Elder B in Zimbabwe: White People Are Wierd

So I'm gonna start off with some weird experiences we had this week with white people.

So after emailing last Monday, we went shopping at the rich part of Blues where all the white people shop and we tried to pull money at the atm but there was no cash. This white mama saw us trying to get money and she's like, "is there anything today" we told her no and she asked how much we tried to pull and we told her $10 and she just whips out a crisp US 10 and gives it to us...... hahahaha I just froze and stared at her while holding her $10 bill and she's like, "What? You said you needed $10 right?" and then she walked away and we never saw her again...... one of the 3 Nephites? I dont know. hahaha but yeah so that was weird. But we got money so I'm not complaining.

So then the next day we had to take our car into the shop to get some work done on it and as we were walking to the kombi park after, we ran into this 60 year old white dude wearing board shorts, and a Trump hat. hahahah I was like, "..... hey!" hahahaa and then he was like, "Hey guys whats up?" and I just told him I liked his hat and he started telling us how much he loves Trump and how much he hates Hillary and my comp and I were just laughing the whole time and he kept talking like a total bro, saying "dude" and "man" all the time haha and then my comp got a picture with him and then we parted ways. It was so funny, he said he grew up in the states and then moved to Zim. And at that time, he was going to meet his friend at the community swimming pool. Didn't even know we had one of those here hahaha

Thus, white people are weird.

So yeah since we took the car in, we are walking again..... i hope you can feel my excitement thru the computer.

We actually had a super good week though. first thing i gotta talk about is this new family we started teaching called the Thandile's. So we were referred to them by another member family and when we met them they told us their whole story with church and said that they had gone to a couple different churches but they would teach things that were different from the Bible and they couldn't agree with it but they went because they didn't know what to do. Then one day they overheard a conversation between a member and a non member in a kombi and the member was talking about the church and just a little bit about the history thereof and it sparked a ton of interest in the Thandile's. Sadly the member got off at a stop before them so they didn't get to speak with him anymore. So since then, they had been talking and asking around about the church and they found out they live just down the street from our Nkulumane 3rd ward meeting house! And then they met some members and thats where we came in. We taught them the restoration on Wednesday this week and man.... I have never met anyone who has been more prepared by the Lord for the message of the restoration. The whole lesson was led by the spirit and I could just feel how many questions we were answering with the lesson and it was so powerful. Mid way thru, i felt the impression to invite them to be baptized but I also felt like it might be too soon until Sister Thandile, at the end was like, "So how do you guys do baptism?" hahaha so we taught her about it and I asked if her and her husband would be baptized and they said Yes! maaannn it was so sick. And then my comp asked them if they were legally married yet and they said, "Well yeah we live together and we have 2 kids haha of course we are married." Which was so powerful for a Zimbabwean family to say because the whole bride price part of the culture prevents soooo many families from getting legally married but we can tell this family has standards which is amazing. They even came to church yesterday and it was awesome! They got there before us too! We've only taught them twice but they are preparing to be baptized in December and we are super excited for them. gonna be awesome

So the Thandile's was pretty much the highlight of the week. We found 7 new investigators this week so that was dope. Gift the rapper introduced us to his other friend named Afroman hahaha and he wanted a Book of Mormon from us and we taught him a little bit about it and he is interested in learning more. They even did a street cypher for us and it was dope. I got a dope video of them freestyling and man they are good.

We also had a blast with some different member families this week. We met some members surnamed Ndlovu and they are so funny. the parents are never around and there are like 57 kids at their tiny house. Now we love going there hahah last time right before we left, one of the younger girls came up to me and just points at my face and says "STATCH!"..... it gets quite in the room and I was sooo confused. so then she says it again followed by a long pause and i was like what the heck is this girl trying to say to me and finally I figured out she's tryna say "statue" hahahaha so the next time she said it, I just freeze... and then after a couple seconds she said, "free" hahahah so we played "statue-free" for like 30 minutes with all the kids in that house and it was hilarious. Even after we walked away one of the older kids from down the street we just hear. "STATUE!!!" and I stop walking and then I hear "free!!" hhahahaahaha man it was so much fun.

So then the other day we were with some recent convert kids, Liboni and Blessing and we were trying to teach them something but they are just the craziest kids so we ended up just playing games with them and at one point, Blessing was like, "Liboni your name is like dirt, people step on you" And then Liboni comes firing back, "you name is like the garbage, people throw you out!" and then Blessing again, "your name is like a chair, people sit on you." hahahaha and they go back and forth and then McDougal and I jump in with a few occasionally and we went on for a long time with that and we were just dying at how savage these kids were with some of them hahahahha they are like 10. too funny.

Last week my comp and I found tortillas at the store....... we had breakfast burritos and tacos almost every night this week hahaha.

Oh yeah. We had a baptism yesterday too hahaha for Marvellous! We had to do it on Sunday because the mom works on Saturdays and she wanted to come but it was super good! She's awesome. I'll attach some pictures.

Also this week, one night at like 9:00 we found out that Elder Fili and his companion got lost coming home from town and they ended up in our area! My old comp Elder Fili is now in our zone and he's new this week so thats how they got lost but man it was so good to see that dude again. We picked them up and walked them back to our place and they spent the night with us because the ZL's were already asleep. but man I stayed up with Fili until like 1:00 just talking and laughin and stuff it was so dope. I love that guy.

Well thats all for this week. Love you guys. I hope you are all just loving life. Life is so cool. So is this church. I cannot say how much my testimony has been strengthened since I came out here. Even tho the people aren't always true, the church is still led by Jesus Christ, our Master. I know it is.

Stay Steady Gridin'

Yeet,

Elder Anderson