Monday, April 4, 2011

Faith Week, tropical storm, testimony, here comes the boom, miracles, saving a family and marriage, and TRANSFER NEWZ BUM BUM BUM!!!‏

Welcome to this weeks edition of Mzansi fo sho (south Africa fo sho) and well as of late, we've been working on a chrislike attribute every week and this week was faith week. We kinda based it around Moroni 7: 35-37 my favorite scripture as of late and how faith works the miracle... So honestly Nelspruit has been loaded with miracle after miracle the past transfer and this is the best it has ever done... like bar none... so this week we decided to continue forward expecting the miracles to continue and for all to work out the way the Lord wants and we want it also.
So Lets begin with tuesday... After a good day of teaching and some service out in bushbuckridge hauling water for the villagers and leveling some ground for the out houses we drove back to nelspruit and saw Amos and Nolwazi a father a daughter who we were referred to by Thandiwe our recent convert/ their fiancee and daughter... Amos is the man and is so flippin ready to get baptized he's hard to teach because he knows everything haha but a rule is they can't be living under the same roof and not be married to be baptized... so we've been going to work on working that out and we'll return to that on thursday...
So we got back to Nelspruit and saw some thunderheads out in the distance and watched them roll in... then BAM 70 mph winds, rain, RAIN, hail, and lightning flashes all over... we were predicting the thunder noise and then bam lightning hits like 100 yards away shakes the whole neighborhood glass breaks in some near by houses and power is gone... so we're in a pitch black apartment with basically a hurricane going on outside... we woke up the next morning with uprooted palm trees busted walls, trees through houses and all kinds of craziness... But something else awesome happened...the huge tent "divine visitation" with all of those pastors was blown away hahahhahahaha it was so sweet. all of these people were asking us "so were they false prophets?" haha yes... yes they were...

Also awesome... nelson our friend from Burundi experienced nothing short of a miracle this week... He was in the army and was basically asked to do terrible things he knew was wrong so they took him away from his family and kicked him out of the country never to return... His wife was pregnant with two twin boys whom he has still never met and he came to south africa only knowing french and Swahili... No zulu, Afrikaans, english, or anything... we've been teaching him english for the past 4 months and he is learning like SO well but the problem was he couldn't keep a job because he was a refugee and had no permits or visa... also, he spoke none of the languages but this week... he was hired as a full time fire fighter by a man he met who just knew he had a good heart and would work hard... he'll know get all the necessary papers because its a government job and will make enough money to bring his family here... Oh and he's getting baptized probably next month! Boom man miracle again... thank you faith week

After a lot of service this week we went to Irene, chichi, and CJ on thursday night and our previous lesson with them wasn't the best... like she didn't even know she had to pray about Joseph Smith... but she was reading, coming to church, and praying about which direction to take... so we followed up with that and she was like... "elder Robinson... of course I know its true... how can it not be... the Lord has told me and all it has brought is good... I'm ready to be baptized..." slam bam thank you mam MIRACLE!

Saturday we go to see amos after he just got a job expecting for them to be able to get married now and well... something else happened... appearantly there was a huge fight and he was ready to go back home (modjajiskloof) which is like 3 hours away and to break off the engagement... so with that warm welcome... we taught... and bore sweet testimony about families... how they should be together forever... how we are blessed with parents, kids, brothers, sisters, cousins, etc. for a reason and how the gospel is what truly matters and brings us together... Not little arguments about a R2000 ring or whatever else... man it was powerful... Spirit so strong and thick you could taste it.

It was just one of those weeks where you know that there is nothing you would or should rather be doing... that you are called of God, and that authority is real... In Nelspruit I've learned to BECOME a missionary... not just the lessons, the doctrine, or how to blow someones mind with scriptural knowledge... but how to love those you teach, what the gospel means to all of us, and it's just the bomb. We will make our goal this month and have more baptisms than Nelspruit has had in 3 years... but its not about that... It's about these people getting the gospel and us just being blessed enough to be along for the ride...

we had another epic storm last night and were able to cap off the week by seeing our golden family again... man I love nelspruit right now... its too bad that I'm leaving tuesday...

yep I'm getting transfered....

APRIL FOOLS!!!! yep I'm staying for another 6 weeks in the refiners fire, the land of king lamoni, Mbombela, and the beautiful Lowveld... and I'm excited... I thought for sure I was leaving and I'm so glad to have another transfer here now... so anyway... awesome week sweet sauce, zhakanakasisa, and the adventure continues...

Elder Kenyon "BL" Robinson
Nelspruit, Mpumalanga South Africa

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