Elder Adam Heald: October 23 letter

So yeah we had a nice week and the baptism was definitely a highlight of the week.

So the bishopric is preparing to open up a group in the colored area but there's not so many members there or ward leaders and so we made a goal to work hard in that area and to find more members and we had a lot of spiritual experiences with that. Before I get into that let me backtrack for a second

Don't freak out but the Elders in Zwide (Elder Dove and Elder Monoalibe) got hijacked at gun point on Tuesday. That's the 4th time in the past 2 months that the missionaries in that part of PE have had their car stolen at gun point. So because this is happening so much it seems like the criminals are just targeting the missionaries so the Elders didn't proselyte for a few days.

So for Wednesday and Thursday they came to my area to do splits with me and my companion. My companion went and taught our normal set appointments and I went tracting for the 2 days. The first day I was with Elder Foster. We prayed to teach 4 lessons and find a branch president for the new branch. It was amazing. I've never seen so many father led families in my life. We found 10 father led families to go back and teach and we taught 4 lessons.

The next day I was with Elder Dove. We prayed for 3 lessons, 3 referrals contacted and an elders quorum president. We taught 3 lessons, contacted 3 referrals, and just like the day before we found so many father led families. It was really a miracle.

Another funny thing that happened. Every wednesday we play soccer in the morning at the field and every Saturday we play basketball at the church at 6:30. So Saturday we were playing Basketball and I had the ball and Elder Dove was guarding me but he's not very coordinated with his hands hahaha. So I was just minding my own business when suddenly he just punched me in the face for no reason and I dropped to the floor. I have a big scratch on my face now and everyone keeps asking me about it. Apparently he was just trying to get the ball.

The baptism on Sunday was really special. So many members turned up to support. The program was run so smoothly and everything went according to plan. It was really exciting. The 3 adults baptized each bore their testimony and it was really nice. The whole ward was excited and the spirit was there. Unfortunately the other 2 girls who were going to be baptized had to get pushed back the the 5th of November which should be my last Sunday in Uitenhage, but it's not a really big deal.