Happy eerste week van die lente‏

So first things first... Do the Kudu horns make a noise? like do they actually work as a Kuduzela??? Next item of business... Micheal Sean Fahey... is about 44 years old and was born in Johannesburg, South Africa... He is a Plumber/electrician/roofer/mechanic by trade and works about 12 hours a day... He has had a crazy life of ups and downs near suicide, drugs, divorce and all kinds of crazy business... But he has a heart of gold and has a ridiculous drive in doing good and improving himself... lets see... He was baptized yesterday in freezing cold water and I now have 5 baptisms on mission so far!!!!
Good to hear Utah is still doing well and well Dixie can still always beat canyon view... Thomas Brock is one of mine Paul's and Sam's friend he is actually the same kid who carved the africa necklace thing and was trying to get help on eagle scout from you guys at one point in time... Good to hear everyone is doing well and ish I miss cafe rio hahaha... Um honestly as far as a package or food or anything tortilla chips, tortillas, and perhaps a little bit of popcorn.... there is a lack of corn products in this country hahaha! Elder Ncube Mhlalase is awesome ( Nnnn (dental click) so suck your tounge back off of your front teeth... oooh bay) and (Mmm hhhcchhhllll with a bit of pflegm ahh say) he's awesome we seriously have so much fun out here haha and a bunch of work is getting done.... the Malawi crew... James Joseph Isaak and Innocent are all on baptismal date for the 17th of October and our goal this week is to have 19 on date for the next to months so yeah haha the work is taking off hard core...
Good to hear people are finding me on facebook and I hope all keeps going well... If you hear anything from Andy about a mission call let me know... time for the big letter... see y'all in a week

Amu Mameli Rhloqo!!!! (YOU NEVER LISTEN!!!)

Hello all and welcome to this weeks edition of adventures in Johannesburg, South Africa!!! first things first Yesterday (September 26th) was my 5th baptism of Mike Fahey an Afrikaaner from Joburg... he is the first white guy I've baptized and supposedly it is quite the rarity to baptize anyone white out here so yay for that... Seriously he's an awesome guy he has like a heart of gold and is just super Lekker... Just one problem though the water was freezing haha our chapel has no water heater so it was like cold enough to drink water haha.... But the spirit is so powerful when you baptize someone that like you don't even notice... Also yesterday, I was part of the Confering of the Priesthood to Mathius and Tinashe and man it was powerful the Spirit was super strong and man they take it so seriously and know that its a huge responsibility...

But lets talk about the week... last monday we had a dinner appointment with the Lombard family which is the young mens president in Benoni... He has 5 sons all under the age of 7 so their house is insane!!! haha their second youngest son Daniel is like the funniest kid alive... We met with them to start U-nite or a large scale family home evening in Boksburg... This we hope will bring less actives, members, and investigators together for just a nice block party....

Elder Mhlalase and I are working like super well together so well in fact that we've been getting all kinds of new investigators... But this comes from the power of prayer and faith so... Story Time... last friday was a 100% bust on appointments we had a training meeting, two ward correlation meetings, and 3 ditched appointments so we went out to our brand new discovered township leachville and began to tract.... Now We've been told to pray for miracles and that those who are prepared may be put into our path so we did just this and I felt really good about it. So with the last 30 minutes of daylight we had we embarked down the dusty township roads... and something sweet happened... I felt impressed to turn down Santyhout avenue and to just knock doors... and guess what? every single house we knocked was a father led family and all of them had serious questions about life, and the gospel that we could answer... and they are all super prepared for our message... In just 30 minutes we found about 17 new investigators in 6 families... Boom baby prayers are answered as long as we have faith and are worthy to receive the blessings....

So that is my pump up story of the week and though our goal for the next 3 months is 17 baptisms 5 of which we already have!!! :D by the end of this week we hope to have 19 on date and after some well calculated planning we believe 30 is possible with faith... A TON of hard work, help from members, and of course God....

This week I went on exchanges twice with Elders Crawford from Layton Utah and Mchunu from Richards Bay South Africa and its always sweet to go on the exchanges and learn a lot... I really feel myself getting better at teaching, finding, asking questions, and extending commitments, but always room for improvement...

Funny story of the week... Elder Mhlalase is a serial Pigeon killer and no joke in the 2 and a half weeks he's been hear has killed 17 with the car hahaha... But I was driving on Wednesday and I hit one going about 70k's an hour or in the correct American terms about 45 Miles an hour... but the crazy thing was it lived I hit it full on with the bumper there was a poof of feathers and it flew away half naked like nothing happened haha I was laughing about that for like 5 hours hahaha!!!

Misison is full of awesome stories, people, experiences, struggles and all that business and then the next thing you know... you've already been gone for 3 months... Ish soon enough I'll be leaving Benoni and who knows where else I may go but I'm gonna make the most of it... For all of you though just live up whatever you're doing... whether on mission, preparing to go, at college, working, live it up because man things fly by... I mean shoot I'll be 20 in 6 months crazyness....

A sweet and pretty dang funny scripture is in Acts chapter 12 it talks about paul being smacked by an angel and freed from prison as well as Herod boasting of himself being killed instantly by an angel and then eaten by worms haha

Mission is awesome... Life is awesome.... I can't wait to keep working hard and see what happens

Elder Robinson!!!

Spring/Summer is here baby!!!

So first things first I love Africa's weather haha everyone is like uh! it's 24 Celcius that is so hot!!! which I think if my math is right is like 80's... so I just laugh and say try St. George's 46 in the summer or like 113... anywho so spring is here and there is an awesome holiday called spring day which is like a nationwide water fight haha kids run around with buckets totally drench you and then yell Spring day!!! man I can't wait to introduce that to america hahaha...

Other random South Africa facts... Let's start with some slang... if you ask some one Howzit? they say Shawp shawp or (sharp sharp)... but my personal favorite is... "is it?" this is the South africa way of saying really? so for example we were teaching the Monde family and they were like so elder Robinson where are you from? I was like St. George Utah... It's like an hour drive from las Vegas... and they say "IS IT?" or like for example my day has been sweet "Is it?" it makes me laugh everytime because its like terrible english but I can't help myself from using it hahaha

Anyway to the mission work and the week so far... Big news I get my 5th baptism on Sunday and I'm baptizing Mike Fahey who is seriously on fire right now... He quit smoking in one day and now says he's addicted to raisins hahahaha but he's been totally clean for 13 days and this sunday is the day... We're doing a lot of restructuring out hear in Benoni and now are working with both the Rynfield ward and Benoni ward which makes for really crazy sundays haha... But between referrals, contacting, Family Mission plan, and just talking to everyone we found 11 new families to teach this week and like 7 other investigators... we really want to meet our trimester goal of 17 baptisms and because of that we are really working hard and trying to find those who are super prepared... This week we are trying to put 9 people on date for the next two months... so the work goes forth which is just rockin...

Elder Mhlalase is the man seriously we have so much fun and do so much good work together like yo it's awesome.... It's like two excited overgrown kids/men doin the lords work, finding, teaching, baptizing, and eating lots and lots of chicken polony hahaha....

I'm having some seriously crazy dreams haha like they almost always involve teaching and me trying to speak like zulu or Xhosa or Stwana and its just like so real and I wake up and just think like snap I"ve lost it... I caught myself talking in my sleep saying "will you commit to plant the seeds of faith by praying to know if this is true..." man haha I'm so lost in missionary work... which is of course totally awesome...

Some big sacrifices out here people have to make is getting work off on sundays... we would honestly have like 40 investigators at church if it weren't for this... This then leads to a lot of fasting and prayer and it's crazy because like you get used to fasting... back home man I couldn't make it like over 14 hours but now like ish I guess the Spirit helps haha...

We've been being led to a lot of interesting people who are like totally ready for the gospel... Like we knocked a door and taught a 45 minute lesson because the people were like... Hey what's different about your church? and maybe you can tell us why there are so many churches today? Boom silver platter baby haha no seriously I love missionary work its honestly the shizz...

I've been doing a lot of reading of G.C. talks lately and really love Elder Holland man that guy is powerful... Oh and BTW he's coming to Joburg on the 11th and I get to meet him! yeha baby Dixie High Grad Elder Robinson and Dixie High Grad Elder Hollland are going to meet in the birthplace of mankind... Anyway things are great... I hope you all enjoy the pictures and man some sweet stuff has been happening out here and the members are nothing short of amazing...

Oh and yeah the rainy season is coming which means monsoon like rain for weeks at a time!!! man I'm excited...
Clayton who we do FHE with every week just got made the Elders quorum president and oh more awesome news haha we're going to start playing rugby on Pdays with the stake presidency out here hahahahaha man I'm excited...

Things are great, we're finding, we're teaching, and there is always more we can do... The Johannesburg Temple is awesome but super small inside but just awesome as always.... Soon we'll have more stories to come but keep Africa and Missionaries in your prayers... The world needs it and its by faith and prayer that these miracles come... And of course God can't forget that but I love you all and love hearing from you...

Nsari Zhakanaka

Elder Robinson

Raging Leeu en die Cheeta‏

Ah hello all its good to know you are all together and that you got my pictures already wow that was fast... so I just barely got the new SD card on Friday at the temple so I think mail takes about 1 month to get for me and it takes like 10 days for you... anywho yeah the lion park was pretty dang sweet... good to hear the Utes are awesome and well it's a shame with Dixie but class of 09' was the pinacle... anywho yeah the Mhike's are flippin awesome they'll be getting the priesthood this sunday and their conversion story is nothing short of a miracle like they were accidentally contacted by salt lake and the rest is history... Um their mailing address would be something like J&L flats, Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa #11 but I'll get it for sure... Tinashe is 15 and Shyleen is 10 and I hope you liked the pics of them it is such a rockin family... as of cheddars present for me I honestly couldn't stop laughing when I found it and I actually used it to prank elder Nelson hahaha... Um yeah everything is pretty dang sweet out here and its already getting hot... dang less than 4 months and I'm an uncle from half way across the world what's up! Elder Mhlalase was converted in 2007 and man he's awesome we actually have a ton in common and its just like 2 overgrown kids serving in Benoni we have a ton of fun and get a lot of work done. He kinda reminds me of an African nick haha... Um I've been getting quite a bit of mail which is always sweet and maybe hold off on another package for a bit... but there is another kid named riik he's one of the Van der Westheiyzens and I said I'd try and get him a sweet birthday present from america... He's 13 so I think you guys might have some good ideas.... I'm excited for the language books I'm actually learning a bit of Xhosa from the new comp and its sweet there are a ton of clicks :D... Collin wrote and it was super funny like he was talking about how people will stop him and uncle weston and be like " aren't you in a band like seargant nasty or something? We haven't seen you guys in a while.... and then they are like "eah well... our bassist is in Africa" so then i guess everyone is super like taken backed and shocked like " oh wow these guys are big!" so that's pretty legit. I guess he's getting a bit nervous because he leaves in about a month now... If there is any news on Fetz's call, the Frizfish, or Andy's or of course uncle weston's mission calls that would be sweet.

You guys should make tshakalaka though it is a way awesome south Africa delight... you get carot shavings, onions, green peppers, some seasoning of choice, and baked beans and mix them all together plus some rice and chicken and that's probably a typical dinner appointment meal... Anyway more crazyness I've been in Africa 2 months now and in like 16 days been gone for 3 months so yeah in mission time I'm just about to go to nursery hahaha... anywho yeah crazyness it's almost October and hoof man next thing you know November... Mission goes by too fast it scares me... like and they say your first 6 months is the slowest that scares me haha... anywho time for the big letter...

Oh and before I forget... if you can get a working Kuduzela from the real animal that would be sweet... no need to send it hear just keep it at home awaiting my triumphant return haha....

A new transfer, a new companion, an antichrist, and one incredible week!‏ Sept.13,2010

So to begin with I'll discuss my headline... I've officially been on mission for nearly 3 months and a transfer cycle is now complete holy cow does time fly... My new companion is Elder Mhlalase (Mmmm khhlll ah see) um I don't really know how to spell it phonetically haha. He is from Port Elizabeth South Africa and is Xhosa so that is pretty dang sweet I'm going to get a lot better at African languages. He's been on mission now for about a year and man is this kid a Spiritual giant wow every lesson is just like fireworks.... Now time for a sweet story the Anti-Christ.... so Elder Nelson and I were wrapping up our last few days together when we had a referral from a member... this guy was a pastor in the 12 apostles church and heard that we had the authority from apostles that his church had... Now our first lesson he was super receptive and was like yeah I believe all that stuff and I'll have to study this Joseph Smith guy.... so then came monday we sit down and he is like you guys teach lies your church doesn't have authority mine does... we were like yeah we kinda expected you'd say that... but did you pray... He just ignored us and was like yeah you have to get authority from in the flesh not a dream and we were like exactly... that's what happened... then he just started bashing and bashing and bashing and then whipped out perhaps the most crazy quote ever... "Jesus was the word... Now I am the word and the way..." Oh my gosh you should have seen Elder Nelsons face he was like ready to rip the dudes head off! he was like that sir is blaspheme we are leaving so yeah haha we bailed and honestly were just laughing for hours haha the dude was straight up crazy and tripped himself up so many times... another sweet story was that we met this drunk dude on the corner and he kept trying to hook me up with his daughter and I was just like uh... maybe in a few years hahaha I'm a missionary.... and then something amazing happened haha he smelt me and was like ah you smell like a noble tree you must be a man of God hahahahahahahahahahahahahah (Breath) hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! I couldn't stop laughing anyway its pretty dang sweet because the work goes forth even when we get smelt by crazy people....

This week I got to confirm Mathius Mhike and it was awesome but super sketchy because man are blessings intimidating! We also got to teach a 3 hour primary activity on saturday and oh boy are little kids crazy hahaha it was absolute chaos for 3 hours we just went home that night crashed and didn't even move until like we absolutely had to.

Our big focus now is working with the members because our pool is getting a little small now so we've started introducing the family mission plan, a ward mission plan, and now something called U-nite... This is like a big FHE for an entire neighborhood where we invite members, recent converts, less actives, and then they all invite friends... It's still in the process of building but I really think it's gonna explode out here. Um our goal up til december is for 16 baptisms 4 of which we already got with the Mhike family... We have Mike Fahey who will be getting baptized on the 26th and man is this guy awesome...

So he had a super tough life growing up and now is living next to a member she introduced him to the gospel and man he has the heart of a champion... In 2 days he entirely quit smoking and has become addicted to raisins hahaha and he asked me to baptize him so that will bring my total to 5 which man its crazy Africa is seriously on fire and I love that guy he oof man he's the bomb...

We've also been teaching James and some of his friends Innocent, Joseph, and Issak from Malawi and we met James at a gas station... We were filling up the other night and he was there and was like yo! guys I love the Book of Mormon! I really think I'm getting my answer I'm so happy I met you guys!!! so we are teaching him tonight and I honestly can't wait man Benoni is sweet.

Really something I've found out is how much of an asset every member is to the ward whether the bishop, greeter, or home teachers it really makes the wards awesome and makes people want to stick around... today is a fantastic 26 C and its great to be on mission and in Africa... I don't know what's coming around the corner but I know as we keep working and following all of the rules 100% I'm doin all that I should be...

Hopefully the miracles come... Pray on Y'all and keep it real... Stay Sharp... Nsari Zhakanaka... See you all in a week!



Response to letter from Mom and Dad Sept.13,2010

Ah hello from the other side of the world sounds like you've had quite the week and so have I... That is sweet with the whole Silver Beaver thing and I'm glad it was fun hopefully everything keeps going well with sports back home too. Lets see I got the package on wednesday at transfer meeting so it could have been there for at least 1 week but it was nice the tortilla chips were gone before we got back from roodeport so I decided I needed to go sparingly on the tortillas and honestly I forgot how much I love hot sauce... Um yeah the hair clipper story haha so out here I was told that anything that requires a lot of electricity so : hair clippers, my alarmclock radio, etc would have a tough time running even with the converter so the first day here my clock blew up but I forgot to mention that so I've just been using my watch and the mission cell phone. the clippers worked at first but got louder and louder and louder then caught on fire hahaha so I threw them on the floor and smothered them with my pillow haha. It's awesome you saw the sisters I guess I'll have to try writing them again though it'll be a little while before I'm back to the office. Oh but maybe next friday because we are FINALLY going to the Joburg temple. That's sweet with the Kudu Zela and I'm definitely going to keep looking around... Leon our ward missionary said he thought he knew a place so I'll probably just give him some money for one... So the letter from Mathius was awesome and definitely I'm glad you could write back to him... The whole family is from Zimbabwe and are just super awesome they all speak Shona and honestly like Zimbabweans are all just so humble and awesome. I just confirmed Mathius yesterday and man the Spirit was strong oof its crazy how ridiculous it works out here. In fact all of the Mhike's are baptized and confirmed and man I can't wait to see where the whole conversion goes. It's sweet to hear Thomas is off to Carlsbad as well now I know 7 missionaries there... Summer is just around the corner hear so there are even sweeter sunsets over the Joburg skyline and man I can't wait for rain it is so dry. Glad to hear all is well with Kasey and the family and yeah the lion bite is becoming a scar because I keep picking it on purpose haha. Um I heard from Fetzer and Alexis which was awesome and am so happy for that kid and hopefully soon all of the papers will be done. Transfers were tough haha um it was tough to see Elder Blau go and it looked a bit rough for him too we'll def need to stay in touch but I guess its just part of the circle of mission they say the transfers get harder and harder because you know the missionaries better and better then the next thing you know you're on the way home. and the crazy thing is I've already been through 1 of my 2 winters here and 1 of my 2 springs is half over... honestly I don't know where the time goes... They say the weeks feel like days the months feel like weeks and the years feel like months but the days feel like lifetimes hahaha and it is so true we are constantly working, praying, studying, and it is really rough but there is nothing I'd rather be doing right now and hearing that from the Mhike's seeing the change in them and spending time with other investigators and members just make it awesome...
If you could maybe forward Elder Blau's last email it'd be a good thing to look at to remind me what the work is all about...
Glad to hear you're enjoying the missionary moms and Elder Yugawa from Hawaii's first name is craig if that helps you find his mom... anyway gotta get to writing the chain mail everything here is sweet though...




Elder Blau's last email from South Africa
to everyone well this is my last time emailing on a mission in South Africa and so im goin to go out bearing my testimony. but before that i love being a missionary and i know that there is a time and a season in all things and my season and time are running fast. ive made some awesome friends and have been able to baptize many of our brothers and sisters. ive planted seeds and ive harvested others and my own. the most important helper on my mission however is the companionship of the Holy Ghost, he is the man, he has taught me and testified to me many time that our eldest bro Jesus Christ has come here to this earth and has brought me mercy and the atonement to cure me and cleans me. i love studying about Christ he is so amazing everything about him makes him who he is. ive learned something very important from the church its "its one thing to know about Christ, and another thing to be like Christ" and so thats what the church is doing helping us to be like Christ, we deicide to be like him then the atonement takes over to help us on our way to Perfection. the awesome thing about perfection is that Christ himself has told us to be perfect not just told us but encouraged us and commanded us. and the Lord will give us no commandment that we cant keep, I love the people here in africa i loved my mission i think its safe for me to take Elder Hollands words " My mission means EVERYTHING to me!" and thats true for me. i am different no doubt but different in a since that Christ has given me the atonement. This church is true, Jesus Christ did come and this is His church, Joseph smith is awsome and he is The Prophet of the Restoration, and Thomas S. Monson is a true Prophet, the Book of Mormon is our evidence of this. i love it here and i am excited and scared about leaving. i hope everything goes well everywhere.
With love
ELDER Brendon Blau

Email from Brother Mathias Mhike 9 Sept 2010

Good Day Elder Rabinson,

How are you today, l hope l have find you well , we are so excited and happy about your coming into our life , you are a nice person the day you arrived into our house we filled with joy and happiness l really not know why and you have managed to change us due to you teaching , making funny jokes thus making us happy, your message which you wrote on the back of the picture has touched us a lot. You are a great person with good teaching about gospel God must continuing blessing and giving you more power to teach and change to people to come closer to our heavenly Father.

l want to say thank you, so much for everything you are doing to us

Have a great day

Regards

Brother Mathias


Response from Brother Mhike to Bro.& Sister Robinson
Sept.13,2010

Dear Brother & Sister Robinson,
What a surprise! Nice to know you brother & sister Robinson, Thank you very much for your valued time to write email to us we really appreciate, Your son is very good to us so lovely to us, we were having some doubts about joining the church but because he is wonderful person he managed to tell us the truth and guide us to baptized. We are now enjoying because of your son. l SAY THANK YOU

You are most welcome anytime if you need to write us emails or share anything with us, please free feel we are wonderful family we need to learn much more.

Once more thanks very much

Kind Regards

Mathias

One transfer down 15 to go...or Set my hair on fire!

Oh ho ho so much to talk about. first off... I hope everyone is well because ndiri bhoo (I'm bomb) ... anyway the question on everyones mind... yes the entire Mhike family was baptized even though our water heater broke in the chapel and the water was 53 degrees haha. It was so ridiculously cold haha everytime we dipped one in they like totally shook and eyes opened and everything totally crazy. So I baptized Abigayl the mother and each of the rest were baptized by Elder's Nelson, Wittwer, and Brother Leon. It was truly incredible like I was so pumped and happy the entire day.
Which leads me to something else directly involved. I made a promise in the MTC that at my first baptism I would rent my coat and pull a captain Moroni. so last night I did just that I totally anhiliated my operation dirtbag shirt and wrote the title of liberty on the back. I then wrote the Mhike's names on it and will have all of the awesome missionaries I'm around sign it. It is currently hanging on my spear which just looks so bomb.

Funny story of the week we met this guy named mike from Nigeria and he used to investigate the church back there so we set up a time to see him. Now there is a stipulation out here that everyone from Nigeria is involved in drugs or prostitution.... anyway back to the story we show up for our appointment and we walk through the gate and this guy is just hammered drunk runs up and is like hey bafundis! you don't wanna go in there that's a whore house! he then just unloaded puke all over the street and was like oh... sorry. I know you have the power of god and they need your help but it might not look good. so yeah haha we left it was pretty funny...

Um more big news... So transfers is on wednesday and guess what? Elder Nelson, who is my dad/boy, is leaving me. It's like a birds father is leaving him in the nest to fend for himself haha. So as of Wednesday I'll be getting a new companion and staying in Benoni. Elder Nelson is now going to be a zone leader so haha huge shoes to fill. Um The work has been going great honestly everyone is moving along even the Van der Westheiyzens who usually won't even let us get a word in in lessons. It's crazy our trimester goal for the area is going to be at least 16 baptisms which honestly is just crazy but the thing is I know we can do it. So be prepared for more awesome stories to come. I as of now have four under my belt in just 6 short weeks so hopefully the awesome continues.
Later today I should be sending about 20 pics home of the lion park, the mhike's, KJ and Ronald, Paul and Alvira, Mike, more people and of course crazy appartment life

Speaking of the Lion park... seriously so sweet haha I got to play with a bunch of cubs and got my ear gnawed on haha so I have a scar from a lion now what's up world! I also got to pet a cheetah and giraffe and got about 200 incredible pictures.

now crazy things have been happening as far as the strike goes. It just goes farther and farther the Petrol workers have now stopped so gas is a bit scarce and schools still are unsafe as well as hospitals its pretty insane. But its super funny you just see huge crowds of like 200 marching streets with mispelled signs like "give us ate persent or else". classic haha. What actually is going on is the strikers want an 8.5 percent pay raise after the world cup because of the extra funds. so the government said we'll give you 8.5 and they were like no we want 8.6... so this is going to go on for a while probably but that's ok. The work goes forth.

OOh another awesome thing is this guy James. We met him at a gas station and he wanted a Bible so we gave him one and a BOM and set up a time to see him. He invited 5 friends so 6 new investigators in just one lesson solid awesome. haha he's really receptive and started coming to church.

The ward is really taking off out here we have 4 people we do work with Leon from Durban, Juveh from Zimbabwe, Deogracia from Mozambique, and Jeremy from SA It's really great to have members come along and gives them instant fellowhip in the ward. Juveh and Leon are awesome and are teaching me Shona and Zulu respectively in exchange for German which just rocks... the word of the week is Nyenyedsi. Ny as in the ny in kenyon en yet see.

We got ditched a lot this week which is always a bummer but it also led to some awesome new finds as well as planning for the next little bit.

An interesting thing with when you're a missionary is all of a sudden people assume you're an expert in like 200 fields. for example. Elder! my washing machine broke can you fix it? Elder we need you to teach a primary activity on sunday alright thanks bye! Hey I have anger issues can you help me? its ridiculous haha we are not superheroes we just teach stuff...

Awesome to hear about Spencer and his call if he runs into Elder Tomlinson from Austrailia that would be awesome he's going I think in October or so... Also it has been aweome hearing from everyone in letters, emails, and such.

So for a South Africa recipie of the week we have Shakalaka. This is carrots shredded into onions, and peppers with baked beans and then cooked all together... totally awesome but weetbix is still the absolute favorite haha.

Well everyone keep rockin it back home wherever that may be letters are always welcome and I should have some pics coming soon. I'm gettin pretty dang good at soccer and honesty short field soccer is the sport of kings highly highly recommended. Just a few short weeks and I'll be an uncle and that's super sweet and in just about 48 hours I'll have a new companion

I'm a little intimidated to be the experienced missionary in the area and to basically train the new guy to the area but eh it'll be sweet and I'm sure he'll be awesome. If my destiny follows suit of Elder Clark before me his father left after 6 weeks, He got a Kenyan companion and then went to Botswana so who knows maybe I'll be the same.... Its kinda crazy to see Elder Nelson say goodbye to everyone that's gotta be one of the toughest things to do on mission. Plus Elder Blau is going home and that's a bummer too man. Things move by fast

Anywho keep it real everyone, the Benoni district is going to be greenie fest as it is just me and Elder Mchunu left out here as of wednesday. plus the new guys. I'm sure I'll have a ton to talk about next week.

Ah also really fast haha one more funny story. So I plugged in my hair clippers and mid hair cut they blew up and lit on fire in my hair hahahahhahahaha! it was sweet so I'm going shopping for a new set of clippers soon.

Peace out, stay sharp.

Elder Robinson