Here are just a few pictures.  Hope you enjoy.

Things here in Glenview are going well.  We are teaching many people, most of which are referrals from members.  One of the people we are teaching is named Shelton.  He is 18 years old and is quite large.  He is a referral from his friend who just got baptized the day before I came to Glenview.  At first when we started teaching him we couldn't get through to him.  He didn't like to answer our questions and also he didn't listen much.  Bust as we were persistent with him we finally got him to open up and start talking to us.  We see him basically everyday now because we are teaching some of his friends as well as so he just comes along.  He has now come to church the last two weeks and is volunteering answers and to pray in our Investigator's Sunday School class. He is really progressing well and we think that he will be baptized on Feb. 5, along with a few others that we are teaching.  We have six people planned to be baptized on the 5th but I'm not sure if one girl will be ready because she stays very far from us and we would have to open up an entire afternoon just to go see her, so we only get to teach her on Sundays after church.  Most of our other promising investigators are planned for the 19th of Feb. in the last week of the transfer.  But we had a very good week this week.  We were able to teach 16 lessons with a member present and then 6 other lessons.  We also saw 7 recent converts and less-active members.  Two of the less-active members actually got ahold of use because they wanted to be able to get back into the church but didn't think that they could do it alone.  One of them, Sister Mhlanga, hasn't been to church in almost 6 years because of some very person reasons that I don't think I should go into detail on.  But she opened up to use after about 15 minutes talking to her and gaining her trust.  We decided with her that we are going to teach as if she were an investigator because she doesn't remember very much.  She didn't even know that President Hinckley had passed away and that now we have President Monson.  But she really wants to get back into the church so we will be helping her to do it.

I was able to have almost an entire conversation in Shona with one of the members that we have gotten close to.  I felt very proud of myself.  But I still have a hard time pronouncing some of the words.  I have to write every new word down so that I can see it because of their accents I can't decide if it is an "R" or an "L".  But I do like to learn whenever I get a chance.

It's good to hear that things are going well with the vehicles and even out in Milford.  It is exciting to know that things at home are going well.  I hope that you are all well and happy.  This week I don't have much time so I will have to wrap it up here.

Love,
Elder Cecil

Things are going well here in Glenview.  The people are very nice.  Elder Sefatsa is cool.  We get along well, I enjoy being around him.  But Dad, he is not native, he is from South Africa.  It is much different here in Zim.  He has been out on his mission for like 7 months.  He was in Zambia until last transfer when he came to Glenview.  He knows how to get to all of the areas, but we are trying to rebuild the teaching pool because they just had a lot of baptisms so finding the people's houses is a problem.  It isn't as bad as in Chi-town though.  The houses are easier to find.  We have had quite a few referrals from members so it has been nice.  The week went well and we have quite a few who we are teaching now.  We meet in a chapel here so it is pretty nice.  Yesterday was the first time that I have been in a real chapel since the Sunday before I left.  In Chi-town we held baptisms at the Church (tent) in a portable font.  The houses are about the same size as the ones in Chi-town but the roads are much nicer though.  I have a different bike than the one in Chi-town, they just leave them at the houses.  This one is much better.  It actually somewhat works and it actually stays put together.  Our house is pretty nice.  We have a shower which is nice,  but the problem is that they just moved in so we don't have much furniture.  But they are working on that for us though.  We don't even have shelves for our stuff yet, so we are living out of our suitcases.  But as soon as they get us our new stuff it will be a nice house.  We still don't have power all that often though.

I talked to Elder Roberts today and he said that Brother Jena is still doing well.  So he should be getting baptized on Saturday.  He said that Brother Jena talks about me a lot.  I'm going to try to keep in contact with him as much as possible.  He was one of my favorite people to see in Chi-town.

I got an email from President Rasmussen today.  He told me about all of the other missionaries from the stake.  It is crazy that some of those guys are already home.  But it was cool to read about some of the other guys on missions.

That's good that things are starting to work out with the vehicles and even out in Milford.  It will come together, just have faith, and the Lord will provide.  That's good that Jaxon is dealing with it well.  It's even good for him to have a calling.  I'm sure that he likes having something to do.  Tell him to email me, I want to hear from him.

That's crazy that Auburn beat Oregon, it sounds like it was a good game.  It seems weird that things like that are still happening because we are so secluded from it all here.  I always had heard that the clothing from the teams that lost in the championship games is sent to Africa, but I never really thought about it.  But I see people wearing them all the time, and I think, "They didn't win that game."  But then I realize what the shirt is from.  Thing are just so much different here.  For example, the people here in Africa don't have "national pride" they have "continental pride".  I did want to tell you that I have now eaten some spiny caterpillar.  It tasted kind of like burnt popcorn.

I received packages from Grandma and Chris.  Tell them that I appreciate them very much, the candy really helps a lot.  Also tell Parker that I love the picture that he drew for me.  It made me happy.  I hung it on the wall by my bed.  Elder Sefatsa wants to see some pictures from me wrestling and playing baseball.  I also need a picture of our family to keep in my scriptures.  President Dube wants us to have one to show to some of the investigators and members that we teach.  And you don't need to send my glove, I don't want it to get stolen.  But no, I haven't gotten to play catch again, because the APs have their P-day on Saturday.

I love and pray for you all.
Love,
Elder Cecil

How is everything?  I'm sorry to hear about the vehicle problems, that makes life a lot more difficult.  But things will work out.  Maybe next time you should try to spread out the problems and not have them be all bunched together.  It might make things a little more convenient.  I'm glad you were able to find a new raincoat.  I need it badly.

We have had no luck on finding out who stole our money.  We are now all but positive about who it is but he just won't confess.  He has been wearing new clothing in the last week and so his uncle asked him where he got the money to buy them and he told him that he had received it from a lady in South Africa that he knows.  His uncle knows the lady too so he didn't press.  But when we learned this, we called the lady and she told us that she has never given him any money before and that he is lying.  Then he changed his story.  He then said that he had done some work for a guy in the area scraping paint off cars, but his uncle said that that was a lie.  So we are sure it is him, but he won't confess.  We were going to take it to the police but then President Dube said that is wasn't a good idea to do that.  We found all of this out on Saturday after the baptism.  It really put a bad mark on the day.

The baptism went really well.  We had 4 people from our area and 1 from Elder Smith and Mtetwa.  I was asked to baptize the one from the other area.  His name is Norman Dhauka.  They said that he could choose from anyone in the priesthood meeting and so he prayed about it and said that I was the only one that he could think of  This guy is a very powerful man.  He will be a great priesthood member for the area.  Of our 4 we had the Moyo family.  The mom and her two daughters.  Along with Sister Jena.  They gave really powerful testimonies at the end of the baptism.  Baptism days are the best days.  The only problem with this day was the previous remarks.

I have been transferred.  You will even be able to pronounce the name this time.  It is called Glenview.  It is in the same zone as Chi-Town and isn't far so I will still see Elder Roberts on P-days.  My new companion is Elder Sefatsa.  His is from South Africa.  He is a good guy and I have liked him quite a bit on P-days.  I have no idea about the area and I don't really know that much about Elder Sefatsa since I just got to my new area yesterday.  What happens is we get our transfers on Tuesday at Zone Meeting, then we finish the week before we leave.  So next week I will tell you about the area.

But I do have some great news about one of our investigators from Chi-town.  Brother Jena has now been cigarette free for 5 days.  We have been so happy for him.  Every time we saw him we just got really happy.  The reason he hadn't been able to quit yet was because he wasn't reading the Book of Mormon on his own.  He had just been listening to his wife read because he couldn't see the words, but he borrowed his wife's reading glasses and two days later he had completely stopped.

I have a few of the letters but I don't know who they are from because I haven't been to the Mission Office to pick them up yet.  Talk to you later.

Love,
Elder Cecil

Bad news about the Lion and Cheetah park.  We didn't get to go because the Zone Leaders working fund was stolen by a Branch Missionary and so they had to spend the entire day at the mission office.  They had $180 dollars stolen.  But it isn't President Dube who plans for the game parks and things.  We get to have one Zone Activity per transfer so it was our idea.  So then we had absolutely not plans for our P-Day last week.  It was pretty boring.

The way our finances work is we get 200 dollars per companionship every two weeks.  It all goes toward food, transport, and emailing.  For haircuts we just find a barber who gives us a buzz cut, President Dube allows them because it is so hot.

 No I haven't had any problems with homesickness.  We are too busy to be homesick.  But what I would give for a cold day.  Man that would be nice.  It is so hot here.

Yeah President Dube does have a crazy side to him.  He is really funny.  But no, he does not have small children.  His youngest is around 11.  So you must have been hearing things.  We find out transfers tomorrow.  It is crazy that this transfer is already over.  I can't believe how fast these last five weeks have gone.  I got the package with my garms in it, and the music player.  Thank you.  It is nice.  But I haven't gotten the others yet.  I hope you can find a good rain jacket for me because the one that I have is next to worthless.

We had a nice New Year's Eve/Day.  On New Year's Eve, we all went to the Harare South Zone Leaders' (my zone) house and had a party because they didn't want us out in the area with all of the partying that goes on.  We played games and lit off fireworks and ate a lot of food.  We also watched The Other Side of Heaven.  It is crazy to see how much different missionary work is now from what it was back then.  We even were allowed to stay up until midnight to celebrate the new year.  Then on New Year's Day we went to a school and played football with some guys from the U.S. Embassy.  Two of them were members so that was nice.  But I kind of pulled my groin some so I have been really sore the last few days.  After football we went to the North Zone Leaders' house and watched a movie called Treasure Planet.  It is some Disney movie that didn't make it real big.  It was a nice day though.

Terrence still hasn't come to Church yet.  Our next lesson is going to be the Sabbath Day.  It is frustrating to see someone who is  so accepting of the truth that won't come to church.
Tonderai is really struggling.  We haven't been able to teach him for over two weeks.  We had seen heim at him work once or twice and he was doing okay with the smoking but he hasn't been to church for a few weeks now and he never returns our calls.  We might have to drop him soon.
But the Moyo's are still doing very well and are ready for baptism.  They will be baptized on Saturday.
The Jena's are also doing well.  Sister Jena is ready for baptism on Saturday but we're not sure about Brother Jena.  He has been hovering on 1 or 2 cigarettes for the whole week.  We just can't seem to get him to 0.  But we haven't been able to talk to them for a few days so we will see.  If he has been cigarette free then he will be baptized but if not then it will be pushed back a few weeks.
We have finally got the Branch President's son to come to Church.  His name is Tedious.  That has been the only thing holding him back from baptism, but he has been there the last two weeks.  We have been so happy to see him there.
The Bisenti's are doing well and our lessons with them are so powerful but for some reason they haven't been coming to church.  We don't know why so we are going to try to run by today to see why but we'll see.

Well I will give you more info next week.  I love you guys.
Elder Cecil