Truly the first thing i have learned on a
mission is that my family is my most prized possession! But this week has been great, we started it off
traveling to Botswana and went up to Francis town to go on exchanges with
Elder Cole and Elder Rantikia and they are both great!! They are great
missionaries that work their butts off. They are 2 of the 4 elders in all
of Botswana so they have a great responsibility on each of their
heads!! But after the 14 hour drive there and back we finally were able
to get back into our normal pace and get to work! I think that Mof-town
is the coolest still. This week Elder Lawson is getting a AP companion
from the new area we received into our mission, he is very thankful to
get a new comp because he has to do call ins moring and night. But that
means that me and Elder Autry will be comps and we can have a normal
companionship finally. It was good having three elders in one place but
it was sometimes difficult with so many people in a discussion expecially
with other members present.
This week i will be brief so i can send more pictures!!
We
played basketball and OHHHH MAAANNNN......Dad do you want to know where
street ball originated from in Chicago?? Do you know were the term
street ball came from??? These guys are absolutely crazy ballers. They are
all as quick as you name it in the NBA and they don't know that a foul
is AT ALL. I got tackled, stiff armed and sandwiched and left with more
bruises than i could hope to count. But it was still great :)
The {C} family finally had her twins and it was funny because both of
them wanted a boy for both the mother and the father. But they are
healthy and cute as can be. We went into a room with four other women
who had just given birth and visited her and gave her a blessing. It
honestly makes you think about the plan of happiness when you see new
born because they were just hours away from the spirit world. Crazy to
think. It got me pretty excited to one day have a family of my own! Well
the investigator {T} i was talking about last week.....oh man all i
can say that due to..... Voodo and murder i don't think he is progressing
towards his baptismal date....!! Just about the scariest lesson of my
life, definitely a "lesson" that will go in my book!! :0 Due to my mother
reading this i will not go into details! But over all it was a great
week, Glad to be back home in sweet home Mofikeng.
But pictures tell their stories of their own so i hope you enjoy them!
I love you all and pray for all of you every day.
-Elder Swindle
{Talmage asked to take a picture of his parents' missionary pictures and badges.}
{We wanted to insert this video because we feel it relates to this letter. ha.}
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