Transfers.

Transfers

July 24,2018

This week was transfers, I am staying in my area and I am training a new Elder!  He is from Arizona and talks really fast.  I am training Elder PlXXX.  He has a desire to learn IsiXhosa though so that has been really fun!  I am working on my Afrikaans, to be more multilingual.  That has been very fun.  Afrikaans is a lot different though. 

My companion is a farmer, also is a cross country runner, so we have a lot to talk about. He is super fun to be with and it will be awesome to train him.  I have realized though, I either talk really slow and sound like a hippy, or he just talks fast.  Since I have been told hippies smell bad, I like to think he talks fast.  Anywho Lets move on to stories.

Story Number 1:Timkhulu

This was the clan name given to my companion after an act of good doings.  This act was going to a house to take a fellow shippper.  The mama of the house said, "Hey your timing is right, we need your help."  We helped.  What they needed was to move about twenty bags of cement into their home.  The cement bags were about 110 lbs.  My comp was just like "okay no problem"

, grabbed a bag like a sack of potatoes, threw it on his shoulder and was in and out in less than a minute.  I did not want to test that. I had one of the other scronny guys help me carry them. Figured out he can do that because he used to do it with 150 lb hay bails everyday.  Really was not expecting that at all. Don't judge strength by looks!

Story Number 2: Elder is this the street? Maybe, not sure, its more of a path than a street though. 

This week we have gotten quite a few referrals!  Some of the street names are really hard to find though because they are super small streets in this maze of houses.  We were trying to find this house address.  Could not find the street, or even a path for that matter. There was a point though that we were trying to get back to the car using a short cut.  It was not a short cut, but a dead end.  My comp said to me before we went, if there is no path it means we were sent to this door to find someone.  So we found someone! Unfortunately he is not in our area, just watching over the house.  However he was in some other elders area and they can visit him.  It was not at all a waste of time or energy.  But we were lost in the maze for a few minutes.  Truly it was a blast,  white people speaking IsiXhosa is always a shocker for kids.

Well that is all I have for this week.  Love you all.

Elder Tucker

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