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Busy week, so a quick rundown:

-Sinazo was confirmed this week which was awesome. She's super cool. She is a student at Rhodes University here in Makhanda.

-Crushed the YSA in Foosball.

- My comp loves dogs way too much. Problem is he doesn't listen to me when I tell him most the dogs here will rip your face off If you try to pet them. So, he's probably going to get attacked one of these days.

-Have had a ton of success tracking in Makhanda. Blessed. Also, some drunk guy followed us around to some houses. Telling us he wants to be a missionary, lol. 

- Had 2 friends: Olivia and Khanye tell us they have a desire to be baptized. That was exciting, now it's just about helping them prepare.

-Elder Killpack and I found some foam noodle lightsabers at the chapel. We had a duel of course!

-Some thieves stole the battery to our chapel gate and also robbed our neighbors, lol. 

-Alma 13:3-5

"3 And this is the manner after which they were ordained—being called and prepared from the foundation of the world according to the foreknowledge of God, on account of their exceeding faith and good works; in the first place being left to choose good or evil; therefore they having chosen good, and exercising exceedingly great faith, are called with a holy calling, yea, with that holy calling which was prepared with, and according to, a preparatory redemption for such. 

4 And thus they have been called to this holy calling on account of their faith, while others would reject the Spirit of God on account of the hardness of their hearts and blindness of their minds, while, if it had not been for this they might have had as great privilege as their brethren. 

5 Or in fine, in the first place they were on the same standing with their brethren; thus this holy calling being prepared from the foundation of the world for such as would not harden their hearts, being in and through the atonement of the Only Begotten Son, who was prepared"

I've always had a super big interest in the premortal existence and I still love learning about it. Both about foreordination and agency in the preexistence. So, I love Alma 13. I invite you all to gain a greater understanding of our premortal existence and therefore you'll be able to gain a stronger understanding of our purpose here on earth. 

"The spirits of men had their free agency. The spirits of men were not equal. They may have had an equal start, and we know they were all innocent in the beginning; but the right of free agency which was given to them enabled some to outstrip others, and thus, through the eons of immortal existence, to become more intelligent, more faithful, for they were free to act for themselves, to think for themselves, to receive the truth or rebel against it."  -President Joseph Fielding Smith

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