White People Are Wierd

So I'm gonna start off with some weird experiences we had this week with white people.  

So after emailing last Monday, we went shopping at the rich part of Blues where all the white people shop and we tried to pull money at the atm but there was no cash.  This white mama saw us trying to get money and she's like, "is there anything today" we told her no and she asked how much we tried to pull and we told her $10 and she just whips out a crisp US 10 and gives it to us...... hahahaha I just froze and stared at her while holding her $10 bill and she's like, "What? You said you needed $10 right?" and then she walked away and we never saw her again...... one of the 3 Nephites? I dont know. hahaha but yeah so that was weird.  But we got money so I'm not complaining. 

So then the next day we had to take our car into the shop to get some work done on it and as we were walking to the kombi park after, we ran into this 60 year old white dude wearing board shorts, and a Trump hat. hahahah I was like, "..... hey!" hahahaa and then he was like, "Hey guys whats up?" and I just told him I liked his hat and he started telling us how much he loves Trump and how much he hates Hillary and my comp and I were just laughing the whole time and he kept talking like a total bro, saying "dude" and "man" all the time haha and then my comp got a picture with him and then we parted ways. It was so funny, he said he grew up in the states and then moved to Zim.  And at that time, he was going to meet his friend at the community swimming pool. Didn't even know we had one of those here hahaha 

Thus, white people are weird. 

So yeah since we took the car in, we are walking again..... i hope you can feel my excitement thru the computer. 

We actually had a super good week though. first thing i gotta talk about is this new family we started teaching called the Thandile's. So we were referred to them by another member family and when we met them they told us their whole story with church and said that they had gone to a couple different churches but they would teach things that were different from the Bible and they couldn't agree with it but they went because they didn't know what to do.  Then one day they overheard a conversation between a member and a non member in a kombi and the member was talking about the church and just a little bit about the history thereof and it sparked a ton of interest in the Thandile's.  Sadly the member got off at a stop before them so they didn't get to speak with him anymore.  So since then, they had been talking and asking around about the church and they found out they live just down the street from our Nkulumane 3rd ward meeting house! And then they met some members and thats where we came in.  We taught them the restoration on Wednesday this week and man.... I have never met anyone who has been more prepared by the Lord for the message of the restoration.  The whole lesson was led by the spirit and I could just feel how many questions we were answering with the lesson and it was so powerful. Mid way thru, i felt the impression to invite them to be baptized but I also felt like it might be too soon until Sister Thandile, at the end was like, "So how do you guys do baptism?" hahaha so we taught her about it and I asked if her and her husband would be baptized and they said Yes! maaannn it was so sick.  And then my comp asked them if they were legally married yet and they said, "Well yeah we live together and we have 2 kids haha of course we are married."  Which was so powerful for a Zimbabwean family to say because the whole bride price part of the culture prevents soooo many families from getting legally married but we can tell this family has standards which is amazing.  They even came to church yesterday and it was awesome! They got there before us too! We've only taught them twice but they are preparing to be baptized in December and we are super excited for them. gonna be awesome

So the Thandile's was pretty much the highlight of the week. We found 7 new investigators this week so that was dope. Gift the rapper introduced us to his other friend named Afroman hahaha and he wanted a Book of Mormon from us and we taught him a little bit about it and he is interested in learning more.  They even did a street cypher for us and it was dope.  I got a dope video of them freestyling and man they are good. 

We also had a blast with some different member families this week. We met some members surnamed Ndlovu and they are so funny.  the parents are never around and there are like 57 kids at their tiny house.  Now we love going there hahah last time right before we left, one of the younger girls came up to me and just points at my face and says "STATCH!"..... it gets quite in the room and I was sooo confused. so then she says it again followed by a long pause and i was like what the heck is this girl trying to say to me and finally I figured out she's tryna say "statue" hahahaha so the next time she said it, I just freeze... and then after a couple seconds she said, "free" hahahah so we played "statue-free" for like 30 minutes with all the kids in that house and it was hilarious.  Even after we walked away one of the older kids from down the street we just hear. "STATUE!!!" and I stop walking and then I hear "free!!" hhahahaahaha man it was so much fun.  

So then the other day we were with some recent convert kids, Liboni and Blessing and we were trying to teach them something but they are just the craziest kids so we ended up just playing games with them and at one point, Blessing was like, "Liboni your name is like dirt, people step on you" And then Liboni comes firing back, "you name is like the garbage, people throw you out!" and then Blessing again, "your name is like a chair, people sit on you." hahahaha and they go back and forth and then McDougal and I jump in with a few occasionally and we went on for a long time with that and we were just dying at how savage these kids were with some of them hahahahha they are like 10. too funny. 

Last week my comp and I found tortillas at the store....... we had breakfast burritos and tacos almost every night this week hahaha. 

Oh yeah. We had a baptism yesterday too hahaha for Marvellous! We had to do it on Sunday because the mom works on Saturdays and she wanted to come but it was super good! She's awesome. I'll attach some pictures. 

Also this week, one night at like 9:00 we found out that Elder Fili and his companion got lost coming home from town and they ended up in our area! My old comp Elder Fili is now in our zone and he's new this week so thats how they got lost but man it was so good to see that dude again.  We picked them up and walked them back to our place and they spent the night with us because the ZL's were already asleep.  but man I stayed up with Fili until like 1:00 just talking and laughin and stuff it was so dope. I love that guy. 

Well thats all for this week. Love you guys. I hope you are all just loving life.  Life is so cool. So is this church.  I cannot say how much my testimony has been strengthened since I came out here.  Even tho the people aren't always true, the church is still led by Jesus Christ, our Master.  I know it is.  

Stay Steady Gridin'

Yeet,

Elder Anderson

Gift on the left and Ashton on the right. The two chillest members out here. 

Afroman on the left and Gift on the right. Marshal in the back. This is when Afroman and Gift were freestyling hahaha

Baptism!

This kid we see everyday was chillin with these on so i had to snap a pic wit him

i promise I was not trying to look high in this picture.  

 Bonfire! 

Elder Huffaker, bought this rhasta hat and shades so we were wearing them at this dinner appointment one night hahaha

Got the Nike Python Wallet, haha

Every Day after the area

Transfer N9ne

Hey team.

So transfers happened today but not a lot changed except I'll be the district leader now so thats kinda cool.  I'm excited tho because my trainer, Elder Till, my trainee, Elder Thompson, and my favorite companion Elder Fili will all be in my zone for this transfer so I'll be able to see them a lot!  Also, Thompson is training so now we can take a posterity picture from Till down to the new guy haha. 

This week we did exchanges with the other guys in the district. So on Wednesday I was with Elder Thomas from Utah and then on thursday I was with Elder Huffaker from Colorado.  Both days were so much fun.  I took them both to see Gift, the rapper.  No clue if I've told you guys about him yet hahaha but yeah he is this recent convert in our area and he's dope. And when I was with Elder Thomas, Gift freestyled for us and it was amazing hahaha. Then when I was with Huffaker, we went to Gift and he had this rasta friend there and the guy was too funny. He asked us about Jesus and if he was black or white and we told him it didn't matter and then he's like, "man but if he was black... can you imagine? no one would have taken him seriously" hahahahahahaa i was laughing so hard my goodness. And then I was like, "yeah and what if he had dreads like you?" and he's like, "Ahaaaa everybody would be askin him for weed" hahahahahaha this guy is the funniest dude I've met in Zim.  He's hilarious. He told us he didn't know if he was high when we met him hahaha. 

Marvellous is still prgressing super well and she came to church and even started going to stake choir practice with her friends who are members!  She's awesome! That will be our baptism this week.

This week we also put two more guys on date.  We recently baptized someone named future and now his two friends have baptismal dates and they came to church yesterday! Their names are Junior and Prosper and they are two of the most humble kids ever and they want to follow Future's example. Super cool.

We attended church in Pumula today and when the meeting started there were 11 people there hahahaha ridiculous.  After sacrament meeting it got up to maybe 17. Including all the little kids running around hahaha But we had some investigators show up. Marshal one of the recent converts showed up and for fast and testimony meeting he stood up and bore his testimony and at the end he said that he wanted the congregation to help him sing his favorite song, hahaha so then we all stood and sang angels we have heard on high, and then he finished his testimony.  It was funny but pretty cool too. That dude is powerful!

Had another bonfire this week after we got transfer news.

That's all I got.

Didn't bring my card reader so I can't send pictures this week but next week I'll send a lot!

Hope you all had a dope week.

Stay Steady Grindin'

-Elder Anderson

All Is Well

Time still flyin.

Next week the transfer is over. Thats weird.

Well this was just one of those weeks.  Still walking, and a ton of appointments fell thru.

Nonetheless we still have some success.

We baptized Liboni this week! He was so excited! love that kid. I'll attach the pictures! It was hilarious this week though because we were teaching Liboni with his friend Blessing who is a member and at the end of the lesson I thru this little soccer ball at Blessing and Liboni was like, "What the?" and then Blessing is like, "What the f***?" hahahahaha this kid is 8 years old lol McDougal and I were like woah woah woahhhhh dude what did you say?!! hahaha and then we had a discussion about which english words are not okay to say.  I dont blame them tho, its just like when we say curse words in another language it doesn't really mean anything to us but it was so funny to here that kid say those words. 

We've been teaching this girl named Marvellous (yes with two l's haha) and he is part of a part-member family and has recently been coming to church a lot and we have taught her a few lessons and man she is powerful!  She's accepted a baptismal date and she is super smart. Like even when we dive into deep doctrine, she totally gets it. So cool. She even came to church yesterday and it was super cold so not a lot of people came but she did!

Which reminds me, It was freaking COLD this week.  Like Thrusday thru Saturday it was the coldest its ever been here for me hahaha.  it was weird tho because monday thru wednesday was suuuuper hot haha what is wrong with this place! Love it tho.  And it rained on Friday and it started pouring right as we got to Liboni's house to do the baptismal interview.   So afterwards we started walking home and the coolest storm ever just came right thru Nkulumane and there was lightning everywhere!  Our DL tho, is scared of lightning so he just started sprinting home so we had to keep up with him it was so funny. I kept thinking what the people here were thinking seeing 4 white dudes looking dapper as ever just sprinting thru their neighborhood. hahaha But yeah one time lightning stuck and it lit up EVERTHING it was so sick! but right as the flash ended, all of Nkulumane blacked out hahaha it was blacker than Obama out there. Absolutely no power anywhere. So we all just booked it home. Luckily the power came on pretty quick tho. Crazy night.

We met this guy named Luther this week who has some buddies who are members in Pumula and he had a ton of deep questions about the gospel so we answered him and he was surprised we had answers haha but it really interested him so we are gonna meet with him again next week. Hope something good comes from that. It was funny tho because he would ask a question and have a super confident look, thinking he would stump us and we would just immediately answer him and quote scripture hahaha it was cool.

So we were told the car was fixed and we went to pick it up and it worked perfectly to take us to our first appointment and then right as we got there, the car completely died again..... So then we had to wait there forever to get another tow truck to come get it haha it was fun tho, at that time a group of boys was walking home from school and we started talking with all of them and one asked for 10 cents and I'm like, "what makes you think i have money?" and the older kids were kinda nervously looking at each other because they were afraid to say it but then one of the young kids in the back steps forward and is like, "Because you are white!!" i lost it it was so funny.  Then I started asking all of them to give me 10 cents and one of them almost did lol. Later in our conversation with them we made fun of the lightest skinned kid and told him he looked like he was from Nigeria and then the kids all made fun of the darkest one out of them and saying he was from Uganda and then I was like, "ah yes the dark one! beat him!"  and all his buddies just started punching him hahaha I was totally kidding and they just start going ham on him and McDougal and i are like no no no no we were joking! hahaha these kids will do what ever they tell you. I joke with them every day.
But after those kids left I started going thru my camera out of boredom and looked thru all the settings. Being the idiot that I am, I saw the format memory card option and thought to myself that it would file all my pictures in a certain order or something and then the next thing I saw was "8 GB free space" And I'm like ohhhh shoot. So yeah all my pictures from the 1st year from my mission are gone now..... Unless anyone knows how to recover them.  Sometimes I think I'm capable of thinking but other times I don't know what happens. Oh well. i sent all the good ones home already so I'm not too mad.

Sidenote, I'm having this guy remake my Nike wallet out of Python skin.... if that isn't cool I dont know what is. And he's going to keep the Nike swoosh in it. I should get it later this week.

We also met this family in our ward this week and they are the most humble people ever.  One of the kids is named Sanchez hahahahahaha and he looks just like J Cole. Google a picture of J Cole and that is basically Sanchez. This kid is super funny too. Loves missionaries. 

We had a cool experience this week. We had some free time one day this week so i had the idea to go to this young family in our ward and when we got there it was just the mama there and she was super happy to see us and let us in and we talked for a while and then my companion shared a scripture with her about how the Lord doesn't only help us with spiritual things but also with temporal things.   And how all we need to do is pray for his help and he will guide us in this life.  And the mama was so happy. She told us she has recently been down because her husband works every day and she feels like she just sits at home all day and does nothing but she wants to help the family and she was inspired by our visit. It was so cool. Before she told us that she was like, "i dont know what sent you here but thank you so much for coming".  So cool.

This week for my studies, I started reading Jesus the Christ again and man.  That book is super good. It has taught me a lot about how perfect He really was.  Everything even the little things He did was all the will of the Father. Definitely love my Savior and I'm so grateful to be a missionary for His church. 

Love you all. Hope you have a stellar week.

Stay Steady Grindin.

Cordially,

Elder Anderson

This is Marshaland his mother, he's a recent covert and the chillest guy hahaha

Just some kids we met the other day while talking to a less active

Liboni's baptism!!! with his buddy Blessing

wearing both watches lol

Balled up with this squigga after the baptismal service. Still dont know his name but i had to get a picture with him because of his shirt hahaha.

This guy in my district has these glasses and I always make fun of him for having them.

WALKING, Walking, walking......

Ya know how at some basketball games when someone travels, the announcer is like, "WwwwwwWWWALKING (and then comes the echoed) walking walking".  That is my inspiration for the title because man we walked a ton this week.  Our car broke on Monday right after we emailed and push started it and jumped it a few times but it just kept dying. It was so sick tho, we would push it and my comp would start it and then we all just hop in the windows or jump on the back while he drives like 100m and then it would die so then we do it all again hahaha felt like the coolest thing ever.  But yeah we eventually got a tow truck to take it and now its getting fixed.    

So Elder Petersen left..... so sad.

So the baptism this week was postponed yet again but its kind of cool why it was postponed.  So the kid is named Liboni and he has been coming to church forever and the mother okayed him to be baptized but never really asked anything about when or where it would be.  So the last week she started sitting in during the lessons and we were talking to Liboni about how it would be on this Saturday and then his mother stopped everything and asked if there was anyway we could push it back a week so that she would be able to make it to see him be baptized.   So cool. And  McDougal and I really want to start teaching her because Liboni is like 10 years old and already knows so much about the gospel.  He even asked, "Who baptized John the Baptist" the other day...... hahahaha this kid.   But yeah so hopefully we can talk to the mother and start teaching her too. 

Also, we met this less active recent convert in our Pumula group and his name is Gift and he is legit a rapper.  His accent is super funny and like mixed with an American accent too and he knows a ton of English and loves to rap and make music.  He has a little street corner shack shop thing and we just chilled with him the other day and talked about the gospel.  He's truly converted but just didn't come to church for a while but man I love him. Hahaha during our conversation we were talking about how messed up the world is these days and he just went off low key freestyling about the world hahahha and it was pretty good. I really want to listen to some of his songs.  But yeah yesterday we attended the Pumula group for church and they are the ones that legit meet in someones living room  so it was interesting. But Gift came along with another less active named Marshal that we met this week. And Gift was wearing a basketball practice jersey and baggy shorts and his beanie hahahahaha nonetheless, still came to church and participated in both classes. 

We also met this family while gate knocking one day and they let us in gladly and they were all working on this thing that looked like a scouting project and when we asked them what it was, they said it was part of the Master Guide course with the Seventh Day Adventist.... Those guys copied scouts too....  The mamas also accused us that Joseph Smith was a member of their church and then we looked at one of their books that said They're founder was born in 1827..... hahahahaha yeah okay mama.   Funny people but they want us to come back so we'll see how that goes.

We did this service project this week for a member and we dug a whole for their trash. basically the same process they do at landfills but on a way smaller level.  So we did that for her and while we were digging in front of her house, you can just imagine the weird looks and stares we got during that.  Its so funny.  Not only are we white as snow but the majority of these people think we are helpless and that we have servants that do everything for us.... Its ridiculous.  The other day we asked this mama if we could help wash her dishes and she started laughing and was like, "You know how to wash?!?!" i just stopped and stared at her for like 5 seconds and I 'm like, "You think I dont know how to wash dishes?" And she legit thought I didnt know....  So I washed all her dishes and everyone was like, "Ah makiwa can wash! hhahaha" man it was so stupid but still cool to do service.  After we dug the whole for the member tho, we were about to leave and then she was like, "Okay so you cant leave until you eat something so I'll be right back" So she goes to the shop and buys us some nice food to eat. man I love these people ... most of the time hahahaha

Well the last thing I like to say is that I watched Ephraim's Rescue this week and man It inspired me a lot to always be able to worthily use the priesthood that we have. That movie almost makes me cry every time.  That movie is so good.   

Well thats all I got for this week.  Hope you guys had a super good week! Also Uncle Matt reminded me today, 1 year ago today, I gave my farewell talk..... woah. 

Anyways love you guys!

Stay Steady Grindin'

Sizabonani,

-Elder Anderson

 Here's what I see every day...

 This is Marcus, he's pretty cool! 

Third bonfire of the transfer at our house, Love it!! 

2 Baptisms and Another Broken House

Well shoot.

So one of our planned baptisms didn't go through because the kid was really busy this week so we couldn't finish teaching him but next week we will dunk him haha. The other two went super well though and they chose Elder McDougal and I to baptize them so it was cool.  They're both powerful and were super happy after the baptisms.  Future was so excited before it haha I love that guy.  He brought his friend Junior and even another non-member friend to the service! Already doing missionary work haha and Junior even came to church yesterday! So cool.  

We even have 6 others still on baptismal date right now!  The area is doing so well!

Two of them are a part of this dope family we just started teaching!  The mom is Mellisa and one of her kids is Nduduzi.  The rest of the family is too young to comprehend anything but Mellisa and Nduduzi accepted a date this week and I felt the spirit so strong in the lesson.  At the end, they both thanked us a lot for teaching them the truth because they have gone to other churches and even been taught by other kinds of missionaries but they didn't feel the same when they taught them.  They felt worried and afraid of the gospel and God but because of us, they have felt peace and happiness when they learn! Its so cool! And they want to come to church but the group  that meets in  Pumula has had some troubles to set up the  sacrament meetings so the people from Pumula have to go to Nkulumane for church right now. And its pretty far.  But yeah we are super stoked for Mellisa and Nduduzi!

There's also this part member family, the Dube's and one of the daughters is now home from school and she was interested in learning from us so we started teaching her and she came to church! Not even with the members in her family haha.  So that's exciting. She told us she had been taught by other missionaries but this time she understood a lot better! Nice.

We also had zone conference this week and it was dope! Sister Mkhabela said something that hit me pretty hard that I will remember for the rest of my life haha. She was probably quoting someone but she said, "The pain of discipline is temporal but the pain of regret is eternal."  Chills down the spine am I right?  Took some nice pictures at the conference with my boys out here though so I'll attach those.

So Elder Petersen has been teaching me how to play guitar in our spare time at the house. I can already play like 3 songs so that's dope. Successful week. Sadly he'll be leaving this week sometime to go start training his visa waiter so then it will be back to just me and McDougal. Gonna miss that guy.

Oh yeah so about the broken house, the ceiling in our bathroom collapsed while Elder Thomas was showering hahahahaha like only a corner fell but it made rocks and dirt fall everywhere so now its barely hanging on and each time we look at it, it seems lower.  Also, I don't know if I have said this before but the shower shocks us too.  Sometimes when you adjust the water, the handle thing shock you! lol It's ridiculous but its so funny.  I have lived in the two worst houses in the mission hahaha. We might be moving again soon.

We played volleyball and football as a zone today and it was so sick.  Couple of elders started calling me Tom Brady hahaha

Got another dope haircut this week. Trying to grow it out as long as I can within the rules hahhaha.

Yeah well that's all I have for this week.  Time is flying that's for sure.  Its already week 4 in this transfer what the....  Crazy.  Love you all.  Have a solid week. Church is true.     

Stay Steady Grindin'

-Elder Anderson

Whittier and I reunite hahaha love this guy

Bus on the way to zone conference. The poly elders brought an ukulele and guitar so we were jamming

Baptism. Future on the left and Sinolwazi on the right.

This dog just hopped up on my lap during an appointment and we immediately were best buds.  Made me miss Max and Blue so I wasn't focusing at all on the lesson hahahaha

Fallen roof lol. And our shocking shower without a curtain hahahaha

Conference

Well conference was super good.  The only bad thing was that our bishop was telling us the whole week that he had made accommodations for us to use our meetinghouse to watch conference and that it would start at 10.  Meanwhile the other elders in our district had it scheduled at 9 for their ward at the stake center.  So Saturday morning we get up and go to our meetinghouse at 10 and its locked..... and so we go to the stake center and we were an hour late for the first session. So that sucked but no problem.  Today, I'm downloading all the talks haha.  But the rest of the conference was amazing. Super spiritual and even provided me with answers I had to questions going into it.  My favorite talk was the one by Callister about the Book of Mormon where he just destroys every false idea about it hahaha it was so dope.

So something dope happened this week!  Tuesday night the assistants called us and told us that Wednesday morning we would be getting another missionary to be with us to make us a three some.   So for this week and the next week, we will have Elder Petersen with us while he waits for his trainee to get here.  And this guy is straight poly from New Zealand and we are bros already.  We're always singing poly music together its dope.  He told me he's adopting me to the group of islanders out here. hahaha which is almost as cool as an African calling you nigga. So thats dope.  He's the chillest dude ever and its cool to work with two other guys.

We had pretty good progress with Pride this week!  We taught him again and he had already read some in the Book of Mormon and he had a couple questions about the restoration but he was content with the answers we gave him.  His mother also sat in with us and we could tell she is very knowledgeable of the scriptures but she was pretty receptive of the message and she even thanked us for everything we taught her and was excited for us to come again!   Pride was also asking really good questions and even had one that stumped me at first but i remember the scripture that tells us to open our mouths and they will be filled so I just went for it and very soon I was able to give him a pretty good answer to the question!  It was pretty cool to experience that.    Pride is hilarious too. He loves joking and speaks perfect english so we love joking with him its dope.

So we are baptizing this young blood named Future next week and he is so chill and he has a friend named Junior who started joining us so we gave him a restoration pamphlet and at our next appointment with Future,  Junior said he read the whole pamphlet and he was asking super good questions so we ended up teaching him the whole thing and he liked the message a lot! It was cool! We are thinking about giving him a date this next week! Including him, we would then have 7 people on date! Loving this area.

So there's this less active recent convert in our area named Gift and he's legit a rapper and is the funniest dude ever. He speaks amazing english and even freestyled a bar for us when we visited him and he was the best I've heard here haha it was sick. Hopefully we can get him back to church though. He also introduced us to this new fruit and it was crazy.  So its like this baseball size thing that is harder than fetch so you have so slam that thing on the ground and crack it open and then you eat this slimy brain looking stuff inside but it is my new favorite fruit hahaha its soooooo good. I have 0 idea what that stuff is called but we bought like 6 of them to eat that night hahaha. I'll try to get some more this week to send pictures to you.

Well thats all I got.  I love you all and hope you had a good week and enjoyed conference!  Its so much more exciting out here that it was back home hahaha.  Anyways

Stay Steady Grindin'

Deuces,

Elder Anderson

McDougal me and Petersen with the Zuze family

Salibonani

First week down in Nkulumane. 

This week was sooooo sick. We got work done and have our area figured out.

So the area is actually super nice.  Like its mostly middle class gated communities and it is pretty quite compared to what I'm used to.  Also, we serve in two groups.  One is a ward and the other is legit just a group haha.  But the ward meets in a tent/house thing which is actually pretty nice.  And the group meets in a small house haha.  But there are actually a lot of members!    The tent was overflowing on Sunday haha.  The area is pretty big but we have a baby blue chevy that we get to whip in.  And I'm no longer the driver! So now I get a break from it hahaha 

Our house here is officially the worst house in the mission hahahaha the shower handles and sink shock you sometimes and everything is just falling apart but as long as there is a bed and a roof its alright hahaha my standards for a home have gone down a lot after being here.  Still a dope place. 

Ndebele is actually not that tough.  Salibonani is how you say hi though so thats cool. But I already figured out the clicks. There are 3.  The Q, C and X all make different sounds and its so cool.  I figured out some greetings this week and some random words so its already a work in progress. 

The missionaries before us left 3 people on baptismal date and they are all powerful and came to church yesterday!  They should be baptized together the week after this because we are viewing conference this week.

There is a super nice gym in this area and its cheap so we are gonna be lifting a ton.   

So this week we found 17 new investigators.... and we weren't even trying. And we are whitewashing this area.  hahahaha so sick.  One of them we saw on Sunday and his name is Pride and he told us about how he had a rough past and how the gospel helped change his life.  He also said he doesn't know if he can trust prophets because everybody and their dog is a prophet here so we taught him about the restoration and he was super interested and we gave him a book of mormon he was thrilled and said he would start reading and praying right as we left.  We even gave him a baptismal date for early december and he gladly accepted. It was the coolest thing ever. He told us that he expected us every week because he really wants to find out the truth and he has already felt that we can help him.  Such a cool guy. 

We also were teaching this guy named Justin about the restoration and he told us that he had this feeling inside him that our message is true and I testified to him that the feeling came straight from God and it is how the Holy Ghost teaches us what is true.  Left him with a book of mormon too and he was excited to start studying it. so sick.  The message of the restoration is so powerful.  Confounds everything. 

Something super cool that happened this week was actually with a less active member.  We were working with this kid named Wayne and he was showing us all the members in the area and we stopped by the Ndlovu's and didn't know the dad was less active but we found out they were moving and we wanted to help them so they said we could help them clean the new house before they moved all the stuff.  So on Saturday we went and mopped the house while they did other things and after we were done the baba was like, "Wow.. I'm feeling the spirit.  I am coming to church tomorrow.  Ya hear that honey? (speaking to his wife) I'm coming to church!"  it was so cool! Don't know how long he hasn't been coming to church but he came yesterday and it was sweet. 

Also, my companion is a band kid so we are kind of different but still get along. He's a cool guy and works really hard so we get work done.  We stay with two other guys from Colorado and Utah and they are so sick so our house is all American.            

Today we played football in the morning at this park and then like after an hour of playing we got kicked off by the people that work there.  Darn.  Still enjoyed balling up. I miss football haha  Glad to hear Utah is winning and BYU isn't hahahahahhaa  

Well love you guys. Hope you have a good week!   Church is true

Stay Steady Grindin'

Cordially,

Elder Anderson