Feb 8, 2010

The week started out quite well...last monday after all the usual, Elder Coultas from England and I played tennis for about 3 hours. I was so stoked to play. I hadn't played all mission and i pretty much felt like i was just as good as before i left for mish. So i was pretty happy about that. No one else wanted to play so it was just the two of us. We played 4 sets. I won...(not to brag but just to tell ya...) it was 7-5 6-4 3-6 6-3. So we were pretty evenly matched for the most part...but i prevailed!
I went on exchanges monday night through tuesday with Elder Gouws. Remember my 3some in Cape Town...yeah so he's the new ZL i'm sure i told you but yeah we hung out and worked in my area on tuesday and it went really well. We had some great lessons and we able to follow up on a few referrals that were given to us. This week for some reason has been a great referral week. We've received quite a few. And they've been really good ones as well. Father leds. We got this one from a member who came up to us last sunday and told us to visit this family, she was going to give a BOM to them and we were to do the rest...haha. So we get there, i cant remember which day exactly...o it was saturday...i'm jumping ahead...but it's ok...and we got there and it's a white father led family who had been going through a lot of junk at their last church. And havent been back for about 8 months. Their names are Shaun and Karin. They also have kids...But yeah apparently there was a lot of gossip and false things being said about the family...like that they were witches and false christs and weird weird things...even as they tried to defend themselves the pastuer or whatever just made things worse..so they left. And haven't been back. But luckily as we got there...we were able to answer their questions perfectly and got to talk about a lot of different things. Ranging from Faith, to the plan of salvation...gospel of Jesus Christ, and the BOM. We were there way too long, about an hour and a half. But at the end they were very "impressed" as they said...and really gained respect for us. At first when the wife saw us come in she of course doubted cuz we're just young guys...(especially Cooney since everyone thinks he's 16) but yeah...it was a great appointment. We're going back soonish and they even offered to feed us and we could teach. On our second appointment! We were pretty stoked about that. haha. But we're excited about them.
We've also seen the Harty family and had a great lesson about the Plan of Salvation with a member...an older lady, Sister Joan came with us and bore an excellent testimony which helped a ton. I think they really liked what we have been saying and now we just gotta get them to church...still working on that one.
For District Meeting on Friday i usually like to start out with an object lesson and i usually rotate it around the district. But this week i wanted to do it. I did one using my skateboard and tied it into faith...blindfolded all the elders and did a "plan ride" trick...it's hard to explain but it's way way funny and everybody enjoyed it. My district meetings are getting better and i think everybody enjoys them...which is way appreciated because i've been in some DM's that are just terrible and boring. So i try to make them interesting.
Saturday we played soccer and then dug some gardens later for the Van Tonder family. The cute kid family. They have this little girl Shelby who's like almost 4 that i'm pretty sure i wanna take with me. Kids are awesome. haha. Church was also really good on sunday. it was a good fast and testimony sunday...sometimes they can be a bit hard to stay comfortable through...but it was really nice. Both saturday night and sunday night we ate food with our landlady and her family...the Van Tonders...(the ones we dug for was her oldest son and family) but yeah saturday we were invited for a Braai...which was great...then ate there again after lunch. That was pretty much our week i'd say.
It's starting to warm up and the weather is hard to predict...it's just really humid. We golfed today if i havent already said...we already played 9 holes with this Scottish guy who's the father of a member. He's a nonmember. But we had a blast playing, although it was way hot...Still had fun. He's a good guy. Yeah that's all i have to say for now i guess. Thanks for everything! Have a great week!
Elder Devenney