Elder B in Zimbabwe: Last Words....

We had zone conference this week. Pretty good. President gave the most powerful talk. He spoke about how sometimes we say things that we don't really think or feel in our hearts and how we sometimes don't understand the value of scriptures to correct us and bring us closer to the Savior. It was so cool. And his last words to us (this being his last zone conference before he gets released) were, "Try to do everything that you think is impossible. And you will see miracles." and "See what others don't see." Just profound. I loved that. said we should remember both these things in our missions and for the rest of our life. Man I love President Mkhabela. That guy is something else. No doubt in my mind he'll be sitting next to Elder Holland in some future general conference haha. Another thing he said was "We fail because we do not believe." Felt the spirit so strong there. We also had our last interview with President this week and it was awesome. I took a picture with him and snuck in a hang loose on em. Got it.!

We met this less active last week named Brother Fernando. No clue how he got that name. Prolly from Mozambique or somethin' but when we met him he was smoking and drinking haha. He ended up coming to church that week we met him and then next time we visited the family, he gave us 2 referrals and the wife gave us another! So sick. The husband told us we need to help him by visiting him every other day and now we're gonna do that.

Met this guy named Uncle Bravo. lol. He's an eternal investigator and for whatever reason won't join the church but he has a son on a mission and a daughter who is an active member. So Uncle Bravo is a music teacher and has a studio at his house with all sorts of instruments so one night we were coming home from KFC and stopped by his house and he was mid jam sesh and was super happy to see us and lets us in and tells his students to step aside and Elder Lin hops on the drums (background info: Lin is part of a up and coming band in Taiwan and is the drummer. He's freaking good too) Then Elder Ogidi grabs the mic to sing and Uncle Bravo gives the rest of us these maracas to shake to act like we are included lol and then he starts playing Bob Marley songs and we all start singin' with him in there and it was so sick. Stayed for like an hour. Going back to play his guitar next week.

So in our flats we are 8 living together right now. 4 in our apartment and 4 in Elder Lins apartment. There were 4 elders who had a lot of problems at their house so now they stay with us. Among them are Elder Mokoena..... Man i was so happy to hear he was bout to stay with us. Also Elder Wheeler, from Boise. Went to Rocky and played football. Chill dude. And Elder Huffaker, one of my bros out here that lived with me when I was in Nkulumane. Having these guys around is too fun.

The other day we had this open house to have investigators come and see and it was a total fail, hahaha, like no one came. But before, in the morning I got to toss a rock around for the first time in forever and it felt too good. I hope you all understood "rock" as "football". We also played basketball with some people that showed up after the open house thing and it was dope. Finally able to play two sports I'm actually confident in hahahaha. Then to top that all off we hit up KFC for dinner.

Got the filthiest haircut this morning. Went to the only person in town who knows how to cut white people hair and he killed it. His name is Mr. Law and he cuts President Mkhabela's hair haha. Talked to him and he said one day like 5 years ago, this American guy came in and needed a haircut but no one knew how so he taught Mr. Law how to do it and now every white guy knows Mr. Law hahaha.

We didn't have a lot of time in the area but we thru up a baptismal date on one of our investigators so I'm not complaining.

You know we on that

Stay Steady Grindin'

Cordially,