that they are just thinking we're going up to steal jobs. It's not us personally...just in general. There are still 5 or 6 waiting to go up. If we dont go up this transfer...since there's only like 2 weeeks left anyway...something will happen for next transfer...he'll just have to figure it out. But yeah things are still going good.
Thanks! Love
Elder Devenney