Aug 29th- THANDI WAS SO CLOSE!

So this week was lakker as always! Transfers were this week & Elder Williams and elder malemo are gone to Limpopo! But Elder Dickson is training a kiwi from new Zealand and elder gathercole from France is in Witbank! We have a great group of elders up here and we have the best of times doing the work together! So we had a great new beginning to a transfer planned on mine and Ndlovus end and it didn't turn out so great..... Thandi was supposed to be baptized this Sunday but there was no water!!! Imagine right? So we are hoping the water will be fixed this upcoming week cross your fingers! So last Friday we go to make all the arrangements, speakers, refreshments, invitations etc and we assumed that Fusico- Thandi's husband would be baptizing her but when we asked him- "NOPE NOPE GO AHEAD ELDERS, I'M NOT TOUCHING NO WATER!" so in the end its not only Thandi that terrified of water but her 6ft 5 tough guy husband! For the strangest reason Africans dread the thought of water no idea why!

My Holy ghost moment is this Sunday, we were sitting in the back of the chapel for sacrament meeting and i was pretty down because there were not a lot of investigators or Less-actives at church(we had like 10 commit!)but and right after the sacrament Sipho & Kwazi walked in with the biggest smiles on their faces! Sipho was super engaged in gospel principle class & priesthood looked like he was a recent convert! He is very excited to come next week. Still having a lot of trouble teaching bishops brother Givemore, hes a hardcore Jehovah Witness so the whole lesson is answering pretty deep questions, but hey i love the guy! Not the craziest week but should pick back up this week!

Love you guys,

-Elder Swindle

Aug 29, 2016, 6:15 AM

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