Journal July 14 Sunday We had prayed last night where we should go to church today. We felt like we should go to Cleary Branch and Motherwell. We met with a returned missionary Lerato in the Cleary Branch
We had taught him the career workshop last week. He wants to be a EMT. Emergency medical technical. He now needs the planning for success class so he can get a Perpetual
education fund. He needs the 8800 R for the six week course. The lord is concerned about this returned missionary getting the skills and education
he needs to make a living. After we met with him and gave him the information he needed. The Branch President introduced us to another member in the ward. He needed to higher his employment.
His name was Winston he was working for a company for 5,000 R a month. Which is around 500.00 American dollars. He makes and installs blinds. He only finished
up to 7th grade. He would like to go back to school and finish his education. He is 30 years old. Not married. His mom and dad have passed away he is the sole
supporter of his family. He supports 3 siblings and a uncle. He has been doing a few jobs in blinds on the side.
Elder Van Sickle taught him about Goals. You always set goals if you want to get
anywhere in life. Short term goals are steps that get you to your long term goals. You need to set a goal of getting one customer per week he told Winston. That's one of the short term goals he needs. He wants to be in business for himself. So that is his long term goal. Then Elder Van Sickle taught him the formula he needed to use to succeed in getting customers. How you
network off of your old customers. So Winston said he hadn't been to church for three weeks. We told him that the lords blesses you for every commandment you keep. We said Winston
You came to church today. So Winston how did the lord bless you today for coming to church. He said, The lord sent you to teach me about goals and the formula to be able
to evuatually get into business for myself so I can quit my job and make more money on my own. He said my friend also worked for the same blind company and he is now on his own and isn't doing very well. Winston said, Now I know why he isn't doing well because doesn't know the formula.
The lord blesses us for all the commandments we keep. Going to church, Paying your tithing, Paying fast offerings, reading the scriptures, Keeping the Sabbath
day holy and many more.
We went on to the Motherwell branch. We heard the branch president there wanted a career workshop for his members. Delsie is in this branch. She was less
active. We have worked with her and her family of three children. It as taken a long time to get Delsie to understand that she needs to keep her kids with her. When we
met her she only had her oldest son with her and the other two children were living with there grandmother who worked shift work and left the two kids alone by
themselves. They were only 3 and 8 years old. The 8 year old boy got caught shop lifting. She would only see her children that lived with the grandmother every
four weeks.They lived 11/2 hours away. The last time we saw her she had brought her 8 year old son
to live with her and was in the process of bringing her daughter there too. When we got to the Motherwell branch. We were so excited that she was at church with
all three of her kids. She said her two oldest boys could speak English really well. She had told the kids when we are home we are only speaking English in the house
and it has helped them a lot. It's very important that you know how to speak English here. The business world here is English. Because there are so many delects
here. Besides speaking there own lauquaqe they need to be able to speak English really well in order to get a job. Delsie has been working as a social worker but didn't
have the credentials for it therefore she didn't get paid very well. Now she is going to school. We soon found out that there was a two fold reason that the lord sent us to
Motherwell because Delsie was going to send her 3 year old daughter back to her grandmother's because her daughter required so much attention that it was hard
to get her schoolwork done. We felt the spirit really strong when we told her how important it was that she kept her daughter with her. It was better to have her in a day care and home with her at night.The lord wanted her little
family to stay together. By the time we had dropped her off at her house she told us that she remembered that when her daughter was at her mother's house she had
a hard time studying for worrying about her daughter. She knew that we had come there today to help her see that she needed to keep her daughter with her. The lord
loves her family. Mission is so amazing. We love all of you. Keep the lord close by your side.
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