Truly Committed

This week we had a young woman, named Tshwanelo Ratsatsi get baptized. She has been coming to church for about a year now, and she was finally ready to be baptized. :) she was very excited. She was so happy afterwards. She is a great young girl. She lives far from the church, so in order to make it to church on Sunday she saves the little money her father gives her for transport to school, and walks to school, which is also very far so she can make it to church on Sunday! She sacrifices so much to make it to church. I know the Lord will bless her for that. I was excied to see her baptized. It was a great feeling. For the rest of the week, it was HOT! I know i've said it before, but this week was extremely hot. I think it is the hottest it has been since i've been here! I'm not sure the temperature, but trust me, it was HOT! We were just sitting in lessons, in the shade, nonetheless, and sweat was dripping down my legs, uncrossed, just dripping. it was nice, just kidding, it was miserable, but while you are teaching lessons, you really don't realize how hot, it is, but once you are done teaching you realize that it is so hot, and wonder why you are not in the air conditioned apartment. But then you teach another lesson and remember why you decided to leave the apartment, teching the gospel is worth it.
Ok, so update on the book of Mormon from Elder Watson. We did give it away this week. It was a powerful lesson. We gave it to the family that first popped into my mind when he was giving away the book of mormon. The Kgosietsile family. The rra is trying to quit smoking, and is doing well, the mma just broke her leg, and is at home for two weeks, and they have two daughter in school. WE jsut felt like this was family that needs this book of mormon because they are each struggling with different things, and the Book of Mormon will help them. they really appreciated and were blown away by the testimony of young eight year old April. the spirit was very strong as we shared her testimony and ours with them about the book of mormon! The mma is very big into religion, but she has come to realize that the bible is incomplete, so this was perfect because the book of mormon fills in those gaps...she is excited to read it, as is the rra, for he believes and has the faith that this will help him to quite smoking. He said he would take it everywhere with him and when he has a temptation he will read from it! so, it is looking good so far. they just have to read it, and pray about it, and then come to church. i am glad we gave it to this wonderful family. i pray and hope you will continue to pray that this book will change the lives of this family. They are a special family, and i love them very much, and want the best for them. One more thing about this family. Kgosie, in setswana means royalty, and so this rra is the leader of his tribe, and he will be able to influence his whole tribe as he becomes converted to the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
I hope you all have a great week, thanks for reading, and thanks for your prayers. Love ya all. Oh, and way to go springville, keep it up, you have lots of fan over here in Botswana as well, I keep telling everyone about my team and how well they are doing! So keep up the good work.