Week 9- A Week in Bots and a Wedding

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Hey everyone! Its great to hear from you all just like always! This week has been quite insane! We were litterally in botswana the whole week with the G-west elders! Man they are great and we enjoyed our time together! While in gabs we went to a convention where hundreds of churches and businesses were there showing off their stuff, the church had a booth there and we had a bunch of posters and jazz up so people could easily understand how our church runs. But it was awesome because everyone walked up to us and it was probably the easiest kind of contacting you could do on a mission! Lots of bible bashing and lots of heated debates but it was well worth our time! When i wasn't at the convention i was on exchanges with the zone leader-elder Bassima who serves in the exact same stake from which he was born and raised! The elders up in bots are powerful they sacrifice so much and most of them go straight off to the field and don't even go to the MTC!!  They are willing to serve ANYWHERE including their own home town. I have gained a great love for the elders working a country above us! But otherwise we got to go in their area the whole week and got to meet with some really powerful investigators who have a testimony like ive never seen before! While being here my testimony has grown so much not only from testifying it to others, but watching others testimonies grow and develop! Its so powerful and makes me gleam with joy when i see others finally put their old life away and drop everything they have and follow christ!:) 

This week when we got back from Bots we went to Sis emilys wedding! It was so rad!!! African wedding are simply something else, everyone is yelling and laughing but best of all they are always singing! They all sing their tribal songs together and it is truly the most beautiful thing you have ever hear in your whole life.... Wow it was amazing and so much fun, all the big mamas put on their traditional dresses and its super colorful. We are super excited for them and it also means there is another priesthood holder so we are that much more closer to becoming a ward! So excited for that day!:)

But as for our progressing investigators it has been hard because we have been gone all week, but we have a investigator that is named Kelsto and she is so powerful she is so humble and keeps all the commitments we give her, she even quit coffee this week and she literally drank more coffee than water, super powerful. She should be baptised next month. Then we have bro.davenport that just needs to stop smoking and then he can finally put on the white cloths hes been working so hard for, Then the mojela family is kinda in limbo right now because they are getting a lot of rejection from the rest of their family but we are constantly working and aiding them on their way! We have a bunch of new investigators now and we are excited to have a normal week in our own area and to work with all of them. Last week me and elder Hunt played some ball with all the Umipo university basketball team, and guess what.. we freaking schooled them all!!! It was great haha well this week has been nuts but the love is always there for the work that we do, there truly is no greater work i could possibly do in my life better than this and to add to the fact that i love it makes it heaven on earth:)

LOVE YOU ALL!!!:)

-Elder Swindle