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Week 5. Blessed this Mama's field.


So, this week was good. We have a lot of success finding people, this last week we found 30 new people to teach with return appointments, the problem is they are never home for the return appointments. I ate a lot of sadza, tried to learn more Shona and taught a lot of lessons. So, it was a good week.

Some things I will highlight about Zimbabwe is one the driving here is freaky, there is a system but no law. You can go as fast as you want, pass whoever you want and as long as you are on the left side of the road, you're good. There are no buses to go around town, they have little vans called convoy’s and you just cram as many people as you can into them and have some guys hang out the windows and you drive across town. So those are fun to ride in.

I had to teach Elder Owuor what a sandwich was for lunch one day.

I have to ration my water or else we will run out, as a matter of fact we are out of water right now. We usually run out at the end of the day, so I have to brush my teeth with my water bottle.

I blessed this old mama's field. We were walking down a road and we saw this mama working so I asked her if we could help her, so I started to dig the holes for her and she wanted to know where I learned to work. So, I said from my home in America. And she said you work In America?!?! And I said yes, I work very hard in America. Then she said thank you, you have blessed my field. I thought she meant that because we were missionaries but Elder Owuor told me it was because I was the first white person to work in her field. I looked back at her and she was laughing.

Power goes out unexpectedly, so I have had a personal study in candle light. And the water pump doesn't work when the power is out so that makes it more interesting.

I get to do my laundry by hand in buckets so that is fun. 

I was out of time last week because of very spotty internet connections so I forgot to put in a SOTW in my rush to get the group email out. But last week was 2 Nephi 33. In v 15 the last line and compare that to the rest of the stories Nephi tells. Apply it to him then apply it to you

This week SOTW Mosiah 13-16 look at Abinadi's faith and his boldness when testifying, study what he teaches and look for ways it applies to us.



Have a great week!

-Elder Williams

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