Outta Here...

Alright well sadly this was my last week in Nkulumane.  Gonna miss that place so much. I grew to love those members a lot.  Getting transferred sucks sometimes haha oh well.  So yeah now I'm serving in a small town called Chegutu.  If you can find it on a map I will be impressed.  I am back in Shona land so I'm no longer speaking the clicking language haha.  And my new comp is Elder Mokoena from South Africa. Dope lil guy.  I'll let you know more about him next week. I literally just met him 20 minutes ago after the bus dropped me off and then we went straight to the internet cafe.  He also is only on his 3rd transfer so he's pretty fresh still. The other guys in my district are young on mission too. So I'm the oldest in this district by almost a year hahaha so weird.  But yeah now I live in a super nice house apparently. Which is soooooo refreshing after living in the two worst houses in this mission haha so excited. Also I've heard this area is super productive!  So thats my transfer news.

My last week in Nkulumane was awesome though.  We baptized the Tandire family and it was so awesome! Man I love those guys.  They were so happy after the baptism and yesterday at church! It was so cool.  Sis Tandire bore her testimony after the baptism and said that she had been waiting for this moment for a long time and was very happy to finally be baptized into the true church.  Powerful.  They had been looking long and hard for a good church for the family and thats when we came in.  So awesome.  So yeah in the past emails I spelt their name "Thandile" because that's how we thought they said it but its been "Tandire" this whole time and we didn't know until we started to fill out the baptismal record with them. I'll add some pictures of them! Sis Tandire is so funny. The other day she was asking about if she could send her husband to be a missionary after they were baptized lol so we kind of explained how it goes and then she started talking about making her children to be missionaries.  And Elder McDougal was like, "Well ultimately its their choice" and Sis Tandire said, "Umm well as long as he is still eating MY sadza, he will do what I say" hahahahahaha and then we all just started laughing so hard. Its so cool to see how they already want to be missionaries and share our message with others. Even the last appointment we had with them, her sister joined us and we taught her the first lesson and she was super interested! Awesome.

We also had zone conference on Thursday and it was awesome, we watched the Christmas Devotional and then they was like a talent show and a ping pong tourney (in which I lost the first game 11-0 and was thus eliminated. low key embarassing hahaha) and then we played football and soccer and other stuff. Kind of felt like recess in elementary school lol but still fun.  The winner of the ping pong tourney was Elder Fili, one of my previous companions and it was so sick  He is too good and was just messing with everyone he played against. So funny. Love that guy. I took a lot of pictures at zone conference so I'll attach those as well. 

T'was quite sad leaving my area. When I told people I was leaving a lot of them were really upset and it was hard to leave all my friends but I'll still be able to stay in touch with them.  And I left the area with 11 people on baptismal date so I hope they all go through! I took so many pictures on Sunday when I went around saying goodbye to everyone haha so I'll see how many i can send. 

Anywho. I'm excited for this new transfer.  No longer the district leader, just the senior companion so thats dope.  Also, I wont be able to email next Monday because it is Christmas and I will be skyping my family. Still feel free to email me but I wont be able to respond until the week after next. Love you all and I know this church is true.

Stay Steady Grindin'

Oh and Merry Christmas!

-Elder Anderson

 The Tandire's baptism

 My Friend Meloney

 The Ndlovu family.  One of my favorites.  Regina is the one next to me and I call her sisiwami which means my sister and she calls me bhudiwami which means my brother haha. The mother said that I was part of her family now and that it was going to be hard to say bye to one of her children. Gonna miss these guys.

 Kudzi, this guy always worked with us and he's only 17. 

 The Ndlovu's, the crazy children I always talk about. When I told them I was leaving, they got mad, especially the one wearing the pink dress, her names Mbali and she's crazy. She said, pointing to McDougal, "This one should leave! He isn't fun!" hahahaha it was so funny I was dying. Love these kids. 

Tandire's. Bro Tandire wasn't there when i went to say goodbye 

 Future, the most powerful kid every. we baptized him when i first got here and he's already brought 3 friends to church and had us start teaching them. He's awesome.

 Buisile on the left, and Marvellous on the right. Marvellous is one of our recent converts.  

 Ashylene and Ashton. Ashton is my bro hahaha he was so sad when i told him I was leaving. 

I dont know the surname of this family but they stay in the other elders' area and we always went to dinner with them. Nozithelo is the name of the one in the bottom picture and she's the funniest person I have met here. Chillest family ever.