Hello everyone,
Well I made it safe and sound. My first area is Margate, it's beautiful and the people are great. The weather is pretty mild so far, very humid though. Ill just have to get used to being wet. Food is pretty similar so far nothing to out of the ordinary yet. There's a good mix of cultures I've run into about half and half Zulu and Afrikaans and a few Indians here and there for good measure. I like teaching the Indians because in there culture it is very rude to have someone in there house with out giving them something to eat and most of the time it's sweet meats (which is like cupcakes and such) the other day we taught an Indian lady and she gave us homemade snowballs, very tasty. Ive got my camera to work so I'm going to send you a picture or two of my boarding (apartment) which is a converted horse stable on the Branch Presidents property. It's nice a cozy and everything works fairly well.
Church on Sunday was great we meet in an old Red Cross building but we're hoping to be able to build a chapel of our own soon. We had 14 Investigators a large part of that was a group of young women from a local hostel (which is like a public boarding school) they sang a traditional Zulu song for us, it was beautiful.
I've got to tell you about one thing that happened to me this week. It was Friday night and I was praying before bed. I was having a rough day getting used to everything and I was thinking to myself "whats the point of this, do I deserve to be here, am I supposed to be here?" that sort of thing so I asked God to let me know if I was supposed to be on a mission, If I deserved to be on a mission, If it mattered that I was here now, or if there was any point to what I was doing. And while I was praying for our investigators and the people we had met this week I got a feeling we should visit one of our investigators tomorrow. Her name is Gogo Francisca ( Gogo is grandma in Zulu, it's respectful to call all older women Gogo) Gogo Francisca is one of those very wise old women. She doesn't speak English very well but she has a lot to say. We usually meet with her on Wednesdays but I got this feeling we needed to see her the next day. I thought, naa that's just me wanting to feel like I'm doing something important it doesn't matter what day we go. But again the thought filled my entire mind until I couldn't think of anything else. So I got up wrote it down in my planner and told my companion that we needed to go see Gogo tomorrow. He agreed. The next morning when I got up I thought that this was the answer, if she wasn't home or didn't need us in any way than I would know that I didn't need to be here. We drove to maGogo's and knocked on the door. She has a young girl who comes and helps clean the house she invited us in and told Gogo that we were here. Gogo who is about 75ish got out of bed and came to sit with us. The first thing she said was "You guys think it is a small thing when you come here, you see lots of people and you think it is small when you come here. But it's not small, not to me. My heart is empty but when you leave here it is full. I am so glad you came." Right then I knew that I was where I was supposed to be. She wasn't in danger or anything critical of that nature but I know that the spirit did truly speak to me on behalf of those I have been called to take stewardship over.
These pictures are taking a life time to upload so I think Ill only be able to get off two or three the First here is of my room the second is of me and my comp. His name is Elder Tidwell. He's a great trainer, he's from Las Vegas and we're actually a lot alike. In fact most people we meet think we're brothers because of our glasses. It turns out mail takes about 10 days to get from me to you but an undistinguished time to get from you to me, so it's a good idea to email and let me know that you sent something if you do. I'll send more pictures if I can next time.
I love you all!
Elder Scott Brazee
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