I guess I'll have to give you some details about the
week.
Firstly the baptism.
The service was another really perfect baptismal
service. The whole ward came to support again. Anika and Nwabisa
were so happy to get baptized and they both bore great testimonies about how
great they felt after their baptism. There was also a young 8 year old
girl that joined in the baptism. Nobody prepared baptismal clothes for
her but luckily we thought ahead and prepared baptismal clothes for them anyway
so that was lucky.
We also had the confirmation of the Goeieman family.
They didn't come to church last week to be confirmed because they had a child
sick in hospital but they came this time and we confirmed them and it was also
really great. I am planning to focus on families in my next area. '
Speaking of my next area. I am getting transferred on
Wednesday. I'm going to King Williams Town which is close to Mdantsane
where I started. I'm really excited because I have no leadership other
than district leader of a 2 man district which pretty much means no leadership
at all hahaha. I am going to focus on baptizing so many people. My
new companion is going to be Elder Reynolds from England. I'm pretty
stoked because I have met him a little bit on mission and I like him a
lot. Funny thing is that he's actually my first companion that has had
more than 1 companion before me hahaha. My Zone Leader is going to be
Elder Greengrass again so that's nice. Sadly Elder Dove is leaving me to
go and be companions with Elder Ivins, so I'm going to be a little nervous to
be in a new place without him for the first time.
This week we wanted to find some people to baptize next
transfer and we had a lot of success. We had one really cool
experience. There is a family called the M family. Father mother
and 3 daughters. Apparently the wife was going from church to church
looking for something right. The husband didn't really like church
because he just didn't think it satisfied his needs so he didn't go, but the
wife had been praying that the husband would lead the whole family to a church
where they could worship together and be closer as a family. The husband
didn't know that but apparently he was just standing by the church one day and
he realized that in 30 years of living here he had never seen that church, and
for some reason he had the strong prompting that this is where God wanted him
to be, so he went in on Sunday at about 1:00 after church ended and he talked
to the bishop. We went out to see them on Saturday and taught them the
Restoration. We had such a powerful lesson. The spirit was definitely
there, they were close to tears. They promised us to be at church on
Sunday although they didn't actually come. I'm sure though, that they'll
be baptized in the 2 months or so.
I think you want to know about the zone conference with
Elder Koch. Apparently Elder Ballstaedt's great uncle Immanuel Ballstaedt
baptized Elder Koch's parents which is crazy. So Elder Koch started out
the meeting by announcing to everyone that he had served a mission with my
brother and saying "Elder Heald's brother was the greatest baptizer in the
history of the Mozambique mission." then he went on to talk about
Elder Ballstaedt and how awesome his great uncle was. Me and Elder
Ballsteadt were laughing for the rest of the day that we have royal blood in us
and at least we are related to greatness.
Elder Koch's training was really something special though.
He said so many things that were just so profound. I am actually going to
completely change the way I do missionary work after hearing his
training. Me and Elder Faingata'a and my companion have just been talking
about the training the whole time since he trained us on Thursday. Just
before lunch he announced that he would only be interviewing 2
missionaries. Me and Elder Ballstaedt looked at each other and just laughed
we said it would be us 2. But no he didn't interview either of us.
Apart from the doctrine though which was just so amazing he also bore a
powerful testimony. I really knew that the gospel is true while he was
speaking. The AP's texted us that under no circumstances should we ask
Elder Koch to take a picture with us. as soon as we got that text I told
Elder Khoza that Elder Koch was going to ask me to take a picture with him
anyway. I was right haha. But the zone conference was a really
great experience for me and Daniel was really lucky to have such a great
mission president
I have been getting all sorts of comments ever since then
though about my brother and his baptizing prowess hahaha.
Unfortunately I'm with Elder Faingata'a and Elder Dove right
now. We had to take Elder Huang to the airport so me and my comp split up
and he has all the pictures. I'll send you the pictures of the baptism
next week.
Sister Koch sent these pictures to me (Mom)
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