10-27-08

Dear everyone,

Things in Zambia are great. The work is moving along well. This week
will be a bit strange because the Zambian presidential elections are
on Thursday. Because of the possible riots and such all the
missionaries will stay in on Friday and possibly on Saturday depending
on how things go.

Last Friday I did an exchange with Elder Shirley. He is from
Vancouver, WA and just came about a month ago. He said he met Brother
Hein in the Chicago airport on the way to South Africa, and then
talked to you, dad, on the phone for a minute or two. He's a great
elder, very prepared for mission and very enthusiastic about the work.
We tracted for about 4 hours of the day, something I haven't done for
the past 6 months or more. We're so busy with people to teach that we
don't normally tract for more than an hour or two at a time, but last
week we dropped several investigators who weren't really serious about
investigating. We taught 4 lessons tracting and found 5 new
investigators. Good day altogether.

Yesterday church was good. One funny thing that happened was a
non-member almost passed the sacrament! The young 13 yr old brother of
a member was mistakenly given an assignment to pass the sacrament and
almost did not knowing he wasn't supposed to. Haha. Luckily some
whispering to the presiding officer did the trick and it was stopped.

My time is getting shorter and shorter so there is a little more
urgency in my work now, which is a good thing. I know the Lord is
preparing people to listen to the gospel here; we just have to search
for them!
Love you all very much!
Elder Mckay Moline