Letter from
Michael 10-20-2014- New Zone Leader
It was another average week in the work this week. On Thursday
Elder Harris and I went on exchanges. The new zone leader came with me into our
area. It turns out our new zone leader is Elder Warton who I flew with from
Salt Lake to Johannesburg. Him and one other Elder from our MTC group is a zone
leader now. So exchanges were pretty fun this time catching up with each other
and talking about mission and the MTC.
Anyway, in this new transfer President Dunn gave us a
new rule. We have to always have 2.5 kg of pap and 2L of water everywhere we go
even when we are transferred. On Sunday we heard the stake president talk about
sleeping through the restoration. Lots of funny things are going on in the
world which are warning signs to us today. Elder Harris and I were thinking,
"Uho!.... Is there about to be a famine, disaster, or apocalypse happening
soon or something, haha! We heard from the stake president because the Rabie
Ridge ward had a stake conference on Sunday. It was pretty good.
The members last week did a great job at coming out
to teach with us. They are always a great help. We had a lot more member
present this week. Hopefully we can have the usual members come to befriend
Joyce and Rams. Last week we taught Joyce, Mpumi, and Xolani. I am surprised
they didn't make it to church yesterday. We will have to call them today. Only
Rams and Kabelo were the investigators who came to church today. I worry about
Rams. He is old, recently divorced, has health problems, and is so lonely. His
highlights every week are when we come and he is heart broken whenever we have
to leave. So we are going to bring members with us so he can have friends other
than us who can spend more time with him. His son is the only family member who
lives with him. But the son never talks to him. Maybe only a grunt or too. So
family, it would be great if you could say a prayer for him. Hopefully Rams can
be baptised in November.
Fun Fact: (I have to
drink more soda in a week on mission than I ever did in one year back home.)
You really don't have much control much of your diet
when you can't afford healthy food and you are force fed unhealthy food
everyday. But We eat some great tasting food though. On Sunday a member cooked
us some African style Mexican food. Oh, boy! It was Heavenly! It has been so
long since I have had good Mexican food.
- Elder Michael Johnson
Part of Michael’s letter
to his mom:
We got to teach that father lead family once last
week. The husband even brought the Book of Mormon to work with him. Oh, by the
way. Last week Joyce told us that she gave a Book of Mormon to her friend and
challenged her to read it in one week and pray about it and the church.
Powerful, eh? That was good to here. She seems pretty converted and has a
testimony.
We don't tract everyday but a few times a week. We
didn't really see anyone we had tracted into other than the father lead family.
We teach lessons day and night. Most of our solid appointment are in the
evening though. We don't tract or find in the evening because it is too
dangerous at night. It takes about 10 or 15 minutes from the flat to the area.
It depends on the time of day and traffic though of course.
I keep hearing rumours
about the post office being opened again and then we find out that it is false.
I really don't know when it will open again. It is super frustrating. My guess
is it will open up sometime next year. Okay, say thank to Grandma and the
Smiths. I really appreciate it even if I don't write back anytime soon.
By the way, I heard the movie "Meeet the
Mormons" might be going global and coming to South Africa. I
don't know if that is true though. On Saturday morning we had to go give a 17
year old boy a blessing because his mother just died that morning. He was
freaking out but when we got there we gave him a blessing, said some comforting
words, and taught a bit about the Plan of Salvation. He is the younger brother
of one of the 18 year old members who teaches with us some times. They don't
have the same mother though. So That experience made me think of you and how
grateful I am to have you and that I love you! I love you and Dad very
much! thank you for supporting me, raising me, and being a great example. I was
meant to be with you guys. Love you!
- Elder Johnson
By the way, this year Elder
Cook is coming to SA to speak to us! Actually he will be here in SA
by this week.
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