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Mbare is pretty dope.

Its a lot like my first area, Mufakose.  Just a ghetto on the outskirts of Harare town. Normal Zimbabwean scenery and goings on.  The added feature of this area is the flats....these things are just nasty. No other word to describe them.  Suuuuuper ghetto hahaha.  There are a lot of bars here and therefore a lot of drunk guys.  Yesterday after church, we start walking thru the area and this guy runs up to me with his daughter and yells, "Hey YOU! Take your daughter!! This is your daughter!" hahahaha just thinking to myself, "what in the world"  and then he just wanted his daughter to shake a white guys hand and then he ran away laughing, taking his stench of alcohol with him.  Drunk people do some stupid things.  Saw another guy that wet himself while talking to us lol.  I never have been even remotely tempted to partake of alcoholic beverages but now I know I will never do that.  hahaha.  The ward is awesome tho and super organized which is refreshing.  The bishopric is powerful and they are helping us a lot.  The members are great.  All is well.

My comp is hilarious.

He is insanely in to karate hahahahaha. Like religiously into it. He practices in the mornings for like an hour haha its so sick.  His last comp bought him this karate outfit and its awesome. He has these videos that he watches and then he copies it and its crazy hahaha.  And his English is very broken so the way he talks is hilarious.  And the words he uses are just funny. I'm helping him tho and he told me he wants to speak like me so I'm teaching him a lot of slang English haha. He's awesome tho. Always happy.

We gym every morning as a district because one of the other elder's investigators has a bench and some bars and plates in his front yard so we just lift with them....for free. so sick.  

The flats we stay in are awesome.  Good view from the windows of our place.  The other elders in the district stay in the same complex but in a different apartment and every night we chill.  Also one of the other guys is Elder Lin from Taiwan and he is soooo chill. Showing me how to cook so its dope. 

Walking is surprisingly not too hard to get used to again.  I for real feel like I can walk until the second coming.  Doesn't even tire me anymore.  These sandals treatin' me right.

So my flash thing that converts my SD to the USB is not working anymore so for the meantime I cant sent pictures.  I'll see what i can do this week.

If my computer was working I'd send you this cool picture of all of us with the prophet but i guess you'll have to wait for that. Or maybe you've seen it already. 

Anywho. Love you all. Mad respect for all you that read my letters and write me.  Other elders here have no one to talk to on Mondays so its a huge blessing that i get to hear from all of you every week.

Stay Steady Grindin'

Cheers,

Elder Anderson