Key to Heaven.....

Sorry there was no post last week. Last week we had one baptism in our area, for a young woman named Daphney Motelebane. She has been coming to church for six months now. She had to come for six months because she has no support from family members. It is a actually a great story on how we met Daphney. In my first area, six months ago, we found out that the lisence plat on our car had been switched with another car in south Africa, all mission vehicles look the same so i can understand how this would happen. Anyway, so my companion and I were without a car for a couple of days while they went to get our lisence plate. during one of these we went on splists with the other sisters in our ward to their area. While two taught lessons, the other two tracted. While sister odongo and i (my current companion) were tracting this day we found Daphney ad her family. And she hasn't stopped coming to church since. Maybe we wouldn't have found her if our car had not had a problem. THe Lord works in mysterious ways. So it was great to see her being baptized. She is a great young lady, and will be a great example to her family. One day all of her family will join the church because of her example. I know it. her older sister is already taking the lessons. So, it was a great week last week. SOrry again for not posting, but I didn't get the chance to even check my email last week. And this week we had zone conference. It was great! I love zone conferences so much. We have the best mission president in the world. It was just great and uplifting. I will share one thing I learned this zone conference with you. He was telling us we need to do a better job of teaching investigators, and member for that matter, about the importance of tithing. He said something about tithing that I really appreciated. He said that they need to understand that tithing is the key to the windows of heaven. If they want their needs to be provided for, and heaven to pour blessing upon their heads that there won't be room enough to receive it, then they need to pay their tithing. It struck me at how true that is. The Lord gives us commandments so that He can bless us and take care of all of our needs, the only thing we have to do is obey, and then He will take care of everything for us. It seems so simple, yet so many people struggle with being obedient. If only everyone could realize the blessing that come through obedience, I don't think anyone would be disobedient. It is definitely not worth it. So that was one thing I learned in zone conference. I hope you all pay your honest tithe and obey every commandment, so that the Lord can bless you. It's just that simple. Well, thanks for reading. have a great week!

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This week wasn't very exciting. The most exciting story i can tell you about this week has to do with Brother Fulukani. We have been teaching him, his wife, and two children for as long as I have been in the area, and they were teaching him a while before that. They come to church every Sunday, but did not want to be baptized. we thought it was because the wife could not understand English very well, but come to find out this week, Brother Fulukani has not left his old church officially yet, where he is a witch doctor of sorts. Not a bad one, but a traditional doctor. Africa has lots of weird traditions and things. And so he is hesitant to join the church becuase he knows that if he does he will have to give up being a traditional doctor, because he knows it is wrong, and so now the truth comes out. Wow. He has been coming to church every week for the past 6 months, and still doing his doctor things on the side. Sometimes people are very interesting. We still hope he will be able to give up his "doctoring" and join the true church. He knows it is true and will greatly bless his family. He is just finding it very difficult to leave his past behind. I guess I understand, he has been a traditional doctor for over 30 years. That would be very difficult to leave behind. So, that is the story of the week. Don't worry, we never drank or ate anything while we were at his house :) Well, the work here continues to progress. It is a very exciting time to be serving here in Botswana. I am loving most every minute of it! Thanks for your support and your prayers. Hope you have a great week, and that you enjoyed conference this past weekend.