Hey Family!
This week was a good week. The numbers weren't too good because I spent all day Tuesday at meetings for leaders. I got a lot of stuff on my shoulders now but I think I'll live.
We got to see a lot of people and spend some quality time tracting. We also rode the bikes pretty far and Teerlink is teaching me how to jump far. He's good on bikes and finds anything that looks like a jump to jump. Elder Teerlink and I are getting along great! Even Elder McDonald is awesome! We have a great flat!
Moya is awesome! We really have been blessed to be able to teach someone like her. Wanna hear something crazy that I think is illegal or something? Moya was asked to give the opening prayer in sacrament meeting yesterday. Is she allowed to do that? I think I already told you but her baptism date is now the 21 of September. She's totally ready! And tonight we are going to have FHE at the Ramatla's house and we are bringing Moya and her daughter with us. She is so excited for it as well!
A guy in the ward has put together a package for me to send to you, Mom and Dad. I was dying to know what it was so I opened it and read the letter. He's a cool guy! I think you'll like the package! He totally talks me up too! Wooo!
Happy Birthday Jill! Did you do anything fun for the party? Any pinatas? I wanted to make one for my one year mark but I didn't. No, I didn't burn anything either. All I did was make a cake and took it to the warm mission leaders house and ate it with him and his family. That's how I celebrate, but of course there were party hats to be worn so it was a real party.
I hope everyone is doing well! Tomorrow we have Zone Conference and I'll be able to get the package if its here now. I love you all so much! Thank you all for what you do. I really am so lucky to have a great family like you! I see all the families here that are falling apart because of drugs or what what and I really am blessed to have a loving family that gets along so well! Take care and CTR!
Love,
Elder Jordan Langston
"In this world, it is not what we take up but what we give up that makes us rich."
Monday, 25 August 2008
Monday, 18 August 2008
African Scripture Cover
Hello Family!
The week has gone well. Elder Smith has said his goodbyes A lot of people were sad that he was leaving. Transfers were on Wednesday and Elder Teerlink and Elder McDonald came to our flat. Teerlink is from Mesquite and McDonald is from California some where. They are cool guys! Teerlink is a cowboy, kinda, and my accent is starting to come back.
We saw Moya and challenged her to pick a baptism date. Teerlink also said to make a list of things she needs to change to become baptized and she said she's already made a list and she's been doing good with the things she needs to change. She's so cool! She really seems a lot happier since the first time we met her. She also came up to us at the end of church to show us a scripture. It's in Alma 34 about not procrastinating the day of your repentance and she told us she's picked a day to be baptized. She said the first weeks in October! We are going to see her tomorrow to make a certain day and put it down to work towards.
So, yeah...District Leader. I have no idea what I'm doing. The other day, I had to do my first interviews for baptism. I was so nervous but when it was time to sit down with the candidates, I felt so calm and things seemed to just come out so smoothly! It's wonderful how the Spirit works! I interviewed three people! It was exciting! Also, the other guys like to make me do everything since i am the new DL and so yesterday we went to a funeral thingy with a member in the ward to a lady that I didn't even know exsisted and I had to share a scripture and the member only brought he BOM so I did one out of there and talked about it to this family from a different church. I got my scriptures covered and that is whats in the picture. I'm not going to use these until I get home. Oh yeah, Moya's boyfriend makes things out of fabric and he's going to make me a scripture bag out of some cool african fabric for my new scriptures.
Well, that's about all from me. Thanks for keeping me informed on whats going on at home. I have to go to a meeting tomorrow morning so I'll be able to check on the package! I hope I got it! I love you all so much and thankful for all your blessings you send my way. Take care and CTR!
Love,
Elder Jordy
Elder Baird said this before he left to go home. "When God created the Earth, He called it good. When He talks about the Restoration, He calls it a 'Marvelous Work and a Wonder'. We need to declare the good news as God does."
I'm thankful that Jeanette and I get to do that!
The week has gone well. Elder Smith has said his goodbyes A lot of people were sad that he was leaving. Transfers were on Wednesday and Elder Teerlink and Elder McDonald came to our flat. Teerlink is from Mesquite and McDonald is from California some where. They are cool guys! Teerlink is a cowboy, kinda, and my accent is starting to come back.
We saw Moya and challenged her to pick a baptism date. Teerlink also said to make a list of things she needs to change to become baptized and she said she's already made a list and she's been doing good with the things she needs to change. She's so cool! She really seems a lot happier since the first time we met her. She also came up to us at the end of church to show us a scripture. It's in Alma 34 about not procrastinating the day of your repentance and she told us she's picked a day to be baptized. She said the first weeks in October! We are going to see her tomorrow to make a certain day and put it down to work towards.
So, yeah...District Leader. I have no idea what I'm doing. The other day, I had to do my first interviews for baptism. I was so nervous but when it was time to sit down with the candidates, I felt so calm and things seemed to just come out so smoothly! It's wonderful how the Spirit works! I interviewed three people! It was exciting! Also, the other guys like to make me do everything since i am the new DL and so yesterday we went to a funeral thingy with a member in the ward to a lady that I didn't even know exsisted and I had to share a scripture and the member only brought he BOM so I did one out of there and talked about it to this family from a different church. I got my scriptures covered and that is whats in the picture. I'm not going to use these until I get home. Oh yeah, Moya's boyfriend makes things out of fabric and he's going to make me a scripture bag out of some cool african fabric for my new scriptures.
Well, that's about all from me. Thanks for keeping me informed on whats going on at home. I have to go to a meeting tomorrow morning so I'll be able to check on the package! I hope I got it! I love you all so much and thankful for all your blessings you send my way. Take care and CTR!
Love,
Elder Jordy
Elder Baird said this before he left to go home. "When God created the Earth, He called it good. When He talks about the Restoration, He calls it a 'Marvelous Work and a Wonder'. We need to declare the good news as God does."
I'm thankful that Jeanette and I get to do that!
Monday, 11 August 2008
Monday email Aug 11, 2008
Hey Family!
This week has been not very eventful but we did see a lot of cool things that dont pertain to missionary work. I will proceed to tell you of the stories.
Friday evening we went to the members house who lost the Father and we saw them carry the casket in to the house for a viewing or something. When the body arrived, as tradition, they began to slaughter some sheep. The way that they began the slaughter was first, they cut off the testicles so that it wont die like a man, then they continue with slitting its throat with a knife sharpened on the nearest stone. They killed three sheep and I watched the whole thing. You'll have to keep an eye on Elder Smiths blog page because he'll post some videos of the excitment. Saturday we were at the funeral almost all day and it was a good service but when we went to the grave site and did a little service there, people were freakin! Almost all of the daughters fainted! They are about 30 years old and after they went to pay their last respects, they were walking back to their seats and just freaked out and fainted. The wife to the guy kept her cool. She's a great lady! Her name is Mama Ramatla and she is my favorite!
We also got some news on Saturday. Elder Smith is leaving me and I'm the new District Leader for the Katlehong District. I dont know why they keep giving me responsibility but I'll take it and try my hardest to do what I need to do. My new companion is Elder Teerlink.
So I'm just going to tell you about Moya this week because she is the coolest investigator I've had thus far on mission! The other day we taught her and her boyfriend the 10 commandments and the question came up from her boyfriend, "why was Christ baptized?" Elder Smith began to answer the question the best he can without scriptures. When he was done talking, Moya said, "there's a scripture about that in 2Nephi 31." Holy Cow! She loves reading the Book of Mormon! We gave her some cake on her birthday, Wednesday, and it made her day! I decorated it and it looked so nice! Also, there was some workshop at the church twice this week for some self employment thing and she went to it. On Sunday, in Sacrament meeting, they handed out certificates from that workshop and everyone was a member, except Moya. She brought her daughter to church because her daughter said she loves it so much! She even stayed after church to watch a baptism and after the baptism, she went up to the lady that got baptized and congratulated her. They didn't really even know each other! Moya is so cool! We got some scriptures for her too and a case that we're going to give to her before Smith leaves. She is the most awesome investigator ever!!
The week really has been slow. Speaking of slow, I finally sent the package but to airmail it it'd cost R600 so I just put it on a boat so you'll get it for Christmas or something! Sorry this isn't the best letter. Nothing great has happened and the email sucks so I haven't even read your email yet so sorry if I dont answer any questions for you. I do love you all though! I hope everyone is doing well because I am doing well here. I am still sick though with just some coughs that i wish would just leave but I still get things done! Take care and I'll let you know when I get your package! Thanks for the package! Take care and, as always, CTR!
Love,
Jordy Boy The Elder
This week has been not very eventful but we did see a lot of cool things that dont pertain to missionary work. I will proceed to tell you of the stories.
Friday evening we went to the members house who lost the Father and we saw them carry the casket in to the house for a viewing or something. When the body arrived, as tradition, they began to slaughter some sheep. The way that they began the slaughter was first, they cut off the testicles so that it wont die like a man, then they continue with slitting its throat with a knife sharpened on the nearest stone. They killed three sheep and I watched the whole thing. You'll have to keep an eye on Elder Smiths blog page because he'll post some videos of the excitment. Saturday we were at the funeral almost all day and it was a good service but when we went to the grave site and did a little service there, people were freakin! Almost all of the daughters fainted! They are about 30 years old and after they went to pay their last respects, they were walking back to their seats and just freaked out and fainted. The wife to the guy kept her cool. She's a great lady! Her name is Mama Ramatla and she is my favorite!
We also got some news on Saturday. Elder Smith is leaving me and I'm the new District Leader for the Katlehong District. I dont know why they keep giving me responsibility but I'll take it and try my hardest to do what I need to do. My new companion is Elder Teerlink.
So I'm just going to tell you about Moya this week because she is the coolest investigator I've had thus far on mission! The other day we taught her and her boyfriend the 10 commandments and the question came up from her boyfriend, "why was Christ baptized?" Elder Smith began to answer the question the best he can without scriptures. When he was done talking, Moya said, "there's a scripture about that in 2Nephi 31." Holy Cow! She loves reading the Book of Mormon! We gave her some cake on her birthday, Wednesday, and it made her day! I decorated it and it looked so nice! Also, there was some workshop at the church twice this week for some self employment thing and she went to it. On Sunday, in Sacrament meeting, they handed out certificates from that workshop and everyone was a member, except Moya. She brought her daughter to church because her daughter said she loves it so much! She even stayed after church to watch a baptism and after the baptism, she went up to the lady that got baptized and congratulated her. They didn't really even know each other! Moya is so cool! We got some scriptures for her too and a case that we're going to give to her before Smith leaves. She is the most awesome investigator ever!!
The week really has been slow. Speaking of slow, I finally sent the package but to airmail it it'd cost R600 so I just put it on a boat so you'll get it for Christmas or something! Sorry this isn't the best letter. Nothing great has happened and the email sucks so I haven't even read your email yet so sorry if I dont answer any questions for you. I do love you all though! I hope everyone is doing well because I am doing well here. I am still sick though with just some coughs that i wish would just leave but I still get things done! Take care and I'll let you know when I get your package! Thanks for the package! Take care and, as always, CTR!
Love,
Jordy Boy The Elder
Monday, 04 August 2008
Tabasco Sauce
Jordan teaches some children about "American" food! That boy was so trusting. Those mean old missionaries!
Children and Elder Langston
Dear Family,
I'm writing a rough draft of my letter so I can remember all I want to say when Monday comes around.
Tuesday was a busy day for us. We busted out 7 lessons and almost everyone we saw was a progressing investigator. We are teaching some awesome people. The Lord has really blessed us in our diligence with some of these people.
We are still teaching Moya and her boyfriend and on Friday we taught about prophets. We watched "Ask in Faith" by Elder Bednar and Moya was taking notes and she loved every second of that talk. She is so far in the Book of Mormon, too. She's so cool!
I gave a blessing to a guy who's family is a member but he's not. He was having some bad bleeding problems and has had those problems since the 80's or something. He told me, "when you talk to God, tell him to either stop the bleeding or take my life." I proceeded with the blessing with inspiration to bless him with health, then it turned more towards family. Enjoy the time with your family, enjoy life: that was the stuff I was impressed to say. He told us to fast for him, so we did. We got word he was admitted to ICU the next day. He got surgery and was doing better. Our ZL gave him a blessing while he was recovering and a couple days later, he died. It's sad seeing the family real sad. Next saturday is the funeral so we won't be doing much that day except eating and comforting people.
Sunday was a good day. We got some good giggles from the testimonies there and from a baby blessing. To get the kid to stop crying they gave her the mic. That was a big mistake. The kid made so many noises in there to cause people to laugh and we couldn't really even hear the blessing. Moya and Jabulile came to church and it was nice! They loved it so much! I love seeing people happy after church! We went to a nice house after church for lunch and I got some sweet ideas for a kitchen! They had the sink for cleaning dishes and stuff in the back of the kitchen, kinda away from the preparing area. It was so cool!
Jacob, everyone in my flat loves you. We listen to the cd that I got a while ago with everyone on there singing and stuff and we always quote some of the stuff Jacob says. Also, when Corban is singing "twinkle twinkle little star" he says some jibberish stuff, but turns out it's really Sesotho. We took it to a members house and they listened to that and sure enough, Corban knows sotho. So, send him on down here and he can be my translator for me. Thanks! I love the picture of Jacob. Good stuff! I heard about Jeanette's pizza. That makes me jealous that I'm not in America to get cool things from my family. I'll get over it though.
I love you all so much! Sorry this is so short, but I'll write more later. I love you all so much!
Take care and CTR!
Love,
Elder "Jordy Boy" Langston
I'm writing a rough draft of my letter so I can remember all I want to say when Monday comes around.
Tuesday was a busy day for us. We busted out 7 lessons and almost everyone we saw was a progressing investigator. We are teaching some awesome people. The Lord has really blessed us in our diligence with some of these people.
We are still teaching Moya and her boyfriend and on Friday we taught about prophets. We watched "Ask in Faith" by Elder Bednar and Moya was taking notes and she loved every second of that talk. She is so far in the Book of Mormon, too. She's so cool!
I gave a blessing to a guy who's family is a member but he's not. He was having some bad bleeding problems and has had those problems since the 80's or something. He told me, "when you talk to God, tell him to either stop the bleeding or take my life." I proceeded with the blessing with inspiration to bless him with health, then it turned more towards family. Enjoy the time with your family, enjoy life: that was the stuff I was impressed to say. He told us to fast for him, so we did. We got word he was admitted to ICU the next day. He got surgery and was doing better. Our ZL gave him a blessing while he was recovering and a couple days later, he died. It's sad seeing the family real sad. Next saturday is the funeral so we won't be doing much that day except eating and comforting people.
Sunday was a good day. We got some good giggles from the testimonies there and from a baby blessing. To get the kid to stop crying they gave her the mic. That was a big mistake. The kid made so many noises in there to cause people to laugh and we couldn't really even hear the blessing. Moya and Jabulile came to church and it was nice! They loved it so much! I love seeing people happy after church! We went to a nice house after church for lunch and I got some sweet ideas for a kitchen! They had the sink for cleaning dishes and stuff in the back of the kitchen, kinda away from the preparing area. It was so cool!
Jacob, everyone in my flat loves you. We listen to the cd that I got a while ago with everyone on there singing and stuff and we always quote some of the stuff Jacob says. Also, when Corban is singing "twinkle twinkle little star" he says some jibberish stuff, but turns out it's really Sesotho. We took it to a members house and they listened to that and sure enough, Corban knows sotho. So, send him on down here and he can be my translator for me. Thanks! I love the picture of Jacob. Good stuff! I heard about Jeanette's pizza. That makes me jealous that I'm not in America to get cool things from my family. I'll get over it though.
I love you all so much! Sorry this is so short, but I'll write more later. I love you all so much!
Take care and CTR!
Love,
Elder "Jordy Boy" Langston
Here is a quote, I don't know from who, but its nice. He says: "If you're not doing anything wrong, ask yourself, are you doing anything right? If you're not doing anything right, then you're doing something wrong." Do what's right!!
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