Zvikomborero Zvakawanda

The translation thereof is "many blessings".  My companion and I worked hard this week and it paid off.

So I want to start by talking about this guy named Steven Mvula.  My companion contacted this guy before I came but we followed up with him and he's awesome. He's a school teacher and he has a big family and he's just a super down to earth and humble guy.  Also, he only has one arm. He has understood our lessons super well and we were a little cautious about extending him a baptismal date but we just went for it in our lesson this week and he accepted! So I asked him why he wants to be baptized and he said that from our lessons he learned the correct way to be baptized and he said that he wants to follow Jesus Christ the right way and stuff like that. It was so cool. And he committed to come to church so we walked with him yesterday! Hopefully we can start teaching his whole family this week.

We had zone conference this week and it was awesome. Got to see a lot of my friends so that was dope. I took a ton of pictures so I'll attach some.  We also heard more about how the mission will be splitting in July this year and its exciting! And the mission is starting to use smart phones to introduce family history! They are starting with only the zone leaders right now but maybe later in the year the rest of us will get some. Also we got the news about the total baptisms for 2017 and we smashed our goal of 2000 and we had 2130 or something like that! That is crazy! So the goal for 2018 is 2400 baptisms.... We all have work let no one shirk am I right?

We had our interviews with president this week and his instruction this week to us was about faith and he promised us if we did, we would record miracles in our journals each day.  So my companion and I exercised faith a lot and worked hard and saw the small miracles that happened each day. It was awesome. We also had a lot of new investigators this week and we had 8 investigators come to church yesterday! It was awesome! Thus the title, zvikomborero zvakawanda.

So nobody in my house knows how to cook really, so Chef Anderson saves the day most days. I just try to remember how previous companions and elders have cooked things and then I just go for it and it usually turns out good hahaha.  

I learned more songs on the guitar this week. Awesome. 

Still waiting on my Elephant sculpture from that drunk dude. I hope he comes thru with that. 

We went to a river in our area last Monday after emailing and it was awesome. We were out in the bush in Africa for a little bit and it was dope. We saw a small python too! My comp thru a stone at it and we're pretty sure he killed it but it was dark and we lost sight of it in the bushes. 

So we walked by a madzi baba church this week (ive talked about them before I think. they wear all white robes and headdress things and have their services out in the wilderness) and heard them singing this hymn and they were saying "Tevera Mwari! Vano taura chokwadi" which means, "listen to God, he speaks the truth." And at first we didn't understand what they were saying but them Elder Mokoena pointed it out to me and then we just started laughing. I'm not sure why but it was sooo funny and we were laughing so hard. Then for the rest of the day we sang the same thing and it was so funny. We were laughing the whole day. Few times have I laughed that hard. 

Well that was my week. I hope yours was good too! I know I have said that each week but I really do hope you had a good week haha. Love you guys! Stay happy. 

Stay Steady Grindin'

Elder Anderson

Mvure River

Views

young money militia.  After we went to the river we were chillin with our feet out the window on the ride back for whatever reason. 

Fili

My family tree. from left to right, elder Till, my father, elder Thompson my son, and elder Nyirenda, my grandson. 

Hunnid Gang

The Kadoma zone. 

Elder Mbabela from South Africa. This guy is too funny. Always makin me laugh

Found a turt at the other elders house in Kadoma. 

 Not really an explanation for these pictures. 

So all the mamas here where these things and they call them zambias because they are from Zambia.... clever right? But yeah I'm totally bringing one home for you mom.