finally.....after 5 years!!!

Dumela all. Sorry there was no post last week. We ran out of time emailing, so I didn’t get the chance. And last week wasn’t very exciting. But this week was VERY excited, and a lot happened. I don’t even know where to begin. First, we had Mission Tour. And the speaker was Elder Dale G. Renlund of the 70 and area presidency here in the Africa Southeast Area. It was great. Really great. He and his wife really taught us a lot about what we need to do to perform miracles for the Lord. He says if we do the best that we can, and keep improving and progressing daily, then the Lord will make up the difference and we will be able to perform miracles for the Lord, but if we ease up, become content, and or fall backwards, then we no longer qualify for the help of the Lord, and will, of course, not perform miracles. It was just really great. We learned many other things from him on how to become more effective, better missionaries for the Lord. Also, Elder Renlund was able to go teaching with my District Leader and his companion, and they planned to take Elder Renlund with them to their eternal investigator, Brother Bakoko, he has been coming to church for 5 years with his wife, but would never agree to a baptismal date, until this week! Elder Renlund went and visited him, and now Bro Bakoko will be getting baptized one the 12 of September, and Elder Renlund will seal him and his wife together next September! Wow, we were so very excited to hear that. I am glad that for most people it does not take a general authority to get them to commit to living the gospel of Jesus Christ! But I am so glad he was able to help out Brother and Sister Bakoko. Yesterday, on our side, we had a husband and a wife get baptized! Yay! It was amazing! David and Rose Gwazarira were baptized! It was so amazing to have a husband and a wife be baptized together! Wow! It was simply incredible; words cannot really describe how that baptism was! It was very very special. They were so happy, and they are also planning on going to the temple in a year from now, if they can save enough money for it. Wow. David and Rose are amazing, David met the missionaries sometime last year and took a pamphlet, actually from Sister Kubheka and Sister Farrell, (thanks JaLeen…and a side note for you, Brother Tekane has a stake calling in the Young Men for Bots! Seriously!) and then David saw Sister Lyon and Sister Toya a few months back, and they started teaching him, and I got to finish up the teaching process, and now they are baptized and planning on going to the temple! It was wonderful! Wow, like I said, I can’t describe it, it was awesome. I can’t wait for the other families we are teaching to also get baptized. We have set a goal to see at least 20 more people be baptized from our area before I leave. I know we can accomplish that. The Lord is really leading us to some great families. So, that is how the work is over here. Other than that, it is really starting to heat up. My companion says how hot it is, and I just tell her to wait, it isn’t hot yet, just like everyone did to me last year. Haha. Botswana is hot my friends. Very hot! It is on fire! I really love it here.