Well, this was a pretty good week. Ups, downs, and in between.
So I'm sure you are all a little curious about the title of my email today. So this week we wanted to get Jimmy and Phoebe as ready as possible for their baptism. we taught them the Word of Wisdom last Sunday and they didn't seem to have any problems with it. They have been drinking tea for most of their lives (just like everyone else here) but they weren't super attached to it. On Tuesday we saw them again and asked how it was going with the Word of Wisdom. They said they had been taking tea still. They have to live the Word of Wisdom for at least 7 days before they can be baptized so they had to be pushed to next week. Not a horribly bad thing. If anything it will help them understand how important keeping the commandments are. They felt really bad and we told them they needed to repent and to give away all the tea in their house. We gave them a call the next day and they said that it was all gone. They are so awesome and I am excited to see them finally enter the waters of Baptism. I know that they are ready.
Saturday President Chatfield came up for interviews as well to let us watch the Missionary broadcast from like 3 weeks ago.. both were super amazing. President Chatfield always knows exactly what I need to hear. It is especially awesome to get to talk to him one-on-one. The missionary broadcast was the first time in many years that they have done it. The theme was "Teach Repentance, baptize converts" They just went through many of the main points in Preach My Gospel and it was so awesome to see these General authorities teach these principles. The biggest thing I took away from it was to always have the name of Christ on my lips. As a representative of him I should bare testimony of him every time I get the chance. Our purpose as missionaries is to "Invite others to come unto Christ..." he is the center of our message. This doesn't just apply to missionaries either. Every Baptized member of the church has taken upon his name. In the sacrament prayer is says that we are "willing to take upon [us] the name of thy son, and always remember him" we need to think about him more often then we do. We need to testify of him more often than we do. I know that he lives, and is the Son of God. He died for us and became the savior not only for the world as a whole, but for each one of us personally. I love him and know him.
Well, that's about it for this week, other then that yesterday my companion and I were asked to speak in Sacrament meeting 30 minutes before it started. But then again it isn't the first time it has happened since I have been here. haha. Well I love you all and hope you always have our Redeemer's name on your lips.
Mar, Elder Hawk
You know you're in Africa when people are advertising with huge speakers in the back of their truck yelling and blasting music as loud as they can.
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