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.”

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.