July 28, 2008

Hello everyone,

A great week. Wednesday I did an exchange on Wednesday with Elder Tshani (DR Congo) who is the district leader in Woodlands. I was with him in Copperbelt over a year ago and he is still awesome. He was in Malawi for a long time. We were in my area and had a good day together.

Tuesday one of our investigators, Jackson Mvula, called us and wanted to meet with us. He's the one who used to have two wives. Anyway we met with him and he told us he wanted to "register for baptism." Awesome! We didn't give him a date yet because we wanted to find out from Pres Bester what the Church's policy about former polygamists is. . . so we'll find out first and then go from there.

Saturday was the baptism of Harsha Safeli and Eric Bwalya. There was also a baptism for a sister in Lusaka branch who the sisters have been teaching and another in Libala branch as well. Four baptisms for the zone! The service went well.

After the baptism we visited a less-active family, the Simuzoshas. He was the first branch president of Matero branch when it was formed in 2003. He still comes to church, though not enough to hold a calling. His wife and children have never come since I've been here even though their daughter is serving a mission in Botswana right now. I think it's just laziness combined with murmuring about leadership that keeps them away. Sad story.

Yesterday at church we had 6 investigators. One of them was a first-timer, Susan Kampengele. She has promised to come for several weeks now but finally fulfilled today. She is a single mother with a 4 year old daughter. She came with her daughter and a cousin who is visiting from the Copperbelt. Unfortunately she came late and left early but hopefully next time we can get her to stay for the whole 3 hours.

Well, we gotta go. In a few minutes we'll be leaving to go to the same reptile farm I went to last year with Elder Ulloa and Elder Musgrave. It should be fun.

Thanks everyone for your love and support!

Elder Moline