May 25, 2012

 District Meeting was the first thing on our agenda today. As always, it was a good meeting and afterwards, we took the missionaries for lunch at Guido’s and ordered the same thing we had yesterday with the Nye's.  The missionaries love fish as well as us and for just over $20 we fed four people very nicely.  After lunch, we decided to search out the back way to our boarding as the way through town can get a little busy at times and you travel farther than needed.  Success, we found it!  After a short break at our flat we met up with the missionaries for more visits and lessons.  

 The first sister we visited was Sister Kutloano Sebetlela. We call her Sister Kay. She is a member but had been inactive for some time now and weak in the gospel but very desirous to get back on track.  This sister is very sharp. She is attending flight school, has her certification to fly fixed wing single and multi-engine aircraft and has been recruited by the police force to fly helicopters for them, an almost un-heard of thing here in South Africa.  She asked for guidance on what to do about a friend that was driving her crazy. This gave us a chance to do some counseling and share gospel principles with her that will help her deal with her.  It worked out great. She felt encouraged having some ideas on how to deal with this problem and we had an opportunity to show her that most, if not all, problems can be solved by learning and then applying those principals.  It’s amazing how the principles of the gospel have answers for all of life’s problems. 

Next we visited an investigator who is progressing quickly in the gospel and wants to be baptized and wants her husband and son to be baptized, as well.  However, her husband is on the stubborn side and has only been to two lessons out of six. He does well when he is there but finds every reason to not be there when the missionaries show up. The missionaries feel he will be a great member, as soon as he decides the Gospel is a good thing and wants it in his life, also.  At the end of the discussion she said the closing prayer. It was a very humble and sincere prayer about her family listening to the message of the gospel.  She didn’t just ask God for things, she talked to him as a friend.