Elder B in Zimbabwe: There Goes Another Transfer....

Well shoot haha.

So going into this week, we thought that we weren't going to be able to baptize Innocent and his family and we were kind of down the first part of the week because we had to decrease our goals and change a lot of plans. But when we met with them on Thursday they told us that the plans had changed and that we could carry on with the baptism for this week. So that gave us two days to teach them all the commandments and then to do the baptismal inerviews and everything so we were super busy this weekend but everything went super well and Innocent, his sister Blessing, Charity who is Blessings daughter, and Sharon who is a cousin to them, all got baptized on Saturday! It was such a good day and they were all so happy after the service. I am still just amazed at how crazy it was that we met them and how the Lord led them to us. Along with them, Hilton and Hilary, the two brothers we have been teaching, also got baptized. And the other elders baptized this kid they have been teaching so we had a lot of people! It was so cool! And then on Sunday when we did the confirmations, you could feel the Spirit so strong in that chapel when each of them was being confirmed. The branch has been super welcoming to them too and they will definitely be powerful members! So the first part of the week we were disappointed hahaha but now we are happy as ever.

I gave a talk on Sunday about families. Pretty fun. During my talk though, one of the curtain rods over the windows fell and made this super loud sound and everyone just turns and looks at it..... and then back at me.... and then I just slowly started to continue my talk hahahhaha it was funny.

So I forgot to tell this story I think..... I'm not sure but if this is the second time I'm telling this, I apologize. We were teaching one of our joker investigators who has never come to church and pretty much just likes to meet with us because she likes talking to white people. So we went into the lesson with the plan to simply teach the restoration and testify of it and while we were testifying at the end you could feel the Spirit there and then out of freaking nowhere this lizard falls from the ceiling and flops on the only empty couch in the room and we all just started dying hahahahaha major killjoy to the Spirit but it was hilarious. Sadly, these investigators continued to be jokers so we had to drop them but when that lizard hit the couch I was laughing so hard. Thats twice now on my mission where lizards have just fallen from the ceiling.

This week was also sad because our old district leader, Elder Chimtengo is leaving to go home tomorrow so we sent him off on the bus to Harare today. It was sad saying bye to him. We all got super close and he was a good friend and taught me so much. And now that he is gone, I will be the new district leader. So that's cool. hahah Did not see that coming at all but should be pretty cool. And being out here far from everyone else, we have our own working fund and I basically have to do things that usually the ZLs take care of in other parts of the mission haha. And all of us are staying here in Masvingo except Chimtengo is now replaced with Elder Whittier who is my bro! So it will be a super good transfer! I'm so happy to stay here! Also, we get to move in to the new house in two weeks..... which is suuuper exciting haha. Our house right now is falling apart. There was another preacher with his followers having a concert outside our gate for 3 days straight this week. Each night when we got home he would start his show and they would sing and he would preach and yell nonsense gospel words at the crowd and they would cheer for him hahahaha the elect are being deceived over here. We have work to do.

The other day I felt like we should go visit this less-active family and we stopped by and they were grateful to see us. We even gave a priesthood blessing to one of the daughters and they wanted us to come on Sunday for dinner and now they are even wanting us to do FHE with them next week. The kids are pretty active but the baba and mama are super less active so I hope thru our visits we will be able to help them. A lot of less actives here in Zimbabwe so that's half the battle is finding them and also finding new investigators. Keeps us busy.

Sunday was just a super good day because we also met two potential investigators. One named Munashe and the other Yolanda. Munashe is a primary school teacher who is super humble and has a friend in the branch so he decided to come today and he is very interested in learning more. And Yolanda has a friend who is a member as well and she told us that this is her church now and she wants to join hahah so we set up appointments with both of them and are excited to begin teaching. With the recent baptisms our teaching pool is.... apana hahaha so now we have to start from scratch and find a lot more people to teach. This week will be difficult. We are going to do soooo much contacting. My least favorite part of missionary work. But we have to do it to find people so we'll work hard for sure.

Sidenote, we bought Scrabble today and I'm finna destroy my district tonight.

Yeah so thats all I have for this week but I love you all and hope you had a wonderful week. This is the best mission in the world haha. This work truly is great and marvelous. I know its true.

Stay Happy,

Stay Steady Grindin.

Cheers,

Elder Anderson