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Transfer news came..... staying in Chegutu with Elder Ntshangase.  Our whole district stayed the same.  Nice.

I messed with Mom and Rejoice so much.  Right after the zone leaders told us the news I texted mom and said, "We got transfer news......" (this whole week i was telling them that I was sure i was leaving haha) and then I waited to tell them until the afternoon hahaha Rejoice said she would beat President Mkhabela if he would have transferred me hahahaha.

So.... I totally killed a goat this week.  Since I honestly thought I might leave, I told Wayne and Mom that we should have a braii. So they told me the missionaries in the past used to get a goat.  I was obviously down, so we took wayne with us out in the bush outside our area to this little village and bought a goat for $22, tied its legs, threw it in the trunk and came back to moms house and dropped it off.  After our appointments that night.  We got back to moms and I'm like, Älright guys lets do this." Wayne grabs the goat, holds down the body and mom gave me the knife..... A little bit later we skinned it and hung it in their kitchen.  The next day we took it to the butcher and then feasted on this thing.  It was so good.  I'll send pictures of the experience.

Also killed a snake this week.  We were driving back from Kadoma flying down the freeway and my comp was like, "Dude! Snake"  and we see this 4 foot snake struttin his stuff across the road so I veer over and ran over it going 120km/h.  See ya in the millenium big boy.

I freaked out these kids the other day.  I get irritated when kids call me murungu and yell how are you over and over again so this week, there were some kids in front of moms house and they were going off so I'll pulled up fast, threw the car in park and hopped out and said, "WATI CHII?!?!" which means "what did you say?" hahahaha one of them held his ground but his buddy ran away saying "handizivi" which means "i dont know" hahahaha.  Told them I was joking afterwards but I'm hoping to humble these kids so they dont think its okay to call me white man and scream at me whenever i come by hahaha.

We had zone conference this week and Elder Kevin S. Hamiliton of the Seventy was there.  It was soooo powerful.  That guy is awesome.  He gave an awesome talk about the area plan for South-East Africa and then opened it up for questions and a lot of people asked about the marriage problem in Zim.  (basically, the tradition is that you have to pay your wife's family a lot of money and then they say you are married, normally it takes a lifetime for the baba to pay this price because of the poverty here and the family wont let them get a legal marriage until they pay it.... big problem hahah) Elder Hamilton said that all the traditional and cultural things dont even matter. What matters is that they keep the commandments.  Their goal in life should be exaltation, and anything that keeps them from ahieving that is not of God. Powerful.  Something he said at the end was "Elders and sisters....It's all true. All of it." And those words hit me hard.  It was so profound to me and it was like the cherry on top to my testimony.  When he said that I could feel the definite truth of everything we teach and testify of. It was a solid day.  Got a banana milkshake at some diner afterwards.  Super good.

Something we discussed in district meeting this week was the power of the Book of Mormon.  For some reason, I had never thought of how powerful this book really is.  We talked about how the Book of Mormon should be a standard unto the nations....a standard.  Powerful.  PMG says we should pray for a vision of how we can use the Book of Mormon more effectively and I can see it now.  My comp and I recently started using it a lot and have seen how powerful it is.  Our recent convert Stephen said he couldn't read it last week because his daughter took it to school and was reading it during her breaks...... She's getting baptized this weekend.  Keshias and Vimbai, this couple we have been working with, started reading that book together and now Vimbai (who previously professed her self proclaimed calling of a prophetess) now wants to be married and baptized in this church.  There is something about that book that is hard to describe.  Means a lot more to me now.

So yeah we are hopefully going to baptize 5 people this coming Saturday.  We'll be super busy this week! 

Two of them are brothers, Tapiwa and Tanatswa and they brought their roman catholic mom and aunt to church with us and they enjoyed it and their going to support the boys in their baptism.  Also, we are seeing how our message is teaching the mom and aunt a lot so we hope to invite them to be baptized as well!

They joined our group of 13 investigators at church this week! So cool.

We are also teaching this small family and they are awesome.  The mom understands our message completely and wants to join the church and even the father wants to be baptized and the kids are ages 10 and 8 so we are making plans to marry them and baptize the whole family this transfer.  Nigel, the father has this illness that he is slowly recovering from which might slow the process a little bit but he is a penitent man and wants to be baptized and follow the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

The district presidency reorganized our branch finally so now we have active leaders and they will help us so much.  The last few weeks we have overflowed and almost ran out of seats during sacrament meeting! Which is awesome because when I first got here it was a lot different.  The branch is growing! And less actives are coming back.  Yesterday, this baba that has been less active for a year asked us to walk with him to church after we shared a message with him about the book of mormon.  Sooo sick.

Obviously we just had an awesome week and with faith, we will have a lot more members this transfer.  Loving the work. This church is true.

Stay Steady Grindin'

Sharp fede

-Elder Anderson

The Boys

Elder Mwamba and I at this village. (We were on exchanges that day)

The Guys tying up the goat..

After we skinned it...

Wayne's shades 

So.... this morning the lock in our bathroom door jammed and I was locked in the bathroom and then Elder Morrison had to bust the door the get me out hahahah crisis averted.