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Week 7. Meetings in Bulawayo and Thanksgiving.



Well this week was good, we had lots of lessons and we had the follow up training meeting in Bulawayo. The drive there was great because we had a van. The meeting was great, I learned new things. The drive back was awful, the AP's took the van back and gave our zone leaders a car and that took away our spots with them to drive back. So, we took a bravo which is a nice bus to Gweru and that was fine, but we had to take a convey back to Masvingo from there and it took most of the day and I was crushed between the door and a big sweaty mama. 
Great Zimbabwe


Last week I said we went to Great Zimbabwe and I want to tell more about it because it was actually really cool, but it really was just a big pile of rocks. That is all I really have to say or can say.






Elder Williams' at Great Zimbabwe


The other weird thing is we have to take malaria pills, so we don't get malaria, and one of the side effects is that you have really strange vivid dreams. So, every morning I wake up thinking what just happened, how did my mind come up with that, but by breakfast I have already forgotten it but I just remember that something really strange happened.

We lost all 6 of our baptismal dates and we committed 10 people to promise to come to church, and all 6 of our BD's got dropped and nobody we invited to church showed up.

Other than that, it was a really good. For thanksgiving dinner, I ate chicken and rice. and Elder Black told me Happy Thanksgiving. So that is how we celebrated. 
Elder Williams Thanksgiving dinner.


A couple weeks ago my camera got stolen and the story is actually pretty impressive. We went into the pic n' pay to buy our groceries and I left my bag in the car because the store is super crowded, and it would be a hassle to carry it around. We were gone for about 30 minutes and when we got back, I noticed my bag was open, so I looked in it and my camera was gone. we asked the security guard who was standing right next to the car if he saw anyone go in because we were parked on the front row and he said no. Elder Black said he remembered locking the car, and later that day they went back and looked at the security tapes and they saw nothing except a 30 second glitch in the recording. My camera and our phone were gone so we did get robbed but they got into a locked car within 30 seconds of messed up tape.
Elder Williams' washer

How Elder Williams' spends his P-day!




That is about all that I can remember this week and last week.

Have a great Week!

Elder Williams


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