April 11, 2011

Dear Friends and Family,

This last week went well, we are working hard. Have I told you about Bernard? He's an investigator we found in our area book that the Elders were teaching about a year and a half ago. He's a really good man, cares a lot about the family and the community. He's the one that we went with to build the chicken coop in the rural area outside Margate. We were teaching a lesson in his home last night when his wife came in and began speaking urgently in Zulu, I couldn't pick up any of the words but Bernard's face looked very alarmed. After they had finished speaking he turned to us and told us that a small child had damaged our car. That could mean any number of things, so we quickly went outside to see what was going on. There was a crowed gathered around our car and the neighbors 1985 Mercedes which had left its parked position on the other side of the street and some how ended up smashed into our rear bumper. There were no witnesses to what happened but after speaking to the nneighbors, with a little help from Bernard we pieced together that the neighbors three year old son had climbed into the drivers seat of his Dad's car and somehow pulled the parking break. Because the road was on a bit of a slope he rolled right into us. There was some damage but nothing terrible, the young boy wasn't hurt and had really no idea what was going on. But this is where the story gets potent. We had decided to park the car a little down from Bernard's house, I'm still getting used to driving on the other side of the road and I thought it would be easier to just pull to the side rather than up onto his driveway. I was parked right in front of a river. If our car hadn't been parked we would have been pulling a very injured little boy out of rushing water instead exchanging information over a smashed light and a few dents. The father was very grateful to us for having our car parked there even though its going to be very very tough for him to find the money to fix his car. How's that for a blessing in disguise.

I hope you are all doing very well, tell Russ I say hello! I'm so excited for him. It'll be great to have him home. You are all in my thoughts and prayers.

Much Love,

Elder Scott Brazee

P.s. Attached is a photo of my in front of a real life Krusty Krab, although to mine and my companions dismay is was recently shut down. And thus my quest to consume a genuine Krabby Patty continues...