Sorry Guys

i apologize to anyone that i might have given a heart attack to these padst weeks when you dont recive an email from me but the internet here has sucked recently so we shall see how this goes. firstly an update photos yay there will be photos of snow that we found pictures of the call opening for the first missioary in my branch and others we shall see what i can do.secondly i found my pourpose i think i havve had an off fealing recently  like something was wrong until an appointment that i had just 3 days ago  we walked into an appoingment and i thought that it was going to suck. his brother had told us that he was a "scientist" and that he didnt do the religion thing but later on iin the lesso i found that the reason for this was he hadnt found thae right chuyrch it was soo cool and throughout the lesson i felt the spirit and i am pretty sure that he did to his family walked in later and when he saw his son and we where teaching about eternal families he could not stop smiling. it was soo nice. anyway photos

Elder Whiting,

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 lesotho july

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Sorry Guys

I don't have long I will be sure to include cool stories next week and quotes but as for this week I have one update to share and that update is the fact that I get to experience the first missionary opening his call in leribe and whats cooler I got to help him submit his papers so basically I got to experience what you experienced when you helped me and when I opened mine aside from the you know son leaving for 2 years well love you all and I will update you further next week

pictures to come next week as well

Elder Whiting,

Sooo Sad News All Around

i am upset this week i just got another camera from my previous companion because  he left one and said that i could have it. so i took pictures this week however the card reader that i had decided to give up the ghost. so yea no pics this week. maby next week i will get another reader and send pictures.

other sad news... the truck is gone... yes our truck was taken away they are taking all of the cars and trucks in the mission and putting us on bikes and walking.😲😢 so yea that kinda crushed me.

it was also brought up that i should probably explain why i want to burn a shirt. see there is this mystical pasttime amongst missionarys where we celebrate reaching certian marks in our mission with fire the first 6 months we burn a tie. at a year we burn a shirt. at 18 months we burn a pair of pants. and finally at a year we burn a suit. no mom i am not going to burn a suit i plan to give one of my suits to a departing missionary instead so that it will still be of use. 

soo big things that happened this week other than the bakki (that is what they call pickups here) and the camera. i had an incredible experience. a missionary that served here came back to visit and he gave a very powerfull testimony. i cant remember all that he said however it entailed that nothing happens without the lord planning it. then he quoted about how all of us are pices in a chess set and the lord sets us where he wants us. but my favorite part was when he called on one of his investigators to say how he came to know the church and it was by a book that he saw at the barbers shop and he asked if he could borrow it. then he asked one of my investigators how he found the church. it turns out that he saw the first with the book of mormon that he had borrowed and asked to borrow it so the same book affected two lives. powerfull see if the first had sat 1 chair over neither he or my investigator would have seen the book. the lord works in mysterious ways brothers and sisters. and i can testify that if we follow the promptings of the spirit then we too can be that influence in other peoples lives. till next week i love you all in different ways and salihanhle. that is... "stay well" in sutu.

Elder Whiting,

Round 4

so before i get into that i am going to appologize today is a buizy day so time once again is not on my side however i got an email from my awesome mom about how some people are wondering when i am moving again i am here to say not for at least another 6 weeks we got transfer news juyst this last saturday and i am staying and my comp is leaving..😢 but hey it was going to happen sometime if any other questins are needed to be answered just send me an email here is your quote of the day

confidence never comes from having all the answers it comes from being open to all of the questions

then the next one i asked a sangoma or a zulu witch basically hot to have sucess just because and she said that we have to ask ourselves 4 questions here they are why? why not? why not me? and why not now? what do you think of these? and how do they apply to your lives?

love you all sorry no photos but i will keep trying.

i am so excited time to prepare the shirt to burn!!!! fire!!!!! hahahaha!!!!!

shout out to my people

hows it my brus and gals things are good here in the durban south africa mission i dont have long because the data is low again this week yes that is why you didnt here from me this last week because before i could send this the data ran out however here is a rundown 1 i did missionary work 2 i whent to a lion park and played with baby lions no joke and then 3 i got two quotes to share this week that is what i want to do is start a quote thing sending yall the quotes that made me think. so both of them this week are from investigators. the first is from someone named mapaseka." we rely too mutch on others for our own happyness." but what i thought of to add is "and not enough on god" she agreed what do you think? are you relying on others for your happyness that will last till an hour later or are you seeking eternal happyness?

quote 2 made me think about mission and i am not going to tell you my thoughts about it but this quote is for those of you preparing to serve but still applys to others.

it is from someone named winnie she said "how do you know when your conversion is strong enough to make that type of commitment?" talking about after we described 2 years on mission she was astounded so you tell me how do YOU know when your conversion is strong enough?

Elder Whiting,

a picture of the lion park will come either this week or next week

if you are curious and cant wait you can google it it is templehof game farm. in ficksburg.

what up

not mutch new happened no accidents life missionary work. but hey on the bright side things are looking up we now have snow it snowed on wendsday but it melted right off so yay i saw snow in south africa and boy i am excited for what we are dong this week will update you on it but it might happen next week and it involves lettle lions

time is not on my side

ok prioritys need to be set email then read ok here we go no time this week because that is something that i did not do i will sent the translation next week. dang it sucks to say that but hey story missionarys are really protected. i have been in a hell of a situation i was biking along and hit a pothole and was thrown over the handle bars the helmet that i was wearing split in half and the jacket i was wearing was toorn to shreads but as for me i sustained only one injury to my leg and it was only caused by my pant leg rubbing it friction burn during the whole sinario i felt no fear nothing bad i actually felt like i was being held like when someone picks you up and cradles you. so yea prayers actually work thank you for your prayers i am safe and well and still ready to work warning this photo may be too graphic for some viewers