Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Sisters and Elders,
Welcome to the Weekly Email! Thanks for being here every week -- means a lot
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This week was also the best week ever!! I think my favourite
part about mission is that it never gets old! Every week holds new experiences,
knowledge, and testimonies! I cannot fully express my gratitude for my own
missionary service and for the service of full-time, Service, and member
missionaries around the world! This truly is the Lord's work!
Elder Fransen and I had an excellent week this week! We are
planning on 4 baptisms this Sunday so we're suuuuper pumped! It's the last week
of the transfer this week, so there would be no better way for us to clebrate
an incredible 6 weeks together! As of now I have no idea whether or not I'm
staying in Umlazi or not. I have so many mixed feelings, but we'll know soon
enough! My time in Umlazi thus far has been a dream come true!
Last week I mentioned that one of our investigators told me
that I'm getting chubby, to make matters worse Elder Chapo (from Zimbabwe) told
me that "If all young men saw you everyone would serve missions!" and
I was like "What does that even mean?!" and he said "You can
tell that members are taking GOOD care of you!" so.. yeah. I'm starting to
get real self concious about all this chubby business. But my pants still fit,
so I'll let that speak for itself. hahaha However, I'm fighting the chub -- for
the past three weeks Elder Fransen and I have been walking to church with new
investigators so they know how to get there; and man. I've gained so much respect
for them. Umlazi is literally all hills. The whole township is built in hills
and valleys. So walking to church feels like hiking Mount Everest hahaha! But
every week we've made it safely, on time, and still breathing! #blessed
This week shaking hands with people has also be a horror. We
did a lot of service this week and the majority of service that we do is
cutting people's grass; except rather than pushing a lawn mower over their yard
we are literally cutting grass and weeds with blades. It's like try to cut your
lawn with a sword! So it's a lot of hard work and energy for such a meager task
hahah! It also makes your hands blister like crazy from swinging the blade so
much! But on the bright side, we're getting really good at cutting lawns 😎 (if
you can call them lawns).
Yesterday was super awesome. Church was great! President
Zackrison promised us in Zone Conference this transfer that because we weren't
able to attend the temple, the Sacrament could take it's place as a time to
feel close to our Heavenly Father and receive revelation for our investigators
and for ourselves; this week I put it to test and the results were incredible!
It may have been one of the most meaningful Sacrament meetings I have ever had!
I really did feel the Spirit of the Temple during the administration of the
Sacrament!
Yesterday we also got bunked a lot. Sundays are usually bunk
days (which doesn't make sense to me) but yesterday was ridiculous! Up to 6 PM
we had only taught one lesson. So we were dying from getting denied and bunked
at every house we went to -- and finally at 6 o'clock we met with a brand new
investigator that we met a few days ago; so we go in and we start getting to
know her and we could see that she was SUPER anxious to start talking about the
Restoration ( we left her with a pamphlet, which she read and annotated in
preparation for our visit ) and we were having this super super awesome lessons
when all the sudden her uncle walks in, sits on the couch (at this point I was
thinking "awesome! He wants to listen too!") and tells us that we
need to leave because it's time for their "family ceremonies"...
Elder Fransen and I just stared at eachother, then Precious (the new
investigator) and were like "Really?" and he said "Yes, every
day we have our family rituals at 6:00" (it was like 6:30 at this point)
so we awkwardly closed with a prayer, packed our stuff up, set a return
appointment BEFORE 6:00 and left our super awesome half-finished lesson. So
that was probably the most anti-climatic lesson I've ever had since I came on
mission hahah. Fortunately we're going to finish the lesson tomorrow!
But amongst being bunked, rituals, and exhaustion, Elder
Fransen continued to fin joy in the Lord's service! I know that this church is
true! I know that the Atonement is real! And I know that all of us have great
worth in the eyes of our Father in Heaven; above all, I know that each of us
have been bought with a price, that our Savior, Jesus Christ, suffered and died
for YOU! That He lives today, and through Him, you can also live with them
again in our Father's Kingdom.
Sala Kahle!
--
Elder Weiler
Ps Forgot my cord so no pics :(
--
Elder Weiler
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