Awesome Fireside!

Tonight we went to a stake fireside. It was sooo cool :) 

It was given by a Sister from South Africa who helped in the Translation of the Book of Mormon into an African "clicking" language. It was awesome! She said that she grew up in a white, well to do home and she spoke English, but the black servants in her house spoke the clicking language and she grew up learning both. Then she took classes in college on how to write in the clicking language. 

When she was in college, sister missionaries came to her door, she felt the spirit really strongly and she was converted. Then she served a mission to a different part of South Africa and helped start a branch there, and started translating a few things into the 'clicking" language. 

After her mission, when she was married with kids, the church asked if she would help translate the Book of Mormon into this language because they finally had enough members to do it. She didn't know if she would have time to do that, because she was taking care of her children. The church then paid for her friends to watch her children while she worked on the translation. During the translation she said she experienced three things 

1. Opposition! Her kids got really sick and one of her children almost passed away. Her friends almost stopped watching her kids because things kept happening to them and their families too! (one of their husbands got hit by semi)

2. She was able to understand the English words better than ever, and understand passages of scripture with a deep meaning and clarity that she had never had before. But if she ever got in an argument or lost the spirit, she couldn't do it anymore. 

3. She felt close to the writers of the Book of Mormon and felt their personalities. She felt she could tell who she was a "working for" (Alma, Mormon, Moroni) without even looking

This was an amazing fireside and an amazing story about persevering through trials and opposition in our lives.

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"You are intelligent people. Just outsmart the devil when he tries to mess with you. Live as righteously as you can! Simple as that"

XoXoXo