Elder B in Zimbabwe: Chegutu

Well multiple missionaries should be arrested for false advertising because the things I heard about how this area is booming are not true. Hahahaha. I opened the area book the first night and there were 0 people on baptismal date and the previous week, no investigators had come to church..... I was like.... alright then. So needless to say, a lot of work needs to be done. And a lot of work was done these last two weeks. My companion and I found 20 new investigators in the last two weeks and one of them is this powerful guy named Mark who came to church last week and he is so prepared and after we help him get married, he'll be baptized. He's honestly the most humble guy ever. And he's always happy even tho he has been thru a lot. so yeah that's the deal with this area now.

I started learning Shona again to add to what i picked up during my first year and now I'm gettin there. I can mostly understand what people are saying now and it makes me so happy to hear people and be able to answer them hahaha. A lot of people are shocked to see the white guys speaking their language.

So there's an elder in our district that stays with us named Elder Morrison and he has a guitar and is super good so he's teaching me more songs to play now. So sick.

My companion is so dope. Like I said last time his name is Elder Mokoena and he's from South Africa. We listened to the same music back home and we agree on pretty much everything. He's a super chill guy and I love working with him. We're always just talking and laughing in the area. Makes the days go by super quick.

I now have a mom here in Zimbabwe named Sister Makore. Since she was baptized in 2015, she has always had the missionaries over and she does our laundry and cooks for us and she calls each missionary her son. She is the coolest person ever. She's the one who's helping me with most of my Shona now and its awesome. Whenever we have nothing to do we go to moms house and chill until we get our motivation back and then we go to work haha.

Christmas was awesome for us! We went down to Kadoma and spent the night with 10 other elders and then got up early christmas morning and played soccer in the rain for like 3 hours. The funnest thing ever. I was killing it with the Africans on my team. Started makin people look silly. I love soccer now hahaha. My comp was on my team and we were puttin people on skates hahaha it was awesome. then we went and started skyping and I got to talk to the family and it was perfect. Love you guys! Weird that I'll only get to skype one more time on my mission.... hahaha what the. But after skyping, we drove back to Chegutu and got pizza and ate it while listening to christmas music all night. Pretty good way to spend my last christmas in Zim.

New Years was less exciting. I had some fireworks and was planning on staying up with my comp but at around 11pm I started feeling super tired and kind of sick so I called it a night. but i managed to say awake until I say the clock tick to 12:00 so I'm happy hahaha 2018!!! I totally go home this year.....so sick. This morning my comp and I were blowing up glass bottles with my fireworks tho so it was still legit.

So thats all I got for this time. I hope you all enjoyed your holidays and are ready for the new year! Love you all!

Stay Steady Grindin'

Cheers,

Elder Anderson