Dear everybody!
The past week has been nice! Elder Minch left for Malawi on Monday and I was companions with Wesley Nzima, the branch mission leader, for two days until my new companion arrived all the way from Mutare, Zim. He's Elder Collins and he has been on mission for 13 months now, the same as Elder Minch. Elder Collins has served in Zim for most of his mission now, and coming to Zambia has been sort of culture shock for him, haha. He says it's so weird having electricity and running water at the house every night, and having enough money to buy things like cheese, or juice, or bread. He also has had to get used to our extended amount of walking that we do here, which he hadn't experienced yet. After the first week or two, I've gotten pretty used to it. Haha, he keeps saying that it's a whole different mission here in Zambia. Zimbabwe will be a completely different experience when I go there later, but I'm sure I'll be ok when the time comes. So Elder Collins is from Portland, Oregon, but just before he left on mission his family moved to Boise, ID. I was talking to him about his family and everything and he said he had a brother who served in the Texas Dallas mission. NO WAY. So he showed me a picture and it's the same Elder Collins that served in our very own Plano Texas 8th ward, haha! Pretty crazy, huh? I come halfway around the world to find a connection back to Texas.
So on Friday morning I taught my second week of "Music 101" to a couple of people. I've mostly just talked about conducting music so far, but I think next week when I'll talk more about how to read notes and then have them practice a little bit on the keyboard.
Yesterday at church really was great! We had sacrament meeting attendance at 85 which is quite above average. The blue tent that we meet under was packed with people and we didn't have enough chairs for everyone. 11 investigators at church, plus two more street contacts! Even better, most of them were on time! One of the investigators was Sister Mwelwa, who we tracted into a couple of weeks ago. She loved every minute of church and she said she really felt the spirit during sacrament meeting. It was fast and testimony meeting and as always all of the testimonies were great! A new member family who moved in from Ndola came, and even a few less active members came to church randomly. I've never seen the gospel principles class so full. The first hour of church, we watched the General Conf DVDs from Oct 06. It was torture knowing that even as we were watching, we couldn't watch the new live one, but I guess we'll be able to see them in a few months. Also, 3 of our recent converts received the Melchizidek priesthood after the services. Sundays like yesterday make everything worthwhile. The key now is just to keep it up! 3 of the 4 with a baptismal date showed up to church, which was just ok. Alexander has missed church twice now though, and we have no idea where he is. We've stopped by his house probably 5 or 6 times this week, but he's never around. I hope he hasn't just decided to disappear.
Well, I guess HAPPY EASTER everyone! I love you all! I'll just say I love doing the Lord's work here in Africa! Thanks for everything!
Love,
Elder Moline
P.S. I still haven't received the pictures of Bro Kabonso's baptism.
P.P.S. I don't have enough pictures to make another CD yet, but soon.
The past week has been nice! Elder Minch left for Malawi on Monday and I was companions with Wesley Nzima, the branch mission leader, for two days until my new companion arrived all the way from Mutare, Zim. He's Elder Collins and he has been on mission for 13 months now, the same as Elder Minch. Elder Collins has served in Zim for most of his mission now, and coming to Zambia has been sort of culture shock for him, haha. He says it's so weird having electricity and running water at the house every night, and having enough money to buy things like cheese, or juice, or bread. He also has had to get used to our extended amount of walking that we do here, which he hadn't experienced yet. After the first week or two, I've gotten pretty used to it. Haha, he keeps saying that it's a whole different mission here in Zambia. Zimbabwe will be a completely different experience when I go there later, but I'm sure I'll be ok when the time comes. So Elder Collins is from Portland, Oregon, but just before he left on mission his family moved to Boise, ID. I was talking to him about his family and everything and he said he had a brother who served in the Texas Dallas mission. NO WAY. So he showed me a picture and it's the same Elder Collins that served in our very own Plano Texas 8th ward, haha! Pretty crazy, huh? I come halfway around the world to find a connection back to Texas.
So on Friday morning I taught my second week of "Music 101" to a couple of people. I've mostly just talked about conducting music so far, but I think next week when I'll talk more about how to read notes and then have them practice a little bit on the keyboard.
Yesterday at church really was great! We had sacrament meeting attendance at 85 which is quite above average. The blue tent that we meet under was packed with people and we didn't have enough chairs for everyone. 11 investigators at church, plus two more street contacts! Even better, most of them were on time! One of the investigators was Sister Mwelwa, who we tracted into a couple of weeks ago. She loved every minute of church and she said she really felt the spirit during sacrament meeting. It was fast and testimony meeting and as always all of the testimonies were great! A new member family who moved in from Ndola came, and even a few less active members came to church randomly. I've never seen the gospel principles class so full. The first hour of church, we watched the General Conf DVDs from Oct 06. It was torture knowing that even as we were watching, we couldn't watch the new live one, but I guess we'll be able to see them in a few months. Also, 3 of our recent converts received the Melchizidek priesthood after the services. Sundays like yesterday make everything worthwhile. The key now is just to keep it up! 3 of the 4 with a baptismal date showed up to church, which was just ok. Alexander has missed church twice now though, and we have no idea where he is. We've stopped by his house probably 5 or 6 times this week, but he's never around. I hope he hasn't just decided to disappear.
Well, I guess HAPPY EASTER everyone! I love you all! I'll just say I love doing the Lord's work here in Africa! Thanks for everything!
Love,
Elder Moline
P.S. I still haven't received the pictures of Bro Kabonso's baptism.
P.P.S. I don't have enough pictures to make another CD yet, but soon.
posted by Elder Moline at 5:52 AM
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