Rugby and Riot!

Wow, so much happened this week and man I just love my mission!  We were able to do the "Week of Witnessing" and go around telling people about this awesome video about how Christ Lives.  And because he lives, so will all of us and so much more that you could ever imagine.

  #BecauseHeLives outside Spar!

I also had the opportunity to go to a pro Rugby game.  It was The South African Blue Bulls against the Australian Reds.  Elder Raymond is from Australia and this is his home team, so this made this game so much more fun.  It was a lot of fun and I totally forgot what it was like to be in an environment like that. Brother Solomon took us to the game and he is also our Ward Mission Leader.

Pregame Braai!

These guys are so big!

Brother Solomon, Elder Cazier and I

 The Stadium inside...

....and out!

The Bulls Cheerleaders!  ;)

Toss in from out of bounds

 The Holmes Family have us over for dinner quite often and I love playing with their dogs!

Me and the Holmes's Dogs!

I can't remember what this riot was for because they happen all the time.  I think the power might have been out or something like that.  We almost didn't make it out of the township because they blocked off the roads.  This is the other Elders area, we were here doing some finding and helping them.

The Etwatwa RIOT!

While we were driving through the township about 10 kilometers an hour, a kid ran into, not in front of, but into our car.  I was in the back and all of the sudden heard a loud smack and saw a kid laying on the ground.  He got up and ran to his mother with lots of scrapes and bruises.  I tried to talk to them, but they just went into their house.  The Church offered to pay for the kid's medical bills in a nice private hospital, but the parent"s declined. They decided to go to the Police and report a hit and run and demanded money.  The Church sent their Lawyers and got it all straighten out.  The Church is so powerful in so many ways!  Well that about does it for this week.

I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Cheers, Elder Segil

Happy Easter!

Wow, another Easter away from home, but I have heard Montana had a snowy Easter, which sounds amazing.  I sure do look forward to coming back to the snow even though I will freeze for the first year or two.  I already freeze here and it is like 40-50 degrees or something in the morning when we work out.  Other then that, I am very happy in my new area called Rynfield located in Benoni.  It is a very wealthy town with a township, so that is pretty sweet.  My new companion is Elder Cazier from German.  We have served around each other a bunch and he will be completing his mission in June, so that is pretty sweet.

Well I have a miracle of the week.  My first day here in Rynfield we went shopping at Pick n Pay and as we were putting the stuff in the car, we heard people speaking in American accents.  We got to talking to them and come to find out they are from Bozeman, Montana.  It was so sweet to be able to meet someone from my home state, not to mention they live twenty minutes away from me.  I gave them my home phone number, so Mom and Dad, someone should be calling you soon to tell you they met your son all the away in Southern Africa.  They were so cool and friendly just like people are in Montana.  It made me a little homesick, but now I am Lekker!

Today is a very special day in history.  It marks 185 years since the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was restored to this earth in these latter days.  It is also the Saviors birthday today and what a wonderful weekend and day it is to be alive.  The Church is true and it will be until the end of time.  It has blessed my life so much and I have seen it bless the lives of thousands of people as I have served these people here in South Africa.  I hope you all will find out for yourself as I and millions of other have done.

Have a wonderful week!

Elder Segil

Goodbye Rustenburg!

Wow what an awesome week it has been to complete my last week up here in Rustenburg.  I did Cross Fit all week and for the last day we chose the MURPH, a hero work out.  I did it all in order and no help.  IT WAS AWESEOME!

1 mile

100 Tricep Pull ups in a row (no bicep)

200 Push Ups in a row

300 Squats in a row

1 mile

Under an hour

Beat it!

Mone', Elder Perdersen, Marko, Michael Jr.and Yunky our trainers!

The Molefe Girls

The Bosch Family

The Kgaladi Family

Shato!

Lebo

Massinga Family

Candice

Maili and her cute son

Sister Kruger with her Puppies

The group

Future Missionary Sister Kim

Kesa Kesa Kesa

Ranku Family

Tariah

Molefe Family

Fun Stuff

Mfana Family

Well transfers are on Tuesday and this is when I will move to my next if not my last area!  Exciting stuff eh!  Well I love you all and hope you enjoy the pictures!

Elder Segil

President Dunn visits the Northwest!

Well it has been such a quick week and best of all we had ourselves another baptism!  It was sweet, on Friday, President Dunn came up to do the interview for the baptism and he just loved Kesa.  We knew he would and are so grateful for him for setting aside the time to come up to the Northwest!  Her full name is Kesaobaka Mesime!

Me, Kesa and Elder Pedersen

LOL

We decided to get our newly baptized Candice in the picture.  These two are practically Sisters.  The first time they came to church, Kesa showed up first and went to sit in the chapel.  Ten minutes later Candice came and there were plenty of places to sit, but she decided to sit next to Kesa.  Both of them didn't know how to sing and how the church service worked, but they became best friends immediately.  Now they go to institute every week and are so close.  Awesome stuff!

I was in the Dentist's office this morning for Elder Pedersen and there was a Book of Mormon sitting there next to all the magazines.  Nobody grabbed it and nobody looked at it.  It shows me that most things in life will be in plain sight, but most of us will miss it.  God will prepare a way for us to hear Him, but we must first prepare ourselves.  He is there and always will be!

Well I love you all!

Cheers, Elder Segil

#BecauseHeLives

Sweet stuff.  That's all I can say about this week and life in general.  We had a great week and had another baptism.  Her name is Tsholofelo Candice Methi.  I started teaching her back in December and yesterday she was ready to make the covenant of baptism.

Elder Pedersen and I

Got to have one formal picture!

She was excited!

Yeah we like to have fun!

There's a pose!

Church on Sunday was pretty interesting.  We had an Afrikaner come to church with a huge swollen hand. There were two holes in the back of his hand and it looked to have been bitten by a snake.  We came to find out that he had been stabbed by a BBQ skewer and the best place he thought to come was to our church.  We helped him out and made sure he got medical attention.  It's a crazy world out there eh!

In other news, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be taking over YouTube on Easter Sunday the 5th of April!  All advertisements and what have you, will be directed to a video called Because He lives.  It is a sweet video that compares Jesus Christ to each of us and how we are like Him and will become even more like Him.  All the missions around to world will be doing a huge finding effort the week the video is up on YouTube to find people and bring them closer to Christ.  It is going to be sweet.  I have seen the video and it will be available for all to see very soon.  Go and watch it and tell others to watch it too!  

I love you all and hope you have a great week.!

Elder Segil

At last it has come!

Well it has been another great week here in Rustenburg.  To my surprise, as I was at Zone Meeting, I received a package from home.  I saw the date of shipment marked as October 1st 2014.  It is from the young men and women of the Livingston Ward.  I first just want to say thank you so very much.  This means so much to me and I am so grateful that your hard work did not go to waste and that the package was able to arrive.  Better late then never as they say.  This truly made my week.  Thank you so much and for trying to make me fat!

At last it has come!

Livingston, oh how I forgot what you looked like, until now!

In other news, we will have the baptisms of Kessa and Candice this Sunday, so that should be sweet.  I look forward to that and all the new and exciting things to come in this incredible country of South Africa.  I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Your Montana Boy, Elder Segil

Post Strike Has Ended!

Awesome stuff!   This week went by so fast and it was so sweet to finally receive a package from home.  Some of you may not know that the South African Postal Service has been on strike for almost eight months, I believe, and so many people have lost their letters and packages. It has finally ended and everything is getting back to normal.  YAY!!!

It could be bigger then me!

Thank you knife!

AMERICA!!!  THANK YOU FAMILY and FRIENDS!

In other news, Boitsheop was confirmed this week and all is going well with her.  Lots of work is being done in Rustenburg and life is good.  Have a great week everybody!

Cheers, Elder Segil