Elder B in Zimbabwe: MerMaid$

So apparently everyone in Zimbabwe believes in mermaids. Why? Don't even know. Also, why is a mermaid called a "mer-maid"?

Anyways, This week was something.

Wednesday we did exchanges within the district so I was with Elder Lin from Taiwan and we enjoyed that day. His area is rich and low density so we walked the whole day and only taught one lesson. Murdered my feet haha. Fun day tho. As we walked people called him "MuChina!" hahahahaha or china man! or they tried to make weird chinese sounds as if they were speaking to him. Racism is hilarious.

Friday we did exchanges with the zone leaders and I went with Elder Allen from somewhere in Utah. Suuuuper small town. Forgot the name. But man I enjoyed that day. Felt like I was talking to Austin the whole day. As we talked we found out we know all the same movies and we did the same stuff back home so like we were just quoting movies the whole day. We drove all over doing baptismal interviews that day and then we finished in their area and taught this family that stays out in the bush. Piled into their grass hut and taught them about eternal families and taught them how to sing, "Families Can Be Together Forever" Powerful. They gave us sadza and the other elders were waiting for us to pick them up so we deeeesssstroyed that food. We raced, I won. Then the sadza came back after half time and scored 5 touchdowns. Wrecked my stomach that night.

So there's this crazy drunk guy that chills near where we gym everyday and he is gonzo. Absolutely wasted. Like he walks into the gate of the house where we gym and starts yelling at us to give him 10 cents and starts quoting bible verses that have nothing to do with anything hahaha and the way he walks is hilarious and his voice is super hoarse because he's always yelling at people for money while holding a bottle of beer hahaha. Met a few guys like this.

The other day I drank this soda and it reminded me of smarties and then the whole day I was just missing smarties. Gonna eat a ton of those when I get home.

Elder Lin's son Elder Ogidi is this chill guy from Kenya and he downloaded this talk from like the 1400s (lol just playin) but its an old talk from this guy on the afterlife and he talks about the spirit world and different accounts from members who went there and then came back to their mortal bodies and it was so interesting. He talked about other things and it really made me think. It was powerful. We listened to this other talk that Ogidi had another talk about the apostasy and it was crazy. At the end the guy talked about how we were all generals in the armies of God during the war in heaven. Man Sunday after church we listened to those two talks and it was powerful. Just sat and pondered the whole day lol.

Been kinda sick this week. Don't know what hit me. On the come up tho.

Had a lesson with Benhilda this week and it was so sad. Told us how terrible her life is and how her husband recently is going to witch doctors and is probably going to leave her and doesn't want to go to church. So I guess he was putting on a show for us and acting like he wanted to come and join the church but now things are jack Johnson upside down. Also, she doesn't have any way to make money, she has 2 kids (one with some kind of mental disease, who can't talk or walk) and lives in the smallest house ever and is surviving because he uncle owns the house and isn't making her pay rent. The whole time she was telling us these things, I had no idea what to say. One of those things where there's nothing you can do to help them but at the same time you can just see in them how much God loves them and wants them to be happy. The cool thing was at the end of the lesson she promised to walk all the way to church every week (even without the husband) and said she would hold the diseased child on her shoulders and the other around her back. Powerful. Something stopped her from coming this week but I know she'll keep coming. She came the previous 7 weeks.

So yeah we had 1 investigator at church..... Ouch. hahaha and we only taught like 6 lessons this week in our area because of exchanges and what not.

I really don't like my area hahaha every time I find one redeeming quality i start to change my mind and then something happens and my mind changes back. Hoping I won't stay here long.

Anywho. thats my week, we get transfer news this Saturday,

Stay tuned.

Stay Steady Grindin'

Cheers,

Elder Anderson