6/30/15 Great End to a Great Week!

June 30^th 2015

Hey Fam,

So some pretty big news came in yesterday while we were in sacrament meeting. Our mission will be splitting and there will be about 45 missionaries that will be reassigned to the Botswana/Namibia mission. I'll be sticking it out here in Johannesburg, but I'll be missing some friends that will be in a different mission now. Amidst all the craziness of our mission splitting were some amazing moments. So I'll hit you with the biggest miracle of all. I'd compare it to Rajon Rondo, because it is many miracles comprised in 1 big one. 

So yesterday, Elder Sibanda and I had the privilege of baptizing  Leafet Magutshwa and his 2 children. I met them in February with Elder Ainslie and our recent convert Jethro.  Jethro is a man that I wish to become like, probably one of the most humble loving people in the world. Anyways we started visiting his brother (Leafet) who stays up the street from him) From the beginning we could tell that Leafet was prepared for the gospel. He had been to church while staying in Zimbabwae and loved the people and the teachings there. So when he moved this side, he got a job as a truck driver as was gone for 3 weeks at a time. So it was difficult to see him and we had an amazing lesson with him about the sabbath day. It lead him to quit the job he was working, and he was blessed to find a job that works monday to friday. Needless to say that is honestly when he started to gain his testimony and his children followed. So the days leading up to the baptism were pretty easy, they knew that they had found the right church, the only problem was there mom was hesitant of joining. So she told us she needs more time to find out if it was really true. So the day of the baptism came and it went without flaws. All except that the water wasn't working, so we filled up the baptismal font with a firehose :) hahahah the baptism service went on. I baptized Leafet and his son, and Jethro baptized Langalihle. After they ward welcomed them and we talked to the wife after. She said she felt like she needed to be baptized after witnessing her family! Pretty amazing, then later that night we were at Jethro's home and another miracle happened. Jethro's son, Bayethe, who is back in Zimbabwe  right now is being baptized next week! Many miracles in one!

Needless to say we are being abundantly blessed here in teaching entire families here. I can't say how much I love the people and how much that I am learning from them and also my comp. Shout out to Elder Sibanda!

Elder Bhead

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