How are you doing?
I'm doing great. I am learning a lot from Elder Roberts, he has helped me so much. He is so good with the people, he just knows how to talk to them. But I'm starting to pick up on what to ask people and how to respond. It is really cool to see their faces light up when you can greet them in Shona. They are so much more receptive when you do. I can't believe that it has already been I week since I last got to write to you, it has flown by.
The Joburg Temple was great. It is a pretty small temple, that only has one endowment room but it was nice. We went 3 times and the last time we even did some sealings. That was really cool, one of the guys was sealed to his parents. It was a powerful experience. Many of them also got to act as proxy for their ancestors as well.
We did get to celebrate Thanksgiving at the MTC, it was really nice. Sister Christensen made some amazing pumpkin pie. It was nice to have some normal food again, even though it was still a little different.
It is good that you are getting things moving out there in Milford, Dad. I'm glad that things are starting to fall into place. Why is the power still not on there? I will continue to keep you in my prayers. Also you can write both spiritual and temporal things Dad, I appreciate both.
I had a crazy thing happen to me though. We were riding our bikes to an appointment, and as we were passing by this group of trees a pack of baboons started to chase us. It was a little scary because they looked like they were going to attack us. We were able to get away from them though.
Now to the good stuff. We are going to have a baptism for a girl named Alice Sakila on Saturday. She's 18 years old and her mother is a member but she has been away at a boarding school so she hadn't been taught before. She is a nice girl that has been really nice to teach because she is always there when we have appointments and keeps her commitments. One of our other investigators, Terrence, was a contact that I made the first day we were in the field. It is funny because he has a Gospel Principles book that he found on the ground somewhere. As he read it he saw all of the BoM references and was like, "Where do I find one of these?" Then he saw the name of the Church on the back of the book and had been looking for the Church for a few months. So when I contacted him he was so happy to see me. He is so smart, the research in the Book of Mormon while he reads is incredible. He found out all of the things that show evidence that it's true before he had even prayed about it. He already has an amazing testimony of it. Another one, Tonderai, has an addiction with marijuana and alchohol. He had dreads too. He's had lessons before but he didn't want to listen then. He said that a few weeks ago he had something happen to him that made him want to change, but he didn't know how. He said that we were the only thing that he could think of. So he gave us a call. He has since cut his dreads and come to church twice. We have set some goals to help him quit smoking and drinking. I can't wait to see how he progresses. We have 19 baptism dates right now set in January and the first week in February.
On Christmas Day we will be going with President Dube to a lake, but I can't remember what it is called. We will get to call home some time between 7:00 am and 12:00 pm Utah time and I will get half an hour. Then on the Monday after, our zone is going to go to a lion and cheetah game park and have a braai (bbq).
President Dube has given us a challenge. It is called the Challenge to Become. We have to pick an attribute of Christ each day and study it, then try to apply it each day. It is amazing to see how much better then day goes when you are constantly trying to become like Christ. It want to challenge you to do the same thing and anybody else that you can get to do it also. When you study it, write down one scripture and think about that scripture all day. It has amazing results. The attributes can be found in Chapter 6 of Preach My Gospel.
Tonana Monday.
Love,
Elder Cecil
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