Week 7- "When you work hard, the Lord will always pay you back ten-fold"

Hello ladies and gents!
I am sorry for the inconvenience and not being able to email yesterday! It's ok mom i am still alive! Yesterday was national women's day and literally nothing was open except for the grocery store thank goodness. Well if you couldn't guess this week we traveled even more and i picked up my new comp up in bots and then we had zone conference so lets just say my passport is being well used! But Elder Williams is like the coolest guy i have ever met! He has a voice exactly like Easton's and every African within a half a mile marvels at his height! (elder Lawson looks like a small child when he stands next to him) Hes exactly like me and also did dh biking back at home so of course we are instant brothers! Elder Autry got transferred to go train an greenie in mojimiji in Pretoria in the new addition to our mission. I will definitely miss the monkey. But on my way back from bots me and elder Williams got lost in gabs and finally made it out and while we were traveling through the bush our car broke down so that was fun and right after that we finally got the border and i forgot my licence so the border guard grabbed me by the arm and sat me down and told me that he was going to throw me in jail for a week until i got a couple hundred bucks to buy him some beer! but then he let me go and we were on are way once again! Soon after getting back to mofikeng we went to a lot of the members houses to get to know them and to establish a good relationship with them, the foundation of the church relies on them so its critical that we know them well. But everything has been difficult to organize because now i have no reference from a comp that knows the area so this week i have been able learn the area quite well!
But a couple days ago we put another girl on date named {K} and her friend that had been taught by the missionary's previously and now feels like she needs to pull her self back on the straight and narrow path. Other wise our numbers may be low but our success of converting souls have been tremendous. I have felt great this week and have had the joy constantly that can only be found in missionary work, at times it is easy to think how difficult it is, but when you work hard the lord will always pay you back ten-fold. we have almost 7 people on date for baptism and the majority of them are progressing quite well. Our success always will be based on our effort and the lord will assist us along the way. I love you all and i hope the fam has a great time in NYC! Love you all and always remember how blessed each of you are!
Love you all the way from Mzanzi!
-Elder Swindle



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