South Africa is really very dangerous from what I've heard.
I've actually heard many stories of missionaries getting mugged and stuff to be
honest. Saying that, I will also say that I'm sure the mission is very careful
and Adam won't be put in any serious danger. Also, I think that Cape Town is
the safest of the three missions in South Africa but I'm not 100% sure.
So this week we had a couple of fun experiences. So Saturday
we were visiting two of our families (they're neighbors so we were all
together) and we got the idea that they should officially ask their wives to
marry them. They did this whole ridicously funny ceremony to ask their wives on
the spot to marry them (This was the day after we had finalized the
documents)and it was really funny. They got some fake flowers in their house
and went and bought a little chocolate from a street vendor and knelt down and
everything, it was pretty funny. The second guy put the chocolate in his mouth
and had his wife eat it for like a cheesy chocalate kiss hahaha.
On Saturday in the morning we all went to the chapel and got
all the brides set up with their dresses and shoes and everything as well so
everything is coming together well for the wedding. Elder Carvalho and I are
going to make 7 identical ties from this cool Capulana that we bought so that
the grooms, their padrinhos(best man type deal) and us can be matching at the
wedding and other preparations were also made. All in all a really good
week.
To Dad:
So this week was super nice. We had many spiritual lessons
and noticeable growth in our investigators. We had three families finalize
their documents for marriage in the register on friday and so the triple
marriage/baptism on the 7th of may is a gaurantee unless someone drinks or
something which won't happen because they are seriously very good families.
Their names are Felix and Fatima, Paulo and Luisa and Jovenal and Elia. The
family of Felix and the family of Paulo are best friends and we often visit
them together because they are also next door neighbors. We actually had a
really fun experience with them this week but I'll put it in my email to mom.
Jovenal and Elia are just really quite and humble but also very faithful and
nice. Their obviously not as fun to visit but They are equally as good of a
family. There are also a bunch of youth that we will be baptizing that day so
it should be pretty insane. Our area combined with the other area will make so
many baptisms on that day that I think it will be a record. It should be really
nice.
To celebrate the awesome week with the 3 document finalizations
we went to a really nice restaurant and ice cream afterwords (Elder Carvalho
and I) which was way nice and now it's all just wedding planning and baptism
planning from here on out.
To Aunt Sabra:
Certainly I feel like a wedding planner. There are several
other companionships that are preparing baptisms and marriages but for some
reason the responsibility of truly planning it all seems to land on me but it's
all good I think that it's a lot of fun and really no other missionary really
knows what they are doing. I've done enough by now that I at least know how to
provide the necessities. However, I can say that a quick Mozambique marriage to
be baptized is an entirely different matter than a Utah wedding. Way more
planning would go into that. That fact aside I think it would be fun to help
organize some weddings, haha.
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