Molweni wonderful people. It's been a long time sense I've sat down and gotten time to write out a email. It's good to finally send one out to all of you. I just hope you are doing as great as I am.
I've officially been out a long time. Around abouts 17 months. Which is weird to thing about, time flies. But it's been fun. Now to start us off, I need to warn you there is a lot I could talk about. So with my skill in writing many things will probably not be mentioned nor explained well. I hope you all can follow along though. 😁
I am serving in Mdantsane still. And am the only white person in the ward and even in the whole town besides the other missionaries. So it's fun, I get lots of looks and some weird experiences. Like I've had random people want me to marry someone. I've had a guy bow down to me and kiss my hand. I've had quite a few compliments. And a few opposite compliments. (what are they called?). So I mean. So if anyone has any recommendations on what to do let me know. I would love some help. I get called a white man where ever I go... So I don't know how I feel about that, I just try to smile and wave.
But work wise. I'm now covering 2 wards, and boy is it busy. I'm running up and down trying to make it to stuff on time. We have a YSA family home evening that we started that meets Tuesdays and Saturdays. We also are teaching at a few schools. And we are planning on teaching at the college too. (I'm flexing right now) just kidding, kind of...
Anyways it's sad with the Xhosa culture (BTW Xhosa the X in it is a click on the side of your mouth. It sounds like a horses gallop almost) the Xhosa culture is almost reverse gospel. We teach no alcohol they teach drinking everyday. We teach worship and pray to God they teach pray to your ancestors. We teach about families and Chastity. They teach - and almost encourage- and have a lot of single young mothers.
So all in all it's pretty interesting. But it's a wonderful fun experience. If anyone wants to come to South Africa after my mission I'll take you. (expessially if you pay) but I Know God Loves you. And he wants you to be happy. So stay awesome and stay loving and stay away from wasting time on social media.
With love, and school kids. Elder Brice (the boss)
I've also realized I am not good at taking pictures. So I'm taking applications for anyone who wants to start taking photos of me....
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