Elder Hennessey: 7/22/24

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 The Grind begins🔥

Sawbona, Unjani?
Dumelang, Legae?
Halo, hoe gaan dit?

Hope everyone is doing splendid! 

This week has been pretty rough not gonna lie. A lot of dropping and lowering our teaching pool. We are in a fun faze here where you baptize a ton and then all of a sudden you're teaching nobody... sooooo this week will be the beginning of a Grind of finding more people and starting a new teaching pool.

We had another baptism this week! It was our boy Tlholohelo! (Good luck saying it). What's cool is that this baptism finishes off one of the families we have been baptizing. We kinda did one at a time haha. The mom got baptized which led to the dad wanting to join. Then after him the son wanting to be baptized.

To add some spice to all that as we were filling the font the power went out in the chapel... sooo the water heater was down and the water was frigid (and keep in mind it's winter rn). We were skeptical if the baptism would still go down. We asked Tlholohelo and he said "nah it's cool I'm a man. Let's do this!" So we got him baptized in the Atlantic Ocean pretty much lol. To add to that, we planned for his dad to baptize him...but apparently he was in Lesotho... sooo Elder Rakotomavo got on some white pants that the ward has and baptized him... his shirt was soaked and my man's wore that shirt the rest of the day😂.

Baptisms are now going to slow down sadly. We will have 2 more coming up but after that it's gonna be a Grind to get more. So wish us luck! 

Then for Pday we had a Braai (barbecue) with the Zone in Phahameng since Elder Fish is going home which is sad. Gonna miss that man. 

I know it's a miracle to hear from me back to back weeks! Hopefully I can keep it up! 


Have an amazing week! Love yall! 

- Elder Hennessey


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