Dumela everyone,
Well this has probably been the longest week on mission so
far. Not cause it was bad but just because so much happened! I’ll just start
from the beginning and try to get in as much as I can.
So Monday right after I emailed Sister Graves, Nyambita and
I drove the 5 hours down to Gabs. It was a fun to just hang out with them so it
passed quickly. When we got there we went to a training meeting with President
Wilson. He basically trained us to be trainers. It helped me a lot and it gave
me a bit of a confidence boost. So that was great. Then in the morning
(Tuesday) we got up bright and early and went to transfer meeting. Basically
they just tell everyone where they are being transferred to and who their new
companion is. I already knew cause President Wilson called me. But I found out
I wasn’t going to pick up my new companion until later that day. I was ok with
that though. Sister Graves and I were temporary companions till ours came so we
spent the day going around saying hi to my old investigators. It was good to
see them. Then I finally got to pick up my new companion! Her name is Sister
Scott. She is from Arkansas
Anyways, back to the week. So that was Tuesday. That night
we just hung out with the other sisters and played get to know you games and
stuff like that. Then early Wednesday morning we left to go back to Francistown
Thursday and Friday were pretty normal days. We did some
tracting, did some teaching, saw a dust devil (those mini tornado type things)
that was like 50 feet tall, almost got run over by a donkey cart, our neighbor
had a bonfire in his backyard so now our flat has been smelling like smoke for
days... you know, the basics.
Then came Saturday. It started off great! We had a Mormom
Helping Hands service project. We helped clean up a local school's grounds.
They really appreciated the help and we had a great time. It was nice to just
kind of take a break from missionary work to do service. Then the afternoon was
a little rough. Mostly because for some reason like every other person we saw
was ridiculously drunk. One in particular was bad. Now that Sister Graves is gone, I am the only makgoa in Monarch. (I
seriously haven’t seen another one in our area other than the missionaries the
whole 7 weeks I’ve been here) So I get some unwanted attention. Mostly its just
little kids yelling "MAKGOA" as we walk by (which is actually pretty
hilarious) but on Saturday it was from a man who was horribly drunk. We were
drove up to our appointment and while we were praying he started knocking on
the window. We didn’t really know what to do so we just sat there for a minute
hoping he would go away. He didn’t. It was light out and there were other
people around so we decided to just go ahead and get out of the car. He kept
tying to hug me and talk to me and telling me that he loved me and at one point
Sister Scott had to step between him and me so he would back off. This went on
for longer than I would have liked before he finally walked away. I was fine
but it was just not fun. We thought that was going to be the end of it but then
like 10 minutes later he came back with a drunk woman. They interrupted our
lesson and the lady started yelling at us. Then the guy started coming at me
again. Sister Scott and I looked at each other and we knew we needed to get out
of there. Right now. So we apologized to the investigator (they understood) and
ran to the car and drove away. I am fine and so is Sister Scott but it
definitely shook us up and for the rest of the afternoon we were just really
out of sorts. We are going to try and teach that investigator somewhere else
now.
So that was a rough day. The rest of the weekend was great
though! Especially because of Kelebogile. I can’t remember if I have mentioned
her before or not. We have been teaching her for a long time now. She has been
making some progress but she had a lot of issues she needed to work through.
She has a chastity problem and a word of wisdom problem and she hasn’t
been coming to church. She has been telling us for weeks now that she has been
working on figuring things out but it hasn’t been going too well. Well when we
saw her this week there was something obviously different about her. She was
just glowing she was so happy. She sat us down and told us she had news for us.
In a nutshell she told us that she has decided that it is time for her to be
baptized. She has completely given up everything against the word of wisdom,
she kicked her boyfriend out and is now completely keeping the law of chastity,
she read a bunch from the Book of Mormon, prayed about it, found out it was
true, prayed about the church and found out it was true and she came to church
on Sunday. Its like she had a complete 180 degree turn around. It’s incredible!
It’s seriously like she’s a whole different person. She is scheduled to be
baptized at the end of next month. I am so excited.
Well I am more tired than I think I have ever been in my life
but the work is moving on. Training is pretty difficult but every day I feel
the Lord helping me along. Prayers sure are answered. My favorite scripture of
the week was D&C 135. The whole section. I read it and the spirit witnessed
to me again that Joseph Smith truly was a prophet and that he really did die
defending the only true church upon the face of the earth.
I love you all so much. Keep the prayers coming. They really
are making all the difference for me.
Love, Sister Gehring
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| This pretty well describes our relationship with Elder Erickson (our district leader). We are pretty sure he thought we were nuts. |
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| And this pretty well describes our 3 some. We had fun. |
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| Sister Twongeirwe, Sister Vuki, me, Sister Graves, Sister Nyambita, and Sister Vea. |
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| My new companion, Sister Scott! |
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| All the Francistown missionaries. |
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| Sister Scott and Me. |
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| The whole Mormon Helping Hands group! |
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| While we were tracting, a whole herd of cattle came and blocked the street we were trying to go down. I guess we weren't meant to tract there? |
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