Miller, Heath P

Le tsogile jang? (How are you) Hope you're all doing well and had a good week.  General Overview:      For the most part, this week was pretty Melo compared to the others. Not necessarily a bad thing, as it was nice to have a bit of a slower week but we still got plenty of lessons in. The whole week was basically 35°C so we were low key dying but not much we can do about that so the work continued.      Each day this week was mostly the same with lessons from 11:30 ish to 9:30 is. Because of the heat there were a lot of lessons that fell through this week which was unfortunate but we still taught plenty and were able to find over 20 new people to teach so that is a huge win. We were also able to put around 8 people on date for their baptisms.     We went on exchanges on Saturday and Elder Otema joined me and Elder Pirie and Elder Thomas went with Elder Adam's. Elder Otema is from Uganda so he doesn't speak Setswana but the little kids always ...

Weekly Report: Hello everyone! This week completes my first whole week in Botswana! Today is day number 10 here, and it's been interesting for sure. The first few days here were pretty tough if I'm being honest. The first meal my companions cooked me was beef with this really popular food called pap (pop) which is a tasteless white play-doh type substance made of maize, it's pretty gross. We eat everything with our hands here, no silverware. However, we went to this stand in Kanye a few days later that sold Modombie (boiled bread ball) which is kind of like a dumpling but just bread, and Seswa (shredded beef). I definitely spelled those wrong but it was delicious and we've since returned a couple of times.  The start of the week was also hard because my trainer wanted to get up at 5:30am for extra studies as opposed to the regular 6:30am. There were only a few days of that before I told him that I couldn't keep doing that. Good news is that I now feel like 6:30am is...

Dumela, everyone, This week has been very eventful.  The week started out with saying goodbye to everyone at the MTC and a few departing devotionals. Me and all the Elders in my district flew to Atlanta and then to J-Berg which was about 20 hours of travel including layovers. We spent the night in a nice hotel in the J-Berg airport with 5 other Elders. The next morning 3 other Elders and I flew to Botswana and met up at the mission president's home to meet all the new and old Elders as well as President and Sister Walker. We had lunch and got to know everyone and then I drove about an hour and half to a city called Kanye where I'll be serving until the 28th and then I'm off to the other country in my mission, Namibia.  We've already been super busy with teaching lessons and rescuing the Sisters from intruders at 5:30 AM as well as many other things.  We walk to church so that we can do a "church train" along the way. This is where we walk along and pick up any...