Elder B in Zimbabwe: Baptizing My Mother

Woahhh. Here me out.

My first baptism in Masvingo! On Saturday, Melody Maride was baptized. She's super powerful and will be a strong member. She stays super far away from the chapel but still walks each Sunday. Now, the reason she is my mother. So we were looking at the baptismal record with her after the interview and I looked at her children and one is named Brandon and another is named Michael....... and Brandon's birthday is on the 16th of February....... hahahahahha man it was so weird we were all laughing so hard. The other elders found out what my full name was so when they saw it they were dying. And then when I told everyone about the birthday we laughed even harder. It was so weird. So then the other elders started calling her my mother hahaha. I was honored though because she chose me to baptize her. Everyone knows my companion to be a huge joker and she told us, "If I chose Fili, he would be laughing the whole time!" hahahahaha so I got to where all white with her on Saturday. T'was a good weekend.

Cool experience. There's this less active that we found a few weeks ago and she hadn't been coming to church because she was sick. Her name is Valory. So on Friday, we visited her family again and she was still sick and it even looked like she was worse than before. During our visit she asked for a blessing, so I anointed her and then Fili blessed her. And then two days later, Valory came to church after being sick for almost a month. God's priesthood is crazy.

We met this referral from a member named Blessing and had such a cool first lesson with him. We taught him simply about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he understood anything and at the end, he told us that he wanted to know more about Jesus Christ and God. The kid is 17 and is genuinely concerned about learning more of our Savior and Heavenly Father. Inspiring. Also during the lesson we met the whole family and they like us and even were asking questions after the lesson. So now we have a big family to teach!

And, Blessings sister, Memory is best friends with a member and is always at their house and yesterday she came to church and that evening we taught her about the Godhead and she opened up to us and told us she had so many questions and as she mentioned a few, I realized they all relate to the plan of salvation and then I promised her she would receive answers to her questions is if she read and prayed about our message. She is excited to learn more.

Also, Blessing has a dog named Sport and its a german shepherd and that dog is my new best friend. Unlike others, Blessing and his family take care of their dogs so Sport is tame and really chill. I cant wait to go back there haha.

Powerful Family.

The other day we were door knocking and we found this mama and she came out and we introduced our message, the Gospel of Jesus Christ to her and she was like, "Yeah for sure I will continue having faith and repenting but I've already been baptized so I'm not doing that." hahahahaha I almost laughed out loud. We're sent to preach repentance and baptize converts and she straight up turns down our end goal. It was pretty funny. And then we tried to confound her but she was blinded too much and rejected us and said she would call us.... Everyone does that and never calls. Oh well. It was funny though because during the whole conversation I was thinking of all the scriptures in the Bible that confound everything she believes in hahaha funny stuff.

We also met a pastor for a church called "Embassy of Power" Or something like that hahaha (All these churches just have nonsense titles that they think sound cool) And the guy and his wife looked at us acting like they know something and they set an appointment with us. When we went back, the husband was busy so we taught the wife only and she asked all these questions and we just confounded her and got outta there hahaha. I'm excited for our next appointment.

The field is black and already to harvest that's for sure. Hard to find those who are prepared but this week we found some who show a lot of promise. Excited for what lies ahead here in Masvingo. Love you all and hope you have a good week. Stay happy.

Church is true Book is blue.

Stay Steady Grindin

Cheers,

-Elder Anderson