Alrighty, so I don't have a wonderful interlude to my email today sorry folks its been a crazy week.

We started out on Monday playing soccer with some other missionaries after spending like an hour at the office. We found out that our whole bathroom is getting redone, so we would be without a shower or bath for a few days. Luckily The AP's live just downstairs so we get to use their shower. Hopefully shower will be fixed soon our tile guy had to postpone, still waiting.

Our car sucks for one, and then something going on with the brakes. So we talk to the fleet coordinator to get it checked out. We had to take the car in on Wednesday. Dropping off our car and doing weekly planning at the same time so it was a very busy morning!  

Thursday we got a curve ball, we were to be a tripanionship that day with another Elder whose companion went home. So we were post elders/office elders for about half the day. It was kinda fun at first then super boring. Luckily we all got to go to our appointments for the rest of the day.

On Friday we are going to pick up our car. We asked the Senior Elder to take us to the dealership to get the car which is new to us. I named her-the car- Addison by the way if you were wondering. 

We do service each week.  Visit members kinda like home teaching. Visit new members, teach about Christ to anyone that will listen. Mom I am safe people are great here. They just ask us for money but are pretty nice when we don't have any. 

The Mission President was at the office and gave us some hints of the transfers going on. He looked at my comp and said, " Your getting a new companion". Turns out Elder K is going to Port Elizabeth. He is a super Elder and has done a great job as my trainer. 

Then the president turned to me and said "Elder Tucker are you ready to work?" I was quite confused. He then proceeded to tell me they were combining the two areas of Gugulethu.  My soon to be new companion Elder G. was in the other area of Gugulethu and since I know my half and he knows his half, together we will know the area. He and I have been frantically trying to plan to make sure we can funnel these two areas into the one, its been fun. The Lord will help us though to make it work so it will be nice.  

With the new area change we have about twenty five or so people with Baptismal dates! One for the twelfth of March that is the closest I think. 

Have a wonderful week everyone. Elder Jeron

Good morning star shine South Africa says hello.

Molweni Ikhaya, Ninjani? (Loose translation of above statement)

Thanks for all of the wonderful emails its great to hear from you guys. But I know why your really here, to learn about how the mission is going. 

We went on two exchanges in our district this week one because one of the elders strained a muscle in his neck. Stupid bathtub. It was all good because both my companion and I can drive so it worked out. He came into my area did exchanges. We had a wonderful day of magic tricks. Yes he is magic not me, but I did learn how to do one of the tricks. Then the next day he still couldn't drive and there is only one companionship that has two driving elders so we did another set of exchanges which didn't turn out to be very exciting.

Honestly there is not much else that happened except for having zone conference with one of the seventies. Elder Ellis if you know him.  He is very funny and an incredible speaker. He talked about working hard and teaching by the spirit. Elder Hamilton is also a great speaker, who we heard from on Sunday because it was stake conference.  That guy is super powerful. I got the chance to sing in the stake choir and found out that my singing is not bad. The choir director lady was intense, probably just nerves but it was kind of scary, but very fun.

Like I said there isn't much going on this week. So I hope you all have a wonderful week.

Elder Tucker

"My get up and go just got up and went"

If you are wondering about the subject line. That quote is what the senior missionary said to break the news to us. He also said "in our boarding there is a leak in the shower head that has caused wall cancer".  We have talked to just about everyone about it and they are working on getting us another boarding and fixing it. The actual owners of the flat have asked that we don't use the shower and so we have to use the tub.  

The first half of the week was just a ton of lessons that started to dwindle out by the latter half. Then Thursday came around and it was the State of the Nation address from President Zuma here in SA.  We saw glimpses of the broadcast when we went to houses and man it was sweet.  A whole party got thrown out by the security team and a guy jumped off a desk and tackled a dude. 

Then we got to Sunday and it was nice! Mama Joyce destroyed us again. She gives us so much food!  Later on that night we were going to head home but we had an impression to go see a less active family that we had tried to see quite a few times to no prevail. You know when the spirit tells you something, you don't ask questions, so we went. We actually found them there and met an investigator that had moved from Zimbabwe that actually had attended our church and taken discussions. She was really considering baptism until she moved to Cape Town. We're going to reignite that spark she had.

Today was also very fun we went hiking almost to the top of table mountain but it was very cloudy.  We couldn't really see anything. I have some pictures of what we could see it was super cool. Walking up lots of stairs though. Going up was nice but coming down was kind of difficult because it is pretty much just controlled falling.  

Shop chomies!( Don't know what this is a store? Definition is a close friend, or a best friend Mom)  

Love Elder Tucker

Pictures February 13th 2017

Welcome back to the South Africa Cape town mission we hope you have had a lovely week.  Now with out further adu we are going to go check in with one of the most handsome missionaries in this mission, Elder Tucker. 

Good morning everyone how is life?

Its been a very quiet week in terms of crazy experiences but powerful ones this week does hold.

Earlier this week was very relaxed still good stuff, but I would rather focus on the later half of the week. Today I will talk about three investigators that we are teaching. 

The first one is a members older sister who the missionaries have tried to teach for a very long time. She never sits down in the lessons we had until the recent convert that was baptized a couple weeks back who forced her to stay.  We were going to go through the introduction and a brief summary of the Book of Mormon. We start everything is going great until a drunk tata came in and started to distract/interrupt the lesson.  He asked us "Who is God and Jesus Christ" so we answered him but he hated the answer.  He got kind of furious and so did most everyone else. That took up most of the lesson but near the end he was really quiet, and we were able to testify. We set up a new time to see our new investigator.  But she still had some questions about word of wisdom. I answered her. Then she asked some super powerful questions that she had always wondered about that we teach, about so I answered them. We talked about it for a bit but we were running late for our next appointment so we had to go.

Next dude is a professional soccer player we met on the street. Super powerful and really nice. He had some wonderful questions and insights on the message of the restoration, he was awesome and he committed to be baptized on the 12th of march.

Lastly a dude I have talked about before but he is so powerful. This guy loves his church and God. We like teaching him but we can only get through one principle when we see him because he loves to talk!  He will go on for about thirty minutes. So we introduced the principle of repentance to him and he went and covered everything he got out of repentance. Which was really everything there was but covered every point to the "t" without knowing it.  So we told him what he had said is exactly what we know and what we share. He didn't believe us at first so we took out the pamphlet and showed him and he loved it.  He is super awesome and I know he can and will be baptized. He would love this gospel so much especially missionary work!  He really respects missionary work.

But that was my week I hope you have all had a wonderful week and will have a lovely week. So long and thanks for all the fish.( I asked Jeron about this comment. Jeron has always hated fish,trout, salmon, halibut any fish! He said "he now eats fish unless they are offered something else.") 

Elder Tucker