Live the Blessings of Baptism
Salibonani! Lingani? lol I’m getting there…
We had a great week last week! I am loving Mzilikazi. The area has been so fruitful and our teaching pool grows more and more each day!!
We were able to teach Babongile during the week so she could be baptized Saturday along with Donald! She was SO excited to be baptized and she LOVES church and primary! So much so that she has been such a shining example to her family. We have been teaching her mother, Sandra, who since we have been seeing her, has started praying for the first time in 12 years. She loves learning about the gospel and has been reading the Book of Mormon a lot! She says she wants to have read it all by next week! She even came to Babongile’s baptism with her mother. We are so excited for her to be baptized.
I love being able to share this beautiful message of the gospel with people every day and helping them prepare to make and keep sacred covenants like baptism and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. I love the analogy the Elder Bednar gave last General Conference:
“Consider how a farmer depends upon the unchanging pattern of planting and harvesting. Understanding the connection between sowing and reaping is a constant source of purpose and influences all of the decisions and actions a farmer undertakes in all seasons of the year. In like manner, the inseparable connection between the ordinances of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost should impact every aspect of our discipleship in all seasons of our lives.”
“Consider how a farmer depends upon the unchanging pattern of planting and harvesting. Understanding the connection between sowing and reaping is a constant source of purpose and influences all of the decisions and actions a farmer undertakes in all seasons of the year. In like manner, the inseparable connection between the ordinances of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost should impact every aspect of our discipleship in all seasons of our lives.”
Baptism is the beginning of a new and wonderful life! We should never forget the covenants we made when we were baptized!
I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!
Sister Burt
Baptism!
Yes… that is a pig. we chased down this tiny truck that had two huge pigs in it and when we found it again, the pig had gotten out somehow. I love Zimbabwe.
We found him the other day laying outside on a tiny little bench lol he is quite the character! He wasn’t feeling well the other day and it had been going on for a while and we were super worried about him so we lined up for one of the members to give him a priesthood blessing and he has been doing much better ever since! And we taught him how to fist bump and he asked what it means yesterday and we told him it means power! haha
Sister Mpiyake and I had a cool experience yesterday while we were in the area.. While we were walking to an appointment, there was an older woman walking by us holding a heavy bag, so we asked if we could help her carry it and we walked with her to where she was going and helped her find it and everything. She was visiting for a couple days from the UK and had seen missionaries before, so she recognized us. She was so happy and told us how much we had helped her when we got to where she was going. It felt so good to make someone’s day so much better just by doing such a small act of service. I love Mosiah 
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