Week #12 - Service Brings Blessings....even Football Games sometimes!


Elder Barney, Elder Hancock & I are headed to Mozambique - President Clint Smith dropped us off.
(check out the lady in the back?)
We are headed to Mozambique!! 
Our plans are awesome.  We land in Washington DC and have a lay over for like 7 hours and then fly to Africa.  We leave at 5pm on Monday and arrive in Mozambique late Tuesday evening (Utah time).  We change plans in South Africa and fly a small plane into Mozambique.  I already know that I will be serving in Beira.  

 I have only taught once in Portuguese in Florida.  I usually bear my testimony and say a prayer in Portuguese when we are out teaching people.  The language is going to be rough, but I am excited to get there.

Even better, guess where we went on Saturday?
  A Florida State University Football Game!!  

Elder Nate and I helped out one of the FSU coaches with some service.  We saw someone that needed help, so we stopped.  We helped him when his car broke down and helped him push it and take care of it until he could get it fixed.  He offered  to give us free tickets to the game later that day. We called and asked President Smith and he said we could go!!  Does that make our Tender Mercy Board at home??  haha 
Here's a few pictures from the Game.  It was an unreal huge stadium.  I got my phone to work.  I don’t know when I can call you yet, but I’ll let you know tomorrow or something. 


We also had an investigator who wants to be Baptized! He's getting baptized on Dec 3rd.  His name is Taiwnga.  He's from Zimbabwe.  We challenged him to read the introduction of the Book of Mormon and he read that plus ALL of 1st and 2nd Nephi over the weekend.  He then called us and we had another appointment with him. And he said he wanted to be Baptized.  It was such a great experience.  

 He is the person that told me Mozambique is a terrible place to live.  I have heard that from a few African's here.  I think I am getting the picture that it is tough for the people there.
My District in Florida

What a great week to finish out in Florida, it has been awesome. 

Sorry I don't have much time but that's really the highlights of my week 




Love, Elder Rees

Comments

  1. darylNovember 20, 2018 at 12:55 PM

    So excited for you! You'll be a great missionary and you've already had some great experiences to prepare you for Mozambique!!

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