Dumela!!
This week I'd like to start off by sharing a poem.
THE MATATA
a poem by Sister Scott and Sister
Gehring
written for our Zone Leaders- Elder
Fleming and Elder Mabuza
Once upon a time
In a land far away
There lived two young Sisters
Who sure loved to pray
One Saturday night
After a long day of teaching
Their nice little flat
They soon would be reaching
But they noticed their gas tank
Was getting quite low
So they thought to themselves
"To Engen we'll go!"
It was not their intentions
To make a big scene
They just wanted to keep
The Lord's Sabbath day clean
So they filled up their car
But to their dismay
Their card wouldn't work
When they tried to pay
Despite many attempts
To talk their way out of it
Their honest, sweet natures
Just wouldn't allow it
They knew they were stuck
With nothing to do
So their Zone Leaders they called
The Dynamic Two!
The valiant young Elders
They came to their aid
And though it was raining
The ransom was paid
So in order to thank you
For all that you've done
Here's some cookies to eat
While you're out in the sun
THE END
(Based on a true
story)
Well I hope you enjoyed that fine piece of literature.
This week was pretty good. I cant say its the best week we've ever had but
it wasn't bad. The main news for the week is that we dropped like 75% of our
investigators. We just feel like we are in a bit of a rut. The great thing about
Botswana is that pretty much anyone will let us teach them. The bad thing about
Botswana is that pretty much anyone will let us teach them. I'll explain. Our
purpose is to do more than just teach people. Our purpose it to help people
understand and live the restored gospel. It requires them to act on the message
we share. Not just listen. That was the problem with most of the people we have
been teaching. They all just like the company and the word of God. Which in and
of itself isn't bad! But we need to be teaching and focusing our time on people
who will act. So we prayed about it and realized we need to find some new
people. Unfortunately we are out of ideas of how exactly to go about doing that.
Other than tracting, not much really works. So this next week will be full of
knocking doors.
The investigators we do have are doing well though. We started teaching 2
new people this week who seem very prepared to accept the gospel. Mma Musi and
her boyfriend Mr. Parks. They are both in their upper 50's/ lower 60's. I'm not
sure how they ended up dating at their age but its pretty cute. They sit and
read the scriptures together every day and they are just so accepting of
everything we say. "It just makes sense!" That's what they said when we were
talking about the restoration. I wish everyone would just get it like that! They
have a lot of potential so I'm excited to see where it goes. Their conversion to
the gospel will come pretty easily I think. It will be pulling them away from
their current church that might be a bit more difficult. But we will do our
best!
One of the other matatas this week was getting a purple ear. I got a purple
ear like this: Once upon a time it was very windy. Very Very windy. In case you
didn't know, skirts and wind do not make a nice combination. So I was getting
out of my car when all of a sudden the wind blew my skirt all the way up over my
head. I wish I was exaggerating... So in a desperate attempt to get it to go
back down (the wind wasn't making it easy) I wasn't paying attention to anything
else. Therefore I didn't see the wind also blowing the car door towards my head.
It bruised my entire left ear, thus turning it purple. It was definitely the
most graceful 30 seconds of my life. The end.
Then the other matata this week was that out front door is broken! Whatever
mechanism makes the handle work, is broken. So when you turn the handle, nothing
happens. Luckily we have a back door so we aren't stuck inside but its still
pretty annoying. And we aren't sure when it will be fixed.
We had a couple of great times with Gosego this week. She is one of the
girls who was baptized last month. We gave her the new member kit this week
which includes a bible and a triple combination. When she saw it she literally
squealed for joy and did a happy dance. It was probably the cutest thing I've
ever seen. She just loves the gospel so much! Also she came teaching with us
this week. She said something and Sister Scott and I reacted in the exact same
way(that's what being within sight and sound of each other 24/7 will do to you).
She just started laughing and said "Its like someone pressed play!" maybe you
would have had to be there but it was just really funny.
Well my favorite scripture of the week is Alma 36:3. The scripture itself
is good but its the story that happened with it that made it my favorite. So we
were teaching Adam about how he needed to trust in God to overcome the
challenges he is going through. Sister Scott had her scriptures open to a
scripture to share but right as she was about to share it, the wind blew her
scriptures open to this one. We took that to mean we needed to share this one
instead. And we definitely did. After reading this scripture you could tell he
just got it. It was pretty incredible. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Well I love you all lots and lots! Give yourselves a nice firm handshake
from me!
Love, Sister Gehring
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