Elder LaHue

Elder & Sister Hampshire with Elders Chiromo, Cox, Kabisa & LaHue @ Rocomama's! Yesterday Mxolisi and Nkanyiso were confirmed and given the Holy Ghost! I felt humbled because Mxolisi asked me to confirm him. Ordinances are always a special experience to witness and be a part of. Before sacrament meeting began, a drunk baba came into the room and sat down. He was quiet until the bread was blessed. Then he stood up, said "HALLELUJAH", shook my hand and exited the building. One of the more bizarre things I have seen here! Work is going great as usual. We are coming into contact with many new families and it has been a blessing for us to teach them. Mxolisi started going teaching with us and he is a great help since he has a strong testimony and he can share in Zulu. Yesterday we fasted as a mission so we are hoping to reaching new growth as the year comes to a close. Today we helped the elders in KwaDabeka move out of their old place. It is weird be...

Mxolisi & Sandile *If you want to see me when I arrive home, come to the Orlando International Airport on  November 2nd  at  11:30am . Now to the important part of my email this week. I had one of the best days of my life yesterday. It is like my whole mission has led up to the point where I am seeing many blessings in the work. We had 2 baptisms!! Mxolisi, a 23 year old guy and Nkanyiso, a 15 year old boy. Mxolisi's less active older brother Nduduzo came to church! (he hasn't been this year). Nkanyiso's whole family came to support!! He has an older brother named Fundo, who we have been teaching and is on B-Date. The most exciting thing is that his Mom and Dad came, both for the first time! They loved the baptismal service. Almost the entire branch piled into cars to Chatworth to see the baptism. There ended up being 60+ people there from Umbhedula!! We invited the Shange family to fellowship Nkanyiso's parents but pretty much the whole branch ended u...

Nagina. We walked 20 minutes down this hill to get to the email shop! Transfer #16 has officially begun!  This week has been quite different than the last few weeks of my mission. In a good way! Elder Cox is helping me to push myself and work harder and be more productive. We are doing the comp study activities in PMG most nights before bed. My studies have improved and I am feeling more of the spirit! The only main struggle I am having lately is my body has been low on energy. I think walking all these hills is the cause of that. But we are still working hard! We have seen a few miracles this week. First, two of our people on B-Date passed their baptismal interviews! Mxolisi is a 19 year old guy that has family in the church and recently stopped smoking. Nkanyiso is a 15 year old boy who is a referral from one of the young men. His older brother Fundo is also being taught. We sat down with his mom and dad last night and explained more about the church and about ba...

Elder B. Walker. Utah vs. BYU Somewhere up in the heavens, God is looking down upon me. And he is laughing. We received our transfer news. I am staying in Umbhedula and my new companion is Elder Cox. I am really excited to serve with him because we are already friends and he is a cool guy! He is very good at guitar so surely I will learn some nice skills from him. This is the ironic part. Last transfer I was released as a zone leader after serving for 9 months. I was very excited about that. So I was free from resposibility for 6 weeks. Then President Thompson told me that he is calling me to be a ZL again now. So much for a break, hahaha. I don't mind though, with every responsibility there is a chance for growth! I love this quote from James E. Faust: "Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope—young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor. As the prophet Ether exhorted, “Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with ...