catch up

so far so well ok... i have had some blessings in disquise wander into my field of vision. i managed to sevierly sprain my ankle possible tearing of muscles and tendons so i havbe been limping/ hobbling around on crutches for like a week. but hey a plus i have massive arms now.. haha. i think that i can beat anyone in the mission to an arm wrestling challenge. no not really some of the africans are pretty muscular. on top of that i have had to hobble away from some dogs the little african children thought that it was really funny. i am glad that it made someones day.

i am gratefull for the support that everyone gives me it keeps me going. in the words of Cortés i am going to "burn the boats" i know that i have sufficent support behind me to keep me going and i am gratefull thanks to all who are sharing the load i love you all.

Elder Whiting,

aka Manqoba,

weekly

i dont know what to say... i miss all of you i guess. this last week has been pretty hard. for many reasons, but i guess what you need to know is, i am ok and am pressing forward with all of my might. so here is the weekly update i guess. this week i was transfered to a new area the i work in two areas because one of them is too dangerous for elders to stay at so we stay elsewhere and go there from time to time. the safer one the town that i am staying in is called ilovu. it is a big town about an hour south of durban. the other area that i work in is called umlazi which is a massive township township meaning a porer area. full of what are called locust houses or houses provided by the government. the standard of living in townships is low and people are struggling but that is when they are more easily turned to the lord. the townships are where we find most of our sucess. now umlazi is massive so it is devided into sections so if you want to look up the area we work in it is umlazi w and umlazi bb. i havent been robbed since i last emailed so i guess that that is a plus but i havent quite adjusted to the new area concidering i was kinda just thrown into it. but i will get back to you next week concening wither i have gotten used to it but as for now. i love and miss you all. salagahle  which means "stay well"

Elder Whiting,

i don't know what happened

here we go part 2 i guess...

other than gettinig to meat elder hamilton i got transfered to yet another area. i know it is in the middle of the transfer but things happened so i had to be shifted. i am now with an elder from zimbabwe. his name is elder sibanda. he is pretty cool i just met him last night so i dont know too mutch about him but more to come next week about that. i got robbed. yes you read that right the first time i got robbed. someone snuck into our boarding and stole my camera. so if you are wondering why i am not sending pictures this week when i promised them last week. that is why. well that is all for now if you guys want me to include more if you have any questions that you want answered just shoot me an email. peace out

Elder Whiting

what is up my family from multiple other mothers?

hey so there is a lot that has happened i will try to remember everything but i dont know how well i will remember. first off i got to meet one of the quarem of the seventy. Elder Hamilton. he came for our zone confrence to kinda see how we as elders are doing in south africa. me and him got to talk in kinda an interview. and he apparently liked one of the things i said. the classic "by faith you can move a mountian. but dont be surprised if you are handed a shovel.." in fact he even quoted me during our stake confrence and said he would quote me during his next general confrence talk. something to look forward to something to keep you awake... 

my family and friends I have returned

sorry for the while of not writing anything. that is my fault. i havent been the best at keeping track of time latly. but i will try to catch you up on everything that has happened the past few days. i got transfered. thats right i am no longer in durban i am about an hour and a half up the coast in stanger which is still in kzn but i am even closer to the coast. i am in what they call sugar coast. the reason for this is because this is one of the largest sugar producing areas in south africa. it dosent matter what way you look you see sugar cane fields. it is pretty funny the little kids wait at the speed bumps for the big sugar cane trucks to come by and when they slow down to get over the speed bumps the kids swarm the truck usially getting a cane or two before the truck drives off. it is pretty great. i have a new companion from mesa arizona. his name is elder harper. he is pretty chill and is getting ready to end his mission. he plays guitar and can sing. the other two elders in our area are elder kamara from gana, west africa. he is pretty cool dont know mutch about him though. and elder nu'usa, he is from utah played football at the same school as was in the movie high school musical. and got to meat some of the cast from the movie. lets see what else is there. oh yea we didnt even have a phone for the first week or so so that was great trying to set appointments. and we do not have a car so we are stuck in a radious arround the boarding. so yea i am like a little pioneer child. i walk and walk and walk and walk.

don't have long

things are good here in south africa still raining😢 but other than that all good. we have been teaching a lot of people and i had schwarma today i thought that it was pretty good. i have been thinking about the next challenge i am thinking about challenging yall to do something that you either havent done for a while or is new just go and try to find something that you are tallented at. just do it!!!

All is Well

things are all good here in south africa not too much has happened other than some pretty weird foods namely a food called mealy worms kinda like meal worms fried in butter tasted pretty good though. we had a person walk in off the street just looking in trying to figure out what we are about and he seems interested. we started teaching him and he apparently had been taught before he recognized the pamphlets but said he didn't know where the church was. he just happened to waltz in and find it. the lord works in mysterious ways.