Week 31- Back in Maf-Town Baby!

Hey everyone!

Hard to believe i am back in the blistering hot sun again with the tswanas! They are the best they love to smile and to talk real loud, so its great to feel at home once again!

Wow what a great week it has been! We have had so much progress compared to last week! It has been great, we have been able to contact a lot of referrals the members have given us. Crazy to be thrown back into a place with so few investigators i guess we were pretty spoiled up in limpopo. But its great because you get to try different things. We had a battle plan with the branch for the year of how we are going to help our MASSIVE branch grow, we have over a hundred people a week so there is no excuse, just pray that fathers will start to pay their tithing! We met with a sister this week who is one of the nicest gogos I've ever met, she is struggling immensely because her son and daughter don't listen to her and her work situation is getting incredibly hard. She has to support her whole family by herself despite her age. We met with her and the day was hot both me and my comp were tired and hungry but we sat down and just listened to her for almost a hour and a half about her situation. Suddenly both me and my comp got this renewed sense of energy and the spirit overcame us as we bore our testimonies about the blessing of tithing, how great it was! We all had tears in our eyes at the end of the lesson, definitely my holy ghost highlight for the week. We also got the great privilege to have a mission tour with one of the seventy, elder cook! We had the most inspirational meeting I've had in months! Every second i couldn't help but to be sucked into his lesson. You might recall the story he said in conference about how he was on the elevator with president monson and told him "its better to look up" Was cool to hear it in person awesome! 

This week we met with the mogelas family and went over the baptismal questions and they are finally ready!!!!!! I am so happy for them, awesome to see the change in them from the first time i was here. So hopefully if all goes well they will be baptized by next week!!:) Love their family, pray for them that the father will allow them to do so please please please! Also one of my favorite people in Mafikeng is getting baptized by the other elders, felix chiposi! Their family was the first lesson i had on mission so i am more than excited for him. God loves us and understands our situations but he never gives up on any of us, we are his literal children, never forget.

Love you all,

-Elder Swindela

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