Muri Bwanji (how are you),
Yeah I finally learned how to spell that greeting this week. Well I
enjoy Elder Gonza, he is kind of quiet but he does have a good sense
of humor which is good because if he didn't he would not like to be
around Elder Barlow and I. Yes I do still know the proper English for
that phrase. I am pretty sure he hits his year mark this transfer.
Yeah President Dube will still be the mission president in Zim. Our
new mission president in the Zambia, Lusaka Mission is named President
Padovich (I guessed on the spelling.) He is from LA and was pretty
high up in Warner Bros. I think. The split happens at the end of this
transfer. Basically the AP's in Zambia are like ZL's right now. When
a ward or branch missionary is working with a full-time missionary
they act as if they are full-time. They get set-apart as a full-time
ward missionary, live and work with their companion, and receive
allotment. They generally only do it for one transfer.
George is ready to be baptized this Saturday. We also have this other
guy who Elder Shabangu taught before I came, named Edson, who will be
baptized as well. He was about to be baptized and then went to
Blantyre on short notice, he doesn't have a phone and stayed there for
a long time. So then he came to church yesterday and I actually
thought he was already a member the way he was answering questions and
things. So yesterday we went to his house and reviewed the lessons
with him. He knew it all and he bore his testimony to us. It was
really powerful. Richard and Moses came to church again yesterday, it
was just as I had suspected that it was because we didn't get to see
them. We actually haven't seen Rafiki this week but we did start
teaching Moses' sister Maclina this week. She seems really interested
and she speaks good english so that is a bonus. We went tracting on
Tuesday and found a man and a woman, Brother and Sister Malach,
Brother Malach is a student in a technical college and he just didn't
go to school that day so we would have never found him had he not
decided to ditch school that day. We also started teaching two
different pastors this week for the first time. They couldn't come to
church this week because of some big huge pastors meeting this past
weekend. That would be a powerful thing to convert a couple of
pastors. They both were really interested in Joseph Smith and didn't
ever argue. They just sat and listened and asked the occasional
question. I hope that they don't get ahold of any anti-mormon
literature. There is not much of it around but it sometimes comes up
with the extremely devoted people. They tend to look up the church on
the internet and find some xing stuff. There was this big thing about
the world ending on 21 May, 2011 and everybody was asking us about it.
We would just tell them that no man knoweth except God and that we
would see them at church on 22 May. Yesterday we came up with the
cheer, "I survived 21 May! Hip hip hooray!" It was pretty powerful.
If I remember right Collin is planning on going on a mission but he is
delaying because he wants to get into West Point. But I could be
wrong so don't quote me on that or anything. I think that I am going
to send a few letters to some of those guys and have you be the
delivery boys for me because I don't know their PO Boxes. I decided
that it is weird to think that school is basically already out because
I still feel like I graduated just yesterday. But it has now been a
year. Anyway talk to you next week.
Much love,
Elder Cecil
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