Happy Easter everyone!
Congratulations to Tanner for completing his Eagle project!
I had a very nice week. Elder Collins and I are getting along great. We have a lot in common and we are having a lot of fun together so far. He is a really good teacher and lots of fun to be around. He's a good missionary overall. Definitely different than Elder Minch in a lot of ways, but not in a bad way at all. To answer your question about Collins being colored, yes he is. His mother had him with a black man before she started investigating the Church. She and Elder Collins were baptized when he was 9 yrs old and shortly afterward she married a man (the one you talked to, Dad) who had 3 children from a previous marriage (including the Plano Elder Collins-- muzungu). Hope that makes sense to you.
P-Days are generally not to exciting here, actually. In other areas of the mission, elders have found fun things to do like go to animal parks, zoos, and other fun stuff. If they don't do that, they'll probably go hang out with other missionaries. Here in the Copperbelt, because we are so far from any other elders, we typically spend our P-days alone. We just take a minibus to town where we email, shop, and then go home, write letters, and be lazy the rest of the day. I hope maybe we can find some other fun things to do here, but so far we haven't been able to find anything reasonably affordable or worth the effort. We usually set one appt for 6:00p or 6:30p on Monday nights as well. Once every transfer (6 weeks) we'll maybe have a zone activity. We're having one today actually. I think we will just go and hang out with the other C/Belt elders in Luanshya and have a braai (barbeque).
I taught the piano/conducting class again on Saturday. I just taught Wesley and Elder Collins this time because no one else was there. It was good though. By the way, mom, we have the Church's "Conducting Course" book, which is nice, but not the piano or keyboard one. I just don't know if we really can help the people here to learn how to play hymns. The new keyboard we have plays a bunch of different ones by itself, so I think they will just rely on that.
Good news, we found Alexander yesterday! He came to church. He is supposed to be baptized on the 29th, but he missed the past two sundays at church, and we hadn't seen him in over 2 1/2 weeks! I guess he got a job where he works full time now. It's so weird; when people don't have any work they are home all of the time, but as soon as they get a job, they work 10 hours a day for 6 or 7 days a week! In the past few weeks, all our new investigators have had jobs, so our nights and the weekends are filling up really fast, but the daytime is becoming more empty. . . I think that is going to be a problem soon.
Our Easter here really wasn't all that great to be completely honest. It seemed really like any other day. I thought it would be more of a big deal, but it wasn't at all. Church was great though!. Elder Collins gave a talk in Sac mtg about the Atonement, and Branch Pres gave a really nice talk about the resurrection. The highlight of church was seeing the Mwape family. The Mwapes have been members for some years now, but they went less active because Bro Mwape was offended by someone and none of them have been to church in 8 or 10 months. We stopped by to see them on Friday night, and they showed up to church yesterday! That was really cool.
Well, I just found out that our grocery store closes early today because of Easter holiday, so we need to go do our shopping fast!
Sure love ya!
Elder Moline
Congratulations to Tanner for completing his Eagle project!
I had a very nice week. Elder Collins and I are getting along great. We have a lot in common and we are having a lot of fun together so far. He is a really good teacher and lots of fun to be around. He's a good missionary overall. Definitely different than Elder Minch in a lot of ways, but not in a bad way at all. To answer your question about Collins being colored, yes he is. His mother had him with a black man before she started investigating the Church. She and Elder Collins were baptized when he was 9 yrs old and shortly afterward she married a man (the one you talked to, Dad) who had 3 children from a previous marriage (including the Plano Elder Collins-- muzungu). Hope that makes sense to you.
P-Days are generally not to exciting here, actually. In other areas of the mission, elders have found fun things to do like go to animal parks, zoos, and other fun stuff. If they don't do that, they'll probably go hang out with other missionaries. Here in the Copperbelt, because we are so far from any other elders, we typically spend our P-days alone. We just take a minibus to town where we email, shop, and then go home, write letters, and be lazy the rest of the day. I hope maybe we can find some other fun things to do here, but so far we haven't been able to find anything reasonably affordable or worth the effort. We usually set one appt for 6:00p or 6:30p on Monday nights as well. Once every transfer (6 weeks) we'll maybe have a zone activity. We're having one today actually. I think we will just go and hang out with the other C/Belt elders in Luanshya and have a braai (barbeque).
I taught the piano/conducting class again on Saturday. I just taught Wesley and Elder Collins this time because no one else was there. It was good though. By the way, mom, we have the Church's "Conducting Course" book, which is nice, but not the piano or keyboard one. I just don't know if we really can help the people here to learn how to play hymns. The new keyboard we have plays a bunch of different ones by itself, so I think they will just rely on that.
Good news, we found Alexander yesterday! He came to church. He is supposed to be baptized on the 29th, but he missed the past two sundays at church, and we hadn't seen him in over 2 1/2 weeks! I guess he got a job where he works full time now. It's so weird; when people don't have any work they are home all of the time, but as soon as they get a job, they work 10 hours a day for 6 or 7 days a week! In the past few weeks, all our new investigators have had jobs, so our nights and the weekends are filling up really fast, but the daytime is becoming more empty. . . I think that is going to be a problem soon.
Our Easter here really wasn't all that great to be completely honest. It seemed really like any other day. I thought it would be more of a big deal, but it wasn't at all. Church was great though!. Elder Collins gave a talk in Sac mtg about the Atonement, and Branch Pres gave a really nice talk about the resurrection. The highlight of church was seeing the Mwape family. The Mwapes have been members for some years now, but they went less active because Bro Mwape was offended by someone and none of them have been to church in 8 or 10 months. We stopped by to see them on Friday night, and they showed up to church yesterday! That was really cool.
Well, I just found out that our grocery store closes early today because of Easter holiday, so we need to go do our shopping fast!
Sure love ya!
Elder Moline
posted by Elder Moline at 8:29 AM
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