January 22, 2018

Man i just got done with the war chapters in the Book of Mormon too.... still to this day my favorite person in the book or Mormon is Teancum!!!!! That guy is freaking awesome! haha This week was crazy! We had interviews and zone conference. I think our mission does it pretty different than others. We have interviews one day and then after the president goes out with the zone leaders, we have zone conference the next day. There are 2 zones here so the first hour is zones separate and the zone leaders do a training and then after the hour we come together for presidents training. We have lunch and then leadership training afterwards It’s kinda weird but enjoyable.  In zone conference we talked about revelation and daily planning. If you haven’t read the talk by Bruce R. Mckonkie titled agency or inspiration, which.... you should read it cause that’s kinda what we talked about. And second I’m very grateful that the Lord inspired us to do this training so we could be affecive! You see that humility in there!!! ha

During my interview with President Lebethoa i asked him a question with some of our investigators who were baptized and never confirmed cause one of them got cold feet and started to doubt and the other had an emergency surgery and then we lost her.... You might think wow, but Africans are on another dimension! haha The President said that if they don’t get confirmed this Sunday they have to be baptized again. Well we prayed lots and told Hugo (the one that we were still in contact with) to really pray and read about the Book of Mormon. We came back Saturday and turns out his prayers were answered... again!! He was able to make it to church and get confirmed. Then Yonella who we couldn’t find... long story short we found her after wondering through a township and asking if people knew a yonella haha but she said she would come to church and be confirmed. It’s just that she was recovering from surgery and then lost her job, so she didn’t have any money to come to church and it’s really far to walk. She walked into church seriously 30 seconds before the confirmation. Ah we were sooooo happy!!!!!!! After church we went to go visit Hugo and he was there reading the Book of Mormon and he said he made a promise to us that he will read it every day and thanked us for never giving up on him. It was such a tender mercy!! Everything rides on the Book of Mormon. There is great power from the Book of Mormon!

Love you,

Elder Shaw