This week was such a great week! We were able to see a lot of people and the work has been very fruitful!
We had a baptism on Saturday for Nakiranai! Teaching her has been quite a unique experience. She doesn’t speak any English whatsoever, so we have to have someone there who can translate everything we say, which takes a lot of patience. And she is super quiet and doesn’t say much anyways. But as we continued teaching her, we saw her testimony develop and grow as she prepared to be baptized. I wish we could communicate better so we could learn more about her, but the little we know is that she doesn’t know how to write or even what year she was born in. But you can see how much she has come to love the gospel and know of it’s truthfulness.
The baptism was interesting.. with the combined wards, there were 5 people getting baptized and all of them had a lot of family and friends they brought with was great, but when we got there, the font was not filled and the water was not working properly! They decided to just have everyone wait and they would get it filled, so finally after a couple hours we were able to hold a powerful baptism.
Sunday was pretty special too. Nakiranai was confirmed and Effort, Munashe and Craig received the priesthood! It is so wonderful to watch them grow so strong in the church and now they are preparing and getting so excited to serve missions in a few years!
The branch we are in is so powerful. Being such a new branch, it is so wonderful how untied all the people are and how excited everyone is about missionary work. Especially the branch president, President Gonzo. They all want to do what they can to help us with missionary work and to help the branch grow!
I love Jacob 1:7-8: Wherefore we labored diligently among our people, that we might persuade them to come unto Christ, and partake of the goodness of God, that they might enter into his rest, lest by any means he should swear in his wrath they should not enter in, as in the provocation in the days of temptation while the children of Israel were in the wilderness.
Wherefore, we would to God that we could persuade all men not to rebel against God, to provoke him to anger, but that all men would believe in Christ, and view his death, and suffer his cross and bear the shame of the world; wherefore, I, Jacob, take it upon me to fulfill the commandment of my brother Nephi.
Missionary work is so great and it is wonderful to see the change the gospel brings to people’s lives especially during these times of great hardship.
I love you all.
Have a great week.
Sister Burt
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