Mangwanani (good morning) Family,
This week has been pretty good. The baptisms didn't go exactly as planned. Shelton is still away, what happened is his mother was sick so she came her to go to the hospital and he went there to take care of the place there. Devote, the one who we thought wouldn't be ready because we could only teacher her on Sundays was in Chitungwiza and couldn't make it back so she will be baptized on the 19th. The other girl, Samantha who was supposed to get baptized wasn't ready so we need to continue working with her. But we did have one get baptized yesterday after church, his name is Dexter. He is a really good guy, he is 18 but his English is really a struggle for his but he always reads and comes to church. It was a nice baptism, and we even have a real baptismal font here.
The Lion and Cheetah Park was so much fun. Our entire Zone piled into a big Urvan so that we could stay together. The lions were so cool. We just drove through this caged area that was like their natural habitat and we got to take pictures and we even drove right next to one that was gigantic. If it would have swung its paw at the Urvan it could have done some damage to it. Then we went to a place that we could get out and walk around. There was this huge turtle that was 300 years old. His name was Tommy, we got to touch him and take pictures with him. His head felt so cool. There was a bunch of other caged lions that were around the area. There was some little baby lions that were only 2 months old. If you paid $5 you could go in their cage and even play with them. They were so much fun, we quite enjoyed playing with them. It was well worth the $5. There were many other animals in some other cages. The cheetah was kind of lame since it was caged and just sat and looked at us. But there was a hyena that was pretty cool. Then there was the baboons. They weren't in a cage except for the old baba because they said he was quite dangerous. But me and Elder Clark, our district leader, decided that we were going to go and hold the little baby baboons because they looked fun. The adults, however, didn't like us getting close to them so they freaked out and came after us. So we ran like crazy. Our zone leader, Elder Murdoch, said he thought one grabbed my foot because it was right behind me and I kind of stumbled. But as any normal person would do we decided that we would try again, but this time be sneaky about it. We were about to pick them up when the baby freaked out and the adults came again, and chased us even farther. It was awesome. We then went and drove through the rest of the park seeing some zebras and wildebeests and ostriches. I even saw Pumba and his family. The Elder Hales went and caused a stampede with the zebras and wildebeests, which of course was quite powerful. All in all it was a powerful Zone Activity.
That's great that those guys have been doing well in wrestling. I am happy for them. Also it is good that you are getting some things done at the school I hope that all goes well.
Love,
Elder Cecil
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