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
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