the new converts are good, and it seems as though i counted my chickens too soon, we had three baptisms on Saturday, the family i was mentioning was not part of them. you know what though, wen they are baptized, they will be super converted and super amazing. the three we baptized are part of a family that was baptized in december. that family is taking over the branch, seriously. the mom has four sisters that live very close to each other and each sister has a bucket load of baptism aged children, one of the sisters is married, the others are either living with someone or are single. the children of all the sisters come to church all the time and are waiting for the day when they can be baptized as well. that family does so much amazing missionary work and the best part is, those who have been baptized are super strong in the gospel and committed to bringing the whole family along for the ride.
i am glad that you let me sacrifice this time to come here, seriously mom, this church is the most truest of true true true church in the world. i bet it is hard to let our little ones go to far away deserts in unknown lands to preach the word of God. i was thinking about that today, how can this church not be true, God calls young ones to build his kingdom, even a 14 year old boy to restore the only church that can bring salvation to all of the souls of men who have been, are and will live on this earth. that is CRAZY for me to think about. i know this church is true, the book of Mormon is true, it is the proof that Joseph smith truly did restore the church, that the church is true and that Christ is the savior and redeemer of the whole entire world, and there is a true and living prophet this second. what a marvelous thing to have a testimony of living prophets in these last days.
so on to some funny stories...
we have a pet chicken! a woman we contacted sells them and we were talking to her a little about that. she took that as "the missionaries wish to buy one so i need to order it for them!" today she informed us that we need to pick it up because it is at her house. we took it to a recent converts house to keep until we have time to slaughter it. i want to name it Frankfurt.
sister randri loves fish, we live in the middle of Botswana where the only water is about 40 kilometers from here. we have a member who fishes in the water and brings the fishes home. he was kind enough to give us some of his fish. that night we took them home, cooked them and ate them. they were delicious, but we thought it was strange that he only gave us three fishes and we are four at our house. the next day, we got into our car and it smelled really bad. we just assumed it was because some of the fish juice got on the floor. it wasn't until later that the smell was horrendous and we found the fourth fish rotting between the seat and the middle consul. we threw the fish out, cleaned the carpet as best as we could, sprayed it with air freshener and the smell remained. the car wasn't even ours, we were borrowing it from the elders because we needed the stick shift. so we gave the car back to them that evening and we still haven't heard them complain about a fishy smell, nor have we told them. our car smelled great when we got it back.
last one, at baptisms we have a lot of people who are baptized, so usually they will line up at the edge of the pool (we use the pool for the font) and they just take their turns. so this one boy was in line, sister randri and i had no clue who he was, we just assumed he was the elder's investigator. when it was his turn he went into the water and told the baptiser his name. the witnesses couldn't find his name anywhere on the list, we came to find out no one knew who he was, he was just by the white clothes closet when the baptizees were preparing, he was handed a white outfit, told to put it on and was instructed to go wait outside with everybody else. the poor kid had no clue what was going on, neither did we, or the elders, they assumed he was ours and we assumed he was theirs. that was close. that poor kid was so confused, well, i hope a seed was planted in him and he will want to be baptized someday.
oh botswana, i fit in great here.
anyway, i must be going, i love all of you so much and i am loving this mission, time is going much too fast, i blinked and now it is the middle of march. and the new couple don't arrive for two more weeks, they will be in the mtc with paco i think...?
peace and blessings,
sister blum
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