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A Bptism, Nice!

New People, Yeh !

hey mom im doing good,

things are really going good in our area this week was a little rough we had 17 apointments ditch on us but we found some new people so it was alright, yeah i still havent heard if we will get to watch this broadcast or not but it sounds nice. Yeah about Thomas i've been thinking you just really need to get to know him to be able to help him. Because people they will put up walls and avoid and deny things unless they really trust you so you must first build that relationship of trust with him. But ya hope it works :) How are you doing? how is the summer going? Things are just peachy here, i will find out if i am getting transferred next week or not, so ill let you know next week. NOt really a whole lot to report Africa is still crazy as ever and things are just going great this really is a wonderful land with so many wonderful people and things its a blessing to serve here.

ELDER REEVE 

27 Lessons this week !

Hey, well this week was great we taught 27 lessons, really trying to help this area grow before i probably leave in the next 2 weeks (hopefully ) i dont want to have another 6 month area. haha I'm really trying to learn how to do the will of the Lord and follow the spirit because this place really needs some great families to help establish the church here in this area and we have found a few just hope we can get them to progress and come to church and feel the spirit which is there. Things are going great couldnt be happier. Love the work and love the people and love the things that are happening! 

I forgot my pictures today again sorry. ill send you some pictures of the baptism that we had of the family from Zim. But thanks for all the love and support. LOVE YOU LOTS 

ELDER REEVE

A Letter From Dad

This afternoon we listen to the satatite broadcast from the meriot center in Provo to a Part of the new mission presidents training. They called it a world wide leadership training. Anyway it was to tell members that our responsibility is to find people for the Misionaries to teach. The Stake President here invited the whole stake to listen to it. Grandma Poulsons Stake also got to listen.
So Mother saw it also. It was a two hour meeting but the whole message was " Members get of your butts and find people for the Missionaries to Teach" . Now we just need to exercise the faith to go and DO! 
It's been cool and cloudy here but the weather guesser says by the end of the week well be in the 90's so maybe it's going to get hot.
Kathren and Steve with be in Hurricane this week with there mirical baby , it would be nice to see her but. 
We Picked cherries this week here and will start apricots tomarrow. It will get busy from now on for a while. 
Our ward Misionaries are making lots of visits now with ward members but we haven't turned up any referrals yet. It's just pray like everything depends on the Lord and work like everything depends on me, now. Have to put into practice the advice I've been giving you.
I'am going to try and get to the African store in Boise this week and see if they have any mopie worms for sale. I'am very ceriouse to see what hey taste like.
We love you and are so pleased with your service to the Lord.
Love
Dad

Happy Fathers Day

Hey,
Well this week was a little bit less productive than others but we
still worked hard. and are having fun so its good :) Well ill tell you
a bit about the place since i have time today, Im serving in the
capital Pretoria, and there is a professional soccer stadium in the
area but the team is not very good so its a shame but still cool we
got to look around it. Made me miss sports ALOT! But last week when we
went to church someone had broken in past all the burgalr bars and
stuff and stole the laptop and what not from the library. Happens
quite a bit appaerently. Also SOuth africa lost to ethiopia and missed
the 2014 world cup bid so everyone was bummbed about that. Went to the
Vootreker monument on monday. its huge  building for the poinerrs in
SOUTH AFRICA so thats pretty cool. ALSO HAPPY FATHERS DAY DAD!!!!!
well we had our baptism last week so that was really great, a
wonderful sister, baptized by her husband made them very happy and she
doesnt even know about the temple yet!!! :) but ya things are going
good only 3 weeks left in this transfer so ill probably be leaving
this area soon but we shall see. WELL LOTS OF LOVE HOPE EVERYONE IS
DOING WEEL! :) SMILE!!!!!!
ELDER REEVE

Attitude change

Glad things are going well, today was nice we went to the church camp ground out by the DAM and had a briaa ( BBQ) and did some fun things bought some cool african stuff . With all the challenges and things that have been going on i have asked myself why and what is it that im doing wrong. I've decided that i just need to change my attitude that i have been selfish and prideful and my patience has been tested which i have always felt was one of my best attributes so i had to take a step back and collect my self and go at it again and would you guess IM HAPPY AGAIN :) and things arent so bad as i was thinking just gotta change my attitude about the situation rather than expect or wish for the situation to change. So i guess i can say that is the lesson that i have learned this past month. Trying to work with the good people here, had a baptism last week. An investigator from the other missionaries ward asked me at to baptize her. so i got to do that so that was nice, i still havent gotten pictures yet so ill try to send next week but it was very nice. and we should have the baptism of the Zimbabwe family soon - next week so that will be nice :) but ya hope things are going well. LOVE YOU LOTS TELL EVERYONE HELLO :)

ELDER REEVE     

May

nah went shopping and then went to talk with Bro. KEVIN about somethings that have been bothering me about the area and how to try and help people here. NOW email then FHE and then teaching a lesson to a family :) 

Hartbeesport Dam

yeah today was good we went to hartbeesport dam today it was really nice. good to talk with you guys as well

yO! the dam was nice saw lots of big houses lots of monkeys and lots of other little furry critters

hey Mama

HEY MAMA, things are going good trying to stay positive and work hard, looking forward to the end of winter only 3 more months hahaha and Transfers are next week, so ill let you know if im moving or not next week. Thats nice about the temple, we got to go on Friday it was good, its been a long time since we got to go, so it was nice, we almost missed our session but we snuck in . GLad you and dad have some time together . I sent dad a long e-mail so i guess you can read his. LOTS OF LOVE

ELDER REEVE

Hey, glad to here that your enjoying the temple. yeah they have scones here but they make the dough into a ball and call them fat cooks they are nice with jam :) its our "junk food" that and kota haha "african burgers" im not really into "run aways" chicken feet they dont fill me up more of just a snack. 

YA there are lots of cool things i would love to buy here but im making a list of the most important things and then maybe near the end of my mission ill buy and trade some stuff. 

haha yeah thats kinda they same thing i felt with graduation it was just a blur that was over before it started and nothing happened haha. But sounds like CC will be just as amazing a Linda :) well im trying to send pictures but the computer is not cooperating so sorry once again ill try next week :/

but love you lots ELDER REEVE

work is slow

hey, the work is going slow and i really need to change my attitude
just been down recently and i dont really know why so hopefully i can
pick my self back up and get to work, maybe it was the week lay-over
in the flat idk?
wow germany thats pretty cool ! my mission prezident servered in
germany and the MTC president here was a mission PResident in germany!
Well glad Andy is feeling better :)
But for mothers day i might just call to confrim on saturday night but
i should be on around 5 oclock here which is 9 ocolck at home if i did
my math right???
WOW THATS AWESOME TELL THOMAS CONGRATZ AND HAPPY BIRHTDAY!!!!!! ALSO
TELL DEANNA HAPPY B-DAY! :)
Well i dont really know what else to say the work is slow like i said
i've only been in this area for 3 months but i feel like i need a
change of senceary haha... but we are trying to work with some party
member familes and have 2 really good ones hopefully they will get
baptized the end of this month Vimbi and Blessing and next month but
we will see.

Africa is good

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Robert Reeve <robert.reeve@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Well Africa is good , somethings about the culture, Birthdays and Weddings and Funerals are HUGE, people love Grave stones you should see the cemeteries here! Lots of rituals and traditions surrounding it too, like a lady we were teaching was gonna be baptized but then he husband died and she has to go into 6 months of mourning and cant have any visitors or its disrespectful to the spirit of her diseased husband shows she doesnt care about him. Churches - They have services all during the week and every church has different uniforms, like the ZCC church had a conference this last weekend and took over the town you literally couldn't go anywhere so we had to leave the area. just because we couldnt work. The attitude is get things for nothing FREE FREE FREE haha and lazy. BUT TELL RUGER HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR ME!  i tried there e-mail but it doesnt work. 

Easter II

Hey, yeah i just feel more tired in the mornings hahaha :) Yeah just

to know what you did and your experiences are nice, like that DVD we

got for Chirstmas it was amazing to watch and see all those things!

Its true there is a lot of stuff here and im so greatful for what i

was taught how to love and except people for who they are, its just

really sad when people here cant do that, because of cultarl or

history or whatever the reason. If they only knew how great this

gosple is even thought peopel listen to us they dont really comprhend!

Yeah Satan has such a strong hold on people here and it takes so much

work to make just a little progress! but thats what we are here for. I

had an incident with a member of my district last week so that was

kinda sad but i think we got everything worked out so hope everything

is good now. Time is going faster and i dont know how to keep up there

is so much work to be done and there is no way we can do it on our

own! But we keep praying and keep trying. Thanks for all you do and

your love and support

ELDER REEVE

Easter

Easter was long and hot, talked with so many drunk people that i can

tell what kind of beer people are drinkin just by smelling, they have

very distinct smells and it stinks! Inkonomozi - traditional african

beer, black lable and castel lager.....yup that pretty much sums up my

easter in township. Glad unlce Andy is doing better though :) thats

good to hear. Hope all the new babies are doing well and healthy :)

yeah thats the problem everyday working hard, sometimes you just get

tired.....this is hard work, not phyiscally well i guess im just used

to it, but Emotional, and spiritually its draning and there is no time

to relax and meditate and gather your self. But  i guess thats how it

goes. Well the work goes on and time is going faster!

ELDER REEVE