Cape Town Mission Field 

7 January 2018
Day 29
Sunday


Today we attended the Langa branch again and had a wonderful fast and testimony meeting. The testimonies are so strong and Sister Courtright attended the Primary and was amazed at how much the little children knew about the details of the restored gospel at such a young age. One brother bore a testimony of how God has opened everything up for us, through Christ, and that it is in our hands and up to us to achieve our salvation and that we are our own worst enemy via fear and other notions that prevent us from returning home to our Father in Heaven with glory. He told the story by using a metaphor of some workers who arrived at work to find a posting that said "your worst enemy died today and now you can achieve whatever you want, get that raise you desired, the promotion you've sought for, etc. and that there would be a service this afternoon". Some came dressed up and other came as they were but when they all filed past the casket they were surprised to see their own reflection staring back at them from a mirror.
We decided to use the fast today and pray for rain when we went to bed last night because a lady that Sister Courtright met at the gardens yesterday was very worried about the Stage 6 drought alert going on in Cape Town right now. She said the news predicted that we wouldn't see any substantial rain until possibly early March. Well, we woke up to rain this morning and it lightly rained all day long. God's little miracles are wonderful!
Went back to the office this evening to review the calendar for this upcoming week and caught another nice photo of Devils Peak outside the mission office. I noticed on a map today that the peak is exactly 1000 meters high. Very strange to find a peak with that exact measurement.

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