Hey everyone, this week was good then bad then good then bad then good

then bad hhaha lots of ups and downs. First of all i lost my USB which

contained the last year of pictures that i have taken.....so ya thats

really a bummer i have lost all motivation to take pictures anymore so

sorry for the lack of pics haha. Good news, im expanding my cooking

skills made lasagna from scratch....guess its not to hard but its the

first time and went well so i was happy. We had a baptism on saturday

it went really well it was a young man and we are going to be working

with his family now, they loved the baptism so hopefully their hearts

were softened. Also in other exciting news, President Omer our mission

prez announced on Tuesday that as of July 1st the Habaroni Botswana

mission will be created from the Jo-burg and Cape Town missions,

Botswana and Namibia will be the new mission and so i might have the

opportunity to be going to a new mission and starting mission work for

the first time in a new country! They didnt release numbers but it

sounded like the number of Full time missionaries in the world will be

doubled by the summer!!! 100,000!!!!!!!!! its crazy, but ya i MIGHT

have the  chance to serve in two countries and two different missions

that would be exciting! the work of the lord is moving quickly and his

coming is soon, Hope your all getting ready :) hahah but ya had some

really great experiences with a lady named shelly, her friend invited

her to church and we began teaching her, to see the change in her over

the last 3 months has been incredible! She is truly converted to the

gospel and she doesn't even know it yet. As well as some not so good

experiences, SHOW! just warning ya'll if you ever pray and ask the

Lord to help you develop charity you better watch out! cause its all

gonna come at you, haha but the experiences are good to learn from and

grow from. Also transfers are next week Tuesday the  5th! and ill be

done training so ill most likely be getting transferred :) so that

will be exciting im ready for new experiences and new people. But it

will be sad to leave this area we have some sweet people going to be

baptized in MARCH so the work is moving :)  love you all and hope you

have a great week

ELDER REEVE

18 February 2013

Brother & Sister Reed Reeve

885 South 400 West

Hurricane, Ut 84737

United States

Dear Brother & Sister Reeve;

Your son, Elder Robert James Reeve, has been called to serve as a trainer of a newly arrived missionary in the South Africa Johannesburg Mission.

He will train Elder Sinayobye from Ranjato.  He was called after prayerful consideration and because of his obedience, hard work and faithfulness.  

The role of trainer is one of the most important in the Mission since the trainer helps establish a foundation for the future success of the new missionary.  He will guide the new missionary in adjusting to the local culture, acquiring goal setting and planning skills and enhancing the new missionary’s ability to teach the Gospel under the guidance of the Spirit.

I thank you for your role in preparing and guiding such a fine young man.  I appreciate the sacrifices you have made to help support him in the mission field.

Sincerely,

President S. Craig Omer

South Africa Johannesburg Mission

HELLO, hope the week has been going good, really been praying for

Uncle Andy and you guys a lot, hope everything goes well. Yeah Elder

Sinayobye is a full fledged missionary now he doesnt need any more

training haha its really been an amazing experience, its a miracle he

is alive still and able to be here serving the lord. If you know

anything about the HIstory of rwranda is very sad and still on going,

but hes a great guy, two more weeks before transfers so lots of work

to do, hopefully if all goes well we will have a couple baptisms on

saturday and i think that will be really exciting!!!

Lots of work to do and not a lot of time sometimes its really

discouraging sometimes its rewarding and sometimes its beyond this

world, just spiritual, its nice when its good and not so good when its

not but thats life haha gotta learn to plug along. really dont know

what else to say still here, still working, and still trying to learn

what im supposed to be doing.

ELDER REEVE

hello,

we share a car with the other elders so every other day we drive then

walk. the work is slowly going slow and steady, we have lots of good

potential families, just trying to work on getting the whole family

involved in the teaching process. well im about ready to leave this

area SIX months is a long time, still lots of work to do but i need a

change this place is killing me, the ward is really struggling and im

out of ideas....really dont know what to do anymore, but we just keep

praying and going to work every day waiting for the lord to bless our

efforts.

yeah time is going by fast.

sorry again to hear about Uncle Andy, but hope all goes well, pray for

him and you guys every day. lots of trials to test our faith. speaking

of that i have asked for a lot by praying for Charity and asking the

lord to help me develop that....its hard.but hope all is going well

for you all love you all LOTS!!!! :)

ELDER REEVE

So for the pictures, We went to the Lory Park zoo and saw lots of

animals it kinda like a sanctuary for sick or endangered animals so it

was really cool to see animals again, decided to go take a Cat Nap,

and spend the day with a group of chettas :) haha chettas  are really

just like dogs they are really nice and love to play, just dont rub

the belly they dont like it too much haha. played with baby leopards

and saw some big ones and tigers and lions oh my :) africa is

beautiful and then on the other side its a real mess haha. Africa Cup

of Nations just finished Nigera won and S.A. got 4th so all the

nigerans are partying today.

> So for the pictures, We went to the Lory Park zoo and saw lots of

> animals it kinda like a sanctuary for sick or endangered animals so it

> was really cool to see animals again, decided to go take a Cat Nap,

> and spend the day with a group of chettas :) haha chettas  are really

> just like dogs they are really nice and love to play, just dont rub

> the belly they dont like it too much haha. played with baby leopards

> and saw some big ones and tigers and lions oh my :) africa is

> beautiful and then on the other side its a real mess haha. Africa Cup

> of Nations just finished Nigera won and S.A. got 4th so all the

> nigerans are partying today.

CRAZY TO THINK ITS ALREADY FEBRUARY!

Well the Christ-like attribute for the month is Charity and Love and

from day one the lord started testing me...wow this is gonna be an

interesting month haha but i have received some council from the lord

in my P.B. that i need to develop charity and i have been told how

just need to put it into practice but ya gonna be saying lots of

prayers this month trying to develop that love of the savior. Had a

few experiences that really tested my love for my fellow men already.(

i know its a strong word but i can say "persecution" in a degree) But

my companion Elder Sinayobye is doing well, learning lots on his first

3 months of mission haha if the pattern continues after im done

training in 4 weeks ill get transferred on March 5th. and be in my 3rd

area and if i stay there for 6 months again i might only have 4- 6

month areas on my mission, crazy! but things are good we had a great

week this week, lots of fasting and LOTS of prayer paid off had 8

investigators at church found 5 new people to teach and a couple

potential families and things are just going great after the

trials/storms comes the blue skies :) loving mission and all the

people and experiences sorry i dont tell you more about it, so much to

tell and not a lot of time on mondays haha, but we have started

implementing an idea we were thinking about for a while- Family Home

Evening groups- because lots of people dont know how to do it or are

not motivated to do it on their own so we have started grouping

families that live close in the same section and started organizing

them, hopefully this can be something that stays around for a while

and will do some good for the familes here. ITs really so different

here in Africa traditions and culture make living church/gospel

standards very difficult for people especially youth who a lot of the

time are on their own in the church. We just keep trying to help

establish the church and build peoples faith in the lord and savior

Jesus Christ! :) Hope all is going well with you all and that the lord

is watching over and protecting you :)

LOTS OF LOVE

ELDER REEVE