Ndapedza

Well shoot guys. 

Got some stories. 

Walking down mutondo street and there was a group of a ton of kids that all know us and they were playing this game in the road so we stopped to learn the game and play with them. While we are playing, this mama walks by and I smiled and greeted her and she gave us a really interesting look and kept on her way.  A couple seconds later, She came walking back and called me over to her. When I got to her she said, "I want your Jesus"... haha I'm like, ".... okay cool so my name is--" and start trying to get to know her and she was just genuinely interested in us and wanted to know. She mentioned she knows the church and that she wanted to come, we tell her to meet us there on a friday so we can show her around. Fast forward to friday, she came..... You know how hard its been for us to get people to come to church lately.... this mama came after just meeting us haha. We show her around and she loved it! Made a lot of comments about how nice the chapel was and when we got to the baptismal font she asked if she would be baptized on Sunday haha.  At the end of the tour she was like, "I'm going to come on Sunday with my whole family." then on the way out she told us, "And with baptism, I'm ready." hahaha coolest thing ever.  She ended up getting sick Saturday evening when we passed by her place and she couldn't make it to church but she promised she would introduce us to her whole family and friends and she would tell everyone how nice the church is and how its not a bad/ satanist church hahaha. her name is Mai Diana. She's awesome. 

Also took another family on a chapel tour and they promised to come but again something came up and they couldn't but next week they have promised to be there. Chapel tours. Who woulda thought. Took me long enough to try that idea haha. 

Humbled a very converted SDA family by teaching them true doctrine.  They want us to come back. Sick. 

Twas pretty cool to meet some new families this week. Hopefully they wont stop being interested. 

I've been having a small war with the mosquitos in our house every night before I fall asleep. 

Witnessed the Mufakose ward primary program yesterday. That was a treat. We are about to baptize some kids and they all participated and we were helping them with their small talks during the week. Also, they did like music and the spoken word format with a narrator and the one who was narrating was the girl we baptized, Tanatswa. So sick. They had a different person leading the music every time they sang a song and it was so cool. Love these kids. The other day I was reading 3 Nephi when Jesus is surrounded by the children. How pure would that scene be to see in real life. Jesus Christ with tons of children sitting around him. Reading those chapters is touching. 

Saw some kid wearing an Oshkosh brand shirt. Anyone still remember that brand? Throwback when I saw that. crazy. 

In other news, a bag of chicken is going for $20 now... used to be $6. 

There it goes gang. 2 years of getting these emails abruptly comes to an end. Thanks for subscribing to my channel haha. Next Monday I probably wont email. It will be a busy day. So stay tuned for the 21st.  Can't wait to see everyone again! 

Oh yeah and "Ndapedza" means like, "I'm done" or "Im finished" haha

Lightweight feel the same way i feel when I watch the last episode of the Office. 

Aight for the last time...

Cheers,

Stay Steady Grindin'

#november21st

#seasonfinale

#hunnidgang

#amagang

Cordailly,

Elder Ander$on

 Chillin at the Chapel with Mpofu

The sister in our zone. Widdison and Nakalyowa.  Realest sisters in the mission.

 Looking thru some old random New Era we found in the house and saw this.... shout out Alexa lol

 My desk featuring my american breakfast

 President Mkhabela told us when people ask you what you did on your mission, you just show them your planners. all 17. 

 Tatenda, the rugby coach i baptized at the start of my mission. And Sister Muchekwa. My mom. the one who taught me how to cook sadza. She calls me son.

 Just outside my house. My view every morning. 

Throwback to mama Makore, Rejoice, and Wayne. They said they are coming down to Harare for our stake conference this coming Sunday to see me!!! 

Game 6

Basically lived a scene from The Other Side of Heaven. If you can recall, there's a short scene where the poly comp takes over working on this one guys farm while the main character teaches the man.  So this week we were trying to find new people and we see this mama watering her farm and we walk over and meet her and my comp takes the hose and starts watering and I sat down with her under some tree and taught her the restoration haha. So dope. She had a lot of good questions.  We've tried to go back for a return appointment a couple times but... nothing. Oh well.  Life goes on and I have a story to tell of me unintentionally, re-enacting a popular church movie. 

I find solace thinking of the agricultural parable we so commonly refer to. Planting seeds and harvesting and what not.  I feel like I've been planting tons of seeds out here that will be harvested by others many years down they line.  Basically doing all the dirty work makin it easy for my future boys. Gotchu boys. 

Met with Rungano a few times this week and she reads everything we give her. So dope.  And she's sound in understanding which makes things sooooo easy. She opened up to us a lot and told us a lot of her life problems so we provided words and scriptures of comfort which seemed to help.  She came to church again too and had a good time. She already has tons of friends. I love the members in this area.  

Fuel crisis is seemingly over.  Every time we have tried to get fuel this week we didn't wait in any queue.  So happy.  Prices of everything still ridiculous though.  Looking at cereal and its going for like $15... miss me on that one. 

Heard a cool quote this week. "If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way." If you've heard it before, sorry for wasting your time. If not, enjoy.

Small things in a great way. Powerful.  Kind of hard to do small things to serve people here because in Zimbabwean culture the guest always is given like the best chairs in the house, the most food, and isn't really expected to help. Pretty much treated like kings, so whenever we offer help mostly people say no but we still try.

The result of that zone activity was an increase in finding for our zone, last week we found 70 new people as a zone and this week we found 96... Numbers dont matter but they talk for sure.  hahaha

Some drunk guy walks by us yesterday as we are knocking on a gate and says, "White man cant jump (as he points this metal rod at us). This is the GHETTO! Welcome to the GHETTO!" hahaha like dude you know how long I've been here? No welcome necessary. I am the ghetto. And I'll make you look silly on the court so off me with the jump diss. haha. I love listening to the funny things drunk people will say to us. I could write a book at this point. 

I'm only emailing one more time after today..... Still trying to process that.  I don't know why people try to say the last part of your mission goes by slow. What clock you using? Flies by.  Disappears. Evaporates. Evades. Eludes. All that jazz. 

Love you all. Stay blessed lol. 

Stay Steady Grindin'

Elder Anderson

I was feeling the suset

with the whip

Shalom the jewelry maker, bradley some crazy kid, and me with that elephant belt.

MalibU

There was one day this week where we planned for like 2 hours of finding and we stumbled upon a girl practicing tennis at the flats and we started talking to her. She's like 13 and speaks better english than me and we started playing tennis with her and then some of her friends came to watch and then before we knew it like 15 little kids all come and we start playing random games and doing this skip rope thing with them and it was a blast.  Before we left we gave all of them pamphlets and told them to take them to their families and they all ran to their different houses hahahaha. Somewhere down the line.....a few seeds will be harvested because of that.  

Went to the lake today with the zone! It was awesome. I'll attach some pictures. We bought like 8 kgs of pork and had a huge braai. It was so nice. Played some soccer and football in the grass along side a lake in Zim.  Jealous?  A lot of missionaries are struggling with being motivated and being happy so we decided to do something super fun with everyone and we think it might have worked.  Bringing back those good vibes. 

Experienced a strange power problem this week.  Lights switching on and off all night while all our neighbors houses have normal power... Weird. 

We did exchanges this week and this one girl, Rungano, was contacted by Elder Mpofu and his temporary comp for the day and she ended up coming to church on Sunday and enjoyed it! We introduced her to some members and she told us she had a great time and she was inspired.  That was a highlight of the week. Been struggling with our teaching pool right now but finally someone new to get our hopes up haha 

They raised our allotment again because the prices are going up haha. Nice one. 

Had a good lesson with Vuyelwa this week. She told us she wants to be a good mother and we read about the stripling soldiers with her and how their mothers raised them in such a way that they didn't doubt God.  Helped her to know what she can do to help her kids. Powerful.  We have worked so much with Vuyelwa I hope she comes around one day.  

Thats it for this time. Love you guys! 

Stay Steady Grindin'

Elder Anderson

Braai at the lake

Vuyelwa's brother Albert.  Love this guy

jungle around the lake

Some of the kids we met that day. 

Cooking sadza with Mom (sis mahuni) and family. 

Divine and Gracious. Sister Mahuni's kids. 

 T'was nice sitting around this fire late night with the family hahaha

Elder William. The most meek and straightforward person in the world. Love this man.