Elder Andrew Williams. Zimbabwe, Bulawayo mission 2018-2020.

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...

Hey! How is it going? It was a good week this week. Some cool things were we had exchanges this week and I went with our district leader Elder Rassmussen. It turns out he grew up in Highland, he built Creekside park, the park that I spent a lot of time at, and we used to do a lot of the same stuff before we came out here. He is a great guy and was a lot of fun to do exchanges with. A cool experience we had was we had an appointment set and the people were actually there and waiting for us. They gave us a drink called Mahuo and it actually hurt my stomach and was nasty, but I drank all of it. The lesson was awful, and they got stuck on ghosts haunting houses. But that isn't the cool part. The drink hurt my stomach, so we were walking slow to the next appointment and we saw this lady walking the other way, so I said “Makadii” which means how are you and we both walked on. But she turned around and yelled for us to come back so we did. She wanted to know who we were and what we...

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 br...

Hey so I will start with the trip that started Monday at 4:45 and ended Thursday afternoon. I was supposed to meet 11 other missionaries in Atlanta, but they weren't there, so I flew to Johannesburg with my room mates then they went straight to Zambia, so I had to stay the night in South Africa alone. That was interesting, but I was fine. Although it did send the mission office into a panic when Elder Williams didn't show up with the other 11. It turns out their flight was a day earlier.               I am in Masvingo and the church only has one small branch here. My companion is Elder Owuor and he is from Kenya. All the people here speak Shona as the main language. So I started to learn the greetings and all the people start to laugh when this white boy speaks Shona. I don't know why but they think it is so funny.              One day we were walking ...

               We didn’t get an email from our amazing Elder Williams this week, but we did have the amazing opportunity to Facetime him before he left for Zimbabwe. We are so grateful for this experience and to have seen his smiling face before he left to give the gift of the gospel to others. He has the light of Christ with him. It is so amazing to see this in him.   He is so amazing and has truly been prepared by the Lord for this experience and for these people.  Elder Williams and his companions at the airport heading off.                  During our Facetime call we got to talk about Elder Williams MTC stay. He said as great as it was it felt like one long continuous day to him. He enjoyed getting packages full of cookies, treats, notes, and love from his loved ones. He got to see his beloved dog before he left for Africa. And it was a conv...

Hey everyone! It was another great week here at the MTC and now I only have a few days left, I fly out on Monday at 4:45 in the morning and get there a long time later.   The Red Sea in the MTC.  Elder Williams and a fellow Elder friend. Well I will start with the most interesting highlight of the week. I found an angel. Me and Elder Gammon went to the 6th floor study area to study one day and we met a teacher named sister Orr. She was really nice and taught us some journaling stuff, a fun restoration game to play, and how to say: welcome to the MTC, Welcome to the empty sea, and Jesus Christ loves you, all in sign language. She teaches sign language here and she was nice. But the thing is Elder Gammon wanted to meet her again, so we started asking all the White tags(teachers) and info desks where she is but nobody knows her. We asked at least 50 workers that day and not a single one of them has ever heard of her. So Elder Gammon is positive that she is an ange...