Hola! Muy bien! Como estas!
Ndiphilili enkosi kakhulu. Unjani wena?
This week has been really good! It was weird to think my fam is in mexico, and friends are now gonna go on mission, and just the little things at home! But, mthatha, Eastern cape, South Africa is the place to be!
This week was a little slower than usual, so thats lame. We had a great training from President and Sister Merrill Tuesday and Monday i had a great interview with President. My main focus is wanting to become better at following the spirit and not giving rote lessons. We talked a lot about the Spirit and the gift of discernment, and listening. It was awesome. He is such an amazing guy!
We ate A LOT of icecream in queenstown, and the theme for us 4 elders, was, When in Queenstown. Shafted our msf, but worth it.
Wednesday, i was super sick. It was bad. had to sit in bed all morning, and just felt useless so that was lame. Elder Kyles was a great comp and made me german pancakes! (we had them monday, tuesday wednesday and thursday) Hah. We still had some great lessons with Charles and the Samuel family! We found out charles is a doctor, WHAT? but is sooo smart, and only really knows french. As he has been reading the BOM in english, he is learning so much more than he is in school it is amazing! He bore a powerful testimony of the Book of Mormon.
Bongiswa is still doing amazing! We had a great baptism for her friend Sibusisiwe yesterday! As she has come to church she has found all of her friends that she went to school with, that are now members too! They had no clue, but now love it so much!
We met this amazing guy Leeroy! He came to church, and has read the pamphlets, and we gave him a bom. He stayed at church after for the baptism, and as we were waiting to change, He was just all over his new BOM. It was soo cool!!
Saturday. It was one of the funnest days Ive had on mission! We got up to play basketball at 7 with some kids at WSU, but then they no showed, so we had fun walking around the campus, got some groceries, and then went to take the car to get new tires. They fix the tires, and then boom. They dont take the fleet card. So, after an hour of figuring things out, and other people coming, they had to take the tires off and put our flat ones on. but now their was a big line of cars. so it would be another hour. Elder Paskett and I decided to go on an adventure. and try to get jikilezas (small taxis usually 10 r) home to get the other car, about 6 miles) too far to run (cuz im fat and out of shape). We got this guy, Ling, or Ding, maybe Ding a ling. HAha this asian guy. NO english. pick us up, but didnt even stop, so we had to just jump into his huge truck! he didnt stop at anything and then we had to jump out at a turn. 1 car.
Next car, we got this guy in a bakkie to stop for us! it was nice, we hopped in the back, and got a nice bumpy ride up the hill. and finished with a 5 min walk, with NO Money spent! It was awesome! that hsould be our new mode of transportation!!
So we went out, had some great lessons, and then had a dance that the yw were putting on for the yw and ym! It was SOO fun! The past couple weeks on saturdays we have been teaching them how to dance and stuff, (made sure to teach them my new dance io've patented here in SA). But it went from about 7-9. We had a nice program to begin, snacks, Dance, and some BOMB food! They made an amazing braii for everyone! Great steak and chicken and pork and pap and chakalaka. As missionaries we didn't wanna dance with the yw, that might be weird, so we balled out and danced with the little primary girls which was sooo fun! One of the funnest nights! We had a bunch of investigator ym/yw there who brought their moms our aunts! It was great!
Church was great yesterday! We had a great sunday school with a lot of investigators!! We had a great baptism after of Sibusisiwe in which our investigators stayed too and had a great support from members! She is so powerful and funny!
We are excited to work hard this week and look forward to another great week! Thank you so much for the prayers and love and pictures and support! We need them!
I LOVE YOU!
Ndiyalithanda eli khaya
Te Amo!
Elder Ivins
This darling girl was baptized on Sunday. She's been attending church for 2 years, and no one knew she wasn't a member!
They had a fun dance in the branch.