December 12, 2011: WHAT A WEEK!

In a word I could say I'm exhausted,

This had to have been one of the most hectic weeks on my mission. As I
mentioned last week we had a wedding!! It was organized by us
missionaries to do some extenuating circumstances. It had us up and
down qwa-qwa almost the whole week trying to fit it in to our already
packed schedules. We tried our best to spread the work out evenly
among us. Among other things I ended up making the invitations,
wedding cake, guest book and I painted a portrait of the couple. They
went through so much to get to this wedding, it seemed like they were
challenged every single step of the way. Through all the stress
confusion it ended up being a beautiful ceremony. Then the day ended
off great because the couple missionaries took all of us Elders out
for Chinese for all our hard work and for a bit of Christmas
celebration. It was A-MAZ-ZA-ZING I haven’t had Chinese since I don't
know when.  I can't send pictures this week but I'll do my best to
send them next week.
 Then the next day (which was Sunday) started off with the bang, It
turned out their wedding caused some emotional ripples for some
certain people and rumors began to fly, about the couple, about the
missionaries, about everything. The Branch President sat us
missionaries down and gave us a stern talking to about some
allegations, only to find they were all false productions of the rumor
mill. He handled it great though, really stepping into his role a
branch president and smoothing the matter out, at least as much as he
could. I had so much respect for the way he handled the whole
situation.
Nothing could damper our spirits though as after church we watched and
participated in the baptisms of six beautiful souls. The spirit was so
strong as one after another they testified of how they came to know
this gospel was true and what it meant to them. One young woman in
particular by the name of Papi Mofukeng bore a powerful testimony
about how Satan had taken the Earth though it is not his to take and
it was our duty as children of God to take it back. I wish you could
hear it the way she said it.

Finally I got the sad news today that I'm going to be transferred my
Bus leaves at 3:30 am tonight, or I guess tomorrow morning. I am
heartbroken to leave this area. I've grown to love these people so
much. Each goodbye is a difficult as the last. But I know I will go
where I am needed. My new area will be a township called Moane in the
Durban area. So I'm switching languages again, back to Zulu. I'm
excited for the new adventure but so very sad to leave. The area, my
companion, these people.

I love you all and thank you for your support, I love this work and
this church.
"My soul though all Hell will endeavor to shake,
I'll never no never, no never forsake"


With all my heart,
Elder Scott Milton Brazee