We are here to not look for our own happiness, but to help others find their happiness

Email #42
Area: Secunda
Companion: Elder Wilombe

Hey Everyone,

This week was really good and we met a few more new people which just is a sign God is here with us. I will talk about one lady that we met that has just been an eye opener for me and it truly has a meaning and a place in my heart about this lady. Her name is Synthia and lives in Kinross. She is around 27 and has two daughters and is married. We met her on the street this past week and we just shared with her what we do. She told us her brother is struggling with drugs and just everything is against him and he is just having a hard time. She wants to help him and everything, but everytime that he is at her house he steals rings and stuff and just can't be trusted. But that isn't the sad part. She was married before and had two other children. The husband killed the two daughters by cutting their necks with a saw and raped them before doing so. She had high blood pressure and some kind of cancer and Aids. She said that she prayed and that all went away. When her first born with her second husband was born she had a scar on her neck and she said that God was giving back her two daughters that were taken from her. We shared about the Plan of Salvation and she just couldn't be happier and so shocked to hear that she will see those daughters again, but God blessed her with two more. She is just been so blessed. She has four cars now from coming from one that was not very nice, but now they have a wonderful home and all that she wants. Her brother is her only stress and prays that he might change. The divorce rate is very high here. The shacks that are near the homes are the husbands that leave their wives with the home and kids and they just move to a shack. The lady said that she knows of five people that got divorced on her street. She was very open with us and I just felt so blessed that I was able to hear what she said. I realized that the world is evil and Satan is real. But God is far more powerful and his plan is eternal and just being able to share that with her, just made all of this worth it. Just helping one lady, one of my sisters makes everything that we go through all worth it. Saving one life brings enough joy to satisfy all your struggle and heartache. We are on the Lord's errand and he knows us individually. HE knew that lady needed us she is happy now and has been for some time, because she knows God and she just wants to help her brother and that shows me that she isn't looking for her happiness but her brother and she is a missionary on her own. That is why we are here to not look for our own happiness, but to help others find their happiness and this is the only way you will be able to have eternal happiness.

Love,
Elder Bryner

Excerpts from Dad's email:

Monday we went to the gym and workout and went shopping, not too exciting haha! Tuesday we met some school kids and they asked if we were Jehovah's witness's and we talked about the Plan of Salvation and life after and before. Wednesday was really good we met with a guy that is a pastor for a church and we are just trying to teach and get the Book Of Mormon across to him. He knows about the priesthood and that you need it to have a church in a sense so he is on the fence a bit about us but he says that every time that we come he learns something so that is good. We saw a member family the Khumalo's and they are a really sweet family. They moved a bit and now are in a really nice home and I was talking with the daughter and just getting to know her and her name is Thembi she is 17, but she was telling me about her dad and he passed away in 2007 and they have just been doing good and yesterday we taught about eternal marriage and the mom asked about being sealed to more than one man. We know that she can't so she was just curious about that. Thursday we were in Secunda and it was rough didn't have any lessons, but it was just another day you could say. Friday we went to the temple and that was just a nice recharge and we starting teaching a members younger cousin named Siyabonga and Vuyo so that is really cool. This is the day that we met that Synthia lady and shared a message with her. Saturday went on exchanges to the other area with Elder Brown in Evander is a town. We met a cool family that go to a church called ZCC (Zion christian church) We meet a lot of those and they are finally realizing that their church is false. Sunday went to church and had a good day saw a recent convert Vusi and talked about developing talents and he has a good plan for himself and a ton of goals.