Elder B in Zimbabwe: All Is Well

Time still flyin.

Next week the transfer is over. Thats weird.

Well this was just one of those weeks. Still walking, and a ton of appointments fell thru.

Nonetheless we still have some success.

We baptized Liboni this week! He was so excited! love that kid. I'll attach the pictures! It was hilarious this week though because we were teaching Liboni with his friend Blessing who is a member and at the end of the lesson I thru this little soccer ball at Blessing and Liboni was like, "What the?" and then Blessing is like, "What the f***?" hahahahaha this kid is 8 years old lol McDougal and I were like woah woah woahhhhh dude what did you say?!! hahaha and then we had a discussion about which english words are not okay to say. I dont blame them tho, its just like when we say curse words in another language it doesn't really mean anything to us but it was so funny to here that kid say those words.

We've been teaching this girl named Marvellous (yes with two l's haha) and he is part of a part-member family and has recently been coming to church a lot and we have taught her a few lessons and man she is powerful! She's accepted a baptismal date and she is super smart. Like even when we dive into deep doctrine, she totally gets it. So cool. She even came to church yesterday and it was super cold so not a lot of people came but she did!

Which reminds me, It was freaking COLD this week. Like Thrusday thru Saturday it was the coldest its ever been here for me hahaha. it was weird tho because monday thru wednesday was suuuuper hot haha what is wrong with this place! Love it tho. And it rained on Friday and it started pouring right as we got to Liboni's house to do the baptismal interview. So afterwards we started walking home and the coolest storm ever just came right thru Nkulumane and there was lightning everywhere! Our DL tho, is scared of lightning so he just started sprinting home so we had to keep up with him it was so funny. I kept thinking what the people here were thinking seeing 4 white dudes looking dapper as ever just sprinting thru their neighborhood. hahaha But yeah one time lightning stuck and it lit up EVERTHING it was so sick! but right as the flash ended, all of Nkulumane blacked out hahaha it was blacker than Obama out there. Absolutely no power anywhere. So we all just booked it home. Luckily the power came on pretty quick tho. Crazy night.

We met this guy named Luther this week who has some buddies who are members in Pumula and he had a ton of deep questions about the gospel so we answered him and he was surprised we had answers haha but it really interested him so we are gonna meet with him again next week. Hope something good comes from that. It was funny tho because he would ask a question and have a super confident look, thinking he would stump us and we would just immediately answer him and quote scripture hahaha it was cool.

So we were told the car was fixed and we went to pick it up and it worked perfectly to take us to our first appointment and then right as we got there, the car completely died again..... So then we had to wait there forever to get another tow truck to come get it haha it was fun tho, at that time a group of boys was walking home from school and we started talking with all of them and one asked for 10 cents and I'm like, "what makes you think i have money?" and the older kids were kinda nervously looking at each other because they were afraid to say it but then one of the young kids in the back steps forward and is like, "Because you are white!!" i lost it it was so funny. Then I started asking all of them to give me 10 cents and one of them almost did lol. Later in our conversation with them we made fun of the lightest skinned kid and told him he looked like he was from Nigeria and then the kids all made fun of the darkest one out of them and saying he was from Uganda and then I was like, "ah yes the dark one! beat him!" and all his buddies just started punching him hahaha I was totally kidding and they just start going ham on him and McDougal and i are like no no no no we were joking! hahaha these kids will do what ever they tell you. I joke with them every day.
But after those kids left I started going thru my camera out of boredom and looked thru all the settings. Being the idiot that I am, I saw the format memory card option and thought to myself that it would file all my pictures in a certain order or something and then the next thing I saw was "8 GB free space" And I'm like ohhhh shoot. So yeah all my pictures from the 1st year from my mission are gone now..... Unless anyone knows how to recover them. Sometimes I think I'm capable of thinking but other times I don't know what happens. Oh well. i sent all the good ones home already so I'm not too mad.

Sidenote, I'm having this guy remake my Nike wallet out of Python skin.... if that isn't cool I dont know what is. And he's going to keep the Nike swoosh in it. I should get it later this week.

We also met this family in our ward this week and they are the most humble people ever. One of the kids is named Sanchez hahahahahaha and he looks just like J Cole. Google a picture of J Cole and that is basically Sanchez. This kid is super funny too. Loves missionaries.

We had a cool experience this week. We had some free time one day this week so i had the idea to go to this young family in our ward and when we got there it was just the mama there and she was super happy to see us and let us in and we talked for a while and then my companion shared a scripture with her about how the Lord doesn't only help us with spiritual things but also with temporal things. And how all we need to do is pray for his help and he will guide us in this life. And the mama was so happy. She told us she has recently been down because her husband works every day and she feels like she just sits at home all day and does nothing but she wants to help the family and she was inspired by our visit. It was so cool. Before she told us that she was like, "i dont know what sent you here but thank you so much for coming". So cool.

This week for my studies, I started reading Jesus the Christ again and man. That book is super good. It has taught me a lot about how perfect He really was. Everything even the little things He did was all the will of the Father. Definitely love my Savior and I'm so grateful to be a missionary for His church.

Love you all. Hope you have a stellar week.

Stay Steady Grindin.

Cordially,

Elder Anderson