Elder Cecil's African Safari

Well I am no longer in Lilongwe.  I was a little disappointed about
that, but oh well.  I am now in Lusaka, Zambia.  In an area called
Matero.  My companion is in my MTC group, Elder Munguri.  He is from
Harare.  He has been here in Matero for 6 months and is going on 7 1/2
months by the end of this transfer.  Which almost guarantees that next
transfer I will have a new companion.  I am back on a bike.  The bike
is actually pretty nice, or at least it will be once it is finished
getting serviced today.  It is a Fox Psycho.  I don't really know much
about the area yet since I only got here on Friday and we still had to
deal with transfers.  But our Branch President is really powerful.  He
served a mission in the Kenya Nairobi Mission and was an AP for 9
months.  So he knows how to actually do things.  It is kind of nice.
I do however know that they drink a ton here.  I think that in the
three days that I've been here I have seen more drunk people than I
did in 12 weeks in Malawi.  I just found out that they opened a group
in Mtandire yesterday.  Brother Mitambo, Godknows and Fortunate's
father is the group leader.  I knew he would be even though he has
only been a member since General Conference.  He is just that
powerful.  I was so happy that they got it opened.  That area is going
to explode.  Elder Barlow who is now with Elder Gonza told me that
President Dube thinks that Lilongwe could become a District within a
year.  That would be great.  I don't know if there were any more
Utahns this week but I doubt it because they were all giving away ties
and white shirts to our recent converts last week.

I have no idea if that curriculum vitae was real or not but it
wouldn't surprise me if it was.  It seems as if carpet is not a very
practical flooring for the basement.  But at least it was caught
before it got bad though.  Was Copper freaking out in the water?  Yes
the chickens that they hang on their bikes are very much alive.  I've
actually seen one of those Trikke things before I left.  They looked
like they were fun.  I didn't hear about Dexter, that's great.  I'm
happy for him.  I know that he would be really excited and that Judy
would be freaking out.  I bet that the SC and Florida match up is a
good one based on their teams last year.  Anyway I need to go so I
will talk to you next week.

Love,

Elder Cecil