Elder Nelson

This week has been a good week for us. We are working with some great investigators as I said... but none of them with a date yet. I think we need to start extending dates soon though. I really want to see one more baptism before I go. I hope as well that I can see one more LA go through the temple before I go. I don’t have that much time left!!!! 

We taught our Ugandan family again about the importance of the BofM. We are also teaching Charlotte I can't remember if I told you about her. She is a 16 year old girl in the ward who is PM she is not a member but her mom is and she and her mum come to church and she is pretty much just a dry Mormon! We have been planning on teaching her the commandments. She is really good and needs to be baptized she needs the Holy Ghost!" I think she might be scared of her father and his reaction though. Please keep them both in your prayers. We have been fasting and praying for them each week to hope that a miracle will come. 

As far as RCs they are doing great the ones you know. I heard Emiliano he is dating this girl from Bolivia who is a member so we will see how that goes. I thought that was pretty great.  He is such a good bloke and really wants to get sealed in the temple,

Jonathan and Debi are awesome. Debi is teaching us to bake English foods... It is kind of funny cuz she in 0% English she is South African and Portuguese! But hey, I need to learn to make crumpets before I go home and she said she would teach us. She and Jonathan are rock stars. 

Man this week wasn’t a boring week but my email has kind of been sorry.  I can’t think of any really good stories right now...

I loved meeting Elder Nelson last week.  That was so sweet and quite the shocker. He came to see his daughter who is serving with her husband in the temple here.  He came into the office and we were all shocked!!! There was a missionary from Botswana who was going home and he was in the office when he introduced himself and said he was from Botswana Elder Nelson said "Oh... I dedicated Botswana in 1992." All of us were like... Wow, who but an apostle can say that, yeah very few people can say that! Elder Nelson was also a lot taller then what I thought. On TV he looks smaller but no he is probably like six foot taller than me... It was pretty amazing to meet and talk to him.

Well that is about all the news I can think of for now.

Love ya all

Elder M. White

SPRINTING

This week we have seen loads of success. We had a teach with a lady and her daughter. The daughter has come to church consistently since Dec. We went by and taught them, and the mother’s cousin who is Pentecostal was there. He was quite adamant that we were Satanist, and that we need to pray in the gift of tongues. We laughed and kept teaching. The cousin was against the whole Joseph Smith and Book of Mormon and pulled out the classics, no adding to the Bible scripture. Elder Albrechtsen “doctrined” the snot out of him by explaining the history of the Bible and how Joseph Smith didn’t need to be mentioned in the Bible, that all of the prophets were talking about Jesus Christ and not other prophets. Their cousin shut up after that and we were able to continue on our teach. It went well; well, as good as it could with a Pentecostal bloke there.

Then a member in our ward is looking to refer to us a family as well, to teach. Hopefully this week. Our teaching pool is growing slowly but surely.

As far as our RCs and LAs we are teaching. The singing sister I told you about is still coming to church. I love it. We dropped by a LA yesterday who hasn’t been to church in two years. She was baptized 12 years ago, endowed about 7 years ago. We talked with her, she really felt the spirit and said she wants to find a way back. We also went to the prison again this week to see Della. She is doing great. She has finished the Book of Mormon and D&C 78. We have also been working with some of the youth in the ward that are trying to build testimonies. So that has been fun.

 

We have also been teaching Manoj and his wife. It has been good. I think his wife will be baptized, but not while I am here. Their daughter is turning 8 right after I leave and he will baptize her. Man I am so glad we knocked on his door.  What a great man.  I sure love him.

I love ya lots! I really am sprinting to the end. As far as you guys talking about home it honestly doesn’t affect my work ethic. I figure I am going home whether you mention it or not and so I don’t think about it really. I am working my tail off right now and can honestly say this is the hardest I have worked on my mission.

Love you all!

Elder M. White