I
was reading in Alma 36 the other day and I noticed that the last verse and the
first verse are the same, so I became a bit interested, and I looked through
the whole chapter and discovered that the whole chapter is a Chiasmus! I
am sure that that's probably pretty common knowledge but I felt kind of cool
for discovering that on my own. Almost like you discovering that in
D&C 1 but not quite as cool haha
There's
been this kind of mission legend about a witchcraft talk. I've heard all
kinds of stories about it, the guy got excommunicated, the guy didn't get
excommunicated he was a seventy, no he was just a guy, it's fake, it's
real. Anyway my companion actually has the talk so we listened to
it. It's pretty interesting. There's a few things that he says
there that I really like and that I think are really interesting. Anyway
I googled it and found some stuff that it was a mission legend in lots of
different missions and stuff. I wondered if you'd heard about it.
It's interesting but I prefer to learn the doctrines of the Lord and how I can
profit from them, then to learn what wicked things are happening in the
world.
To Mom:
Yeah I think a bunch of us are going home on July 17.
From the group email it seems like probably 5 or 6 of us go home that same
day.
We had a nice week. First of all we got dropped like
crazy. I don't know what happened. We probably got dropped like 6
or 7 times a day on average which just really slows things down. It was
pretty frustrating. But it's weird because at the same time we met 5 or 6
new people this week that are way exciting and are definitely going to get
baptized. In the space of 1 week this area went from being a bit slow and
frustrating, to just overflowing with exciting prospects. Genuinely of
the people we met last week I think we'll have 5 or 10 baptisms. Super
amazing. We met 2 awesome father led families. 1 was a referral
from the bishop. I'm just so excited about them both. I was hoping
to leave King Williams Town but suddenly I'm hoping to stay! I've also
had a sweet idea for a big event that I want to plan and I've had this idea
since I first went to Uitenhage so a long time. Well I told the bishop
about it and he liked it a lot, so I presented it to the ward counsel yesterday
and everyone was pretty excited about it. We're planning the event for
March so it should be sweet. Basically we're planning to invite all the
people in all of King to come to the chapel and we're going to preach the
restoration to them from the pulpit. Exciting stuff
Some other funny things happened. Me and Elder
Steffensen played with some kids 8 on 8 in the street the other day.
There was a lot of kids so we went on different teams. Those kids thought
we were way good so they started calling me Messi, and Elder Steffensen
Ronaldo. It was really funny. Every time I got the ball they'd be
like "Pass it Messi!" And if I scored a goal they'd all freak
out and just yell "Messi! Messi! Messi!" hahaha. when I left
they were like "Bye Messi, you're always welcome here!" Haha I
went back the next day on exchange with Elder Shaw and they all crowded the car
and started freaking out yelling in Xhosa and chanting "Messi Messi
Messi!" hahahaha funny
Another thing that happened that was really nuts.
First of all we live in a townhouse, so our house is connected to our 2 next
door neighbors. Anyway while we were in the area on Wednesday our next
door neighbors house burned down. We didn't even notice until the next
day when we were leaving for the area. It was pretty nuts. On one
side of the wall the house is totally burnt and destroyed and on the other side
of the wall is our bedroom. None of our neighbors knew our phone number
so they couldn't even call us hahaha. The house was just about to burn
down and nobody could get ahold of us. We would have come home from the
area and there was just no house there and we wouldn't have even known.
Crazy story. Moral of the story. Get to know your neighbors.
But I don't think anybody was hurt in the fire so that's good
On Saturday we went to a birthday party for a girl named
Y turning 2. It was super hilarious. her parents, brother and
sister m prepared gift bags for all the kids in the apartment complex
where they're staying and they invited them over. So they were passing
out the bags to all the kids and all the kids started freaking out and fighting
over who got which bag and stuff, doing what bratty 5 or 6 year old kids do
hahaha. But then Y took one of the gift bags and walked straight over
to the most obnoxious kid and with a big smile on her face she took the bag and
just clocked him straight in the face. It was so funny we were laughing
so hard. This little girl! As if she was saying "Hey! it's my
birthday be grateful!" Hahaha the kid was like holding his face but
it was pretty funny.
Sunday it rained so a lot of our investigators let us
down. We still had 14 but we could have had so many more. We were
disappointed but a lot of really good things happened this week that we were
excited about.
Sunday was also a big day for me. 18 Months on
mission. Time flies. I've now graduated from being a sister
missionary and I'm an Elder.
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