Good day everyone! We had a sweet week last week.

Our purple umbrellas

Patty was finally able to be baptized! She was so excited and it was a very special day for everyone 🙂

We met with Brother Mashingaidze a couple of times this week. He has been reading the conference magazine we gave him last week and LOVES it! He even said he wants one for all the conferences! His favorite talk is Repentance: A Joyful Choice, by Elder Renlund. He was starting to get a bit discouraged about being baptized the other day. He has such a strong testimony about the gospel, but it is so hard for him because his family is so un-accepting  of the church, that it is hard for him. It doesn’t stop him from coming to church and continuing to read and learn more, but all he needs is support and encouragement and a reminder of what he is doing.

Tawanda is one we met in our first week in Mkoba. He came up to us and introduced himself to us and said he would come to church sometime. We saw him in town the other week and he was asking why we never came back to see him (oops!) So we finally were able to go see him this week! He goes to another church called Christ Embassy, but he has been learning super well and really enjoys learning about the gospel! We are excited to continue seeing him and have high hopes!

Priscilla’s baptism is finally almost here! It has been so cool to watch her completely change her life to live the gospel. She is so amazing!

I was reading a talk by Russell M Nelson from April 2014 general conference called Let Your Faith Show. It is a GREAT talk. He talks about having faith and living your faith and to have courage our faith show in a world full of so many things that discourage us to do the right thing and exercise our faith! He tells us that, “Even if ‘everyone is doing it,’ wrong is never right.” He also says that “Keeping divine commandments brings blessings, every time! Breaking divine commandments brings a loss of blessings, every time!” Let us all strive to increase our faith each day and let it show! Don’t be afraid to stand out, and don’t let those blessings pass you by!

I love you all and hope you have a great week!

I repented on taking photos this week, so Merry Christmas!

Love,

Sister Burt