Elder LaHue

Celebrating 1 year with Elders Mnisi and Nielsen! P-Day got moved to Saturday, this week  because Elder Kevin Hamilton, President of the Africa Southeast Area, will be presiding at our zone conference this Monday.   This week Elder Mnisi and I have been working very hard to try and find new investigators. We knocked quite a few doors this week. We are still looking, but I'm sure we'll find some promising ones soon. Yesterday we committed a man to be baptized and he accepted, so that was our bright spot for the week. Hopefully he'll be able to come to church this Sunday so that he can feel the spirit of it. Not much else to report on there, things are slow right now. Instead I'll share a scripture from the Book of Mormon that I read this week. Alma 48: 11-13,17: "And Moroni was a strong and a mighty man; he was a man of a perfect understanding; yea, a man that did not delight in bloodshed; a man whose soul did joy in the liberty and the freed...

Elders Simayile, Mnisi, LaHue, Jantjies (MTC Group) I turn a year this Thursday !! And what a better way to celebrate it than being in the area where I began my mission? I got back to Rocklands late Friday  night. Being here has brought back so many memories. Along with that, there is been much change and growth in the ward and with the members in the last 9 months. Even the area itself is more developed! I find myself getting lost while driving because things have changed. I imagine it's what St. Cloud will seem like to me when I come home in a year. Sad to be out of Lesotho, but I know the Lord has great things in store for me here. Elder Mnisi and I are working very hard. I know Elder Hinnen and Elder Baker will be able to pick up right where I left off back in Khubetsoana! I got a very warm welcome from the members here. I'm surprised they all remember me! I was driving in the area and I saw two girls from a family I baptized, Tankiso and Nti. When they saw me th...

Elder Hinnen, Mabela, Elder LaHue, Malebona, Mamabela Lots of crazy news this week. I will report them in the order in which they occurred. 1) We got into a car accident Tuesday night. I was making a right turn at night when a blue Honda Fit tried to overtake me and smashed into the driver's side bumper. He was going considerably over the speed limit. Luckily I turned slow because if not I might not be writing this email today. Thankfully there were no injuries. My bumper was mangled up, and the other guy's car skidded over to the other lane. His car was banged up pretty bad and he couldn't drive away. After much time the traffic police showed up. The other driver has no insurance (because nobody here does) and he will appear in court soon. Poor guy. We made it home at about  10:30  that night, safe and sound. 2) Mabela Fantsi was baptized  on Sunday !! The service was wonderful. Many of our members came to show their support. His mother and sister e...

All we did this week was hype people up for General Conference! It was my second as a missionary. We watched it at the Maseru chapel a week later because of broadcasting issues and time difference. 7 investigators came, so not too bad! During the week we created these flyers and passed them out to people we met in Khubetsoana. Around 200 were handed out.  On Friday   there was a car wreck on the way to the area so we took advantage and passed them out to people stuck in traffic. Attached is a picture of Elder Hinnen and I waiting in our boarding between conference sessions. I'm known for loving to eat peanut butter too much. I blame the lack of good food options around here! Speaking of conference, Dale G. Renlund's talk "The Priesthood and the Savior’s Atoning Power" was an answer to my prayers. I loved the focus on covenant keeping and also the personal story about the man who had his temple blessings restored. It hit me hard when he said "I informed...

Showing Lesotho to my son. "The world is yours to explore" We received rain for the first time in over 6 months!! Huge blessing. It's plowing season here in Lesotho and the farmers need it. Driving through the mountains in the mud isn't the best, but we make it work! Also I cut all my hair off! Haven't done that since 8th grade!  I haven't seen conference yet but I am excited. As far as updates go I'm probably due to be transferred  in 2 weeks . I've been here too long, and now there are issues extending my visa again. Training is almost over!!! The work here is going well as usual. On Thursday I went on exchanges with my last companion, Elder Hicks. He is my zone leader now. We had quite a reunion! I learned how to make homemade yogurt. I am going to try to make it tonight. As a district we are going to make pizza tonight! Most of our activities revolve around food because there isn't much to eat around here unless we ge...

Chopping wood with Bro. Moima I am really impressed with the effort level that my companion, Elder Hinnen, has put into his missionary work. He has changed from a new, ready to work missionary to a focused, efficient, and diligent one. We had exhanges this week and I had him stay in our area with another new missionary, Elder Guymon. When I came back at night, they had done such a good job teaching people and had many experiences. Now he is ready to take over the area when I leave! My work is almost complete, haha. This week our efforts have been focused on working with the branch leaders. Yesterday we had our first branch counsel, where we discussed reactivation and missionary work. All of the leaders are on board to work with us, and we passed around a sign up sheet during Elder's Quorum to see when everyone is free. All the members of the Elder's Quorum wrote their name on the list! We have been working with our branch mission leader, Thato Mohapi, each w...

Peter & Monyane Man, I was so tired this week! And not tired of the work, just physically exhausted. I'm doing great now, but my body was ready to give out on me.  On Friday  was the worst. We went to an appointment with an awesome 16 year old boy named Mabela. We were reading the Book of Mormon with him and during parts of the lesson we both fell asleep! He was cool with it, but I felt so bad. We are going to get him some sweets to make it up to him! After that I was so tired I had to resort to buying an energy drink just to keep myself awake. Mabela is one of our most favorite people to teach. He is smart, and he walks FAR to get to church, even though he is just a kid. This Sunday he walked with his mom and sister and the Mphethe family to make it to church. We were teaching him about the Spirit World and he called it "Soul City" which is the coolest name I ever heard to describe it.  We are also teaching two guys named Peter and Monyane...