3-23-2009

Hello!

This week wasn't too eventful so i'll probably be pretty brief.

We had zone workshops and interviews and it went good. The AP's and Pres and Sister Probst came up to our church building in Bellville, cuz we're doing workshops by district now...so it was us and the Panorama Elders and Paarl Elders. Basically they focused on how to improve our Personal Studies. It was good. Then interviews and what not went good as well. Pres Probst is awesome.

Then friday we had Zone Workshops and we learned about Companionship Studies...how to make them better...basically it wasn't even that great and i'm pretty sure i didnt learn all that much...but it was still fine.

We're having a bit of a problem with Bro Joosta. As he's been having some problems with Smoking and Word of Wisdom problems...we've been trying to help him out so he can overcome it. He's done good so far but we got a call from his wife Saturday morning asking us if we could come visit at 10:30 in the morning. So we got on over there and she basically told us that Bro Joosta has been hanging out with his friends (keep in mind their in their 40's i'd say.) And he's gotten back into drinking as well. Both of his friends are just about going through a divorce and she wanted our help. It was quite the shock because he had been doing so well these past few weeks. Well we didnt really know what we could do for them at that time...but we just talked to them and kind of discussed with Bro Joosta what was most important to him. Basically was drinking more important than his family? He knew the right answer. So we just kind of committed them to talk to eachother and decided what they needed to do. It wasn't the best way to start out the day...quite disappointing. We then just shared a couple of thoughts / scriptures with them...

Yesterday was a good day. It was stake conference for Cape Town. It was nice too cuz it was here in Bellville. Lots of people came out and it was great. We had Pres and Sister Probst talk in it. Also a member of the Area Seventy talk as well. Elder Hill and then his wife spoke also. They talked a lot about just current things that the First Presidency have been pushing...like temple recommends...maybe even getting a temple here in Cape Town in the near future...Shared some great stories...all the usual. But yeah then we had a nice DA with the Louw Family. Talked with them forever and what not...Yeah other than that just trying to keep busy with other families...sorta slow but it's all good.

Still no news for Nam. We were on a mission wide fast for partially that reason...but haven't heard much yet. It'll be interesting to see what happens next transfer when news comes in cuz we'll find out more next week. Anyway...That's about it. Hope all is well!

Elder Devenney