Sorry the phone just cut out like that. Someone else tried to call right then and it cut us off. We don't even recognize the number, but it was local number though. I wish that we could have said goodbye as well, but at least we got to talk. That was the most important thing. I had a really good Christmas though. One thing that I didn't get to tell you about was that we went to a children's home on Christmas Eve. We played games and sang songs with them. We played Simon Says as one of the games. President Dube was Simon once. It was hilarious to watch him being Simon. He was jumping up and down and yelling loudly. It was really funny to watch.
Yes they have addresses Mom, but they are completely worthless. If you haven't been there before it is next to impossible to find anything. One house number will be like 4534 and the next house will be 6475. It is ridiculous, even the people here can't find houses. If you want to find someone's house you have to either know a landmark or have them show you their house. Our first two weeks in the area was tough, but only because we couldn't find the houses, not because there was no one to teach.
Everyone celebrates Christmas here but I have only seen like one house decorated in Chi-town. Mostly, I'm sure because they can't afford it. But most people have work off and most people use the time off the get drunk. The Word of Wisdom is a big problem here.
Terrence, our Gospel Principles investigator, is doing well. He is extremely smart. We had him read about the Plan of Salvation and then he taught us the entire lesson. It was powerful. The only problem is that we haven't been able to get him to church. But we will keep working on it.
Tonderai, the one with the drinking and smoking problem is doing pretty well. He has stopped drinking completely, and has dropped from 30 cigarettes to under 10.
We even have another man who is trying to quit smoking. He was at about 15 a day to 1 or 2 a day. Today he isn't supposed to even have one so we will see how that goes. His name is Brother Jena. He and his wife are supposed to get baptized on the 8th of January. Sister Jena will for sure be baptized but Brother Jena has to be cigarette free for a week before he can. But we know he can do it. He is great, he comes to every Church event. He came to our baptism a few weeks ago and he came to the Branch Christmas party. He was one of the first ones there at 11:00 but they were not organized so it didn't start until like 3:00, but he stayed the whole time and helped.
Another family will be getting baptized on the 9th. The Moyo family, there is a mom and 2 daughters. The mom's brothers were also going to be baptized that day but they had to leave to help a relative on a farm so we will try to get them ready for the 23rd.
Another family that we are teaching is the Bisenti family. The first time we taught them, the father didn't even want to come inside but by the end of the lesson he didn't want us to leave. It's not often that our investigators can the Spirit in the first lesson but Sister Bisenti did. It was really cool.
We have many investigators and it is difficult to schedule them all. But the problem is that most of them don't keep time well so we get bounced quite often. It's not that they don't want us to teach them, but it is because in their culture most people are used to being to things at a certain time. So they just don't remember.
The transfers last for six weeks. We are pretty sure that Elder Roberts is going to die here in Chi-Town, but we have no idea if I'm going to stay.
I hope you are all doing well and are happy. It was good to hear from you. I love you all.
Love,
Elder Cecil
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