Sept 12th- Another week flies by....

Well this week picked up quite a bit! First off we headed down to Pretoria to have correlation with the stake. Bro. Rako the stake presidents secretary headed down with us & after we picked up the mamelodi elders whos car broke down we all went out to eat! Good time, elder voyles offended the waitress- he asked for tap water and she brought him Tab(kinda like coke) So she must of shook up the sauce bottle because when elder Voyles opened it, it EXPLODED everywhere all over are white shirts....haha & brother rakos suit(after the picture was taken.)

This week was great becasue we were able to see most of the people we wanted to, pretty big struggle on this side, But the highlight of the week was mapula's lesson! Most of the time she struggles to keep commitments like reading and is pretty distracted in the lessons but this week she read & felt the spirit so strong! We talked about Christ ministry in the restoration & both me and the comp were able to help her understand the love God has for us to give us the gospel through Jesus Christ. God has provided every resource we need to get back to him- primarily centered on his atonement. We knew the spirit touched her heart and she couldnt deny it. Even better was seeing her come to church with her super cute baby the relief society president! Awesome! I felt so blessed to see fanele( on date fo OCT 30th) Jr+comfort, and thandi all at church! Huge blessing and great way to end the week. I love this scripture: 1 nephi 17

 1 And it came to pass that we did again take our journey in the wilderness; and we did travel nearly eastward from that time forth. And we did travel and wade through much affliction in the wilderness; and our women did bear children in the wilderness.
 2 And so great were the blessings of the Lord upon us, that while we did live upon raw meat in the wilderness, our women did give plenty of suck for their children, and were strong, yea, even like unto the men; and they began to bear their journeyings without murmurings.
 3 And thus we see that the commandments of God must be fulfilled. And if it so be that the children of men keep the commandments of God he doth nourish them, and strengthen them, and provide means whereby they can accomplish the thing which he has commanded them; wherefore, he did provide means for us while we did sojourn in the wilderness.
 4 And we did sojourn for the space of many years, yea, even eight years in the wilderness.
I testify the Lord does ALWAYS does NOURISH US, STRENGTHEN US, and PROVIDES THE MEANS in each of our lives. He is always given us everything we need to get back to him one day. All we must do on our part is Have the zeal & diligence to do his will and it will all be given to us. Never forget the blessings and tender merices hes given us!
I Love you guys have a great week!
-Elder Swindle



 This is Fanele! and sadly he does not play rugby he's only 18
 Sep 12, 2016, 5:48 AM

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Jan 30th-PECFECT WEEK(LIKE REALLY)

Image
What a incredible week! I dont think ive ever been more busy my whole mission compared to this week! So to explain  first before i explain about the details, we prayed Sunday night for a "PERFECT WEEK" i guess we didnt really know exactly what we meant but we prayed for it. It all started off on Tuesday, We had a awesome zone service in the Montana elders area, we did so much manual labor i but my back out probably for the rest of my mission. None the less it was a great opportunity for zone unity and we had a blast. After which we where able to able to see everyone we had scheduled for, including sister Maleka and her family, we felt inspired to bring a sister and her husband from the group teaching with us and we had a wonderful discussion about eternal marriage and temples. We Were finally able to have a productive lesson with sister jackquine(less-active) were she was able to feel the spirit. Wednesday we watched the world wide missionary broadcast. Yes we ...
Read more

Jan 16th-Happy New Year!

Image
Good morning over there! Yeah so the new house is sweet, its pretty roomy for both of us. We are getting so much more work done now its incredible. We found a ton of new investigators last week and this week and we have been able to see most of them. Lots of cool story's. First we broke our record for investigator lessons taught in a week sense we opened the area!  And we decided to track down as many of the former investigators as we could and we found Maria and pindilea who are wonderfully prepared, they had a brother who was takin the lessons and was going to be baptized but the missionary's were taken out of the area and their brother bongoni passed away. It was crazy when they showed us his BOM that he would study out of and the old pamphlets. Besides that we found a lot of father led family's and they all look promising. We are a happy bunch and should have sister mathodi baptized on the 29th. She is awesome, every time she blows me away with signs of a c...
Read more