Feb 1, 2010

Hey there! Well i'll start from the beginning of this past week. We went golfing believe it or not...for last pday. It was 4 of us driving around getting lost trying to find this golf course a little ways out...well we eventually got there. It was a nice cloudy overcast day...and even started raining about half way through but we didnt mind. We only had 2 sets of clubs with us...and did all 18 holes. It was basically my first time golfing all mission. So it was pretty fun. We were the only ones on the course i'd say...and it was cheap cheap! it was 45 rand for 18 holes...so like 7 bucks. Yeah it was awesome. it took us like 4 1/2 hours to finish tho...so that was the downer...but it was way fun. The course was close to the ocean...and we could see it from some holes...and we even had families of springbok running through some of the course.

The next day we saw the Harty family. That white family that we're teaching and taught about the BOM with them...they new some...but nothing that was really correct...so we helped them get a better understanding about it as well as the bible. We invited them to come to church and the wife was way into it...at the Catholic church she's never been able to take the sacrament there because she's not a member so that's always bugged her but we told her she could at our church and she was happy about that. The wife was more excited about coming than the husband and he said that he didnt want to promise...well unfortunately they didnt come...which kinda sucks but hopefully next week we will. We're planning to take Bro Flowerday our Ward mission leader with us this coming week. So hopefully that'll be successful.

We're still teaching betty and elijah but i think they have some concerns a bit...and they flaked out of coming to church this sunday which is way stuipd...so we're kinda just thinking about what to do next with them...

We had Zone Conference on Thursday which was pretty good. I got picked for another spontaneous talk that was way gay and i'm pretty sure no one prepared for...i had written some things down but didnt really understand it nor did anybody else...so i kinda just made some stuff up and i suppose it made sense...haha. It was some scripture in D&C 29 i think...about spiritual vs temporal laws...but as for the rest of the conference it went really well. Our focus this transfer is on Health and budgeting. Keeping ourselves physically, mentally, and spiritually healthy. So we went over exercising a lot and also about how to budget our money. It's a big thing they're pushing for. So we got a chart and everything to track all our purchases and what what. Trying to make it so our money doesnt run out before the 2 weeks til we get more...but yeah that's about it. It was pretty good.

Had a nice district meeting on Friday morning...I focused on just safety when driving and as well just all the followups that we've gone over in the past. It was really good...After lunch on friday we went over to Michael and Mandy Van Nikerk's place and helped them move a bed to another room...well it sounded easy...but it wasn't. It was like this huge bunk bed log bed that needed to be taken apart and put back together and it had a huge desk thing on the bottom...Michael and Mandy are great...they always have us over for waffles and stuff and invite us for food lots...recently married couple in their 30's i'd say...mandy has been a member forever and has a boy and a girl, 16 and 11. Michael is a convert of only about 2 years...but yeah mandy is prego with another baby. They're awesome...anyway...that took about 3 hours to move that bed...it sucked. haha. Then we just had appointments after...

Saturday we played soccer in the morning...that was nice. We got a referral from a member family in the other ward of a lady that lives in our area. So we went and saw her. She's about 25 going through a divorce and we were able to meet with her and her mother and sister and some other kids...it went really well. At the end of our discussion...which was basically about faith and just kinda building the relationship and getting to know eachother and sharing thoughts what what...she expressed that she's had many people from other churches to their house in the past and we were the first ones that she's really felt good about and completely agreed with what we shared. So we felt pretty happy about that. Then after that we went to the Flowerday's again and we helped make dinner. We made Calamari and it was dang good! That took a while. Jackie...the mother...had her brother pass away just a few days ago...so it was kinda a cheer up dinner thing. But it went really well. Great family...they do too much for us...haha.

Sunday church was good...nothing too much going on...our original DA that we were supposed to have with the Faku family fell through and the Flowerday's just said come over and they'd feed us. So we did...and that was super nice. We ended up watching our SACTM end of year dvd slideshow with them which was great because Ethan is about to get his mission call in the post hopefully in the next week or two and it was kinda encouragement to get excited...It was a good ender to the night. That's about it...

Today we hope to play tennis...i've been wanting to for so long...and we organized all the equipment so it should be awesome.

Cooney and i are doing fine. We're getting along and what not...it's taken about a week and a half to get used to eachother but i thnk we're finally past the "honeymoon" part of the transfer and we feel pretty normal around eachother. haha. So yeah...doing good.

Thanks for everything! Much love,
Elder Devenney