Elder Swindle In Africa

Wow i honestly could not even describe how AMAZING this last week was in mamelodi! Seeing my people that i haven't seen for about a year now, was just the best thing ever. So news came in that im still a zone leader for the Pretoria zone(hit my 14 month of ZL 😨) and we will be whitewashing Mamelodi 4 which includes about half of the previous area i served in last year. BUT also includes/consists mostly of the most ghetto boonies in both mamelodi East & West! My companion who will be joining me for this wild ride will be Elder Burberry from Bountiful Utah- a really chill and down to earth guy & ready to work! Within the last week we had massive roits that blocked the whole main road so that was a adventure getting around. Elder Sudberry is not really used to the township feel coming from Pretoria east a big city so its fun to see him freak out a bit haha So the whole week has been full of eating food from members and getting to know them! We are blessed to ...

What a week! But a week that will be remembered! Started the week of with zone conference-always a spirit that will knock you out of your seat kinda experience. Always love when zone conference comes around because i know im going to get a handful of inspiration that will last a life time! The next day i went on exchanges with a home boy from Provo Elder Wallace, got to check out Mabopane and meet some wonderful people! One thing thats sweet is i met a lot of the founders of the mabopane ward- the people who were there when it all started! They started in a shack and moved countless times, and now today have 140+ faithful members with an huge chapel! So that gave a lot of hope to me and my Hammanskraal family! We Me this one sister that was so reliant on the book of Mormon and is converted to the words to the point that she KNEW if she implemented its teachings into her life she could be in the celestial kingdom one day. Loved her faith and it defiantly inspired me! We...

Well its been a week full of lots of great lessons and also Miracles! Saturday as we were driving to a members place that lives in the middle of no where in a village we are driving down the road to his house then all of the sudden my right pec on my chest just feels like i got struck by lightning! So im yelling an stop the car and my companion jumps out of the car wondering what in the world is happening, then it happens another time. Then it stops and i was just like did i have a stroke or what? So get back in the car just thinking to my self what in the name just happened...? Then we go to the members house and shake his hand and it happens again! Right in front of the member who also has a guest over... I start jumping around in pain, i rip my shirt off and look down and theirs a big black something moving underneath my garments. So that just starts making me jump around and yell even more, and it turns out to of been a massive black wasp like as big as your index ...

What a incredible week! I dont think ive ever been more busy my whole mission compared to this week! So to explain  first before i explain about the details, we prayed Sunday night for a "PERFECT WEEK" i guess we didnt really know exactly what we meant but we prayed for it. It all started off on Tuesday, We had a awesome zone service in the Montana elders area, we did so much manual labor i but my back out probably for the rest of my mission. None the less it was a great opportunity for zone unity and we had a blast. After which we where able to able to see everyone we had scheduled for, including sister Maleka and her family, we felt inspired to bring a sister and her husband from the group teaching with us and we had a wonderful discussion about eternal marriage and temples. We Were finally able to have a productive lesson with sister jackquine(less-active) were she was able to feel the spirit. Wednesday we watched the world wide missionary broadcast. Yes we ...