Hello from Zambia,
We had a pretty good week. We've been able to kind of weed out the
jokers and find the "golden ribbons" as President Padovich likes to
call them. Well Martha and Jane have turned xing on us, but we had a
feeling that that might happen. Maybe it's just not their time. With
George, we weren't able to get him to church but I know when we do he
won't turn back. But there is a guy named Lamick that we've been
teaching for a few weeks but we just weren't sure about him that has
become powerful. He opened up to us on Saturday, I think because we
were able to find a more private place to meet him. He has had a
rough time in the last year. He had a good job in the government and
things were going well. Then out of nowhere he was fired and his wife
started to cheat on him so he ended the marriage. After that he
wasted all of his money on alcohol and has gone into deep depressions.
But he told us that every time he is with us he feels different. We
had a good lesson with him and then to our great surprise he was at
church yesterday. We really weren't expecting him. Then Brother
Hatuma is extremely powerful. We saw him on Saturday and Sunday.
Both lessons we came out of them and were just amazed at the power of
the Spirit that was present. He is in charge of this big agricultural
show this week so he couldn't come to church but I am positive that he
will progress fast. We are going to try to get President Padovich to
come with us to a lesson with us. Tamika is supposed to come back
from the Copperbelt this week so next week as long as she comes to
church she will be baptized. We've been sending her reading
assignments by text and she always calls and tells us when she is done
and what she learned. She is really powerful. No nobody else was
hurt in the fire, he got them all out then went back to get some
important documents or something and then a burning beam fell on him
or something. We are actually the closest missionaries to the mission
home but I have never been able to go because there is no transport to
get there. But President did come to our District Meeting on Tuesday
which was really good. He told me in his email to me that he is
really looking forward to sitting down with me to talk and get to know
each other. I am also really looking forward to that. I even told
him that too since I have never gotten to do that before so I think it
might happen soon. Yesterday I was actually expecting to give a
"surprise" talk (it's not really a surprise anymore), so I was going
to talk about the pioneers (I mean it was Pioneer Day after all) and
then turn it around and talk about how they are the pioneers of the
Church here in Africa. But I didn't talk but we had a really powerful
talk on courage by this old baba, Brother Zulu, who has to travel for
3 hours each way for church each week, and he is always the first
person there.
What happened with Elder Harper being transferred was because he and
Elder Inzabula were having real problems. Elder Inzabula likes to
argue, which is crazy to me but anyway, he and my comp were having an
argument and Elder Harper was trying to quote the Best Two Years By
saying, "don't wrestle with the pigs because you both get dirty but
the pigs like it." At the word pig, Elder Inzabula punched Elder
Harper. So that is what happened. We received Elder Santana who is
from Harare, I like him, he seems pretty cool. He really likes the
word awesome. He says it all the time.
When I read about your encounter with Cami I just laughed, because she
hasn't changed. I don't understand how you can not know when or how
you hurt yourself that badly. But anyway I got a new bike on
Saturday. It even has a full suspension but I don't really know how
nice it is yet I haven't really had a chance to ride it much. My
other bike got stolen because we didn't have a lock and even though we
have been asking for one it never came, that is until now. The thing
out the Lord chastening us was just something that I really liked so I
wanted to share it, not because I feel like we were being chastened.
So I have actually been meaning to tell you guys something for a while
now but I just kept forgetting. When I was still in Lilongwe, Robert,
that recent convert that I really liked had two awesome shirts. Dad
this one is for you: a Kokopeli shirt. I was shocked to see it. And
Nic and Ali this one is for you: Vote for Pedro, complete with "if
you vote for me all of your wildest dreams will come true." I used to
have pictures of them but then my camera was stolen. I think I will
be able to get a new one on Thursday because they apparently have
specials. I am looking forward to the new bright ties that are coming,
I appreciate the support. Well I guess I will talk to you later.
Much love,
Elder Cecil
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