October 29, 2007

Dear family and friends,

October is almost gone already! I am still here in Lusaka doing the same thing, missionary work (the best kind of work there is!).

Elder Tibagalika have really been shifting our efforts slowly but surely in our branch to an area called Avondale. This week we spent a lot of time tracting in Avondale, looking for new investigators. It's a nicer area and harder to get into people homes, but we did make it into a few doors. We weren't able to set many return appointments, mostly because people are just "too busy" to have us come back. So we are still struggling in sort of a drought here, but we are fighting hard to come out on top. As happens most weeks, we were expecting at least one or two people to come to church yesterday, but no one showed. Our goal now is to use the Book of Mormon in the very forefront and have it do the sifting and teaching for us, because we need to find people who have the desire to read and the desire to learn. Otherwise we are just teaching people who want to make us happy.

October 24th was Zambia's 43rd Independance Day! Most people had off of work so we met a lot of good people. There were signs all over that said, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOTHER ZAMBIA!" and everyone was wearing the Zambian colours: green, black, orange, red. We didn't really do anything special but it was fun.

My companion and I are doing well. No problems. I put some more pictures on the photobucket page (http://s144.photobucket.com/albums/r182/eldermoline/ ).

I love you all. Thanks so much for your prayers and love!

Elder Mckay Moline