Elder Frost is in lesotho, and elder luddington is in the durban area. I forgot where exactly. There are like 140 missionaries in the durban mission. I live in Pietermaritzburg, but I work in Imbali. Yes, I ate a yorkie bar in London, and it was incredible. I also had a kit kat bar. That was magnificant because the chocolate in it was just a little bit darker than in the US. I also had this stuff called Orangina, which was really good too. I wrote you a letter from london so you should be receiving it. Elder Henson, in my district, is from Idaho, and he's seen all kinds of wildlife. Pdays are the time to go to the wildlife reserves. The only creatures that don't abide in these wildlife reserves are monkeys. We saw one when we got to the mission home. The humidity isn't bad...yet. Hopefully, it won't ever be too intolerable. E. Henson said that in the summertime, there are these really thick bugs that are everywhere in the air, and he catches them, fries 'em up, and eats them. That's the south africa I'm talking about. We don't live off of bugs, so don't worry. We eat this stuff called pup. It's a lot like white malt-o-meal, and it's extremely bland (like white malt-o-meal) alone, but when dipped in brown gravy, it's pretty good. Food here is dirt cheap, at least some of it. Beef, cereal, and soda are super expensive though.
South Africa is crazy. I've been here for about five days, and I've seen some crazy stuff. The driving is absolutely madness. Everywhere we drive, there are always people just standing by the side of the road. Little kids too. And it's not like they are standing ten feet back from the white lines; they are literally in the lane sometimes. As we drive through neighborhoods, little kids stand there and we going flying by them at 60 kph and miss them by like 1 foot. Sometimes closer than that. AND IT'S TOTALLY NORMAL!?! They don't even flinch. It's freaking madness. The taxi drivers (combi's) drive in these vans and cram like 20 people into them, and they are awful drivers. The kids are used to them driving around so that's why they know to move when cars are coming.
Elder Sincreah is my comp. He's from Malawi. He's a cool guy. We work hard. We work in this township called Imbali. It's by Pietermaritzburg. There are chickens, goats, and dogs everywhere in Imbali. Seeing goats everywhere keeps me close to home. Imbali is really poor though. Some parts are richer than others, but it still isn't anywhere near our poorest neighborhoods in saint george. It's a great area. Everyone is extremely willing to hear the gospel. We have only been rejected like twice. Twice in five days. I heard it was easy, but I never would have guessed this easy. Imbali is a tiny branch anyway. We don't have a church, so we have to meet in a school. Like 3 other churches meet there too, and they sing like crazy. It's in zulu, so I don't understand a word of it. I've been picking up some Zulu, but we have a strict mission rule to only teach in english (because church is totally in english), so becoming fluent is pretty pointless. My comp says stuff to me sometimes, and he has to repeat it four or five times for me to understand it. Yeah, it's that bad. South african accents are pretty cool. I wouldn't mind having one of those.
By the way, the flights were rough. I thought the first one was cool because I had a window seat, and I got to see tons of cool stuff. But the chicago-london and london-joburg flights were horrible. I got maybe two hours of sleep on both of them combined. I'm still struggling to adjust to the sleep schedule here. 8 hours is just not enough sleep; 10 is more like it. Unfortunately, I can't do that, so I guess I'll just be tired for the next two years.
I love you so much!
Elder Steed
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