October 8, 2007

Dear everyone,

Hello again after yet another week! Seems like I was here emailing yesterday.

Our week was good. We taught 27 investigator lessons, although no one came to church yet again, which is a bit frustrating. We finally obtained a branch list and searched it to see if we could go visit some less-actives. There are only 4 less-actives in our half of the branch boundaries, and we don't even know if they are still around because they haven't been seen for some years. We did manage to visit one of them, a Lozi named Francis. He's about 35 and was offended by some of the branch leaders having something to do with the welfare program or something. We read Mosiah 5 with him, which is about the baptismal covenant, and we talked about keeping his covenants and stuff and he told us he could read chapters from the Book of Mormon on his own and he didn't need us to come back. Ish, can you believe some people?

One of our investigators, Sylvester Banda, who previously had a baptismal date and had disappeared for a while, reappeared! So we visited him this week and re-committed him to baptism on Nov 10 and to attendance at church EVERY week. Unfortunately, he got sick on Saturday and didn't come, but we're praying that he will really commit himself and attend every week from here on out.

We're going to be trying some new ways to find people in the next few weeks. We will have a "FREE MOVIE" at the meetinghouse in a couple of weeks; we made some cool flyers and will be advertising for it, and our hope is that members will come and bring friends as well as honest people who have heard ridiculous rumors about us will come and see what the Church is all about. I think we'll watch the movie "An Ensign to the Nations."

Well, I think that is everything worth writing about. Things are great. The work of the Lord is wonderful. I love Zambia.

love you all,

Elder Moline