Hello Everyone! and Happy New Year!
It's crazy that 2017 is already upon us, time flies.
I'll attach pictures another day because of short time due to our need to travel to Queenstown for exchanges, but everything has been awesome here in Mthatha.
We've taken advantage of our time at Spar (a grocery store close to our boarding) to find new people to teach and we've found and made a lot of contacts with people, especially males which we always need more- due to the fact that they can be preisthood holders.
We found a guy in the Deli named Luxolo and he is AWESOME! We've started teaching him most everyday and he came to church yesterday for the first time and he's progressing!!! Hopefully soon we'll be able to get him baptized within the next 6 weeks, even if I'm not around.
Mama Mayeki's boy Simbonile is also progressing and he has a baptismal date set for the 15th! It's going to be amazing to see him baptized and have his whole family be members and have the blessings of the restored gospel!
Brother Albert is progressing and he'll be getting a call to do something with the young mens organization next Sunday and he will be advancing to the Melkezidek preisthood in March!!!! And his family was down from Pretoria and we were able to have two lessons with his Daughter and Grandson and they are reading the book of mormon and will be going to church and finding the missionaries in Pretoria! It's exciting to see what is happening and the blessings coming into his life from the gospel!
New Years is crazy in the township and New Years Eve we drove around the townships and gave away Law of Chastity and Word of Wisdom pamphlets.... unfortunately no callbacks yet haha. At midnight we were all awoken to the sound of thousands of crazy fireworks being set off in the townhship which continued for hours but luckily I was able to go to sleep again..... after a while.
New Years sunday we had a short sacrament meeting again and we helped president Boateng bless baby Jarome Kofi Boateng Jr. He's a cute kid with lots of black curly hair. We had a dinner appointment with the Boatengs that night and had a great time with their family eating Ghana food. It's the best!
I'll send more this week with pictures but until the next time!!!!
Elder Smith
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