Dear everyone,

Lusaka is great. Elder Ulloa and I had a pretty good week. Better than the last two for sure.

We still have only one baptismal candidate: Maron. She's doing well and should be baptised on 12 April if all goes as planned.

Yesterday was district conference for all of Lusaka. In the morning before we left, a man knocked on our gate and told us that his uncle who was a member of the Munali branch (Joseph Mutale, probably 50 years old) had passed away the night before. He had been sick for several weeks but it came as a surprise to us. As soon as the conf. was over we went to the family's house in an area called Kalingalinga and visited the two daughters, Natasha and Lorraine. The wife/mother is staying in Zimbabwe but I'm sure she's coming here for the funeral. They were setting up for a traditional funeral and waiting for all of their relatives to come, so we were sitting and waiting under this makeshift tent on the side of the house. While we were sitting, a huge wooden board, probably 10 feet long, fell from the roof perfectly between where I was sitting and where Elder Weight was sitting. It very nearly hit Elder Weight's nose. Pretty scary. The Lord protects His servants!

District Conf. was held at the Libala chapel. The members in Munali branch were supposed to have a bus pick us up in the morning at 9hrs in Mutendere, but it didn't arrive until 9:45 (the conf started at 10) so we barely barely made it on time. Also, a bunch of unaccounted-for members of Chainama branch came to board the same bus so we ended up having 65 or 70 people on one small bus, haha. Good thing there are no seatbelt laws in Zambia! We were crammed like sardines. Anyway we made it just on time. It was a great conference. President Bester spoke on food storage and financial preparedness, which is a very needed topic.

This morning we got up early and the Besters took the four Munali elders (Weight & Olanya, Ulloa & me) to breakfast at a very nice restaurant called the Taj Pamodzi. All-you-can-eat breakfast buffet. The best breakfast I've had on my mission for sure. Yum. Afterward we had our President interviews with him. As always, it was great. He always has great insights on things that help me out later.

Sorry, no more time. Have a great week everyone. I know this is the Lord's church!

Elder Mckay Moline