First, thank you for the birthday wishes, and yes it does feel weird
to be turning 20. I received that birthday package yesterday. Thank
you, I will be reading that book in my spare time. I can't use it for
studies but at night when we aren't doing much it will be nice. We
had the baptism for Sister Phiri and Sam Kalonga. I baptized Sam
because everyone in his family got called away and they told us that
we should just go ahead and do it. The rest of our week was a
struggle though. We just kept getting bounced and then bounced again.
Oh and then we would get bounced again. But we are really making
good progress with Sam's step-mother Sister Kalonga. We were finally
able to teach her since the elections are over, and she now has time.
She is a policewoman. Before when the missionaries would go to teach
her husband and his brothers that stay with them, she wouldn't
participate and would leave the room but a while back we had set an
appointment to teach Brother Kalonga and his brothers but then they
couldn't get home on time but she was there so we asked if we could
share something with her. She kind of reluctantly agreed. We taught
about temples and families. She really seemed to be interested in
that. So then she agreed to read the Book of Mormon and pray about
it. Then we rarely saw her for the next couple of weeks because of
work. But this week we have seen her 3 times and all 3 times she has
been really excited. She has been coming to church for the last few
weeks with her husband. She is scheduled to be baptized on 15
October. I am really enjoying teaching her. Her brother Brian, who
is also staying with them wants to be baptized as well the problem is
he has a heart condition (which is the reason he lives with them) that
makes him unable to walk to church. But they are getting a new car
this week so they want to drive him to the church so that he can be
baptized as well. He has been present in all of Sam's lessons and
Sister Kalonga's and because he has to sit at home all day so he has
been reading the pamphlets and the Book of Mormon. Things in that
family are going really well. JJ seems to have dropped off of the
map. The Kabeya's can't find him and neither can we. We talked to
Sam and he said that he was coming to church this week but he never
came. Lameck said that it will get better when he moves into the
area. Lameck is going to be the new Young Men's President. I think
that it will be really good for him. I just hope that the
Distribution Center will be open tomorrow so that we can get him a
King James version of the Bible. We have been trying for like 6
weeks. The sister who runs it has cancer now so it hasn't been open.
But apparently they found someone to take over for her. We saw
Lazerus again but I don't know what is happening with him he just
isn't coming to church. We did not get to watch conference so we
will have to wait for the DVD's to come so that we can watch them with
the branch.
I think that teaching lessons is something can always be improved on.
But I will say that it is something that I have improved dramatically
on since the beginning of my mission. Before I was not good at
teaching things. I knew the stuff but I couldn't have taught someone
though. But now it is so much easier to get people to think. I
taught a lesson on home teaching yesterday in priesthood. I think
that one of the reasons why they struggle at doing it so much here is
that most of them just didn't know how to do it. So I had them do a
role-play. I picked two guys to be the teachers and made a family of
some others. Of the two guys one was an RM and the other is a former
BP so they knew what to do. The family was perfect they had some
problems and the Home teachers had to help them. Then I had the rest
of them evaluate them and I really think that it helped them. I heard
a lot of brothers after church saying how much they enjoyed that
lesson. We had really good discussions and I didn't have to say
anything. It was great.
Well you can cheer for Detroit, Texas, and St. Louis for me. I was
told about Francona resigning by one of the members and I was shocked
but then I thought about how you said they were playing terrible and
so I wasn't as shocked. I am assuming since you haven't mentioned
Oregon that they are not scoring like they were last year. Well I
realized that on friday was 6 weeks exactly until my one year. It
feels really weird. It is going really fast. My computer won't let
me send pictures today. I know it is the pits. Anyway talk to you
later. You are in my prayers.
Love,
Elder Cecil
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