This is a very interesting email. Thanks a lot
dad. I'm just finishing the Book of Mormon tonight or tomorrow and I'm
planning to have a much more in depth study of it the next time through.
I hope when I go home we can have some deeper conversations because I want to
know a lot more from you about how you read the scriptures and how you get so
much out of them. But yeah I'll make a study of the visions of course and
I'll try and look into that more and more.
To Mom:
When you tell me about your job situation it just makes me
laugh a lot. The unemployment rate in South Africa is 27% hahah. My
comp was just telling me he used to work for 10 Rand an hour and he thought it
was a good job. That's about 80 cents hahahaha. It's a blessing to
be able to choose between so many good options.
Things are going really well in our area. We should
have 6 baptisms if all goes well this Sunday. We did the interviews on
Sunday. All of our candidates passed their interview although one was
told to wait for November 5th so we should baptize her on that day if all goes
well. The family we are baptizing is really great. N and
S bring lots of kids every Sunday for church. The two of them were
married already but it wasn't legally recognized in South Africa so last night the
Stake President came to the chapel to marry them together. It was a very
small service there was only 6 or 5 of us there but it was nice and the spirit
felt really good. I promise I'll send some pictures of that baptism next
Monday so you can see everyone.
Uitenhage is going to be starting a group in the township so
probably it will split into a branch next year. I think that we might get
2 more missionaries next transfer which would be a really good
thing.
I had a crazy experience on Friday. I was driving down
the road and there was some girls playing jump rope in the street as they
always do. Well when they saw a car coming their way from the opposite
direction they put the jump rope down and moved to the side of the road.
The car passed them just before I passed them going the opposite
direction. Well because that car passed them they thought it was fine to
go back in the street and one girl stepped back into the street to pick up the
jump rope just as I was passing and I bumped her with the car. I was so
scared I pulled over but I've heard about mob justice and things that scared me
a lot so I thought I might have to just flee the area. Luckily Elder
Khoza knows more than I do and he said we should go over to her. Turns out
she was completely fine. She was in pain a little but she got up and kept
playing jump rope so I was very relieved. It was interesting though
because while we went to talk to her we met a young woman who told us she is a
member of the church named T. We have never met her but we took her
details and invited her to church. The Lord works in mysterious ways
because I know we wouldn't have stopped or met that less active member if we
didn't bump that girl. Still though it was crazy I was freaked out for
the rest of the day every time I saw little kids playing in the road.
Otherwise everything is going great for me
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