Dear Family, Friends & Loved Ones;
Greetings again from beautiful South Africa. It has been an enjoyable but busy week. Tuesday was a great day. We met with a young sister, her mother and her 2 twin sisters and her boyfriend. It came about by this young sister (21yr) who had a dream about a book. The next day, 2 of our young elders knocked on her door. She saw the Book of Mormon in their hands and she told them that it was the book she saw in her dreams and knew immediately that she should invite them in and listen to their message. We went to see her 3 times last week. She has already read the introduction and the first 11 chapters in 1st Nephi. She wants to be taught everyday. She seems like such a great lady and family.
We also had a very good visit with the lady whose husband is in France. He will be home tomorrow. Last night we had a wonderful thing happen. We received an e-mail from our friend George form Tsitsikamma. It said “It was agreatiful time that i have neva had in my life u guyz u have really rocked my life i will alwez love u even in death u have printed amark in my heart i will alwez cherish u as my MAM & DAD .Linda-Elwood i will be ur true son of africa.i love u.”
We know it is a simple letter but it really touched our hearts. Things like this makes going on a mission worth your time and so fulfilling.
Well we e-mailed him later to see if he was planning on going to church in Knysna as it is so much closer to him. He said he was. We told him that we would come see him and go to church with him in Knysna. Then he e-mailed us back “Dear mam & dad.
It will b great 2cu again tomorol i cant wait 2see u, i just wish u a lovely drive,and 4mam pliz do not forgert 2b at left front sit 2give all the signs 2 dad! Joke! have alovely night ever love u.”
He said this because Sister O put him in the front seat to back seat drive for me.
Well Sister O couldn't make it to church. She had a tooth that had a root canal on it, maybe 30 years ago. Well it flared up on her just before we came on our mission, and again on Saturday. She was crying with pain most of the night. I gave her a blessing and I got a dentist to come to his office at 3am Sunday morning. It was so bad, we had no choice but to extract the tooth. I got her to bed about 4:30am. She didn't feel like getting up Sunday so I went to church in Knysna alone, about an hour away.
Monday on our P-day we had to meet with a clinical psychologist from 10am to 12 noon with the elders. Then we went to Victoria Baai with the elders for a few hours. Then we had to leave about 4pm to take some Primary children to Great Break River (about 30 kilometers away) for a surprise birthday party for their teacher. Well we got there and she wasn't home. The bad news is that we had 11 people in our small car in the back seat (never again!) Even worse news was that we had 2 little girls throw-up bad. Even worse was the smell. Brother O washed and shampooed the inside of the car the next day. Well it is about noon and we have a very busy afternoon so we are going to say goodbye for this week and sign off.
We finally got pictures from all our families. Thank you so much. We love you all so much and miss all of you, family & friends. We pray for all of you every day and ask the same of each of you. Thank you for your e-mails to us. Please keep them coming. We love to receive them and get news from home.
Here are pictures of
George Chancy, our one contact so far.
The Branch at Mormon Helping Hands Day
The elders having fun at the beach on P-Day
Love to All
Elder & Sister O'Dell
PS.
Chuck, have you been in contact with the lady renting our house in Trilogy. Has
she got anything yet for this winter? Let me know what you find out please
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