Elder Swindle In Africa

25 more days til Christmas!! Wow what a week it has been for us! Lots of things have happened and its the holiday season! We first off had a spectacular Thanksgiving feast at the cambells! We had a feast of the typical foods except no turkey sadly, The turkey here is extremely expensive, like 400 Rand for a little turkey like as big as the Costco Chickens, but that doesn't mean me and Elder Hunt didn't stuff ourselves! Fist time that Elder hunt has ever been full, this guy has got a black hole for a stomach, or maybe its just his extremely fast metabolism. But this week he wasn't so crazy because we had no food! Our bokki got robbed and they stole me and hunts money and my camera! So we literally just survived on thanksgiving left overs and rice... hahaha a little malnourished this week but hey me made it!  What a blessing the holidays are! haha But other than that me and hunt are rocking the christmas music and are pretty excited! This week we attended the sisters fun...

I hope everyone is well and is getting ready for Thanks giving! We are planning to have a feast as well (without a turkey) at the campbells all the elders are pretty excited for that.  We have had a excellent week this week and have had a lot of success with are teaching. We have several new investigators and they are all progressing so far all of them have amazing potential! We taught this guy named david from zimbob and last week we taught him the godhead/BRT with his friend and when we came back this week he read all the way to 2 nephi in the BoM! Very humble guy and his friend, Nomane are both great. We also taught a guy named daniel that is about 23 which is a rarity because no one in that age group ever wants to listen to us, but hes hungry to know more and always wants us to come back. Also we taught a brother that we gave blessing to in the hospital in the ICU and he wants to know more because the missionaries left the area when he was just getting interested, it wa...

Hey everyone! This week has been excellent! Lots of work done and lots of success! This week we have seen a lot of new investigators which means a lot of BRT, and to be honest i have enjoyed the change from always working with less actives the majority of the time. We have 4 new investigators and they were all found through lessons with members or other LA's. We have been blessed to have this new opportunity before us and i know for a fact they have been prepared by the lord to get to this point. What a sacred opportunity it is to help my fellow brothers and sisters understand about this gospel and the pure joy it can bring into their lives, what a opportunity to help someone understand where they are going after this life and to see the smile that spreads across their face as the spirit tells their heart it is true? I cant describe the happiness it brings to me and my comp its amazing. One new investigor we are teaching doesnt know english very well so we have to have a member fe...

Hey! Hey! Awesome week! Me and elder Hunt have been pumping a lot of lessons out this week and we have been able to get in contact with a lot of people that haven't been seen for awhile. The spirit has been strongly involved with assisting us with the work this week and people are learning and acting- missionary's greatest pay off! This week we met with a investigator that is married to a RM and we taught her the plan of happiness and she was touched deeply and was so happy to know this amazing plan set before us! At the end of the lesson she said she said that she honestly never prayed because she didn't think there was life after death and she said she could now pray with meaning! and true intent! We committed her to baptism and she came to church the following day! Awesome! We also got the chance to teach some less actives that live wayyyy out there in place called sunnyside and we taught them the same lesson, and they said that they have never been taught it before and...

Happy Halloween!! Crazy week!! This week so much has happened i would hardly have time to tell you all about it! But mainly transfers happened and Elder Stomps went to momaliodi and will finish the rest of his mission there. And my new comps name is Elder Hunt!! He is 110% somoan and man hes a laka guy!! Hes been out for about a year now and this is only his second area! Though we have only been together for a couple days we have had a great time and man have we got some work done already! Interesting facts about my new comp: he sleeps with a GIANT blue teddy bear named Moses haha and he has enough energy to power all of limpopo haha But hes a great guy his English is very limited and the only thing he can do during a lesson is bear his testimony and laugh and laugh! Super funny guy. It is different now that i teach most of the lesson by myself but Elder hunt can ALWAYS back up what i said with his testimony, an its powerful! Your testimony is something that no one on earth can argu...