Week 2

     This past week in the mtc has been pretty crazy, a ton of classes but the teachers are way cool. We have one teacher whose name is Brother M.  He has some weird language which is super fun, like "slayage". So any time we do a lesson and we do fantastic we have "slayed it". We have been doing a lot of practice teaching with the teachers. I have definitely seen growth in my testimony and my teaching skills.  It was pretty funny because my new companion is from Alaska. He was talking about how every person he talked to had a huge trial or something like that where they were reassured of the gospel. Each of us and has a huge testimony so that's why we were all called to Africa. I have also been told some about my mission field in that appaarently the Africans are a very proud people so they may be hard to teach. The lord provides a way just like Nephi says.  Our teachers say that the farther north you get the more religion is everything, especially with Teron in Kenya. 
      Also during our sports time I have learned a few new tricks with the hacky sack thanks to Elder, they're sick, trust me.  We have made sure were going to get at least one investigator through hacky sack means! That would be great! There is not much else going on but just so everyone knows there will not be a weekly email next week because we are going to the field so it will be the following week when you'll get one. Sorry for the typos we only have thirty minutes. Cheers mates

Elder Jeron Tucker

Hey Everybody its been a while. I arrived in South Africa on Friday night ( Johannesburg time). It was pretty crazy fun stuff though. Some interesting experiences though were going through the passport stuff the clerk dude saw that I was wearing a suit and a bag and asked me "if i was a man of god".  I said I was and I am serving a mission in Cape town after my stay at the MTC. He looked straight at me and said, "Alright then feed my soul so I told him he has a heavenly father who loves him and knows him" because that was the first thing that came to mind. So he said "thank you and his soul felt lifted". So i feel I did a decent job after not sleeping for 24 hrs.

 The MTC is way fun I would load pictures but the network is way too slow, so that will have to wait for the field. I have and awesome companion from Lehi,  who has a a very strong testimony. Fun fact the SAMTC is the smallest MTC in the world The biggest it got was 38 missionaries so a lot smaller than Provo. The accents here are more like an Australian accent rather than a English or African so that is fun. Also when we arrived the escorts took us to Mcdonalds ( apparently they are not on every street corner here).  And they have green creme soda which tastes funny, but its pretty good. I am learning a lot and found a few missionaries going to cape town and a few teachers that have been there. So we have been learning about that and finding out the needs of investigators. We have a few African missionaries and English is there second language so they get to say prayers in their original language which is way fun. My next email will be next tuesday then after that we will be in the field because were only here for 16 days.  

Love you all, have great adventures back home just like I will here. Jeron