October 10, 2016

Saubona!!! Coming to you live from the Zulu jungle. Soooo much to tell and I want to leave time to send pics so ill start by saying I’m in a township  where only black people live in Durban, my area is called KwaMashu! It's sooo fun to finally be with real people and learning Zulu (I don't know much). My comp is Eder Sibanda from Zimbabwe and he's a really good guy! He’s from Zimbabwe and speaks African English. He's only been out on his mission for 4 months but he's so humble and a great guy who is very obedient and works hard. Dad would love to hear that the "candy" that they sell on the sides of the road here are the halls throat lozenges. There are centipedes everywhere here!!!! I found one right next to my head when i was working out a couple days ago and they're huge... haha !

Tell Chance I said the boarding (where I stay) and everything was sooo different at first but I'm use to it now and loving it so just expect that when you leave the MTC.  Also the milk is very different here they don't refrigerate it until it's opened... so ya hahah also they say the tap water is good here but I don't know if I believe them because I’v seen some weird things in my water.   I also gave my first talk this week at a baptism. Our ward, which the chapel is actually really,  really nice watched conference this week so I’ve watched it twice now and have learned something new each time.

 Love you all I’ll try to send pics!!!

Elder Thompson