First thing is first, HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!! I hope
you all spend your day in red white and blue, looking in men's bathrooms for
fireworks, lighting them off and being dazzled hahahah.
It does seem like everyone is doing great! I am trying
my best to stay up on Bdays but it seems like there are 5 a week in our fam so it’s
getting kind of hard. But happy bday to Devin on Friday! And to keep in that
fam, Teags, have such a great day on Saturday!! I cannot wait to see pictures
of your baptism! Also, good luck to Lane and Grady in your guys' soccer
tourneys #BallOut.
So everything is kind of falling into place here
getting accustomed to Swazi and what not. Elder Souza and I are getting to know
the area better and better every day so we are learning the most efficient ways
to work it. We will be having the baptism of Kohnsingiphile on Saturday which
we are super excited for! He is an example of our goal as missionaries to
baptize converts. I am pretty sure that dude read and understands the Book of
Mormon more than I do haha. He is golden so it will be a dope day to have a
baptism the same day as Teag's!
We also had our "Mission Tour" this week and
it was a great time. It started with President and Sister Koch coming down to
Swazi on Thursday and taking the new missionaries to lunch and having a meeting
with them and the trainers after. Saturday we headed to Mbabane aka Park City
to meet as zones with President and Sister Koch and Elder and Sister Ellis. The
training's we received were on point and I was able to learn a lot!
I would like to share one of the things we talked
about. President Koch recalled a story that Elder Ellis told a few years back
the story goes how Elder Ellis was a bishop in Houston and he went to the
bathroom one day at the church and when he got to the bathroom he searched the
wall for the light switch but couldn’t find it. He was super confused cause he
had used that same bathroom 100's of times but couldn’t find the switch so he
decided to keep searching, in the pitch dark, he took a couple steps and then
the lights turned on. The church had sensors installed haha. Kinda of a weird
story but he related it to our lives.. Sometimes we need to walk in the dark
and then the Lord will turn on the lights! I was able to relate this story with
something I learned in my studies this week. That all of us need to
"seek" the light to have it turn on. In Alma 39:14 we learn that we
must not seek worldly things because we can’t bring those things with us to
heaven. So it doesn’t matter how many likes we get on our insta or how many
touchdowns we score. If we want the Lord to turn on the lights in our darkest
times we must seek Him and what He has asked us to do. I don’t know why but
this story and the things I learned touched me a ton so I thought I would share
them!
Hope everyone has a great week! Love and miss you all
so much!
Love,
Elder Chipman
PS: GOD BLESS AMERICA!
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| Found McDonald's |
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| Oakland Ave. |
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| "Too much cold" in the mornings here. |
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