First off a little bit more about my companion. So he served for a month in Denmark before he came here. He is very into video games but likes to play basketball so thats dope. And I still am not used to how tall he is. I feel so small hahahaha love the guy though. He's a powerful teacher too and he's always joking with people. And the kids all love seeing two varungu walking round hahahaha its funny
So with Sister Ngwena's funeral, many members were away for Tuesday and it was hard to get any work done so that was fun. We also had a hard time finding our investigators. And then the rest of the week was just slow. I'm sad I don't have much to write about because it was just super slow. We have members who tell us they have referrals but then wont give them to us because they want to talk to them first. Our contacting efforts always result in teaching people who aren't serious so we struggled to teach people this week. We even have investigators that don't want to say no so they just lie to us and we can never find them. For example, we will schedule and appointment for Wednesday morning, we will come for the appt. and they will tell us to come in the evening. So then we come in the evening and they are busy and want us to come the next morning, so we come and they aren't around but the family or neighbors will tell us to come back in the evening and then we show up again and they will be there but surprisingly wont have time for us. And then they just say they will see us at church on Sunday. And then on Sunday we have 0 investigators come. hahahahahahaha same story with many investigators. Patience amiright?
But we did have something really cool happen on Saturday. Whilst standing outside the chapel after helping the elders quorum clean the building, a guy just walked in the gate and approached us and said he wanted to join the church. And we thought he was joking because he was a little intoxicated so we gave him a pamphlet and invited him to come to church the next morning. To our surprise, when we got to church, he was actualy there, sitting and waiting for the meeting to start. The guy got there before us hahaha. And he joined us for investigators class and then priesthood and then we scheduled an appointment with him in the evening. By the way this guys names is Innocent haha. Anyways, later that day we went to his place and his family told us he wasn't there. Crushing blow to our excitement with this guy. And then we decided to drive back to another investigator and on the way we found Innocent walking along the street and waved at him and stopped and he ran over to talk to us. Turns out he thought we wanted to meet him at the church at 4 lol. So then we drove him back to his house and taught him and his sister about the restoration and they both loved the message and even the sister had so many questions answered with the lesson. It was such a cool experience! After a week of "hapana", we finally found someone. Patience lol. Koch and I are excited about teaching these guys.
We also have a new investigator named Simba who is powerful. Hasn't come to church yet but nonetheless, powerful. So thats cool.
So happy freaking 4th of July!!! You already know I celebrated! Elder Parco in my district is from Minnesota and we partied on Tuesday and had a huge bon fire at the house and took nice pictures! Love Zimbabwe but low key still proud to be an American.
Well thats all I got for this week. I can tell the Lord has wanted me to learn two things. Humility and patience. From getting called "murungu" everywhere I go, to having frustrating companions, to joking investigators, to realizing I still have a lot of work to do here on my mission; all has helped me develop these two Christ-like attributes. I can remember back before my mission, I wasn't too humble and not patient. But I'm glad I have been able to strengthen these two weaknesses. Despite all the tests of my patience, I absolutely love serving here. I have so many reasons to be happy so why should I be sad or let things get to me? haha I love this gospel and being a servant in the vineyard. I know our message to be true. Without a doubt and it has blessed me so much. I love you all and am so grateful for all the prayers and support. I'm grateful for all the wonderful examples I had around me as I was growing up. All of you have helped me so much. Stay happy over there. God speed.
Stay Steady Grindin'
Cheers,
-Elder Anderson
Pictures:
When I said bye to Fili. Sad day lol
Forgot to send this a while ago. We did a tie for our district item and wore it to zone conference haha
4th of July!! We had to wear red white and blue so I stole our DLs shirt which was super small on me hahaha
"Oh say, can you see" hahahaha
Still no pictures of the baptism last week. Will send them next week hopefully.
Elder Koch and me. I was mean muggin thinking he'd do the same hahaha oh well.
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