This week has been super awesome, i cant explain entirely why, but i can say it was awesome!
We got to meet with some awesome people this week that i was teaching back in November but they left for holiday. One of them Leshira (which btdubs means wedding dress in Sbetti) Brought two friends with her! That was super awesome so we got two new investigators from that. And they seem super interested. At the end of the lesson we invited them to be baptized and they said they want to. So we will see whats up when we meet with them again! Leshira and one of the two came to church, which is sweet because they live far, and new investigators from that area rarely come to church.
The other one is Sine, she is pretty cool, and immediately told us when she got back that she is not ready to get baptized, but she is still very interested. We talked about it and she said there is just some things she has doubts about. It seems that the missionaries who taught her before never really focused on how important the book of mormon is. So we talked about that and i think we will be able to give her a baptism date this week.
Then on Sunday we had a baptism for an 11 year old boy named Lwandile, unfortunately for Elder Spence and Lwandile the water drained half way during church.... The font was definitely plugged... It just has problems.... So it was a struggle for the baptism, after three failed attempts (his feet kept sticking out) we had to add more water to the font and wait a while. But otherwise it was good.
This week i went on exchanges with the zone leaders and finally got to leave Polokwane for a day. That was super awesome not having to worry about what we would do all day. I went to lenyenye, which is like a village on the outskirts of tzaneen. We had to use someone to translate one of our lessons, which i have not done since i was in botswanna, so that was a flashback. Its a super cool place, tzaneen is the greenest place in the mission and its super cool. Their flat also has air con so that was super sweet. i woke up in the morning in tzaneen and man, i felt like i was in Oregon, i talked to one of the zone leaders( Elder Denton, he is actually from Oregon) about that and he said yeah, he seriously feels like he is waking up back home. it's unlike any other place in the mission.
The scripture for this week is 3 nephi 18:21. No matter who we are in the family we have a responsibility to support one another and make sure that we are doing things the lords way.
Having family prayer is something that we have been directed to do and as with every commandment it comes with many blessings. The blessings that come from this are more numerous than i can list but i can promise if we work together as families to always have family prayer it will bring harmony and joy into the family.
Love Elder Smith
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