If you don't know what your doing.Might as well do it quickly. Jay Bear

This quote comes from a bear we found in our attic the other day.  It is a Duck Dynasty B

ear so it has a lot of strange random comments.  This was one of the boarding's favorites.  Picture of bear included.  On to story time!

Story number 1: Always remember rule #6

This week we were invited to attend the YSA Face to Face with Elder Oaks and Elder Ballard.  I have to say, I always looked at the Apostles as these always serious super spiritual people.  Those guys are funny.  Not only that but there were some very good questions and topics they discussed, like less active family members, testimonies.  There was actually a lot discussed but needless to say it was very very awesome.  Highly encourage watching it if you get the chance.

Story Number 2:  Mama's Baptism

One thing I have come to love on my mission is part member families.  Why?  Because they give people first hand experience to seeing the power of the restored gospel in someones life.  Which then leads to them accepting the gospel sometimes.  In this sense it did.  It was a wonderful baptism this Saturday.  We had a lot of wonderful people there and the baptism and everything just went super smoothly.  Like it was supposed to happen. The Lord works miracles for those that choose to follow Him.

No Thanksgiving here it is summer. I don't even remember what we cooked. 

That's all I have for this week.  Love you all. Elder Tucker

"It's a long walk home. That's ok I have long feet."Scott & Becky

A lot of you may know where this quote comes from.  If you don't  i would ask an older sibling or a parent or someone about a little movie called The Phone Call. Why this is my subject is because one of the members of my district had it on his flash drive. I had never seen it before but had heard so much about it.  It was incredible. So if you are bored and want something to watch look for The Phone Call.  

On to story time

Story Number 1: I know you always love to hear about our investigators. We have a baptism coming up this weekend! A very lovely and prepared woman. Both Elder W. and I are very excited for it. She has been around the church for a very long time. A cool story is her daughter was in my first area. When my companion and I met her she told me that the missionaries should go teach and convert her family. To which I sent a referral to the missionaries. Now I get to be a part of that conversion. God is incredible isn't he! 

Story Number 2:  Area Conference

This Sunday we had an area conference for the South East Africa area.  Which is basically the bottom half of Africa.  It was really cool we were able to hear from a couple members of the seventy and as well Elder Neil L Anderson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.  Its amazing what technology can do these days.  But one of the coolest things was to hear about the growth of the Church in Africa. How African people are working to build up the kingdom of the Lord.  Great talks, personally my favorite was Tad R. Callister's talk about principle to over coming challenges we face.  It was super powerful.

Well that was my week.  I hope you all have a wonderful week.

Elder Tucker

I conquered the door! Elder W.

This quote comes from my comp. To explain this I will use the phrase, "knock knock".  So in Xhosa when someone uses this phrase we say, "Qonqo"  As I have explained before the Q is a click.  Now he wont click due to his culture, so when I asked if anyone was home his response was, " I konkoed"  in his accent he conquered.  Moral of the story Conquer everything even the little things.  ON TO CONQUERING STORY TIME!

Story number 1: I HATE BIKE RACKS.  

Hate is a very strong word,  Lets tone that down a bit.  I DISLIKE BIKE RACKS VERY MUCH!  

Well right now the other elders have received their bicycles but due to lack of lockable storage in the area we had to transport them to our flat.  It was about eight fifteen when we made this decision.  We got the bike rack on after some observation of how it worked.  Then went to put a bike on.  IT fell and damaged our car.  This went on for about thirty minutes, until we finally figured it out.  I am very not looking forward to taking them back but hey, gotta do what ya gotta do.

Story number 2: Tata

This week we were in a day where we had quite a few dropped appointments.  We decided to visit a member that has the sacrament brought to him.  MAN! That was one of the most powerful testimonies of the gospel I have ever heard.  Right when we got there he talked of his conversion and his family and the Book of Mormon, everything.  It was so amazing to see the joy in this mans face as he talked about something he loved with all of his heart.  He may be sick and not able to go anywhere but he is so happy just from the gospel.  It reminds me of a scripture 

2 Nephi 2: 25. For, for this end was the law given: wherefore the law hath became dead unto us, and we are made alive in Christ because of our faith; yet we keep the law because of the commandments.  Well we have all that joy, all we need to do is acknowledge it.

We have people ask all the time why do I need your church if I have mine? It is hard to explain until they have tried it. We will keep the efforts going. 

Until next week,

Elder Tucker

"Rocka bye Babies" Elder Davies

Good morning everyone 

This quote comes from one of the funniest men ever to walk upon this earth.  Secondary to my father.  Now to imagine this man think of the epitome of an old Utah man without the beard.  That is Elder Davies, full of stories which he will tell for ages if you let him.  I will tell the story in story time.  So lets go there now.

Story number 1: Zone conference

So this week we had zone conference where we got the privilege of being trained by Elder Koch of the Seventy.  Very amazing man and training! In between the training we had lunch.  All of you must know after food comes tiredness and sleep. Whilst we were getting ready to go back to the training Elder Davies was going to the companionship's  and singing lullabies to them.  It was hilarious.  That man is so funny.

Story number 2: Make sure your oven works before making a cake

This week I told some of our recent converts that i would make a cake for them.  So I tried but our oven did not work well.  I went to put in the cake and found that only the top part of the oven worked so my cake was charcoal on the top and not quite done on bottom.  I was super sad but I had already made the icing.  So I cut off the burned part of the cake and put on icing.  Was not a bad cake taste wise but the look was terrible.  So moral of the story make sure you can do what you need to make the cake before you do so.  I think you all should be able to find some way of putting that into a life story.

In mission news we have a part member family baptism coming up this month. I am exited about that one. Not much else happening there in terms of investigators but reactivation is going well. We have a Melchizedek priesthood holder coming back so that will be nice.  

Have a lovely week everyone

Elder Tucker