Week 40: Finding Golden investigators ready to hear the message

This week was another great week out here in Phokeng! Elder Bindrup and I had a pretty successful week. We are definitely seeing the work pick up and progress. We now have 4 investigators on date and had 4 at church yesterday, compared to the 1 at sacrament and 0 on date when we first got here.

Precious, the lady I spoke about last week came to church and is on date for baptism on July 22nd. She is doing great and progressing really well. Margaret and her husband weren't at church because they went back to their home (4 hours away) to visit their children. They are just renting this side for work. But they are both progressing really well. We are praying that Edward is able to come to church finally this Sunday. Another GOLDEN investigator we have met with this week is Eugene. Eugene is a 22 year old young man who is the brother to a Sis. in the ward. When we first arrived at his house he just kept welcoming us. Super friendly. As we started the lesson he began to open up to us. He mentioned how his sister had given him a Book of Mormon a while back and how he had been reading it but had kind of stopped. He also told us how he use to drink, smoke marijuana, and smoke cigarettes, but how he had stopped all of that on his own about 2 months ago now. He has seen many blessings in his life as he has begun to change his life. He recently got a job at one of the mines. The lesson we had with him was super powerful! We invited him to baptism on July 29th in our first visit with him. He quickly accepted. He loves coming to church and is there almost every week. He lives about a 30 min drive from the chapel but hops on a taxi every weekend after work so he can come to church.

Also this week I went on an exchange with Elder Neeley. That was a ton of fun! We get along really well and just had a great time doing the Lords work. He is an awesome missionary full of enthusiasm and humor.

Also Elder Bindrup and I went to a basketball tournament of one of our investigators Thabiso, and member who comes with us all the time, Thsepo. That was a lot of fun to watch. It reminded me so much of my days of going to all day basketball tournaments. However, here it is outside on cement courts. The people here in Phokeng and the Northwest province are so passionate about basketball, I love it!

Well Elder Bindrup and I are looking forward to another great week full of adventures and hard work. I love you all and will talk to you next week!

Love Elder Rash