Black Christmas

How we doin?

We had zone conference this week and at the end, president told us that soon, all the cars are going to be taken out of the mission hahaha ouch.  Good thing I'm almost outta here.  I could honestly walk to Sweden and chill with Uncle Matt right now if I wanted to stressed about no more cars. 

Elder Kabuya continues to make me laugh every day.  We had a 3 peat of rejections and he just laughs as we walk away and says, "Eish companion we are washing our hands.  Jesus Christ is coming soon" hahahaha I was dying.  Keeps me feelin good even when no one wants to here from us.  Also, this week we were teaching a Congolese guy and Kabuya decided to pray in French and a couple times during the prayer he was struggling to speak his language and was pausing to think of the words to say and then afterwards he's like, "My heart is wanting to speak English" hahaha so sick.  Send your regards to yours truly for being the most sought after English tutor in the world. 

One day we were walking to an appointment and I'm like, "Alright, Kabuya I want you to listen to the spirit and pick a house to go talk to people" and he accepted and we walked for a while and then saw this big family sitting outside of their house and he's like, "This one." so I follow him and he contacts this family and we teach them something small and as we teach,  These two women walk by and ask what is going on and we told them to come and join us so we taught everybody a short restoration lesson as we stood there and the two women that joined us were very interested and we scheduled a followup appointment.  When we went back we taught them (their names are Chipo and Jane) and Chipo was super interested and is way intelligent and works in.....wait for it... Dubai.  Soooo sick. She loved the message and she brought her whole family to church!  Even one of the girls we initially contacted came!  Awesome.  Haven't met people to willing to come to church since I got to this area so it was refreshing.  Don't know when she'll go back to Dubai but at least we will have planted a seed. 

We also teach this couple, Otis and Benhilda and they wanna be baptized after we marry them.  They were being taught before I got here so I'm just international harvester.  They're awesome tho.  Benhilda is the one I talked about last week whose family was baptized in Botswana.  

So my district is made up of 4 elders and 4 sisters and the sisters combined had 11 baptisms on Sunday...... I had to do all those interviews on Saturday and it was awesome.  Lot of really cool people.  Their areas are like bush.  Go google search Epworth, Harare Zimbabwe and maybe you'll see where I was haha. Kabuya was spittin mad game tryna flirt with one of the sisters in our district and its hilarious because his English is super broken and he's just a slow guy all around and its so funny.  Love the guy.  

Recently I have heard the word temple so many times, either at church or during personal study and it makes me miss the temple so much.  Day 1 activity when I take off this nametag. 

Its been freaking cold here this week. Thus the unitentionally racist title Black Christmas. Feel like listening to Michael Buble christmas album when I wake up in the morning. I don't know what temperature exactly but to me it feels soooo cold.  Shivering.  Tango with the weather every day, by the time we start our day the sun is shining and I go to proselyte in my short sleeved shirt and then when the sun goes down, I'm expecting to see a Mammoth and a sloth and a saber tooth tiger walk around the corner.  Zim ice age.  I will suffer when I get home in November.  

I've been looking for an SD card reader for the longest time but I guess Zimbabwe stopped buying them from China. I think i have a solution but the last few weeks worth of pictures I have, you wont see until I come home but all the ones I will take starting tomorrow, I'll send them. 

No worries

Stay Steady Grindin'

Vallet Parking

Yours Truly,

Elder Anderson