So this week has flown by like really fast!Transfer wise, nothing is happening to me or Elder Benson, but the other two companionships in the district are getting changes, no "greenies" though so it'll be nice to meet the new Elders!
Taught some really great lessons this week, will hopefully be having 3 or 4 baptisms in the next couple of months.
Gonna have another busy week this week, especially because all the college kids have come back and school has started again so hopefully we'll be able to teach more and more and more people!
The special person this week has got to be a lady called Sister Brummer, she is an elderly lady, who when she was in her 30s got an infection in her ears, and so they had to operate on them and it left her deaf, she is a member and her daughter (who now lives in Ireland) was 8 at the time. funny thing is, she can talk, well. She can also read lips really well, not so much english so we write a lot of things down when we visited her, but Afrikaans apparently she can lip read really well. It was a new experience, writing things down for her, because she couldn't hear, but then she responding by talking perfectly normal! She gets upset sometimes because people don't know how to communicate but I really enjoyed meeting with her!The lessons we taught though went really really well, i hope that we are getting through to our investigators, and that they are understanding, they say they are, but i will be studying PMG to try and make sure i can find out if they really are.
Interesting experience this week, we were trying to visit a member, but they weren't in, so as we are walking back to the car, this guy comes up to us and starts talking to me, he said that he's seen the missionaries before, but that he wasn't taught by them, but that he wants to be taught and wants to learn more! So we were really excited, so we go to his house where we agreed to meet. Sometimes you can become sceptical, because what people say and what they do can two different things. But then I stopped believing in coincidence once and for all, because as we are getting out of the car, he comes around the corner and is ready for us to go in and teach! I was dumbfounded. We went in and taught a really great lesson, he's going through some hard times but we promised him that this message can and will help him, he seemed really interested and we are going back later this week to teach him some more.
One of our other investigators, his name is Vusi Musi, he is really powerful, he has such great faith, comes to church every week, which is always the deciding factor if they're committed, and we have him scheduled to be baptised! He is going through rough times, and didn't' eat for 4 days once, but he trusts in his Heavenly Father and wants to be baptised! He is also trying to end his old ways and be a better person!Those are the highlights really, and mostly this week, apart from Friday, all our appointments stood true!
This coming week is gonna be good, we have worldwide missionary training on Wednesday, and since there is going to be a protest march in town we are going down to Jo'burg for the whole day, if we get permission from our President.
That's about it for this week, the letters are coming through!
Love from
Elder Jack Jorgensen
