March 27th-BACK IN MAMS!!!

Wow i honestly could not even describe how AMAZING this last week was in mamelodi! Seeing my people that i haven't seen for about a year now, was just the best thing ever. So news came in that im still a zone leader for the Pretoria zone(hit my 14 month of ZL 😨) and we will be whitewashing Mamelodi 4 which includes about half of the previous area i served in last year. BUT also includes/consists mostly of the most ghetto boonies in both mamelodi East & West! My companion who will be joining me for this wild ride will be Elder Burberry from Bountiful Utah- a really chill and down to earth guy & ready to work! Within the last week we had massive roits that blocked the whole main road so that was a adventure getting around. Elder Sudberry is not really used to the township feel coming from Pretoria east a big city so its fun to see him freak out a bit haha So the whole week has been full of eating food from members and getting to know them! We are blessed to have strong members out on this side and they are going to help us a lot to get the area up and rolling! We had our first investigator lesson with a crazy runner who works for the US embassy (kind of reminded me of dad) who runs and cycles 25K's every day to get to work! We actually found him running back from work, yesterday we had a wonderful lesson with him, wonderful lesson, we taught him about the Godhead and he was so intrigued and stunned to learn about them the spirit was so strong we should be meeting with their family on Tuesday. We found these massive government project complex that is just loaded with family's, we should have a bunch of new investigators by new week! So happy to back and to give it my all to these people to love them, to serve them, and to help the church grow here! Feel so blessed to be back!
Enjoy the pics!
-ELDER SWINDLE

saying bye to my hamm people!
 


 
eating steaks big as our hands elder sudberry sitting by me and the mams 3 elders

tshamo from Mafikeng came by and visited love this guy!
 
one of my fav cars and the riot smoke in the background typical i guesswent to a investigators 
 
boxing match it was sweet!
 
 
Mathodi and her wonderful family! LOVE THEM SO MUCH!

Putte &arnnold! Most talkive guys you'll ever meet
 
last picture of our beloved garage, and elder hillyer, can you find sinkhla?


roits + a truck full of guys that were comin for us!

BEST DISTRICT EVER WE HAVE TOO MUCH FUN! WEEK 1
 
boxing tournament



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