HEYO this is Elder Weiler speaking, how do you like my pretty bow? I don't have time to
email so I'm just going to keep typing -- we're going to play with lions (yeah
I know) so we've gotta get going and I'm the last one emailing and I'm stressed
sorry hahaha
This week was great! President Thompson came to Bloem for
interviews and specialised training for our zone! It's always so good to be
around him, he's a great mission president! He has a lot of excitement for the
work here and it's really contagious!!
Our paintballing activity was a blast!! We're going to go
again next week during transfers -- Lesotho Zone VS Bloemfontein Zone!! So
that's going to be super super sweet! Sweeter than sweet (our ward mission
leader ALWAYS says that -- His name is Jojo, he's hilarious but also super
powerful haha)
Transfers are this weekend and I think my time in Blomanda
is coming to an end :(( I have LOVED serving here so much!! The thought that I
might be leaving is a bummer -- I wouldn't even mind staying for 6 months!! But
we shall see!
Saturday was Heritage Day in South Africa! It's one of the
big holidays in SA! It's when we celebrate all the different cultures in South
Africa (there's a lot..... hahha)! We celebrated with a party at the Stake
Centre in town! They had members from different tribes come and teach about
their cultures, their languages, and traditional clothing (everybody dressed up
traditionally, including me, wearing some traditional Ghanaian clothes I picked
up in Newcastle hahah)! They even invited a missionary from Idaho, Elder
Ottley, to teach about his Cowboy culture!! It was awesome! Afterward we
feasted on African food! The meal consisted on just about every food I have
ever talked about in these emails -- chicken feet, intestines (tripe), jeqe (bread),
pap (corn meal porridge), samp (crushed corn kernels) and beans, sour porridge -- YOU NAME IT! It was there! I love African
food toooooo much.
This week was amazing! I realised this week how many
miracles the Lord has worked among us this transfer!! At the beginning of the
transfer, we went through all of our investigators and decided to drop those
that weren't progressing and keeping us from finding the elect; I can testify
that that was revelation! This transfer we have found so many incredible people
that are prepared for the gospel! People who hear the message and are anxious
to act on it! This week we also had a really sweet experience administering a
blessing -- surely miracles have not ceased! God still works among men
today!
I'm sorry that I can't write more -- but I want to express
my love for Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ! Everyday it becomes more and more
apparent that if there was no Restoration of the gospel, I would not be the
person I am today! If there was no Atonement, I would not be the person I am
today! If I didn't have the knowledge and the testimony that I have been
blessed with, I would not be the person I am today!
The gospel is a significant part of me! I love the
transforming nature of the gospel! I love our Father's forgiving and merciful
nature! I know that He wants to forgive us! And I know that we HAVE to repent
if we are going to stand at His right hand one day!
I love you all! Thanks for all the support! Stay Righteous!
Kgotso leli Hlonolofatso!! (Peace and Blessings (Sesotho))
--
Elder Weiler
Just a tank... driving through town... ???
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