Elder LaHue

(Top): Elders Guymon, Simayile, Abel, Warner, Ntaka, Cox, Bodnar, Sala, B. Christensen, Kumar, Larsen; Sister Jensen (Bottom): Elders Merritt, Moyo, Bennett, Olson, Bir, LaHue, Bernard, Carter, Maughan, Nichols; Sister Damon My final MLC! Another series of interesting events this week! 1. MLC (Mission Leadership Council) was held in Pinetown on Friday. It was my last one! It has been a cool experience to work so closely with the leaders of the mission for the last year. I said goodbye to many good friends of mine! I'll attach some pictures from the mission blog. 2. On Saturday we helped the Nene family, whom we have been teaching, to build part of their house. It started raining so we stayed inside and helped Baba install a window. 3. Walking in the rain is fun. Better than the sun at least! 4. Yesterday we helped a man who is about to have a baby to make amends with his sister. He has been scared to come to church because his sister is an active member and he...

Max's Baptism! Mncwabe girls, Max & her brothers, Precious Shange, Siphamandla Maluleka, Mfundo Ndaba Transfer news is here: I am finishing my mission in Umbhedula with Elder Cox!! I'm happy. Can't believe this is my last transfer, 6 weeks to go! This week has been great! We finished the transfer off with Max's baptism. Spa, our 17 year old friend, baptized her! As usual the branch did a great job of supporting her. President Sithole said some kind words of encouragement to us so I believe that we have left a good impression in his eyes. Max's testimony made us laugh because she talked about being independent and being a daughter of God in a bold way while speaking in her Ugandian accent. Some tender mercies came from following spiritual promptings: 1. I was prompted to go to the home of a man we are teaching named Petros. He is very sincere but we haven't been able to sit down with him due to a busy work schedule. When we knocked on the d...

The Pakisi family! Dimpho, Andile, Zanele, Lunka & the other children. "I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22" What a week!!! We did some great things to celebrate. On Monday we ate seafood at Ocean Basket. Wednesday was zone conference and afterwards Max passed her baptismal interview. In the evening we went to the Pakisi's home to eat cake because Andile and I share a birthday! She is the one in the picture with the cake. On Saturday it was raining pretty hard and we went out and got wet. For an hour we were waiting for some members to get home and we were hiding from the rain on the side of their house with our backs pressed up against the wall! Elder Cox and I set aside some time in the morning to plan a few different exciting goals. Such as: 1. Organizing a bible study class at a member's home on Wednesdays at 4pm. 2. Holding a weekday FHE at a member's home and inviting less actives in the area. 3. Invite the br...

Ndalo Pakisi On Wednesday I turn 22! We are planning a few events to celebrate. My birthday is on zone conference so after that we will go to a member's home who has the same birthday as me and eat cake! Today we will braai in Durban (braai is the equivalent of south african barbeque). Should be exciting! The heat is picking up and hills are still no joke. On Friday we got cooked alive because we were walking in the sun for hours. Our few appointments cancelled so we were wondering what to do. We said a small prayer and went to an area we don't normally work in. While we were there we found a friend of Mxolisi, who is going to school in Durban and got out of rehab a little while ago. His name is Mhtokozisi. He told us that he wants to join our church because of the big change he saw in Mxolisi, especially that he quit smoking. On Sunday he came to church!! It was a small miracle for us. On Sunday we planned to see someone we are teaching named Max. We got to he...