Elder B in Zimbabwe: Tstosi

Ladies and gentlemen what is up. Another week filled with stories. Don't really know where to start so bear with me yet again.

Alright so the first crazy thing is that we had somebody break into our car!! Our brand new one! Freaking crazy. Saturday morning we were about to leave the house and then we saw one of our back windows shattered and everything in the glove box was all over the seats. They stole my flash drive, all of our fuel coupons and our fire extinguisher in the trunk. Crazy. There was glass everywhere so we spent the morning cleaning that up. Honestly wasn't even mad though. The first thing I said to Elder Thompson was, "Dude now we have a story to tell!" haha. So now we are going to take everything out of our car each night and we added a lot to the first gate (out of 3) to get in our house. So hopefully no more Tsotsis come. Oh and a "tsotsi" is a thief.

For my next story... the other day we were soooo busy and we had like 4 appointments and wrote down a couple more people we wanted to see and then we went out and at the end of the day we had taught 10 lessons... It was so sick. Not a single person fell thru. Even the ones we didn't have appointments with. And then we had someone new we didn't even plan on. Freaking 10 lessons. So crazy. Hard in the paint that day. And now that the transfer is over, I added up how many lessons I've taught so far and its something like 350 or something like that. That is insane haha. Almost 1000 street contacts too. I know its not about numbers but still dope.

So the end of this week also ended my 3rd transfer (sooo weird.. time flies out here). And we got the transfer news on Saturday and luckily I am staying with my companion for the next 6 weeks and I will be able to finish training him. I'm excited for the next transfer already though. I have no idea where I will go. I might get shipped to Bulawayo and have to learn how to speak the clicking language! That would be too sick though. Low key hoping for that.

Sakaaaaa yeah we were able to work super hard this week and we now have three people to be baptized this week! And a few more in the coming weeks. All three of them came to conference and enjoyed it so I'm excited for them! One of them, Tatenda, is a rugby coach for little kids and is super chill. Straight G. I'll send pictures next week.

Conference was amazing. The first time in my life I have actually been excited for conference! And man it was powerful. Sadly, because we had to clean up the car after we got robbed, we were late and missed Monson's talk for the Priesthood Session. So that blows but no worries. I was able to watch the rest of the sessions on Saturday and Sunday and took a ton of notes. Its so cool how sometimes it feels like they are talking directly to you. Definitely got a lot out of it and am going to apply so much of what I learned. After conference on Saturday, we chilled with the other elders in our district from Kambuzuma for the rest of the night and after buying some pizza, we borrowed a members laptop and watched the movie "God's Army". Never even heard of it before but it is sooo good. Needless to say, this weekend was sick.

Well, that's all I got for the meantime. I can already say that the Zimbabwe Harare Mission is the best mission in the world. No doubt in my mind. The weeks go by faster and faster but I am enjoying the time as a missionary so much and I can already see myself changing. Elder Lamb (from Rexburg) was talking about the mission the other day and he was saying something like, "guys... this is like the only time in our lives where we are stress free". Those words are too true. I have been so happy and honestly nothing stresses me. Just crying repentance and baptizing converts for two years. How great it is. Love you all and hope you had a good week. Thank you to all who have written me and continue to write me. Really means a lot and I look forward so much to Mondays when I can update you guys about my adventure here in Zim.

Stay Steady Grindin.

Sharp Sharp.

Cheers,

-Elder Anderson