October 13, 2008

Dear everyone,

Good week. Thursday my companion Elder Woldemichael flew to Johannesburg, South Africa to see a doctor about his headaches that he has been having for the past few months. Hopefully he'll be back in the course of this week. But it's been known to take longer when missionaries go to South so we will see. My temporary companion is Bowers Kanyembo, a branch missionary. He is 24 and a great person to be around.

We currently have 6 investigators with baptismal dates.

Jackson Mvula(73) -- This week he has recovered completely from his illness (thank heavens) so he will be baptized this Saturday!

Charles Chibamba (50) -- He is still sorting out his former marriage complications; after that he'll be baptized.

Kenneth and Charity Tembo (35)-- We just found out that the husband drank alcohol over the weekend so their date has been pushed to 22 November. We're working closely to help him overcome that and keep the word of wisdom.

George Shanzi (28) -- His father is a member but is out of the country working. He has great desire to learn the gospel.

Gift Mumba (17) -- She has been coming to church for several months and her father gave us permission to baptize her and she is doing very well.

Susan Kampengele doesn't currently have a baptism date because she has missed the past few appointments as well as church the past two weeks. After two weeks of not seeing her we finally met her on Thursday. She told us she has been experiencing a lot of persecution and discouragement from her older sister who took her Book of Mormon to the pastor of her pentecostal church. She told us her sister and others have tried to stop her from coming to church and in general being very negative to her. Luckily Susan has a healthy stubborness to her and she bore her testimony to us and said that she knows that this is God's church and she must be baptized. She kept talking about all the feelings the Spirit brings when she reads the Book of Mormon and when she attends church. Cool!

Well, we've gotta go now. We're having a zone activity today. Playing football and having lunch together.

Love you all,
Elder Mckay Moline