Memory L4ne

Hey gang.

Back to my roots kids and coaches. This week was just splendid. 

Every member we went to was like, "WHAAAAAT".  I was so happy to see them.  Surprised how many of them remember me.  My favorite mama, Sister Nyamugara was like, "ANDERSOOOON!" when she saw me hahaha.  Church yesterday was awesome too.  Walked in to see one of my recent converts on the stand waiting to give her talk.....powerful.  And then when we were invited to bear our testimonies I could see like 5 of my recent converts in the congregation and it was awesome.  I was so happy that day. 

We started flying right as the mama eagle dropped us out of the tree.  Found 12 new investigators this week!  And 6 of them are babas.  It was awesome! 

New bishopric since the last time I was here and now they are all younger guys and are awesome.  They told us the area has struggled for the previous months but we made plans and how to change that. 

Our area is so small.  When I was here the first time I thought it was small and now there are two sets of missionaries working here so the area split.... Just look up the Mufakose ward boundaries on lds.org find a meetinghouse hahaha. But in this area there are 389 members.  Just a plethora of less actives but still many active members. Its awesome. 

Almost wet myself this week, we just parked by the chapel to plan our day and out of nowhere I hear a car slam on their brakes right next to us and some guy says, "GIMME YO MONEY" (in the most forced african american accent ever) I look over and the guy is holding his smartphone like and gun at our window..... this is where the wetting of my slacks almost occurred while my mind processed that it wasn't about to go down haha.  But then I recognized the guy from the last time I came as this crazy guy who told us that he had a ticket from Moses to go to heaven..... So I told him that I knew him and remembered what he said to us over a year ago and he loses his confidence, and his countenance sunk into his seat and then he had a normal conversation with us and drove away.  Noteworthy experience even tho it was a joke. Hands down to him tho. He got me pretty good.

The other day I was cooking pasta and it was those shell shaped things and i took one out to test it and as I was about to eat it, the boiling hot water hiding in the shell falls on my lip and just burnt it pretty bad.  I just laughed at myself and woke up the next day to a gnarly lookin scar on my lip.  Everyone was asking if I got in a fight haha.  Imagine the embarrassment of telling that story after someone asks if I got in a fight.... hahaha too funny. 

We met an interesting man this week.  We were knocking on a gate and the neighbor came around the corner and told us no one was there so we contacted that guy.  From his appearance we could see he was pretty handicapped and disabled and hard to understand but we decided to teach him.  His name is Andrew and he's super into reading the Bible and goes to church but had a lot of questions and is very intelligent. Answered his question and ended up explaining about the resurrection and he was so happy about that. He's like, "So after this life, I can have a body like you?" It was an awesome lesson. Started teaching him and his wife about the Book of Mormon last time and they are super interested.  Soooo sick. 

Working with Elder McDougal again is awesome.  Easy to work with someone you've been with before.  He has a lot of contacting ideas so that makes the days go by super quick hahaha.  Working a lot of obdience together so thats good.  

Sadly, I have 0 pictures this week.  I'll try to snag some this week.  

Much love. 

Stay Steady Grindin'

Cordially,

Elder Anderson