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| Mikey with his BFF, Sister Weiner, for the last time before she came home. We attended her homecoming in Riverton and it was so awesome to meet her! Such a great lady and we appreciate her so much!!! |
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| President Loveland teaching Mikey how to shine his shoes. I'm sure they needed it!!! |
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| Blowing bubbles for Jesse's birthday! |
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| Morgan with Songolo. |
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| Mikey with Elder Hewlett. |
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What Steph Curry sees when he pulls up for a three!
This is some artwork in Bentonville. |
Hello everybody I hope you all had
a great week!!! We sure did here.
This week we had 8 refugees at
church and are really excited about what we have put together for next week. We have been in contact with a Swahili
speaking refugee branch in SLC and been in contact with their Branch President
Emmanuel De'Mzee, and this next week he has actually called somebody from his
branch to video call and teach our refugees their own little Sunday School
class in Swahili so that they can understand. It is very exciting for us because many of the people want to
join our church, but they just can’t grasp the whole concept of the gospel in English
and can’t have their questions answered like they would like to. I
am very excited! This next week
the meeting for our refugees is at 5 pm our time so 4 pm for the people in Salt
Lake and I think we are planning on having about 40 investigators there so it
should be a very special experience.
This week President Loveland came out
on exchanges with me while Elder Durrant was with our ward mission leader. We had a very good time on exchanges and
President Loveland and I were able to go teach Ann and Jeannie and their family
(Melissa and D'Shun) it was a powerful lesson about the Book of Mormon and
Jesus Christ and Melissa and D'Shun agreed to be baptized. There is still a lot to teach and to
figure out. They don’t live in our
ward boundaries even but it was still a very spiritual experience.
Yesterday, Ann stood up and bore
her testimony. It was a powerful
testimony about how she doesn’t know the reason for all her trials etc. but she
is not letting the darkness of her trials overshadow the brightness of the
truths she does know and cling too. Something I loved that she said while battling back tears was,
"I’m angry with God, I don’t understand why these things have happened but
I have hope, and I can keep going and someday I will understand." What a powerful witness from a recent
convert that is going through a lot right now.
Okay a funny experience was last
night we were eating at the refugees’ house. A family from Rwanda that speak Kinyarwanda and now they
speak pretty good English. Well
anyway we were eating and talking when one of their girls mumbled something in
Kinyarwanda, the older boy translated, "She thinks Durrant looks like an
angel." hahaha everybody busted up laughing haha Durrant is a handsome guy
and apparently even angelic to our African friends hahaha. We had a good laugh about that and now
his nickname is Malaika which means angel in Kiswahili.
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| The "Angelic" Elder Durrant and Mikey at the Ward Mission Leader's home, Brother Lesue. The Lesues texted me this picture last night. This was the farewell party for their daughter who leaves Tuesday to serve a mission in Ogden! Small world. |
Love you all
thank you so much for everything!
Talk to you later!!!
