The other day we had a bit of extra time between appointments, so we just decided to go see if Esebel was around. So we stopped at her mother’s house where she is sometimes and we found her there moving her stuff and cleaning the place up. Turns out she was able to get a room to stay in there! What a miracle! She has been looking for a place to stay on her own with her daughter, which has been the thing that has been postponing her baptism. She said she just feels so free now! Amazing. So we helped her clean for a while and her baptism is this week! We are so happy for her.

Then on Sunday, we were thrilled to see Tinashe at church! We see Tinashe around every day and he always greets us and we tell him to come to church when we see him and he always tells us he will come someday but we are all just great friends. So we decided to start teaching him last week and after months of him saying he will come to church, he came to church!! He has been taught by missionaries before, years ago, and has been to church as well. But it was so cool to see so many members who he went to school with greet him all day. It was so great and he seemed happy to be there!

We are also now teaching Innocent, who works as a nurse at a hospital, but is 2 weeks on then 2 weeks off. When he is on, he doesn’t drink at all,but when he is off, he is constantly drinking. But he is the most aware drunk person I have ever seen. He remembers everything and can have a normal conversation. So we taught him to Word of Wisdom first and made an agreement with him that he wouldn’t drink after 3:30. Then we saw him again and he just asked a ton of questions about the church and different things. So hopefully things go well and he will be able to progress!

I love this scripture in 3 Nephi 18:32 that talks about how no effort that we make is wasted in sharing the gospel: “Nevertheless, ye shall not cast him out of your synagogues, or your places of worship, for unto such shall ye continue to minister; for ye know not but what they will return and repent, and come unto me with full purpose of heart, and I shall heal them; and ye shall be the means of bringing salvation unto them.” Even if they don’t accept the gospel right now, at least you are planting seeds and maybe even sometime in the future, they will choose to follow Christ.

Have a great week!

Sister Burt

Doing dishes

Kayla

Our matching dresses