Well first off happy valentines day to all of you wherever you may be and to any missionaries who happen to get this happy serving the Lord/ P-day/ Brodeo with your companion/district... Hard to believe a year has gone by since I put my mission papers in and honestly I don't know what the heck has happened... As far as news around Nelspruit Elder Brey and I get along really well and we're seeing a lot of success lately prayers really have been answered and this month we should be getting another two baptisms... veronica who we've been teaching for a while and lives in Sabie is really progressing and gaining a testimony and I feel for the first time she's doing it for herself and not her member friends out there... also Ntogozo who was taught by missionaries in the past stopped us on the street and said guys I really wanna change now... I ran away before but I've been reading the Book of Mormon and I know it's true.. I need this in my life... so both are on date for February 27th...
Also news the Atkinsons are going to be transfered to Tzaneen and Elder Atkinson is now a counseler in the Mission Presidency so that is super cool but we'll miss them a lot down here. But some good comes with the bad we will be inheriting two investigators who are progressing well and one of them is Frik (The south African Rambo) so we're pretty pumped for that. Also cool is the members have been bringing referrals and investigators to church and well things are coming along very nicely...
The crazy thing is it is 5 days until transfer news and Elder Rama is probably leaving which will create some really interesting changes in the District... for one... a new district leader... also no senior couple... and there are currently 3 young missionaries here... we may be getting another meaning Elder Alder or I would probably be DL... and due to issues in botswana we may be getting Sister Missionaries... So yeah big week and very interesting...
But let's talk about some awesome things this week and lets begin with last monday night and our "service" at the hospital... so we got a phone call from Pastor Dantgiie (Dah nn t KHHL(add phlegm) eee) and went to the Medi Clinic at 7... we were greeted by 3 huge pastors like 6 foot 5 270 pounds and they clasped our hands and began shout praying in the middle of the lobby... (this involves one man shouting a prayer and the other 2 shouting Jesus, Hallelujah, yes Lord, Hosannah!, or Dear Lord along with them.... and of course two missionaries holding back laughter...) We then went down the hall following these three huge guys who were acting like they were going to go play like the football game of their lives... swaying, clapping, wooing, shouting in the name of JESUS down the hall... and two missionaries following them. so basically we went room to room shared a verse, occasionally played a hymn, and listened to more crazy Afrikaaner prayers and then we made some non commital excuse for leaving after 40 minutes... Afterwards they were talking to us about where we come from... what we're all about... etc. and we basically told them we just share what we know to be true and we do this for 2 years and don't get paid and then mid sentece WHAM pastor Geerie whips out his hands slaps his hands on our faces and annoints us in the middle of the hospital with another shouting prayer.
man I honestly couldn't hold back the laughs I was shaking hahaha... then we left and they said same time next week we'll see you here! you bring a Lekker (very nice) spirit to our crew...
This morning we woke up with a call confirming the appointment... I honestly don't know what to do haha any suggestions would be much appreciated... We're gonna get pictures tonight haha
So after our "annointing" We went to work this week a lot with members and a lot of tracting... we met a way cool family from Soweto we'll be seenig thursday and also a cool lady with 2 kids from Zambia but appearantly her husband doesn't wanna meet us because "there is nothing we can teach him" We also taught a lesson with a pastor present who commited to pray about the message, and got 8 new investigators this week so it was a pretty rad week.
We'll be goin to Kruger National Park next monday so Mom and Dad if you could put maybe a bit of extra money on the home card just in case I see somethin awesome...
Well that's the news... the Lord answers prayers, nelspruit is coming right, we got annointed :D and it's looking like another good week ahead of us...
Enjoy Valentines day and the 3rd week of February 2011 haha
Much love from Africa
Elder Robinson
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