I’m writing today because my companion was sick yesterday and we never went out of the house but it twas a grand week. We tried really hard to have our investigator progress but it had a negative and positive effect. In the long run a positive. It really weeded out the elect from the not so elect.
We don’t have really anyone on baptismal date after this week, but we are going to have 4 baptisms this coming Sunday!! (4 kids in a family) Man kids are such a pain to teach especially a lot of them at the same time. But then we could really see their attitude and behavior change which made it nice to teach them! We need to find some new investigators because the ones we have now aren’t so many and it doesn't fill the day yet.
I think the best feeling on a mission is watching someone humble themselves, get an answer, and have the atonement of Jesus Christ change their lives! We are teaching this person name Tarryn and her sister Chante who are actually sisters of our ward mission leader. When we started to have correlation at our ward mission leader’s house (Duwayne) they were super defensive and wanted nothing to do with us cause they loved their church so much. But over time we tried our best to build the relationship of trust and they then started to ask questions that didn’t add up in their brain and finally they accepted to pray about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. and I’m pretty sure they got an answer but was too embarrassed to say it in front of Duwayne because she has been so defensive of Joseph Smith in her life that she didn’t want to admit it in front of Duwayne! Ah, it was the best feeling ever! She totally humbled herself and it’s working miracles!
I think i have like 4 weeks left and I’m really trying to be an effective minister and not just an administer. I asked my district the percentage of my ministering and administering and they said an equal 50/50 but we learned in zone conference that it needs to be 80% ministering 20% administering. So i studied about it this week and Moroni is just the perfect example. In Alma 48;11-18 it introduces him and his character... "if all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever yea, the devil would never have power over the hearts of the children of men." be like Moroni who doesn’t like bloodshed, sinning, and loves to prepare.
Habashwe (man i hope google translate kicks in cause it’s a super funny Sesotho word) hahaha
Elder Matwasghotata came to our stake conference this week and that guy has such a powerful conversion story. He was baptized and was preparing to go on a mission It came time for his setting apart and his stake president told him to invite his family and he said he couldn’t... lol the stake president kinda took away his agency and said do it. They came and yet they still didn’t say a word to each other the whole time. His mission president then told him that he needed to write his family every week on mission and he said he couldn’t but took away his agency again and told him to do it haha. 7 months on his mission his family was baptized! It such a cool story but it shows the importance of following your leaders and the example you set for other people. Live up to it!
Love you
Elder Shaw
best district i have ever had!
best roast and peach cobbler i have ever made!
just the best
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