Monday, November 12, 2007

Update from James

Okay, so without too much detail, when missionaries are in the field, they stay in the same country/region for 2 years but not the same city. There are "transfers" just about every 6 weeks. A missionary may not move every 6 six weeks, but they are usually not in a city much longer than a few months at a time.

Here's the update as "Transfer time" came to James' side of the neighborhood. He's been in Queenstown since he arrived in SoAf.


Okay, girls...........here's the latest from Elder Deep Voice...............he's moving to Nelson Mandela's home town.
he's gotta pack today.........................
mommy----------

Forwarded message ----------
From: James Jones <jjonessoaf@myldsmail.net>
Date: Nov 12, 2007 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Hello Elder Deep Voice!
To: mcadams7@gmail.com

I got the packages last week mom! Thanks alot! I'll keep you posted if there's anything in particular. Forward this one to the girls cuz I'm out of time right now.

well then, this week wasn't horribly eventful. My companion and I were a little slower this week seeing as how we were certain that this was going to be his last week in queenstown. We didn't find a whole lot of new investigators neither did we teach a lot of lessons. We ran into some nice people and people just did not stop feeding us this week. Everyone including myself, was certain it was going to be Elder Mayall's last week serving in Queenstown so they all wanted to feed him one last time before he left. Lo and behold though, fate dealt us a cruel blow when transfer news came around and it turns out that Elder Mayall was staying in Queenstown. What's more, nobody in my zone was leaving the area except for one elder...yeah. It looks I'm going to Mthatha, the birthplace of Nelson 'the man' Mandella. I'm a little crushed as I feel like I'm leaving a lot of loose ends in queenstown and I know that the mission president has plans for that place, but at the same time I know he's got plans for Mthatha. My new companion's a guy named Elder Thole from Zambia. He's a really good man and I'm looking forward to working with him. Otherwise things are pretty chill in queenstown. Now everyone is trying to feed me before I go today and I still gotta pack and all that mess. This will be intresting.