"They will come again, and I will again eat chicken, and suka Elders"

This quote comes from My companion about a less active doing what he calls a "technical dodge".  In this case the dodge included us getting free KFC so it was one of my favorite dodges. The less active was canceling the appt. but they had chicken. As a joke I said "Oh Thank you!" He said "no actually here, and gave us each a piece of chicken".  Suka means "go away". But on to stories for the week

Story Number 1: If you are doing a painting service, bring professionals.

This week we got the opportunity to paint for someone.  And we have to people in our ward that have one of the coolest jobs ever.  The make and develop colors for paint.  So they know how to apply them and what not, so we asked them to help us.  Man these guys paint well but the coolest part was them teaching us about paint.  Its actually quite interesting.  There is a lot that goes into paint, I won't really bore you with much details but just know that there are people whose literal job is to make colors and name them.  

Story Number 2: Visiting the bush

In Xhosa culture in order to become a man you go to the bush. You are there for about three weeks.  Well one of our fellow shippers was there, so we decided to pay him a visit.  It was interesting because nothing really happens there.  But it was an interesting perspective to the culture because I had never seen or been there before.  What I will tell you though, it does not teach you anything for life.  The real bush as we call it among the Elders is a mission, which actually teaches you life skills and what not.  So in short, if you get the opportunity.  Serve a mission! 

That's all for this week folks

Elder Tucker