Black Friday

Not in anyway is that title trying to make a racial joke or anything.  I'll explain the title in a few moments. Well, could be a lot of a few depends on how fast you are reading.

General Conference was sweet! Although all of us watching had no idea about the natural disasters that kept being mentioned because Zim is having its own disaster.  Not sure if its natural or not but a disaster nonetheless.  I'll get to that later. Conference taught me a lot. Was quite inspired.  Made some plans to apply some things and took a surplus of notes. Also the Prophet made a shout out to Harare! Sick. Blessed day.

That just reminded me, almost 100% of the time when you meet a pastor or the wife of a pastor here, and ask them, "how are you?" they will always say, "I'm blessed and you?" kid you not evveerrryy time hahah its hilarious. Then my reply is always, "I'm blessed as well" because if I dont say it then I'm not and then I get caught into there trap. hahahahaha just joking but yeah thats just something funny I've noticed.  When people are religious, they reeeaaallly act religious. Which is a good thing and a bad thing at the same time.

Alright so the things i mentioned at the end of my last email escalated and it got to the point where the currency inflated to 400% and fuel was harder and harder to find, smaller shops started to shut down and major ones started closing at like 5pm each night, the lines were suuuper long black friday type and they were running out of bread, oil, sugar, mealie meal (the only ingredient in the staple food, sadza....), even drinks started disappearing and prices started going super high (a 2 liter thing of oil went up to $22....) and it was getting intense hahaha.  We spent a whole day as a mission buying food storage things just in case but as the week went on, things started to stabilize again and now everything is better but still not back to normal.  Its super exciting living in this situation.  Didn't affect us that bad. Even the people here are all okay nothing really bad happened. Just kinda worrisome for a couple days. Like I said, now everything is getting better so that's good.

My elephant shoes are done.  Be jealous. 

We met this guy named Organize this week! Its actually his stage name, because he is a Zim dance hall music producer..... sooo sick. He said that everyone in Zim knows him. He showed us one of his songs and it sounded like I've heard it before so he seems legit. So cool. Maybe something will happen there.

So in our small area, we have this one street that we always walk down and now eeevvery kid knows my name on that street. So sick. We pull up and when the kids see the car they start yelling, "Elder Anderson!!!" or sometimes they mess it up and say something like, Andaton or eldason or something but its a million times better then getting called white man. I love it. 

We're teaching this YSA girl named Snodia and she came to watch one of the sessions of general conference this weekend! And she can sing suuuper well so we made a plan to make a video with me playing guitar and she's going to sing haha. Making it at our next appointment. 

And thus went my week. Hope you enjoyed.  If you have any suggestions, please leave them in the suggestion box on my secretary's desk on the way out. Have a good week. Love you all. 

Stay Steady Grindin' (just realized I forgot to write that last week.)

Elder Anderson

Teaching this team.  from left to right, Blessed, Pretty, Kelvin and Lawrence. Hopefully going to baptize 3 of them.  

Elder Mpofu

The Ele's hahaha 

 Saturday session of conference at the chapel. Noooo one was there and Elder Mpofu's last ward viewed it last week so this was his second time haha

Shawn. My first baptism. Wearing that chain to conference lol. 

Some kids chillin with us at the Sunday sessions. We baptized a couple at the start of my mission and the one wearing the purple hat is their daughter.  fun fact.