1st. I mentioned Sis. Tom last week a little bit and this week we taught her again about the Book of Mormon and it was one of the most powerful lessons I have taught. We gave her the book and started talking about it and she was understanding everything and she even understood why we have it before we taught her why.... so sick. So after we finished teaching her I asked her how she has felt about all the things we are teaching her and about church. And she was like, "Well.... I am learning sooo much from you guys and at the church, I have felt peaceful and happy and it feels as if I have known these people forever but I'm still new. It kinda feels like I'm coming home.".......I just looked at her for a moment and then was like, "So Sista Tom will you prepare yourself to be baptized?" She happily replies "Yes" and then after another pause she was like, "So when will I be baptized?" haha so sick. It was dope we weren't even planning on inviting her to be baptized but the Spirit was super strong in that lesson. Sista Tom is awesome. Still not even sure how a Zimbabwean is surnamed Tom.... She is lightskin so maybe.... haha
2nd. We taught this guy named Wezo who we have only taught once and we see him a lot but he's always busy with work but this week we finally taught him again about the Book of Mormon and he was excited because he had a lot of questions and we answered all of them and he totally understood everything. And then afterwards he's like, "Wow... well guys this weekend I'm going out of town on holiday but next Sunday, expect me with me family at church" sooooooo sick. Love this guy. He speaks really good english so teaching him is easy.
3rd. We met this Jehovahs Witness mama named... wait for it... Elastica..... hahaha so we are teaching her nephew and he will be baptized soon but this time Elastica (haha) joined the lesson and we talked about the restoration and she had a lot of questions about prophets and she told us "So the Jehovahs Witnesses dont belive in prophets." and I could see she was kind of confused and I was like, "So what do YOU believe?" and she said, "...Well I believe in prophets". Haha pretty cool lesson. I hope we helped plant a seed that will lead her to the truth.
Powerful week. We found some new people to teach and we had 13 investigators at church!
Also, my comp is awesome. I love this guy. The other day we were chillin eating pizza and he told me that he was in a gang in highschool and got in to a lot of bad stuff. There was 8 guys in his gang and he told me how happy he is that he left them and joined the church because out of the 8, 3 are dead, 4 are in prison, and the 1 is on a mission in Zimbabwe (my comp). how awesome is that?
Our recent converts are powerful! Stephen received the priesthood and blessed the sacrament yesterday and his daughter Theresa bore a powerful testimony about the Book of Mormon! She said, "I know the Book of Mormon is true. Believe me, I have read it and it has blessed me with something I have been lacking all these years." So sick.
Our missionary work is going super well these days the only problem is the branch. Unorganized and their was almost a fight between the relief society sisters in the two branches here because of this activity this week. So as soon as that gets settled, this branch will grow in no time.
Keshias, our powerful baba moved this week...... right next to moms house hahahha man I thought they meant they were moving out of town but then they told me the address and I was so happy. So we still get to work with him and his wife to get them married and baptized.
This weekend was ironic. Easter weekend is a big deal to these people so to remember the Savior, they had an insanse level of alcohol consumption..... Parties on every street, zimdance music blasting. It was sick. we enjoyed the music but not all the breaking of commandments.
I feel like im gaining weight. Nice.
All good things here in Chegs. We stay steady grindin.
We have to postpone our baptisms to next Saturday because we will watch conference this weekend. No worries.
That's all for this week. Love you all. Church is true.
Cordailly,
Elder Anderson
The guy next to me in the black shirt is Tapiwa, we just baptized him. His mom loves us and she was told us she was going on vacation with her family and wouldn't be back until May which is after the next transfer and when we told her we might not be here, she was very upset and gave my companion and me super nice glass mugs. She is awesome. She goes to another church but I think one day she'll be converted.
Rejo. my sister. She would get along well with Sam. She calls me mukomana murefu which means (tall boy) and I call her (muskana mfupi) which means short girl haha.
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