This week has
been pretty normal. The weather is crazy hot. It is cloudy some but still hot
and maybe it just feels so hot because it is also humid and super muggy. On
Thursday we met with an investigator who has been meeting with missionaries
since around February and just can't commit. He said that he can believe and
grasp everything but Joseph Smith, the First Vision, and the Restoration of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. I have told him before and think that I told him again
that that is the beginning and what everything is built upon. He just can't
grasp that concept and probably because he hasn't prayed to know. I am so
grateful for my testimony of Joseph Smith and the fact that even though he was
unlearned he had the Spirit and the power of God with him to do what he did and
to see what he did.
On Friday we were
meeting with two boys and one of them kept saying that Heavenly Father, Jesus
Christ, and the Holy Ghost are one, just like everyone else in this country. We
had to tell him again and again that they are three separate being but one in
purpose. Then when we started taking about the fact that Heavenly Father and
Jesus Christ have bodies like we do, that was another adventure in and of
itself. Everyone just sees them as spirits because of the fact that we can't see
them. I am so grateful for the knowledge that I have of the fact that they both
have bodies and I don't have to see them to believe. Definitely grateful for
modern revelation that answers that question. Sister Gopani also fed us again. I
think that she feeds us something every time that we go there. It was Nshma and
I am staying away from that since it is Maize (Corn) and so I just ate the
eggs.
On Saturday we
went to a wedding for someone in our branch. The weddings here are super crazy
and something that I will never get used to. A wedding outside the temple is
hard to get used to anyhow but through in the Malawian Cultural and you have
CRAZINESS. I will send a few pictures next week and hopefully a video. The
District President married them and one of the other branch presidents talked.
One of the questions that he asked was, "If you had one word to tell someone
what marriage is, what would that word be?" He said sacrifice, but I though
Christ because that covers a lot of words. What would your answer
be?
Sunday the
attendance at church was super low. Like 17 when we first started and only
around 40 by the time that Sacrament Meeting was over, and four of us were
missionaries. So needless to say the two Elders ended up blessing the Sacrament
and Sister Napwanga and I did the music. Guess that people truly had partied too
hard the night before.
The work of Jesus
Christ truly is progressing and I am grateful for the strength that I receive
every day from the prayers of all of you and from your thoughts and love. I
truly know that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are real and they have bodies
of flesh and bone, not only because of modern revelation but because we are
created in their image and you have to have something to create an image after.
We truly are the children of God and He has everything under control. Prayers
truly are heard and answered and the scriptures hold all the truths that we
need. The Book of Mormon truly is the word of God and was written for us.
(Mosiah 8)
Have a great
week!!!
Sister Kelsey
Webster
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