Elder Swindle In Africa

Howizit! Hey everyone, i hope everyone is well and enjoying good old Utah! Africa is lakaa as always and i am enjoying my new area a lot! It is a great place and there is a lot of work that is needed to be done here! There are a lot more members here but they are all less-active! We have about 60 people come to church and about roughly 400 less actives! Great ratio isn't it?! So here we can always count on having a busy day not just inviting people to follow Christ but to also strengthen there relationship or to help them find it again! Most people here are less active because they have no car and would have to walk at least a hour to church from the mountains. All but like 10 members walk to church pretty impressive! So we have a lot of investigators right now we have a lot of teenagers because most of the older people can hardly speak english, we have about 5 people on date for the 11th of October so its coming pretty close and i think the majority of them with follow through...

Hey everyone! This week has been something else! I finished up training finally and had my first transfer! I am now in the limpopo, lenyenye area and man its is so different from Mafikeng!! The area is all tropical and is all huge rolling green hills and mountains! Its is pretty much as opposite of flat dry maf-town. Tee area is amazing and the people are all spaidee much more different from setswana's in all honestly they are not quite as happy and don't like to talk much! The people here believe we are Satan worshipers and when ever they see us they run away or they yell FIRE! FIRE! The area has a big church here called zcc's and the minster taught them to say that to cast the demons (us) away. haha so it is all pretty interesting here! My new comp Elder Stomps is from the Netherlands and he has about 2 months left and is ready to go! haha  It is extremely different here and feels like i am starting my mission over! But anyways we had a baptism this sunday with one of...

Hey everyone! Wow what a crazy week let me tell you! So much has happened and time keeps flying by! This week has been great and very enjoyable! Last p day we played rugby and man Africans love it, it got pretty tense and man was i sore after! Right after that we went out to eat on the street and we got a call from the security company that some one broke into our chapel! So you have to realize that are chapel looks like a prison/fortress so these thing don't happen...But we got there and in the back they broke through a window and stole all of the huge chapel speakers! And the window they busted though is ridiculously small! No one knows how they did it but they are African so i know at least they didn't use magic. But we went to Botswana and had zone conference and got to see some of the new guys! Love them all they are great! And right after we went to a place called the BDF camp for a zone activity, which is a huge army base and right in the middle of it the keep a bunc...

Etah!!  Hey everyone i hope you are all doing well and loving life as much as i am! This week as been simply amazing, the fruits of our labors are finally paying off and it was great actually being in our area for a whole week! I love Botswana but i enjoy being with my investigators and seeing them grow on a weekly basis! This week was awesome because we have gotten so many new investigators from the open house last week and some from church head quarters so we have done a lot of contacting and our pool of investigators has grown quite large! Now that we have more people to work with we are going to start building our relationships with them so we can begin to gain their trust and lead them to their eternal salvation!! This week has been really rainy and man you think it rains with thunder and lightning in Utah??? Man i thought that the shacks we were teaching in were going to blow down!! But during a thunderstorm with all this rain coming down we found a new inves...

Hello everyone! Just in case y'all didn't know i love you all! This week was definitely interesting and could be considered more of a service week than anything. To our GREAT SURPRISE we found ourselves in Botswana again for the most of the week helping move a flat in Molipoloi (the worlds biggest village) Pretty much out in the middle of no where and we were all covered in dirt from head to toe all week, there is no water up there too so a shower wasn't even close to possibility. But other than that we worked all day everyday moving furniture super fun! haha But after we got back from bots we came back right in time for Mafikengs first open house!! Man what a amazing experience!! We were all expecting not much of a turn out but at one point there were almost a hundred people there! We got so man referrals it was awesome. All of the elders went out into the streets and invited everyone we saw and the members gave the tours and loaded them with info about th...