Molweni!
Woo! Holidays! Sounds
like you are going to have a blast this week! I thinks it's awesome to see the
change in my family from boring, to SWEET AWESOME QUADDERS!!! Paha! I just love
you guys! I'm glad that you are able to go! Every week is a new report. It keeps my emails exciting!.
We have another
baptism coming up this coming Sunday, and another coming up in a couple weeks
after that! Woo! Thanks for keeping me posted on the Olympics! I appreciate
that! Go Canada! I wish I could watch... I love the Olympics! I love you both!
Thanks for the Emails! They are such a
strength to me! Now let me tell you how my week went.
Transfers have come
and gone! Nothing changed, but I didn't get my new planner till Saturday... So
I had to go the whole week finding blank spots in my planner to plan for the
past week! That was poopy... sorry, missionary talk... planners are important
ok! Without one, I don't function!
This past week we
have been running around trying to balance teaching everybody in our teaching pool!
There are just so many, it's crazy! Just progressing them is getting difficult.
It's nice though because it allows us to focus more on ones that are
progressing, and go a bit slower with ones that aren't. But the work is
booming! We had 11 investigators at church on Sunday! 5 of which we still
haven't been able to teach yet! Things are almost awesomely out of our control!
Paha! I had a cool experience with teaching
one of our investigators. Her name is Lina, and she has a friend named
Nomfundo, who we have visited a few times before but had never been able to
progress with the lesson because we were always restarting lesson 1 because
there were new people there every time. So on Thursday we were finally able to
sit down with just the 2 of them and teach them Lesson 2. So that is what we
did! We discussed about Priesthood and prophets and the church of Jesus Christ
in former times, and about the apostasy, and about the restoration. By the end
of the lesson she was very excited! And she was more curious about how somebody
gets the authority, and how to know if a person has that authority. So we
informed her that it was by the laying on of hands like in the times of the Old
Testament (using Moses and Joshua as an example) and like the Savior did to His
Apostles, and like has been done once again in modern times from the Apostles
to Joseph Smith, which restored the authority. If a person cannot trace their
authority back with a consecutive, unbroken chain, to Jesus Christ, then they
do not have the authority.
So after explaining that, she share an
experience where a pastor came to her and told her that he wanted her to be in
charge of the woman of the church, so he laid his hands on her head and gave
her authority, and that she was, until that point in time, still in that
position of her church. She then started yelling, "THOSE LIARS!!! I
BELIEVED THEM!" and started saying how she was never going back to that
church again and stuff like that! Sadly she moved to Mossel Bay like yesterday,
so the missionaries there are going to work with her... so there goes one
prepared investigator... We were able to teach her about the Book of Mormon
though, and she is now reading it. Good stuff!!!
I love mission! It's too awesome!!! Also the
other Canadian in the mission from Saskatoon is in the George district! so
thats sweet! George is our neighbors! anywho.. its raining today, and windy,
and fairly chilly... I'm starting to adapt to the climate here... it’s like +12
and I'm starting to get cold easier... oh well, summer will come soon! Wooot! I
wish i could share all of my experiences here, but i don't have time. Take
Luck!
-Elder Jones
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