South Africa Saints

Nice quote from an old Hindu lady this week, more about her later though. Big shoutout to anyone who actually reads these emails, hopefully the pain and suffering I go through to write them is worth a few laughs. This week was a drag. Most weeks I’m like wow it's already Pday. This week it’s like yo when is this week ending?! On Monday we went and visited the beach with our district. We're not allowed to touch the sand though so it's like,  wow, I bet the ocean/beach looks really pretty. Wish I could see it from the parking lot we're in.   OH, WE WENT MINI GOLFING. Hopefully writing that in all caps made you think it was a special experience, no... it was trash. I got 2nd place behind my trainer Elder Ferguson, who by the way is getting transferred out on Thursday. So now Elder Cottrell with a whopping 5 weeks of mission field experience, gets to lead the hardest area in South Africa. You might think that's an exaggeration. I thought so too until I came here. I just...

Finally Pday!! Ok today's subject actually makes sense for this week. We had a monkey invasion and a fly infestation.  So, I'm sitting in personal study one morning as any good missionary does, then out of the corner of my eye I see the broom fall to the floor. I don't even know why, but my mind immediately went to monkeys. And I was right, one of them came in through a window, through the prison bars and then took some eggs from our fridge.  It didn't even touch a single banana that was just readily available. (See the photos link for videos of the monkeys and more!) That brings me to my next issue, those bananas seemed to have given birth to a crap ton of flies, and not just little ones. These were fat, who's yo momma flies. Anyway, everywhere you go in our apartment you can now find dead flies. We got a mini hoop, shoutout to Ferguson’s mom. It's become the way we settle things like where to go for dinner. Idk why I agreed to this because I'm so bad at ba...

Hi, so we went fishing on Pday and I fell off.  Nah, I'm just joking.  That first sentence of the email has to bait you in some how.  lol Guys, I really don't know what to label my emails, but shark attack seemed like a nice one for this week.  And just like last week, this week has gone by just as fast. On Pday we played basketball which meant I ran up and down the court with nobody passing Elder Cottrell the ball because I'm absolutely garbage at basketball. I don't even think anything happened on Tuesday, if I'm being honest.  I can't remember, actually that's when our sink broke. The faucet got stripped somehow and it was stuck just full blasting water, and here you have to buy the things like your water and power in certain amounts, and when it runs out it just shuts off.  So, this week we actually ran out of both.  That was fun to go through.  Videos of the sink debacle are in the google photos link at the top of this email. I went on an exc...

Joking obviously, I just don't have a good thing to put in the subject. I actually eat plenty and I like the food, I was worried about that before I got here. This week has flown by like actually how in the world is it already Monday? And just like every email I write, I have no idea what to talk about. The work is still slow here but hopefully it can pick up here soon this week. This email might actually be like shorter than Lord Farquad, but hey at least you're getting one from me. Some highlights are: - we went to the mall - had a good meeting with a new person - got held at spear point (didn't even know that was a thing, but hey it happened) - we also got held at rebar point (again didn't know this was a thing either) But all of these people are so drunk if you just tell them that there's free beer down the street, they'll go running there and forget you exist. Everyone wants to take a picture with us because I guess we're cute or something.  (We're ...