Well we had a pretty good week. We have now officially changed the
boundaries of our areas. But we are still waiting for a reply from
President Dube as to whether or not we can open a group in Mtandire.
But we are now teaching a guy named Douglas who the other elders were
teaching but he came to our branch. He is really powerful I taught
him once before when Elder Mahachi and I were companionless. Now he
is our investigator. We plan to have him get baptized this coming
Saturday. Then next Saturday on the 18th we have more planned. That
week we have Richard and Moses, as well as Felix. Felix is really
powerful. Chancellous came to church again so it is also possible
that he will be ready on that day as well. So Chancellous isn't
actually a pastor. Yet. He is going to school to become one right
now. But I have a feeling that he will change his career soon. There
is this other guy named Annan who has been to church once, though he
missed yesterday, that seems pretty powerful. But he won't be ready
in the next two weeks I don't think. I'm not really sure how opening
a new group works but I'm sure that they will help us on that. So
when I know you will too. Oh and we are also teaching Ruth's brother
Andsen, the one we gave the blessing to. And yes his name is Andsen,
I thought that it was Anderson for 8 weeks. We've had two really nice
lessons with him this week. I decided that their family is a bunch of
pineapples. All hard and spiny on the outside, soft and mushy on the
inside. They are all the most stubborn people on the planet but once
you break down the initial barrier things seem to go well. When we
taught him the other day about how to feel the spirit the look on his
face seemed as if he was thinking about the day when he was healed.
Because I know he felt it then so I think he knows how to recognize it
now. We just need to get him to read and pray and he will get
baptized. I think the entire family will be baptized eventually.
Compounds are villages that are high density areas in a very small
place. I have never seen so much dust in my life. We get home at
night and have a layer of dust on our shoes an inch thick (not
literally but close). Why they think that we are Satanist, I don't
know, but they say it at us to cast us out or something. Next time
that happens to me I am going to pretend like I am on fire and freak
out then stop and say, "Just kidding." When you talk about the
consonants blending together do mean like the "nd" in ndiri bwino? If
so I will help you. Say nnn deery then for bwino you say it like
twitch but substitute the b for the t. I can read all of their words
I just can't understand them.
Eish that is hard to miss out on West Point by one point. Well I'm
glad that something worked out for him. And I am also glad that a
mission is still in his sights. He is too good of a kid to miss out
on the joys of a mission. That is cool that he will be wrestling for
them too. I received a letter from McCall Bulloch last week when the
Zone Leaders came. She is going to school at Utah State. Nicole and
Ali I am sure will be happy to hear that. Mom I still think that your
5 hours of math each day is a bad idea, but I don't know maybe you are
just crazy like some of my friends in Mtandire. Dad, I decided that
it is weird to hear you refer to Coach Labrum as Bro. Labrum. Kind of
like it is weird to hear/read my first name. It's good to hear that
things are still progressing out in Milford. I hope you can get it
going soon.
Oh and also I found out the names of some of the crazy guys in
Mtandire. One is Paul and my stalker is Musa. Now I can talk to
them. Paul likes to walk around saying, "Waya waya wayaaa," to people
trying to get hand outs. Surprisingly enough he actually gets them.
Mostly because the people just want him to go away. Apparently he was
an educated guy until he went crazy from too much marijuana. I asked
him what he wanted the other day and he said, "ma cigarette." So I
proceeded to teach him about the Word of Wisdom. He is now my most
powerful investigator (said with extreme sarcasm). We talk all the
time now and give each other fist bumps. It is sweet. Everyone on
the street just laughs whenever I talk to him now. Anyway talk you
next week.
Love,
Elder Cecil
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