It has been a busy summer and I apologize for not keeping this updated.... Life is still good in Africa!!!!
I am so happy to hear from you!!! :) I am glad that you and dad have never
missed a week in emailing! :) That means a lot to me! :) Thank you for the
love! :)
So this week has been a
really good one. :)
This Thursday I was on exchanges in a place called Matuma. So I was there for that day, we all meet back on Friday morning to swap back to our comps. My comp and I headed to our area in a matatu and we get home to do some weekly planning and I needed to talk to one of the other elders so I ask for the phone. My comp feels his pockets looks around keeps looking and looking and looking. Then I say the phone is gone? So long story short we kind of look up and down and all around looking for the phone we had some people try and call it and everything and the answer was… your right.. NO PHONE. We think it was left on the matatu in that case someone was happy that he found a nice new phone. So we had to spend most of the day in a store called Safaricom. That is the phone service we use. Trying to get a new phone and make it so no one can steel anything off of our old one. We got out number back and everything but we lost all of the contacts. But we have a nice new phone. :) It’s cool.
Also this week was transfer news. And we all didn’t know what was going to happen so we were all biting our nails waiting to find out what is going to happen. And the news is that everyone but one is staying!!! I am staying here. :) This is the first area for me to be in for more than 4 1/2 months. :) I think I will be here 6 months. :) And I really like it here so I am happy!!!! :)
So now I think it is time to do the story this week. :) Its really cool this week.
So on Tuesday we meet with a new investigator named Pollycarp. ( Ya I know its a strange name) on that day we taught him lesson 1 about the restoration and talked about the pamphlets that we gave him to read. And he READ them!!! Like he was asking questions about the Urim and Thummin and all that kind of stuff. So you knew that this guy reads!! We gave him a book of Mormon and gave him some places to read and, like we always do we came to the strong point where we have to ask God if these things are true. We asked him to do it and he said he would then we made another app. for that Friday. So we meet with him again and we ask him if he prayed to know the truth and he said that he did and that he knows that it is true. He said I need to tell you guys something. I prayed really hard last night to know the truth. Then after praying I went to bed. I had a dream. I was on a ship. I have never even seen a ship before I don’t know what they look like. But I was on the ship and the people wanted me to preach to them I didn’t know what to say or do and the people kept coming and asking if I would share the gospel with them but I didn’t know what to share. They were even trying to give me money but I could not take the money. Then a voice from an unseen person told me to read Alma chapter 34,36, 40 and 41 also 2 Nephi chapters 2 and 9. He got up and started reading the ones in 2nd Nephi and he got so into the reading that he was late for work. Then he told us that it was on his mind all day. thinking and thinking about what all this was. Then it came to the time when we were going to meet with him. And the thing that we shared this time was Lesson 2 the Plan of Salvation. And if you look up what he was told to read in the dream and see what its talking about. You will find something cool!!! :) So He was looking forward to reading the next things and he wants to become a member of the Church! :)
This Thursday I was on exchanges in a place called Matuma. So I was there for that day, we all meet back on Friday morning to swap back to our comps. My comp and I headed to our area in a matatu and we get home to do some weekly planning and I needed to talk to one of the other elders so I ask for the phone. My comp feels his pockets looks around keeps looking and looking and looking. Then I say the phone is gone? So long story short we kind of look up and down and all around looking for the phone we had some people try and call it and everything and the answer was… your right.. NO PHONE. We think it was left on the matatu in that case someone was happy that he found a nice new phone. So we had to spend most of the day in a store called Safaricom. That is the phone service we use. Trying to get a new phone and make it so no one can steel anything off of our old one. We got out number back and everything but we lost all of the contacts. But we have a nice new phone. :) It’s cool.
Also this week was transfer news. And we all didn’t know what was going to happen so we were all biting our nails waiting to find out what is going to happen. And the news is that everyone but one is staying!!! I am staying here. :) This is the first area for me to be in for more than 4 1/2 months. :) I think I will be here 6 months. :) And I really like it here so I am happy!!!! :)
I have had a wonderful week.:) We are moving along great
with the work here. We have some very strong people that we are teaching and we
are hoping for more. Also we also having a baptism next Sunday so we are
looking forward to that blessing :)
Another really good thing for me happened this week. :) We picked up a new
elder into the zone. His name is Elder Musawruwa from Zimbabwe. He is
a great guy I have served around him before but the really cool thing for me
was that he came from Riruta. My first area! :) I was asking him about all the
people there that I baptized and all that and he would say Yes they are still
strong in the church they are still coming! :) And that just made me feel so
good!!!!! :) It was wonderful!!!!! :) So now I think it is time to do the story this week. :) Its really cool this week.
So on Tuesday we meet with a new investigator named Pollycarp. ( Ya I know its a strange name) on that day we taught him lesson 1 about the restoration and talked about the pamphlets that we gave him to read. And he READ them!!! Like he was asking questions about the Urim and Thummin and all that kind of stuff. So you knew that this guy reads!! We gave him a book of Mormon and gave him some places to read and, like we always do we came to the strong point where we have to ask God if these things are true. We asked him to do it and he said he would then we made another app. for that Friday. So we meet with him again and we ask him if he prayed to know the truth and he said that he did and that he knows that it is true. He said I need to tell you guys something. I prayed really hard last night to know the truth. Then after praying I went to bed. I had a dream. I was on a ship. I have never even seen a ship before I don’t know what they look like. But I was on the ship and the people wanted me to preach to them I didn’t know what to say or do and the people kept coming and asking if I would share the gospel with them but I didn’t know what to share. They were even trying to give me money but I could not take the money. Then a voice from an unseen person told me to read Alma chapter 34,36, 40 and 41 also 2 Nephi chapters 2 and 9. He got up and started reading the ones in 2nd Nephi and he got so into the reading that he was late for work. Then he told us that it was on his mind all day. thinking and thinking about what all this was. Then it came to the time when we were going to meet with him. And the thing that we shared this time was Lesson 2 the Plan of Salvation. And if you look up what he was told to read in the dream and see what its talking about. You will find something cool!!! :) So He was looking forward to reading the next things and he wants to become a member of the Church! :)
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