Hello,
How is everything going? the temple was great on Friday; I wish I could go more often. We got lost on our way back and ended up in Pretoria. We have Zone conference on Thursday, it will be different than the other one's I've been to. Before, it was all the zones in Gauteng meeting together, so there was over a hundred missionaries there. This time it will be just a few zones at a time. so for us its just Centurion and Pretoria zones. On Friday there was a strike in our area. It was done by the time we got back from the temple but when we got to Tembisa it was a mess. There were cinder blocks, bricks, trash, chunks of concrete, big concrete pipes out in the road. It was pretty crazy. But from what we heard they are striking again today so it will be interesting to see what they do this time. On Saturday, we went to the Hospital View to Mormon Helping Hands. We went to a school and cleaned the place up repainted and stuff. It was cool; the whole stake was there, a lot of white people. We don't really don't have anything planned for today, just hanging around the flat. Thanks for the package; I hope you have a great week.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
August 19th was the one year mark for Thomas. Keep up the good work!!!
August 15th
How is everything? We had two baptisms yesterday, they went good. I had the opportunity to perform the baptisms, it was very cold. We had a lot of people come to church yesterday. Some really sweet people too. We met a guy named Boy a few weeks ago and took down his number. He just seemed like any other guy, didn't seem that promising Then about a week later we were looking for someone else s house and mistook Boy's house for the house we were looking for.Boy was there and wasn't busy so we shared a message with him and invited him to church. Yesterday to our surprise he came to church. We got our Elder's Quorum Pres. to fellowship him and the guy loved church, he said he will be back next week with his friends and family. It was sweet. On Thursday I was on exchanges with Elder Sherwood's new comp. Elder Dauphin who is from Tahiti. We were contacting people and contacted this sweet family from Zimbabwe. The guy said he knew the church from when he was working in Harare, he worked right next to it. So we gave him a pamphlet, asked him to read and pray about it. gave him a baptism date, invited him to church and charmed them with the only Shona phrase I know, ndokuvara mbama, which means I'm gonna clap you in the face, they thought it was pretty funny. Unfortunately he had to work yesterday but his family came to church and they loved it. We are seeing them tonight so hopefully everything goes good. We have started inviting people to be baptized as soon as we meet them. It helps to weed out fong kong people. It is actually very effective, usually we give them something to read and pray about then ask them when God answer their prayers will they follow the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized by the priesthood authority. On Thursday we ate pap and liver again, probably the best of both I have ever had. Its getting hot now and it is raining outside right now. Last Monday Elder Sherwood and I baked 200 chocolate chip cookies to give out to our investigators and members , they were pretty good. It took us five hours and we were pretty sick of cookies and cookie dough by the end.We don't really have anything planned for today, just going to the office. We are going to the temple on Friday. I guess that is all I have to say this week, I hope everything is going good for you. I'll talk to you later.
August 15th
How is everything? We had two baptisms yesterday, they went good. I had the opportunity to perform the baptisms, it was very cold. We had a lot of people come to church yesterday. Some really sweet people too. We met a guy named Boy a few weeks ago and took down his number. He just seemed like any other guy, didn't seem that promising Then about a week later we were looking for someone else s house and mistook Boy's house for the house we were looking for.Boy was there and wasn't busy so we shared a message with him and invited him to church. Yesterday to our surprise he came to church. We got our Elder's Quorum Pres. to fellowship him and the guy loved church, he said he will be back next week with his friends and family. It was sweet. On Thursday I was on exchanges with Elder Sherwood's new comp. Elder Dauphin who is from Tahiti. We were contacting people and contacted this sweet family from Zimbabwe. The guy said he knew the church from when he was working in Harare, he worked right next to it. So we gave him a pamphlet, asked him to read and pray about it. gave him a baptism date, invited him to church and charmed them with the only Shona phrase I know, ndokuvara mbama, which means I'm gonna clap you in the face, they thought it was pretty funny. Unfortunately he had to work yesterday but his family came to church and they loved it. We are seeing them tonight so hopefully everything goes good. We have started inviting people to be baptized as soon as we meet them. It helps to weed out fong kong people. It is actually very effective, usually we give them something to read and pray about then ask them when God answer their prayers will they follow the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized by the priesthood authority. On Thursday we ate pap and liver again, probably the best of both I have ever had. Its getting hot now and it is raining outside right now. Last Monday Elder Sherwood and I baked 200 chocolate chip cookies to give out to our investigators and members , they were pretty good. It took us five hours and we were pretty sick of cookies and cookie dough by the end.We don't really have anything planned for today, just going to the office. We are going to the temple on Friday. I guess that is all I have to say this week, I hope everything is going good for you. I'll talk to you later.
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