moving forward

Hello All,

Can I get the tracking number for my package? They sometimes have to have it just to pick the package up. That goes for any package. So no I haven't seen the package yet, making do though.

Question for anyone who can answer. We were teaching about the Great Apostosy, both in the SAMTC and here in the field, and everyone keeps saying that all of Jesus Christ's apostles were killed. Were they all killed? I always thought that three of them asked to never taste of death. And maybe I am confusing them with three others???

A few things that I didn't have time last time to tell you that happened at the SAMTC are:

The eleven missionaries that were there were:

Sister Graves from California, called to serve in the Johannesburg, South Africa Mission and is serving in Botswana

Sister Ntuli from Petoria, South Africa, called to serve in the Zambia Lusaka Mission and is serving in Malawi

Sister Clifford from Bountiful, Utah, called to serve in the Johannesburg, South Africa Mission and is serving in Botswana

Sister Jaker from Uganda, Africa called to serve in the Zambia Lusaka Mission and is serving in the Copperbelt

Sister Nyambita from Tanzania, called to server in the Johannesburg, South Africa Mission and is serving in Botswana

Sister Gehring from Texas, called to serve in the Johannesburg, South Africa Mission and is serving in Botswana

Elder Pauni from Logan, Utah,] was called to serve in the Zambia Lusaka Mission and I believe he is serving in the Copperbelt but I can't remember

Elder Kolditz from Indiana, called to serve in the Johannesburg, South Africa Mission and will actually be serving there [the only one out of all eleven of us]

Elder Dettamanti from Cedar City, Utah was called to serve in the Zambia Lusaka Mission and is serving in Malawi

Elder Adams from Cape Town, South Africa, was called to serve in the London England Mission

The sisters that are serving in Botswana are hoping to be a part of the new Botswana Mission come July 1st.

It was definitely an adventure filled with learning, a lot of laughter, and a ton of memories. :)

We learned the song, "I Am A Child of God" in Swahili and we sung it to the three wards that meet next to the SAMTC. Sounds like Sister Reber sent the video. Yep, Kara the words were different but the messages that we are all children of God is the same in no matter what language you are speaking, or singing in!!! :)

Elder Adams always made fun of us Americans and would always say, "Freakin' Americans". We would just laugh and make fun of him. We out numbered the Africans seven to four so he really had no way to get back at us except to make fun of us, all in good fun though. :)

On Friday night we had the opportunity to teach real investigators, well out of the about fifteen that were there only two were real investigators but we didn't know that until after. The others were members. The first group that came to the trio, that is what we became known as, were the REAL investigators and it was such a NEAT experience to share why we had decided to serve missions. The Spirit was so strong that I felt it from head to toe. Have those experiences definitely put us all on a spiritual high.

Afterwards us sisters were all just standing around talking about the night with Sister Reber and we heard this girl like scream coming from downstairs. The elders had encountered a spider, that was actually pretty big. It was just super funny to have them scream and run away like girls. President Reber had to come and kill the spider for them.

The first few days in Zambia have been pretty interesting. The first day that we got here we spent most of it in the mission home getting all the paper work done and having interviews with President Padovich. President Padovich is definitely laid back and easy going, which in a way can be a good thing. He loves to have fun which is super nice. The APs and the office Elders are super cool and way easy to get along with. Some of them are hard to understand because even the main language is English there are A LOT of different languages that are spoken around here. Makes life WAY interesting that is for sure. :)

My trainer is Sister McKau (mc cow) from Kenya. Sister O'Barr lives with us to and kind of works with us as well. She doesn't have a companion unless they can find her a branch missionary to work with. Half of the time she is with us. [Sister McKau is definitely a piece of work and hovers A LOT, which is starting to get VERY annoying. I know that it has only been a few days but you can only take so much. She honestly treats me like I don't know anything, for example how to use a cell phone. It's not like I haven't been using one for the last ten years. :/ I know I don't know the area or the people but there is still a limit to hovering.] None of us here are either approved to drive or like me don't know how to drive a standard, or on the opposite side of the car and road. Since we can't drive we walk A LOT. I definitely have the startings of a good farmer's/missionary tan. I am getting some pretty sweet lines though, on my feet from my sandals, on my arms from my shirts and watch/elastics and around my neck from my necklace. It is SUPER hot. I'm pretty sure that it isn't supposed to be around 90` in April, somewhere around 50` is more like it.

We got to watch General Conference again this past weekend. It was super great to be able to watch it again. You definitely get something out of it even the second time around. Just like going to the temple.

Sarah Stone watching General Conference made me miss doing puzzles with you and having dinner with your family.

Kristi Stephenson while I was watching I was reminded that whenever President Monson spoke your mom made sure that everyone was awake and paying attention.

Oh the memories that come with General Conference.

We have three baptisms scheduled for April 28th. Two for sure and hopefully a third one. The third one is facing a little opposition and isn't sure if he wasn't to be baptized any more. But just like it says in 2 Nephi 2:11 "...there is opposition in all things...", especially when you are about to do something good that will bring you closer to Jesus Christ. Even though I haven't been a huge part of the conversion process just like Sister Elaine S. Dalton said, "even the smallest part matters"

I can't believe that Mylee is already 9 months old. Where did the time go??? Thanks for the small email. It made me happy.

I haven't seen any letters or the packages yet. Thank you for recording that and sending it on to me. I know that it will help.

That is a sweet experience that Nancy H had. Yep, we did just switch continents to teach the gospel. The gospel is being spread to all the nations. Oh Kara and her names for things. I seriously love it.

I can't think of too much more to write so have a great rest of the week

D&C 121 - 123

Sister Kelsey Webster