So first off Monday was boring I got some stuff to have music and things then got a hair cut. Apparently all the missionaries I have gotten emails from are doing that these days.
Tuesday was cool because the AP's chose our area to do testing the promises; which is basically they take all the new elders and have them go place copies of the Book of Mormon and restoration pamphlets and such. The elder I got to do that with was from Ireland and South Africa originally he was awesome and we got a ton of referrals!
Wednesday was funny because of two reasons. One Teron is super fat in the Christmas card. Don't deny it.( Mom-Yeah finally card was mailed on Nov. 20th.) Two: We were driving to a lesson and going through a round about when a guy tried to overtake another car. He saw me and swerved back onto his side of the road. He could have easily just corrected himself but no. He continues to turn and drives strait into a wall. My companion, our fellow-shipper and I pull over to see if the man is alright and he was. When we got back to the car we all started dying. Because the guy couldn't back out and just kept ramming into the wall.
Thursday was boring. Friday on the other hand, oh boy. So we get ready to go to district meeting and my companion and I go to the car. Which is still the gold Etios a manual with no stereo. The Etios is not starting so we call the fleet manager. He says to "push start it". Neither elder K or myself have ever done that so we call another elder who had driven an Etios all his mission and get the directions on how to do that. It works and we continue on with our day.
Then later that night we go to a recent converts house to teach their family. All the family is either members or recent converts or very young. On Tuesday when we visited we were told that when we parked there some tootsies (criminals) wanted to hijack the car so we pull the car in. We go to do that same thing this time, but I left the keys on the seat. I went to help close the gate and BAM! The cars locked with the key inside. We call the fleet manager. He is not in the office and no one is. We have to break in. Now I was really the only one that had some experience and knowledge with this. I said "I will need a couple wire hangers and a thing to wedge open the door". We got the items, and I tried to fish the keys. I got them after a little while but when I got them the thing I was holding it by snapped and the keys went under the seat. Now all we could do was roll down the window because the locks weren't the push down and pull up one . We wedge the door and we roll down the window slowly since it was a hand crank. Thank you Heavenly father! Finally unlock the door and get the key yada yada yada that's Friday.
Saturday: We always play soccer at half ten on Saturday in the area so we do this, when we come back to the flat the lock won't turn. We had the keys but the lock was not working. NOW we live on the third story so we ask people what they would do and the senior couple there said "to take of the door knob". I am not sure if they realized that wasn't going to do anything but the other elders were sure it would help. IT DID NOTHING!. So we are down to one option. The land lord said "we can borrow a ladder and go through our balcony windows since they were open. Yeah that's what we do. We extend the ladder get it up there and we look at each other and say. Alright who is going up? All three of them look at me.... They said I was a rock climber and I am the lightest. I knew those ab circuits would bite me in the butt. So I go up and it wasn't to bad except near the top the ladder started to bend some but luckily I just grabbed onto the balcony and climbed on then went through the window. I opened the door from the inside. I can now say I have broken into both of our possessions where thieves would want to go. Fun Stuff. ( I would send pictures but both of the times my camera was locked in the car)
Sunday: We had the Baptism which was incredible, spirit was strong good stuff yeah not much to tell. I gave a talk on what baptism means. We had one lesson with an Investigator that I Really want to get baptized. We talked about the Book of Mormon. This guy can talk for days LITERALLY! He starts going off on faith and growing your testimony and things and I couldn't help but smile. I told him at the end of his sermon I guess you could call it that everything nearly word for word that he had said the past hour was all in that book. HE WAS SHOCKED! He then decided he was really gonna read it. That's my week.
Thank you for tuning in to this weeks adventures in SA. Just remember I love you all.
Elder Tucker (the gangster)
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