So first, my P-days will be on Mondays. And also, like many of you noticed The MTC took all of my, hair ha-ha.  

I guess I will start with leaving the MTC. We had to wake up at 4:30 to leave to the airport. The flight was about 2 hours long to Cape Town. The AP's picked us all up and took us to the mission home where we met President and his wife and then ate lunch. Then they took us to this mountaintop called signal point and I guess its where they take all the missionaries when they first get there. That was pretty cool. We then split up with other missionaries and did some finding.

The next morning we received our first assignment and first areas. My new companion is Elder Shelembe. He is from Johannesburg and goes home in January, so he has been on the mission for a while. My first Are is called Mdantsane. Its a Township outside of East London. It is so different here than it is in America. There are people everywhere on the sides of the road. And there are just these tiny houses everywhere. It's funny because I am literally the only white guy here and so everyone stares at me and all of the kids just yell molungu! which means the white guy in Xosa. That is another thing I have noticed. Everyone speaks Xosa here which is one of the click languages. My Companion knows how to speak it a little so he has started teaching me.

The Members here are amazing! They are so kind and are always feeding us even though it is hard financially for them. They are always giving us referrals for new investigators we could teach. Mission life is not what I expected it to be like. At first, I was just so shocked that I was actually here. I still am haha but I am starting to feel more comfortable and used to my surroundings.

Spiritual Note of the week:

Me and my companion went and visited a less active lady and her family and she told us that she missed the church music. So we told her that we were going to go get one of the families in our ward that lived down the street to come help us sing to her. As we started to sing the Mama began crying and it was such a cool experience. This has been my first experience on my mission where I saw for myself the spirit doing its job and testifying to her.

Man, I love you guys and I'm sorry if I didn't answer all of your questions. If you have more questions email them to me. I am trying to upload all of my pictures to google drive so that you guys can just look at them that way. I will have mom try and share it with all of you.