Yes it was very nice to speak to you guys. Hopefully
on Mothers day we'll have better connection but it was very nice for me on
Christmas to see you guys.
Christmas day was very nice. We had so much food I
wanted to die. We got fed a meal by this family from Zim and that was
pretty nice and then we went to this other sister and she brought us out this
huge plate of food and we were just looking at it like wow I don't know if I'll
be able to finish that. And then she said ok I'll bring the meat in a
minute. Then she brought us a huge plate of meat as well with like
different types of meat on it. and then I thought I was going to die and
she brought out dessert. She literally brought us the hugest bowl of Ice
cream I have ever seen. It was probably the size of a big mixing bowl
just chuck full of ice cream and cake and I thought I was going to die. I
just kept taking bites and saying I hate food I hate food. I ended up
leaving like half of it. Then after that some more people wanted to feed
us meat and we just had to turn them away. And then another sister gave
us some cake and a tin of biscuits and a full 2.5 liter coke and some candy
bars to take home hahaha. We felt very fat. It was a nice day.
So yeah I just have a couple of stories from this last week
which I will share.
Firstly we struggled to get appointments. I think we
had an average of about 12 appointments planned a day and we didn't teach a
single one. So many drops. On Thursday though we did manage to
teach a lesson which was a really cool lesson. So the other Elders called
us and they said they have a referral for us and they met a sister that had
come to their ward that stays in our area and her name is L. So we
set up a time with this sister to teach her and it was Thursday. Anyway
so this girl is 23 and she's from Joburg so she's only here for the
holiday. But she told us that she's been coming to church with her friend
for about a month and that the missionaries have only taught her once but they
didn't really teach her so she's basically a brand new investigator.
Anyway we started teaching her the Restoration and when we got to the part
about prophets Elder Reedy kind of explained to her what prophets are and then
he asked her what do you know about prophets. And she was just like
"Yeah they are men of God and I like that they have to be chosen by
God." And I was like good good that's true. And then she was
like "I actually met one of the prophets in Joburg." And I was
like Oh brother what is this. Because there are some pretty crazy false
prophets in South Africa. But then she was like "D Todd
Christofferson" And I was like no way that's insane. And she
pulled out her phone and she had a picture with her and Elder Christofferson
was right there on the stand. I was so blown away. And anyway she
turned out to be a golden perfect investigator and if the Joburg missionaries
don't screw it up she'll be baptized for sure.
The other story I want to share with you guys is from
yesterday which was the day after Christmas. We were teaching this guy
called S. we've taught S maybe 3 other times so we know him
pretty well but the whole time he's told us he doesn't want to commit to
anything because he doesn't believe in Jesus Christ and he doesn't really think
religion is important. Well yesterday we told him that we were going to
teach him the plan of salvation and that we were going to show him why it
matters that we believe in Christ and why he should commit to the things that
we've asked him to commit to. Well it turned out to be a super spirit-led
lesson. The whole time he was getting revelation and asking all these
super inspired questions and at the end I was like wow Sparks that was a nice
lesson I have really felt the spirit and he was so excited he was like yeah me
too! But then we talked to him about baptism and we had already given him
a date to work for but he didn't really care, so this time when we asked him to
prepare for baptism he said Yeah for sure I'm really excited to be baptized and
I'm coming to church and I'm going to read the book of mormon too. And we
were like wow this is powerful. And anyway he changed completely in that
lesson I could really see the light of Christ come into his eyes. It was
a very nice lesson.
Also My son elder Reedy got burned pretty bad this
morning. He spilled boiling water on his leg so we'll see what happens
with that.
To Dad:
Yeah it was so nice to talk to you guys. I think for
mothers day I will have more experience and I'll be able to figure out the best
way to skype you guys.
Man it sounds like you guys had a sweet Christmas
though. That made me so sad when you said Daniel is Aevyn's favorite
buddy. But yeah I wish I could be there with all the family just playing
with all the kids and opening presents and rolling around in the snow
hahaha.
That present from Nana and Jordan is super cool.
That's a sweet gift I wouldn't mind getting that myself. That's pretty
cool that they thought about what you would really want.
It's nice that Christmas is over though because all of
our investigators are starting to come back and the baptisms we're looking at
is pretty exciting. We have maybe 20 people who we think could be
baptized in January and February which means we're going to be really busy
again and it's very exciting.
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