Alright with today being the 7th of November, the
first shout out needs to go to Barbara Jean Chipman! Happy birthday mom! I hope
you have such a great day and I am so glad that the package I sent got there!
And secondly would just like to send my regards to
Emily and all her family.
As for the week, it was a good one. The weather has
been changing from playing a season opener at Hurricane to the Skyline vs.
Kahuku game in 2000 haha. It will start out in the morning a little overcast
and then the sky will open up and then comes out.
Every night at about 6 pm a lightning storm comes out of nowhere. This
past week we got caught in 3 storms, with each one being stronger than the one
before. So, it has been a battle against mother nature and a battle against
Satanas out here. Elder Feliciana and I have been working hard with our
investigators but a whole lot are not progressing. We will be having the
baptism of Make Thandi this Sunday along with the baptism of one of my favorite
ladies in the other area of Fairview so that will be a great day!
Last Monday we had a super fun Halloween activity at
the house in Ezuwlini with the all of the Manzini and Mbabane zone. Also, the
Martins hooked it up on a low-key deal with some BABY BLUE POWDER GATORADE! I
have been sipping on that stuff like a king this whole week haha. With that,
and two division with Elder Mataveis and then with Elder Copitzky I can say
just like Ice Cube that this was a good week.
Just for a quick spiritual thought; This morning I was
reading in 2nd Nephi and I came across something that made me think. In verse
27 it says that the people of Nephi lived in the manner of happiness and also
in Alma 50 we can see that this was one of the happiest times of the people in
the all of the Book of Mormon. When I read this, I thought... "How did
they get that happiness?? Everyone in this world wants to be happy and these
people found it and lived it.. what did they do?" In all of chapter 5 we can see the things
that the people of Nephi did to achieve this level of happiness.
-In verses 1-7 we can see that they faced afflictions
without complaining or questioning the will of the Lord.
-In verse 10 they kept all the commandment of the
Lord.
-In verse 11 and 15 they worked diligently.
-Verse 12 they treasured the scriptures
-Verse 13 when they began to prosper they avoided
pride.
-Verse 16 they enjoyed the blessings of the temple.
-Verse 26 they lived worthily to receive the blessings
of the priesthood.
If we want happiness in our lives, we need to do the
things that the Lord has showed us over and over through the examples in the
scriptures and the things we have learned in our lives. The best thing in my
opinion of this pursuit for happiness is that we will fall sometimes. Because
we fall we can get back up and be better than we were before. All of this is
because of our Savior, Jesus Christ and the price that he paid so that we could
have this happiness. It is only through Him and His help that we might be able
to achieve the happiness that the people of Nephi enjoyed at this time!
Love, you guys so much! I hope you guys have a great
week! I loved seeing all of the costumes from Halloween, everyone looked tooo
good! And just because Barb is the best let’s get #HappyBirthdayBarb trending
haha
Love you guys,
Elder Chipman
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| #HappyBirthday Barb! (Written in Siswati) Nikhosingiphile says happy bday. |
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| Trick or Treat Trigs! |
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| The Soulja Boi of letters. |
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| Manzini, my home |
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| Had to run down the mountain after this pic cause it started raining too hard. |
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