Elder Adam Heald: May 22 letters and PICTURES finally!

To Mom:

I really wanted to take pictures and repent but I really hate taking pictures so I just tried to take pictures with the Book of Mormon to help me get over my mental block haha.

This week was kind of a slow week for me and Elder Mabanga. We didn't teach too many people. S was confirmed on Sunday by Elder Greengrass so now we don't really have anyone that we're seriously working with anymore. S is really amazing though. We have another recent convert who was baptized before I got here named N and the three of us decided to have a challenge to see who can finish the Book of Mormon first. Last night S was on 3 Nephi 6 so she's really killing us all haha. I actually gave her Jesus the Christ to read.

An interesting thing about N is that she is only 17 but she had to drop out of school and she lives in a really hard situation. She doesn't have parents or anyone to take care of her so she has been struggling lately. Anyway Me, Elder Mabanga, and S fasted with her to get a job on Saturday and Sunday and towards the end of our fast N got a call I don't know who from, but randomly I guess a member family offered her a job, and a place to stay and they are basically going to take her in and train her and have family home evening and stuff and it's going to be really good for her. So a notable miracle I guess you could say.

Something you'll definitely find interesting is about one of our other investigators. We have a sister named N who we are working with. She's 16 and she's really excited to change. She's keeping her commitments and she teaches all her friends about the Book of Mormon. Anyway this past week she actually invited us to speak at her school. Hahaha I thought that was kind of bizarre because I don't think that would be legal in America, but we just went into one of her classes with the permission of the teacher and the principle and we just taught about prayer and scripture study. Apparently it's like a free time space where the students can pick which class to go to, so we went to the religious study class and taught from the bible. We are actually going to start going once or twice a week and we are planning on teaching about the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation and stuff. Kind of crazy but it was a really fun experience.

I think I'm going to be in Langa for 2 more transfers which is going to be really long. I'm kind of disappointed about that. That's going to be 3 whole transfers with Elder Mabanga so it's a good thing that I love that guy haha. Yeah the next transfer is only going to be 3 weeks, and then there will be a 9 weeks transfer, so I told President Merrill that I was planning on finishing Elder Mabanga's training in 9 weeks rather than the normal 12 weeks in preparation for the long transfer, and President Merrill emailed back, don't worry, you will get to finish the training. I do love Langa though, but I'm sad because I'm gaining weight here. The members actually feed us every single day. And 6 months in one area is a really long time. No problem though.

To Dad:

I can't think of much to say. I sent mom a long email so I'm sure you'll read that.

One thing is that I started reading the book by Hugh Nibley. It's definitely not for everyone hahaha. I really like it though. I'm excited to finish it. It's really complex and I have to work to understand it sometimes which is really nice. I've decided to finish the Book of Mormon though. I will be putting all other books on hold for the next 3 weeks while I finish the Book of Mormon. That's nice.