Week #91 "And Even I, Myself, Have Laboured With Mine Own Hands That I Might Serve You..." Mosiah 2:14

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Welcome back to another email, hopefully there are some interesting parts this week!

Tuesday:

We began the day with weekly planning as we do every Tuesday, it's the worst part of the week. Afterwards we got lunch and hit the area. We had a lot of lessons today but the highlights were with Sticks and Kefilwe who we reviewed the baptismal interview with, they just need to get married. Then a yellow dot named Kago who I absolutely clapped with the Bible, with christlike love of course.

Usually I try to avoid throwing bible verses back and forth since it typically leads to contention but every time he said something contrary to the true gospel of Jesus Christ I had to give him a few verses.

Lastly, I'll highlight our lesson with Peaches, Habo, and Kealeboga who also always come to church. They're on date for baptism on the 22nd, they're a great family!

Wednesday:

Today was pretty mid, we met with a few recent converts, tried to visit yellow dots when lessons fell through, and had to rush home mid day for an emergency. We gave it our best. We did manage to end the night with a great lesson with Palesa and Oratile Sekake (recent converts) and Teenabow and Wandisa (sons of a member, sister Bontle).

Also, we got the Bakkie back today.

Thursday:

We went to Bishop Manganela's home with Elder Tuia and Mendes and met Sister Walker as well as Sisters Eze and Vineyard there. The elders did a baptismal Interview somewhere else while the rest of us had a lesson with a sister named Precious. She's moving back and forth between the sisters and our area so they wanted to introduce us.

I'll highlight 2 more lessons for the day. Lorraine, is a lady we found today while looking for her sister who we taught the resto once. Lorraine said her sister was teaching her the Resto and even using the scriptures! We taught Lorraine ½ the resto and she was very receptive!

The other lesson was with Brother Moreong (1st counselor in the bishopric). We chatted, he gave us some tea since Gibb has never had tea before, he hated it, and then we shared a nice lesson. He and his wife are amazing!

Friday:

Brother Rampe gave us a call in the morning saying he wanted us to meet him in a small village at 9am because the chief was gathering the village at the Kgotla. We got there and there were people gathered around, after introductions brother Rampe shared about BYU pathway, we then introduced the restoration and gave out pamphlets. We had to run after that to make it for district council hut brother Rampe stayed for a few more hours, a dawg fr.

We had a good District Council, followed by district lunch at Nando's, Tuia and Mendes also joined us.

We managed 10 lessons today, put Thato on date for the 29th, and met with Nqobile, Emma, and Stephina for the first time. They're so receptive and cool! 

We then went to Gabane and had some great lessons with Grace (lots of potential), her neighbour's Tshenolo who screamed at us to come over, and sister Shado. Tshenolo told us she was taught in 2014 and was almost baptized but then she moved. Hopefully we can baptize her now.

Our last lesson was with Palesa and Peo (recent converts) we knocked their door and hid and they thought it was thieves it was very funny. But, we had a great lesson with them about patriarchal blessings. 

Saturday:

We slammed our schedule with 15 lessons for the day, unfortunately only 9 went through. We reminded many people about church and went around for a couple lessons with Brother Masutha. 

Sunday:

We got 9 friends to church which was a miracle. Every single seat in the chapel was full so we had to stand at the back. The ward is growing and preparing to split again in October. 

Sundays are our finding days with Masutha so we went out for the day and had a little success but still less than usual. We ended the night with a dinner appointment with the Sisters at the Rampe home. They're such amazing members and have the best family. We talked a lot with them and they're so eager to share the gospel with everyone they see. A great end to the night.

Monday:

We had 7am sports for pday today, basketball and volleyball. We came home after, cleaned, got pizza, chilled, taught 2 amazing lessons and called it a night. We met with Nqobile, Emma, and Stephina again, this time Nqobile's husband (Boikanyo) was around, he's Awesome. We had a great BOM lesson with them! 

Lastly we met with Michelle, she brought her older sister this time. She seems very cool but very busy with work all the time!

Conclusion:

All in all it was a great week, we saw many miracles and have many friends continuing to progress towards their baptisms. Please keep them in your prayers so that they can stay strong on the path. I love you all and we'll talk again next week!

Maatla ya Milla (Miller)