Week #10 The Weeks Are Flying By

Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing well and enjoyed Thanksgiving! (for the Americans)

This week has been a lot of driving all over Namibia to run errands for our district since my companion Elder Tolbert has become the district leader. It's crazy how he's only been in the field for about 4 months and he's already training someone (me) and he's a district leader. He keeps reminding me how I could literally be training someone at the end of this transfer, which is so crazy to think about.

Highlights:

The week started out a bit slow because a lot of our lessons fell through so we had to do a lot of finding. It worked out though because we got to end the night by picking up Indian food again which was so good and I got to call Harris (my brother) for his birthday on Tuesday. Anytime there's an excuse to call home I take it.

Wednesday was a lot faster because we had a completely full day of lessons. We had a great lesson with the family that surprised us at church last Sunday. Their family is so nice and there are 6 of them Edna, her husband who is coming down from Angola next week, Rodriguez, Melchezidek, Chelsea, and Edmar. They're super interested and keep coming to church so it's amazing to teach them. We finished the night with dinner at President Katjojo's house. His wife cooked us all Pap and Chicken stew. They all thought it was weird we didn't eat the bones so they taught us how and that is something I now do. So that was very interesting and a little scary🤣

Happy Thanksgiving! Elder Tolbert and I started the day by going to Fork N' Nice for some fish n' Chips as our Thanksgiving meal. We drove to Walvis Bay after as it was Thursday and we met a lady who was a member that had just moved to Walvis Bay. She only spoke Portuguese so we used Google translate and we told her that there was a church in Swakopmund and gave her our number so that was really cool. On our way back we stopped at the same spot we got stuck in last week and showed the Sisters the beach there. The sand had a thin layer of water that was slowly advancing and retreating on the shoreline which made it look like glass. It was very cool.

Friday was a very unproductive day. We had to drive a few hours to Karibib to meet the ZLs because we were giving them one of the Sister's passport. They were over an hour late and the whole thing ended up taking most of the day.

Saturday was a blast. We met with one of our friends at an Inter-Mining event. All of the mines in Namibia met up for soccer, chess, darts, netball, billiards, food, and a lot of other stuff. There were braai stands everywhere cooking up Kapana. He bought us some Kapana and it was my first time trying it. It's meat grilled on an open fire grill and then you dip it in Kapana spice and salsa as you eat it. It was one of the best things I've eaten here so far. We talked with him for a while about whatever sort of came to his mind because he wouldn't stop talking no matter what we did. I think he just wanted some guys to talk to and we were happy to! He showed us around the event and it was super cool. In a couple of ways it kinda reminded me of home. He was a very interesting guy and talked about a few things that probably shouldn't be mentioned here but was very entertaining to talk to.

Sunday was the primary program! We walked with some of our friends from last week again which is always so fun to do. The program was awesome, as is any primary program. Some of our new friends even participated in the program. It was great. At the end of the night, Sister Welker made us Loco Moco which is a Hawaiian dish and we devoured it.

Today was P-Day!!! We started by walking around town and going into some antique stores. We found one that had Bushmen (the first people of Namibia) weapons, money, masks, clothing etc. It was so cool and of course, we got some good pics. Then we met up with the Sisters and drove to Walvis Bay to do some shopping. We got lunch there, I got Oreo waffles and chicken strips which were bussin. On our drive back we stopped at the beach and threw the rugby ball around and had some fun. We ended the night with our Monday night devotional which was great.

If you couldn't notice a theme, much of our week revolves around what we eat. Elder Tolbert and I absolutely crush food and are constantly having to buy more and more each P-Day.

The week was a very good week and just like the last two felt like it went by in a blink.

Spiritual thought:

In our devotional, the guest speakers talked about how coincidences in our lives are more than coincidences. That they have significance. They referred to them as " Love notes from God ". It made me think about the notes in my life and how they truly testify that God knows us and truly answers our prayers. That he loves and wants to help us as long as we look to Him. And that He knows everything about us. They encouraged us to write down the love letters that we receive in our lives so that is something that I'm going to start doing.

I know what they shared with us is true because I've seen these notes in my life and I've felt God's love for me. 

In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Conclusion:

I truly hope you all had a good week and are doing well. As always I love to hear from you all via email @ heath.miller@missionary.org and talk/ answer any questions you may have. 

I love you and God loves you all.

-Elder Miller

Serving in Swakopmund!

Swakopmund is beautiful

Playing games.

The kids are the best.

Future missionary.

A fun store on P-Day.