Well I won't lie it has been a tough week. Because we have had to spend so much time weeding out the jokers we weren't able to get many lessons plus right now our teaching pool has dropped considerably in size. We have been brainstorming and really thinking of new ideas to find new people to teach. The difficult thing about it is that most of the people just don't care. And even those who might be interested often don't speak English very well. Then the ones that do speak well just want to BS. All of the places tht we have been working in are basically bush villages. Most of the people that live in town are pretty well off and we can't gt into their gates. But we have a few ideas that we are going to try. We are planning to print out fliers and put them around the city and see if anyone wants to learn. We even might write an article to put in the newspaper. Another thing we might try is to get on a radio station but only if we can get permission from President Dube. So we will see what happens. Our baptisms were pushed to this weekend because of some different things that were going on at the church. We have one other girl named Ruth who is the sister of one of the recent converts who is ready but the problem is that she is afraid to talk to her parents about it because they gave her brother fire because he was getting baptized. But he is a lot more headstrong than she is. Philbet is now back on track to be baptized but we are going to wait until the 14th of May for that baptism. There is also a guy named Wisborne, (yes Wisborne, for two weeks I thought that it was Osborne) at first we weren't sure about him, but he has been at church the last 2 weeks even though he stays faaaaaar from the church. Well those are about the only real powerful investigators right now besides Godknows and Fortune (you see those kind of names in Zim a lot more though). We have Zone Conference in Blantyre this week. Elder Kevin W. Pearson of the Seventy and from the Missionary Department is going to be present. It will be held on Thursday. So we have to leave on Wednesday and we will come back on Friday. I haven't received any news about Mother's Day so I don't know what is happening. I hope that they will give us info this week. There is a rumor that we are going to be getting some couple missionaries here in Lilongwe, I sure hope so, it would take a lot of stress off of us.
Because we have no DA's we mostly just cook rice or noodles with some beef and a soup(sauce). The vegetables here are kind of gross looking and not just because they are vegetables. They just look like they would make you sick. The inflation is bad but nothing like it was is Zimbabwe before they switched to the USD. My stalker is just a crazy guy that sticks to me like glue. I think that it is because I am white. He doesn't ever speak, he just walks next to me right on my arm and has a big smile on his face as he laughs. Elder Shabangu gives him fire everytime he sees him. But I'm not sure if the guy really understands either English or Chichewa.
I'm kind of jealous that you guys went to a baseball game without me but I guess I can't deprive you of things like that since I am on the other side of the world. Well Sacrament meetings are interesting to say the least. The Branch President gave a talk yesterday and read the entire final chapter in Mathew. Yeah I don't think that he reads the Book of Mormon much. It is obvious that even the ones who are not recent converts sometimes seem like they know less than the recent converts. President Nthalowa has been a member for over 6 years now. In PEC the 2nd Counselor in the Branch Presidency basically said that the members are not supposed to help the missionaries and that we have to everything. We then talked about how every member is a missionary, and he tried to say that Malawians are an exception because they have to earn money. After that we just decided not to reply. I know this may sound somewhat negative but really I am in good spirits. I enjoy working anyway.
Love,
Elder Cecil
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