We had zone conference and my Mission President told us that we need to give everyone a
baptismal date. The more dates we give out the more we are going to baptize. My Comp
and I decided to do this. We just walk up to a random person and ask them if they have been
baptized. If they say yes then we ask them, "who baptized you " and when they tell us who
baptized them we then ask "was he authorized by God to baptize."
Most of the time they say yes and then we ask if we can set up a time to meet with them.
This way we can see if the person doing the baptizing was really authorized by God. Then
we will set up another time to meet and talk about it.
If they say "no" they haven't been baptized we ask them if they "want to see God one day," they all tell us yes. We then tell them if they want to see God they will need to be baptized and we have the authority to do that for them if they would like. We set up an appointment to visit them and discuss baptism. We have found that this really does work, now we have 4 new investigators and we have only had three days to try it.
One of our investigators, Mtinzi is wanting to get baptized. Her son Leroy we baptized 3 weeks ago. She would like to be baptized but she isn't legally married. Here they get customarily married so that they don't have to pay lobola. We are working on that with her. A big problem is that her husband lives in Botswana and she only goes there once a month and she has already visited for the month. So we will have to wait until next month.
Next week is our transfer date but since I am training I will stay with my comp for 12 weeks so 2 transfers.
Love you all!
Elder Rasmussen
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