Welcome back.
Drunk guy stopped us this week asking us to "share the word" with him lol. I humor him and go over to him, he asks me, "Whats the word for today guys? what advice can you give me?" I look at his beer bottle in his hand and I'm like, "You shouldn't drink that." Gives me this weird look and we walk away. He was asking for it tho. hahaha.
Freezing cold this week. Sun goes down at like 5:30 and then all the heat disappears. I'm not even mad just amazed at how cold Africa can get.
We have this investigator that made us super happy this week. She's called Mai Tawira and we contacted her one day because someone gave us a wrong address and she was the one living at the fake address haha. Mysterious ways. So we didn't think she'd be interested because she quickly mentioned she was Roman Catholic. So we give her a plan of salvation pamphlet and when we came back she had read it and had tons of questions so we answered them and then started teaching her. We recently taught her about the Book of Mormon and committed her to read 3 Nephi 11 and when we came back she had read it, and even Moroni 9 and 10 and took notes and wrote questions and then used the Book of Mormon to answer her questions and she showed us all her notes. It was impressive. Then she talked about how the Book of Mormon is so clear to her and it answered all her questions and how she likes reading it more than the Bible. Then we talked about baptism as outlined in 3 Ne. 11 and she realized her baptism wasn't correct and now she wants to be baptized! We just have to talk to the husband and right now she's in the process of moving so hopefully everything will settle down quick so we can get her dunked. She's awesome.
I wanna write about this one night i had this week that made me laugh way too hard. So we start walking home thru this ghetto industrial and bush part of our area and its super late like 8:00 and super cold and we get around this corner and see this HUGE fire in the bush and its like right in the way off the path and as we get closer, we see this suuuper old sekuru leaning on his cane and staring at the fire. That made me laugh super hard. then we had to run thru the smoke and when we get to the other side, someone yells at us and we turn and on theres this wwwwwasted guy staring at the other side of the fire and we stared each other down and then I'm like, "Ehh sei sei baba (Whats up man)" (he makes a 180 turn to the chillest dude ever) and he says, "Ah bho mukoma maswera here? (I'm good, how was your day?)" I'm like, "Mushe!(Great!)" and we keep going hahaha. Funny thing is they prolly made the fire to keep them warm. Then we get into the neighborhood and I see this other drunk guy with his shirt ripped off and he was barely able to walk and then he starts throwing stones at this group of kids and they start throwin stuff back at him and me and kabuya just tryna walk by without getting hit hahaha it was the funniest thing ever. Something I would have done with Jayson Ty and Jacob if we lived in Mbare hahaha. I love the things you see every day here. Wouldn't trade this mission for anything else.
Passed by this lil girl and greeted her in Shona and she's like, "Uri ma colored here?" she was asking if i was a "colored" thats what they call lightskin africans...not sure why. and then I was like "Wati chii?(what did you say?)" and she's like, "Uri Murungu here?(are you white?)" hahahahahah man I was laughing so hard.
We were walking to this appointment one day and we passed the police station and this baba inside called us over so we went inside the compound thinking he was gonna get mad at us for being racist or some nonsense. But...he was actually a pretty sincere guy. Told us he never went to church and that day some mama at the station told him he should find a church and then they saw us walking so he called us over.... The timing on that one my goodness. So we talk to him and teach him the restoration and he loved it and he's like, "I like how yours is the same and Jesus' church because none of these churches are even close" hahaha twas awesome.
Elder Mokoena is in my zone! Man we had a stake conference and he came and spent the day with us in Mbare and it was awesome. I love that guy. Stake conference was good too. Elder Joni L. Koch came to speak to us and it was powerful. Something i loved was he said, "You will not be happy in someone elses calling, that's why you dont' have it right now" hahah it was powerful. Talked a lot about the joy of the gospel and it was sick.
We had dinner with some members, the Gavaza family, last night and it was so funny. The family loves singing so we sang hymns and shona gospel songs for like an hour hahahah left the house at like 9:30 hahaha Love the members here.
all i got.
Have a good one.
Stay Steady Grindin'
Elder Anderson
This was one of my friends in Masvingo and he moved to Harare and was at stake conference yesterday.
This guy is legit.
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