Happy Mothers Day

I hope you all had a great mother’s day yesterday. It was very nice being able to talk to my family. That was my last phone call home. The next time I talk to my family will be in person! Crazy. I have been here for a year! This week was crazy. It was transfers, so sister lyon and I had to go down to Johannesburg to get our new companions. My new companions name is Sister Randriampamonjisoa from Madagascar! She is an accountant, and a black belt, and she learned English in 3 weeks at the MTC. She seems pretty great, only I don’t know much about her yet because after we picked up our new companions we drove back to Botswana, only to get stuck at the border and find out that my companion, cannot enter Botswana without a visa, which she did not have because there are only a few countries required to have visas to enter Botswana. So, it was 9 p.m. and we had no choice but to drive the 4 and ½ hours back to Jo’burg! Eish! It was fun though, the mission president told us we needed to stop and by cokes. Haha. People here think coke is against the Word of Wisdom, so it was pretty funny having him tell us to stop and buy some. Coke is NOT against the WoW by the way, in case you were wondering. So, we drove back to Jo’burg Wednesday night, spent Thursday touring around Jo’burg. We took pictures from the tallest building in Africa, the Charlton Tower, and went to the apartheid museum. That was interesting. What a sad thing apartheid was. It was very eye opening. I am glad it is over, but you can still see the effects of it. On Friday morning, sister lyon and I left our greenies in jo’burg, and drove back to Botswana to see our investigators. It was quite the interesting, but very very stressful week. So my companion until sister Randriampamonjisoa can get her visa will be a ward missionary, sister Magibisela. She is wonderful, and I am so grateful she stepped up to fill the place of my companion, so that I can continue to work. It nearly killed me being away from my area and my investigators for the week! It was horrible. It is great to be back serving the people I love. It is a wonderful work, there is nothing better. I don’t know how I will be able to leave this place and these people behind!