September 24, 2007

Dear everyone,

I have now officially left teenagerishness behind, and moved into the big, scary world of adulthood. The big 2-0 happened last Wednesday. The celebration wasn't terribly exciting, but it was fun. Myself, my companion, and Elders Ulloa and Musgrave went bowling at the only bowling alley in Lusaka. American oldies were playing over the loudspeaker and everything, haha. It was a good time for all, even though my companion refused to play because he was quite sure he would break something if he did.

Elder Tibagalika and I are doing fine. He's much different than any of my other companions. He has a thick Ugandan accent that people have a hard time understanding a lot of the time and he's very quiet most of the time. We're doing well together though.

The week itself was a bit disappointing. As with the past few months, we are still finding tons of new people, but none of them are sticking with us. This week we have 5 members scheduled to work with us, so we are hoping that helps some of our investigators become a bit more serious, and have more of an incentive to come to church. Speaking of which, we actually had some investigators at church yesterday! Three, in fact! Wendy Nchena and her niece, Matilda, as well as another guy named Robert Chimbo. So that's exciting. I think the Lord is showing us that it actually IS possible to have people progress here, but it does take a lot of effort on our part, especially on our commitments and invitations to them.

Strange story of the week:
We were knocking doors in a nicer area called Avondale and we met a muzungu (white man) from America. He politely invited us in and we sat in his yard and talked for a few minutes. During our conversation he called us pagans, not Christians, who believe in a false god among other things. The funny thing is that he was very kind about it all, haha. We just told him what we knew, bore our testimonies, and then left.

I know this is the Lord's pure doctrine, in His true church.

Love you all!

Elder Mckay Moline