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.
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