Ladies....and gentlemen whats up?
This week started off super lame because we had fall thru after fall thru. And even with the people we thought were progressing but now we are considering dropping them. Darn. Life goes on.
So I had quite a brilliant idea this week. Recently I have been getting super pissed whenever people call me "murungu" or "white man" and sometimes even just "white". So I decided to start telling everybody what my name is. So like when a group of 20+ kids start screaming "MURUNGU HOW ARE YOU!?!?" I'm like, "ah iwe! Uya pano." which means "come here" and then I tell them my name is Anderson and get them to say it with me and then as I walk away they say "Anderson! Anderson!" hahahaha. Started doing this last week and now there are some streets that we walk down and I start hearing the kids say, "ANDERSON!" hahahaha which is infinitely better than getting called white man haha. Soon, the whole of Chegutu will be calling the missionaries Anderson instead of Murungu lol.
Alright so we had a miracle happen this week. We found this guy a couple weeks ago and his name is Keshias and he is a super timid and humble baba. When we started teaching him and he was agreeing with everything we said and he seemed super promising and even committed to come to church but recently he dropped off the face of the earth and we can never see him. But... on sunday we walked into church and we were early by a few minutes and we saw Keshias sitting there with the Book of Mormon we gave him. He had to run home after sacrament meeting so we didn't get to talk to him right then but then after church we walked over to his house and he was there and was super happy to see us and we asked him about church and he loved sacrament meeting. He said he learned a lot from the speakers about love and forgiveness and the life after death, which is amazing because this guy barely speaks english and all our meetings are in english. And he even said when he took the sacrament he felt "Ndakachena" which means "clean". Amazing. So we shared a small message and reviewed the restoration very slowly and simply with him and then asked him what he understood about our message. His response was something like this, "For many years I didn't know which church was true, but now I know this is the TRUE church.".... This guy is so ready for our message its awesome. The only problem is that his wife is nonsense and thinks she knows everything and is trying to pull him to her church... but we blasted her with the husband and told her the truth and she was like, "ohhhh okayyyy." hahaha so minor roadblock but no worries. Keshias is powerful.
Also, we met this girl the other day named Belinda and she introduced herself to us one day on the street and told us she was a member who was working in Chegutu temporarily but is from Harare. We told her where the church was and came and visited her at the hospital she works at and taught her and she is powerful. We told her even tho it was far, to invite some of her colleagues to church and she said she would and on Sunday she showed up to church with 3 of her friends...... and they walked freaking far to come it was so sick. Hopefully we can teach them before they all return back to Harare.
Steven also came to church again. He's basically a member now. Participates in every class. Mom told us she talked to him at church about him bringing his family with him to church and he told her, "I'm working on it. One day they'll come." Sooo sick. Steven is getting baptized this Saturday. He's honestly someone you could see being the branch president. He's awesome. One of the most prepared people I have met.
Including those ones, we had 10 investigators at church....niiiiicccceee.
from left to right, Elder Mwamba from Congo, funniest dude ever. Then Elder Ntshangase, my companion, chillest dude ever, Then me.
My breakfast this morning.....
I would also send you a video of the crazy rainstorm we had this morning but it would probably finish uploading when I step off the plane in Boise.
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