mlungu-it means white man, its my name‏

this pic is of that sweet family, and i promise i havent grown another foot it just looks like it
My Dear Dad and Mom,
Wow, sounds like you guys had a great week and that all is going great:0)
Well, honestly, I don’t have to much to tell ya this week, just a GREAT week full of work. how are you guys, I loved hearin all you stories and that you took a break from campin, haha, I was getting pretty jealous, but now im even more jealous of the tribute, I listened to both of their cds this morning and even teared up a lil with the one about joseph and hyrum, man they are so good.
We had a way sweet baptisim, Cane Mdlalose had been taught since 2005 and his son is now o mission and he bore a powerful testimony after his baptism, he said “I wished Dumisani (his son in ghana) could be here, but I know he is bringing the joy and happiness that I feel today, to many families and people.” My heart burned, its so real, and this whole family is now forever changed by this gospel, they have plans for the temple and to be sealed together when he gets home…. It was truly amazing.
As for some fun stuff, im going to play some sand volleyball.
Well mom, if you could get me heaps physical address, I will send them a letter and some pictures, im afraid ive waited to long but I think itll still be good.
I sure do love you so much and just printed off some pictures of you guys at the lake and fourwheelin to ad to my collection. I sure miss you tons…. Its weird to think ive been in AFRICA for almost a year??? Yikes huh…. Its cool tho, I truly do love a lot of the things here (some I dis like) and I can already tell the the rest of my life will be forever changed, haha, I hope I can teach you guys some cool things ive learned.
But as for now, I just hope you have a wonderful week and feel of my love and gratitude for you guys, I really do feel your prayers every second.
Love your son,
Elder Bradey Lee WILDE

Just chillin in Africa

Bralin on the Trail.
My Dearest Dad and Mom, First I’ll Answer some questions… I'm Doing GREAT this week, super busy, but great, its good to be busy too, time is fl yin. It does get cold but I'm going to buy a jacket probably today, y'all don’t have to worry, I have an extra blanket and its all good, the weather is really nice its just the houses are so cold, so we sleep with hot bottles of water in our beds. Teaching is great. And I'm feeling good:0) summer will start in September. My comp is way cool, since hes from Uganda tho and the other elder is, there is secret combinations going on…(because they are always speaking in Uganda) but its cool, no worries, my comp loves to work hard and is obedient so its great, he is 26 because in Africa if you start college you have to finish so that’s why… Elder cunico from lehi is still with me, he’s cool and we have a good time. We play soccer or something in the mornings to have fun… as for letters don’t worry to much, a package every once in a while is great and good emails… grandma does great with the letters, That’s really cool about Jordan taking the lessons, I sure hope and pray all goes great, I know if its done right, and he wants to know the spirit will take care of everything… I love missionary work……. Things need are....... maybe some pics or something, and maybe some pine brows, jk. Haha. Well some more business, they make lots of Scripture cases and stuff, wildebeest's and elephant and BOMS covered in the same, so if you want let me know and I will get y'all whatever. Check out our mission website, they should have a sweet addition soon. http://johannesburgmission.googlepages.com/home. Lastly, I learned a sweet Zulu word that will be the title of one of my emails in about a year, haha. Entabeni- it means “on the mountain” haha speaking of which mom, I think the song your thinking of is one I thought would fit the situation also, “I've never seen beautiful like a journeys end…” haha I sound trunky huh. I'm not tho. :0) the work is amazing here Dad, ill defiantly be looking forward to this trail, I cant imagine one better than we’ve been on already…. Well, I hope you enjoy this lil email, I'm really glad your having such a great summer and time is going for ya, cuz yeah, well make sure next summer is even better haha. We have a sweet guy Cane Mdlalose being baptized this Sunday, he has a son on mission in Nigeria and has been taught by missionary's since 2005, now something changed, I feel it’s the blessing of their son serving. Also Winnie and her granddaughter Maxine are doing great, they love having us over and so things are good. Also a sister Rebbecca that me and elder Graham from Orem tract ed into (he was in the mtc its fun in this area because we do blitz with the mtc elders and get to take them out into our areas for a couple hours) but we just taught her a 5 min restoration and invited her to church and she actually came, and really loved it and were continuing teaching this week. So talk about many mighty miracles our heavenly Father is working in this land. I sure do love you guys and hope you continue to have a great summer and continue fishing and having fun, and telling me. I love the pictures… Thanks so much for all you do mom and dad, I love you and miss you so much, but you guys have a wonderful week, and ill be talking to ya soon. Love your son Elder Bradey Wilde

Happy Birthday to Me........... Thanks...

My Dearest Dad and Mom,
:0) THANKS SO MUCH for the super sweet birthday present!!! Wow was I surprised when I opened it up and didn’t find Blake's razor or my old watch, but a super nice razor and a super sweet watch that is more than what I wanted, now I have an good alarm clock and everything all built in one (also it has a times zone feature that I can press a button and see exactly what time it is back home, most the time you guys are asleep anyways, I loved it so much, the package was GREAT, Ive enjoyed the candy, cereal, church news, just everything.
Well I hope my next few comments will answer your questions mom and dad, um, transfers are Thursday and I'm STAYIN in dobsonville, its sweet, and my comp is leaving, I'm getting yes… another African comp but guess what he was in my MTC group his name is elder mutisasira from Uganda, hes like 24 and was way smart in the mtc, he stayed in my room, so I'm excited, we’ll see what happens, I should be here for at least 3 more months, maybe 4 and a half. As for other sweet news, I got an update on molepolole, Botswana, they have between 70 – 80 members every week now and the district made tshirts there and put all the names of elders that served there on it, So now I'm famous in Botswana. But the best is a story that made what I'm doing here seem worth it. The couple missionary up there said they went to a fast and testimony meeting and that there was a sweet old man named Samuel that bore his testimony, they said that he sounded like a great member of the church that had been a member for 50 years, but hear is the best part, they said he closed his testimony by saying that “ I had been praying and looking for the true church, and then 2 young missionary's (elder adongo and i) knocked on my door.” Man, Many mighty miracles, I wish I had more time to tell you how we found and taught this sweet old man, but basically, elder adongo and I just decided to knock on 2 doors in the whole area and he was one of them. He was baptised a couple weeks after I left….
So there is my cool story for the week, as for other news, your prayers were answered, I had a great birthday, the package was great, first thing I did was open it, then I studied and just had a great day, elder cunico bought me a sweet soccer jersey. And as for a funny story, what my companion gave me was he ate the chickin feet at our lunch appointment, haha, it still had some feathers on it.. blah, but it was a great day, so thanks so much mom and dad.
I'd like to leave a challenge if you’d like, y'all don’t have to, but I just started the BoM on my B-day and am just studin it everyday taking it slow, only for 15 min or so. So if y'all wanna join me, it might be fun.
As for everything else, the work is great, and its just going to get better!!! I had a good week and love your emails, I hope you guys have a wonderful week and I'm lookin forward to talking to ya again soon.
Love your son, Bradey
Elder Wilde

Winter in July .......

My dearest Dad and Mom,
How are you guys, from your emails you sound great.
As for questions, the area is … I dunno, I wish I could just show you, its lots of lil houses close together. And since its winter everything has finally died and lost its leaves and the grass is really yellow. so this will be the weirdest july and august of my life probably…. Things are going great and the work is really doin lots better now… its sweet, lots of teaching and we found 9 solid new investigators this week, ones name is Winnie, haha, no joke she is a colored that speaks Afrikaans and is way cool, she fell in love with the book of mormon, and pointed out in the intro how Joseph Smith said ” the book is the most correct book than any on earth” and it was cool cuz most people get mad when they read that but she said its so sweet to see the confidence and knowledge the prophet had in the book to be able to say it… she already has a testimony, ill keep you updated. Mom, I cant believe school is startin so early, yikes, think of this a year from now how will you be feelin :0) and this is the last school year I wont be takin classes.That’s so cool you guys went up on gentry… man, I do miss that. And dad, I sure do hope you had a great fathers day, and I know you were takin care of, and I wont say to much because I started a letter yesterday that will just be for you :0) so I hope that’s ok and that you can wait… cuz I teared up just a lil when you talked about bralin and you and brand playin waffle ball, it really does fill like yesterday that we wildeboyz were doin that.
Well I hope and will continue prayin for Brand and Jac, I sure hope all the doctor stuff goes great and that they continue to be blessed.
And dad, its so true, all missionarys have a hard time, especially at the start, I can say that was defiantly the hardest time of my life, and every once in while we misionarys get a taste of those hard times. So im sure grateful for your prayers and all your love and sacrifices for me.
This week was so good tho, we had zone conference and it was really good, it was all about bettering ourselves and having pure good thoughts and attitudes, it was sweet, I wish I could just teach it all to you. one of the couple missionarys went we went over for snacks on Sunday night said “elder wilde do you always have a smile” haha, it was cool, a good reminder that im still the good ol wildeboy… I used to be, maybe just with a lil more gospel knowledge now.
As for some scriptures, all come from proverbs. 21:19 (if you want a good excuse to leave the house… the scriptures even say so… go to gentry or ferron) 22:1 a good name “wilde” just a thought… 23:7 what we think, what we are, this was a lot of zone conference, its all about being positive and keeping good thoughts.
Well mom and dad, I sure do love you with all my heart, and pray for you always… and hope you have a wonderful week and continue enjoyin the summer. I hope you can feel a sweet hug from me and that all is just great. And I hope you enjoyed my lil email.
I love you with all my heart.
Bradey

Just another week of Camping in SA

My Dearest Dad and Mom,
Well, first off, thanks so much for the pictures. They were awesome and the family looked so good, I wished I could be sitting by you guys but yeah, it was just great to see all of you together again in some pictures. It looks like it was a great day and also our sweet dog badger is growning up, I cant wait to play and go hiking and all that good wildeboy stuff.But really thanks a ton for all the pictures, I almost felt as if I was there :o)
Well, as for your questions: I am feeling great, basically 100% sometimes 110% ha ha. As I'm sure all you guys know with working long tough shifts, sometimes we wake up more tired than when we went to bed, and throughout the day it doesn’t go away. The week went great tho, were still kindove adjusting to stuff but from this week its all back to work again. Mom you asked about father let families, ha ha it’s a “key indicator” our pres. Wants us to focus on teaching families, and not just families but FATHER LED families, because really here we could teach sisters (lorato) all day and baptize them, but our president wants a focus on families, they are really hard to find, because the law of chastity is one of the African cultures favorite thing to break, plus since there is a lot of job problems, people find solutions in alcohol and that leads to broken families, so we teach a lot of single moms with a couple kids and they live with their grandmas. So its tough. we do spend a lot of time trying to find fathers and families. Its good, right now we have one very solid FLF. And he is on date for the first week of July. The work in this area is awesome and the members are way cool to, they aren’t afraid to go out with us and teach and give us their friends. Plus we just got a new ward mission leader that just returned from Zimbabwe a week ago and he is way excited, so I'm really excited to see some serious work happen.
The work is great and even when we track we basically get into every house that we knock on, its hard because we have to decide if we should sit and teach or move on. So many people just “love to hear the word of God here.” When they see the name of our savior on our chest they basically give us a seat and let us teach. Its truly amazing. I feel like Ammon serving among such a very humble people that there is so many to at least hear and plant a seed to one day fully receive the gospel.
As for right now I'm still trying to learn the names of people, and our stories are just regular teaching stories, but right now we’ve been teaching a lot of Recent Converts, so its sweet to help prepare them to endure to the end. So its a lot of work we have here and I feel very blessed, we do have one family that was baptized and its just a good ol family, we taught them how to have FHE and even played spoons with them. Ha ha it was so much fun and they just loved having us, they are going to be a very solid family in the church, I think his name is Samuel mdlalosi.
I'm doing great and am just enjoying my time, I cant believe how time is going. I heard a song by Simon and Garfunkel its like “country road, take me home, take me to the place that I belong.” As for a spiritual thing D&C 6:36, and hymn 128, doubt not: fear not, some of my favorite lines, especially out hear serving.
Well, I sure do love you mom and dad with all my heart, and the whole family, I wish I had more time so I could tell ya everything and answer all your questions, but for now I hope this is sufficient for you. And I pray you can feel my love and gratitude. Thinking of ellyce and the sealing was cool, I thought of like dad said, what the sealer said with Blake and em and just stand amazed that I've been so blessed to be apart of this gospel and to be blessed with each one of you. I love you guys and I’ll be talking to ya very soon.
I love you.
Love.
Elder Bradey Wilde