Well this week we have been going to the gym in the mornings and exercising. Conveniently Godfrey is always gone, when we come for a lesson but he is ALWAYS there when we go to exercise.... coincidence? I think not! So whatever, I can still use his gym even if he isn't accepted into the Celestial Kingdom right?
But as I was doing some bench presses elder Butler made me laugh and I couldn't lift the stupid weight. I was just laughing and trying to lift it but I wasn't focused. So it took me a long time to finally get it off my chest, plus Elder Butler helped me. So that was good.
But we went to teach our Branch Mission leader's father this last week and he is seriously lost. For the first thing he is a "Prophet", also a pharisee because his Sabbath starts at Sundown on Friday, but he is also MUSLIM, because he prays every three hours and he faces east, even though mecca would technically be north from Zimbabwe.... We were trying to bring him to some epiphany but he already knew that the Book of Mormon is true and that our religion is different than all the others and he believes it to be to be true but he is afraid of leaving his church because he is their leader.
Also this week District meeting, was interesting I didn't feel like I was making much of an impact and that I was just rambling... you know? But anyway I went on an exchange and the elder said that the district meeting was inspired and that it felt like I was talking directly to him. Which was a testimony builder that really the Lord is in charge of the work and of these meetings even if we don't think we are making a difference. Woot!
Then Sister Solomon in a lesson was telling us about 2 Nephi 9. She read it and said it was the most powerful chapter she had ever read and how it was answering all her questions and concerns and she is just amazing! She needs to be Baptized so she can be Relief Society General President or something. Because she is amazing and yea pretty much.
But at church we go in and we prepare and Dickson walks in early! Yes one investigator at church! Then Sister AND Brother Solomon walk in! Three! And Brother Solomon is there too! Then Sister Marange comes in with her husband(who is a member). FOUR!! Then it begins and I am thrilled, then Pride and Tendai come in! SIX!!!! They all thoroughly loved Church and Sisiter Solomon was answering the questions about what they learned about last week, and all of them were participating in the lessons. Then at the end, Pride, Tendai and Dickson all say that next week they are bringing their wives to church!!!!!! I was so happy, you wouldn't believe. They are all amazing investigators and the members were talking with them all and it was just great.
I mean we have also seen an increase in the number of people who have dropped us, or who are hiding from us but still we are sifting the gold and diamonds from the poop colored soil. :) And I glory in the finding of the gold and diamonds(metaphorically speaking of course).
Then as we were contacting outside a shop, I went in to talk an investigator but I didn't find him so I was talking to a worker to see if the guy was there. But alas he wasn't, so I started to invite the worker(who is female) to church but I phrased it poorly, observe the awkward situation that arises.....
"So what are you up to tomorrow?" Says I. Can you already see my mistake....
"Well I am working from one till the evening," she says a little forlornly. I still haven't noticed anything amiss.
"Perfect!" I exclaim as she looks pleasantly surprised, "Because Church is from nine until twelve. Will you come?" Her face falls and a previously oblivious Elder Gay sees the signs, at long last.
"Church?" She says showing her disappointment.
"Yes church, it is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and I am inviting you to come...." I paraphrased but you get my point, we talk for a bit more and I begin to walk away when she says, "Wait I didn't get your name..."
"My Name is Elder Gay."
"Elder Gay," She repeats under her breath as she smiles and waves good bye...
Awkward! She thought I was asking her out and I felt strange and I was just laughing because I think Church was far from her mind..... uh.... anyway.
I also met and taught Gouglet this week. He was a little drunk but a great guy and he was almost on the verge of tears as I was sharing with him and he was committing himself to be a better person for his family... But he didn't come to church and we went to his house and they said nobody by that name(and it is quite the unique name) stays there so.... I am not sure how sincere he really was.
Also our Zone is getting T-shirts and they are going to be awesome!
Love,
Elder Gay
P.S. Happy Birthday to Cassie(oct 6th) and Jay(oct 3rd) Get yourself something nice from me!!!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Sis. Solomon, Dickson Sibanda, and a dead battery
Well this last Monday we watched Toy Story 3!!! It was great. Parents please purchase it :) Then the next day we were going to the Zone Meeting and we get in the car turn the key and nothing. The battery is dead. So we try to push-start it and it isn't working. We must have pushed this car for two or three hundred meters in our suits! Finally, they ask me to try(I have never done it before, but I was the only other one certified to drive mission vehicles...). So I get in, they push it for about ten feet and I let go of the clutch and voila, the car starts! Woot! I don't know why it worked with me but whatever, I was just happy it started at all.
Then in a lesson with Sister Solomon, we were asking about her week and asking some questions about the Book of Mormon. The following is her account(as accurately as I can remember anyway...)
Well after church I came home and I was feeling down, just sad you know? I kind of felt like I should pray but I didn't feel like it. I sat there a long time with my Anesu(her son) and finally I just got up and went inside and I prayed. Then I started reading the Book of Mormon. And it just felt like this burden was lifted, I just felt light, you know? Then I get this call from my husband saying that he is coming back from traveling early and I was so happy because I wasn't expecting that. I just think that these are blessings from me keeping the Sabbath day holy. In fact, I actually prayed about the Book of Mormon and that is when I started to feel better.
Or something to that effect(a perfect memory I have not). But I was floored, I shared one of my experiences with prayer and the Spirit was very strong. We gave her a Baptismal date and she accepted on the basis that when she prayed she received a confirmation. Yes Baptism! Now on to the husband!
But this other lesson we were having during the week we met this guy named Dickson Sibanda. He has met a lot of missionaries in the past and one of them he said was an Elder Hansen and Elder Nick Hansen. So I am not sure but, Nick, do you remember this guy? Because he remembers you! Then during the week my comp got sick. But we were still out and teaching, so the Zone leaders brought the medicine to our area during a lesson and the next lesson we were going to was Dickson. So we show up and we find his mother who is telling about how she is a Preacher/Healer and she found her calling as a Prophetess at age thirteen when she was in grade seven... Anyway back to Dickson, as we are about to go my comp pulls out the medicine and is trying to figure out how many pills he needs to take.
But I was watching Dickson face as my companion did that. His whole demeanor changed. His posture became tight, and bowed and his face displayed a deep longing. He asked, "What are those? Can I take it too?" My companion said, "They are for a flu, do yo have a flu?" To which he quickly replied in the affirmative, accompanied by a very convincing cough to top it off. I added that my comp had to finish all the pills because they were a course and he needed to get welI(I had no idea whether or not they were a course by the way) I was just closing the option that we could give him some. I couldn't believe it! No one else seemed to notice and my companion was oblivious that is for sure. But I could see it, as clearly as if it had been branded on his forehead, this guy is a drug addict. I was shocked because he has a nice family, he is intelligent, and he is a very open person. But as soon as he saw those pills he was gone. Hopefully we will be able to help him.
There is a less active that we have been visiting that finally told me why she wasn't coming to church. She expressed that she hadn't ever told another missionary what she was telling me. Not even the one that worked with her for eight months, but she was telling me because she could she I was "concerned". She is a wonderful person and hopefully with this new open path of communication things will get resolved and she will come back to church. But I am just not really sure why she opened up finally. And to me. I haven't even been here two months.
But at church on Sunday Sis Solomon walked in and we waved and smiled and she sat down. As me and my companion started discussing who we should invite to sit next to her, a sister in front of her turned around and started to talk to her with a smile and they were playing with Anesu. Then across the row a few of the sisters turned and smiled and waved her to come sit in an open chair by them. Which Sis Solomon did and they started chatting as sisters do. I was just in shock, it was like an institute or church video on the perfect scenario for fellowshipping. It was pretty much the highlight of my week and it all lasted about ten seconds but it was fantastic!!!!!
We also started teaching this guy and he knows zero English. So this will be a little bit of a challenge. But he is a good guy, it seems promising. Also Dickson came to church, he was asking quite a number of questions which is good and he is such a good guy and in one of the classes he referred to the thief that was crucified by Christ, and he said that it was never too late to repent. So, it might be difficult to get him to leave his vices, but we come to find out that he is related to one of the members in our branch! Coincidence? I think not! But I think that was my week!(wait let me check my journal....)
I missed a few things actually
-When some bikes were dropped off(not for our area, I was on exchanges) We get on and start to ride off when I discover my back tire is flat. We discuss and we decide to just fill it in the area. Then I get on to go again and the pedal snaps clean off! I decide to just ride it without so we get on to go again and Elder Hewlett's bike seat falls all the way down! hahaha this bikes are not so great quality but they aren't for me, so... oh well!
-I got a letter! Good, right? But wait this letter was from an investigator. And it was very politely telling me that he no longer wished to continue our "bible studies"... Yea that wasn't so awesome. :P
-I found the black version of Chase Gluch! No joke this guy looks just like him!
But now I am finished!!!!!
Love,
Elder Gay
Then in a lesson with Sister Solomon, we were asking about her week and asking some questions about the Book of Mormon. The following is her account(as accurately as I can remember anyway...)
Well after church I came home and I was feeling down, just sad you know? I kind of felt like I should pray but I didn't feel like it. I sat there a long time with my Anesu(her son) and finally I just got up and went inside and I prayed. Then I started reading the Book of Mormon. And it just felt like this burden was lifted, I just felt light, you know? Then I get this call from my husband saying that he is coming back from traveling early and I was so happy because I wasn't expecting that. I just think that these are blessings from me keeping the Sabbath day holy. In fact, I actually prayed about the Book of Mormon and that is when I started to feel better.
Or something to that effect(a perfect memory I have not). But I was floored, I shared one of my experiences with prayer and the Spirit was very strong. We gave her a Baptismal date and she accepted on the basis that when she prayed she received a confirmation. Yes Baptism! Now on to the husband!
But this other lesson we were having during the week we met this guy named Dickson Sibanda. He has met a lot of missionaries in the past and one of them he said was an Elder Hansen and Elder Nick Hansen. So I am not sure but, Nick, do you remember this guy? Because he remembers you! Then during the week my comp got sick. But we were still out and teaching, so the Zone leaders brought the medicine to our area during a lesson and the next lesson we were going to was Dickson. So we show up and we find his mother who is telling about how she is a Preacher/Healer and she found her calling as a Prophetess at age thirteen when she was in grade seven... Anyway back to Dickson, as we are about to go my comp pulls out the medicine and is trying to figure out how many pills he needs to take.
But I was watching Dickson face as my companion did that. His whole demeanor changed. His posture became tight, and bowed and his face displayed a deep longing. He asked, "What are those? Can I take it too?" My companion said, "They are for a flu, do yo have a flu?" To which he quickly replied in the affirmative, accompanied by a very convincing cough to top it off. I added that my comp had to finish all the pills because they were a course and he needed to get welI(I had no idea whether or not they were a course by the way) I was just closing the option that we could give him some. I couldn't believe it! No one else seemed to notice and my companion was oblivious that is for sure. But I could see it, as clearly as if it had been branded on his forehead, this guy is a drug addict. I was shocked because he has a nice family, he is intelligent, and he is a very open person. But as soon as he saw those pills he was gone. Hopefully we will be able to help him.
There is a less active that we have been visiting that finally told me why she wasn't coming to church. She expressed that she hadn't ever told another missionary what she was telling me. Not even the one that worked with her for eight months, but she was telling me because she could she I was "concerned". She is a wonderful person and hopefully with this new open path of communication things will get resolved and she will come back to church. But I am just not really sure why she opened up finally. And to me. I haven't even been here two months.
But at church on Sunday Sis Solomon walked in and we waved and smiled and she sat down. As me and my companion started discussing who we should invite to sit next to her, a sister in front of her turned around and started to talk to her with a smile and they were playing with Anesu. Then across the row a few of the sisters turned and smiled and waved her to come sit in an open chair by them. Which Sis Solomon did and they started chatting as sisters do. I was just in shock, it was like an institute or church video on the perfect scenario for fellowshipping. It was pretty much the highlight of my week and it all lasted about ten seconds but it was fantastic!!!!!
We also started teaching this guy and he knows zero English. So this will be a little bit of a challenge. But he is a good guy, it seems promising. Also Dickson came to church, he was asking quite a number of questions which is good and he is such a good guy and in one of the classes he referred to the thief that was crucified by Christ, and he said that it was never too late to repent. So, it might be difficult to get him to leave his vices, but we come to find out that he is related to one of the members in our branch! Coincidence? I think not! But I think that was my week!(wait let me check my journal....)
I missed a few things actually
-When some bikes were dropped off(not for our area, I was on exchanges) We get on and start to ride off when I discover my back tire is flat. We discuss and we decide to just fill it in the area. Then I get on to go again and the pedal snaps clean off! I decide to just ride it without so we get on to go again and Elder Hewlett's bike seat falls all the way down! hahaha this bikes are not so great quality but they aren't for me, so... oh well!
-I got a letter! Good, right? But wait this letter was from an investigator. And it was very politely telling me that he no longer wished to continue our "bible studies"... Yea that wasn't so awesome. :P
-I found the black version of Chase Gluch! No joke this guy looks just like him!
But now I am finished!!!!!
Love,
Elder Gay
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Training, Elder Hales, Birthday and building a house! And Godfrey.... DUN Dun dun....9/13/10
Well this week began with a training and I don't think I have ever sat that long on mission and I don't think I ever want to again. But it was powerful and I learned a lot. One day for lunch President Dube took us out to Dinner and it was to Blue Banana. We had a three course meal. I had chicken nuggets, sweet and sour chicken stir fry and a chocolate brownie with ice cream for dessert! Yum!
But while I was in Harare, the greenies were coming in and I keep getting told that an Elder Hales is looking for me. I am confused because I have no idea who he is but he finally finds me and tells me he knows my family in Ft Lauderdaile and things begin to piece together. He said my blog was inspired. Not that I can take credit because Pam made the blog but I thought that was kind of cool. He actually reminded me of some of my cousins.
But anyway, we drove back and Elder Butler is in my Zone now! You remember from when I fled the country to Zambia and I worked with him? Okay so you probably don't remember but suffice it to say that I am way stoked to be in his Zone!
But we get to the area and I find that one of our investigators has a birthday, on the next time we are scheduled to return(Sis. Solomon). So me and my companion plan to make her a cake. But when the day came, as with so many other days, no power... so we went to town and we bought her a cake! We sang Happy Birthday and we had cake and it was nice!
Also this we were suppose to do service at this one house but it fell through so I look for someone else we can help and we end up helping this guy build a house! I learned how to lay bricks and to align the bricks and the guy actually asked if I had done this before. I said no(because I really hadn't) but it was kind of cool to learn how to do brick laying even if it is a skill I will probably never use again. Woot!
But we were walking along this path and we found this athletic area and we find out there is a gym inside so I go and have a look and it is awesome so I was really excited about going there and getting back in shape. I talked to the owner and I told him we'd be back and I give him a pamphlet(this will prove to be relevant later in the email, don't worry).
Then after Church we were talking in our meeting with the leadership about Sis Solomon and I say that she was there at church that day. They start discussing and they pin point her and apparently everyone thought she was a member. Because in the Sunday School class she was making contributions and participating which really got the branch excited about fellowshipping her. So she will be baptized soon enough.
Then after church I get a text and I will write it exactly as I received it(if you you have small children reading this, tell them to turn away)
hello can Elder GAY
Come and discuss
the bible with me. i
have a problem.i am
a man but a lot of
other men are
So I see this page first and I am wondering who this is, I don't recognize the number and then I press down on the phone and I was incredibly shocked. Read and partake of my surprise
asking me to have
sex with them.
Are you shocked because I know I was! Really? Why me? Anyway so we call him back and I find out it is Godfrey, the guy at the gym I was so excited to go and use! So we might not be using the gym until we learn more about what is going on there. Anyway we plan to see him that very day. We go and my companion isn't saying anything. So I am trying my best to figure out his real concern because this statement I could tell was just the tip of the iceberg. A very large, ominous, fragmented, and looming iceberg. I have no idea why these things happen to me. Why couldn't they happen to someone without my last name? Because these things happening to me are just so ironic that they could make a stone cold killer cry with mirth. And me to cry with disbelief (ok so I really didn't cry but I was very shocked). He also said in a later text that, "love you my elders" Is anyone else concerned?!?!?! I am a little concerned and maybe even more than a little.
Also I found out that Brother Solomon is a diamond dealer! I mean it is all legal, but isn't that insane? He works in the diamond fields of Chiadzwa! Diamonds!!!!!!!!
Love,
Elder Steven Gay
Have a nice day!!!
But while I was in Harare, the greenies were coming in and I keep getting told that an Elder Hales is looking for me. I am confused because I have no idea who he is but he finally finds me and tells me he knows my family in Ft Lauderdaile and things begin to piece together. He said my blog was inspired. Not that I can take credit because Pam made the blog but I thought that was kind of cool. He actually reminded me of some of my cousins.
But anyway, we drove back and Elder Butler is in my Zone now! You remember from when I fled the country to Zambia and I worked with him? Okay so you probably don't remember but suffice it to say that I am way stoked to be in his Zone!
But we get to the area and I find that one of our investigators has a birthday, on the next time we are scheduled to return(Sis. Solomon). So me and my companion plan to make her a cake. But when the day came, as with so many other days, no power... so we went to town and we bought her a cake! We sang Happy Birthday and we had cake and it was nice!
Also this we were suppose to do service at this one house but it fell through so I look for someone else we can help and we end up helping this guy build a house! I learned how to lay bricks and to align the bricks and the guy actually asked if I had done this before. I said no(because I really hadn't) but it was kind of cool to learn how to do brick laying even if it is a skill I will probably never use again. Woot!
But we were walking along this path and we found this athletic area and we find out there is a gym inside so I go and have a look and it is awesome so I was really excited about going there and getting back in shape. I talked to the owner and I told him we'd be back and I give him a pamphlet(this will prove to be relevant later in the email, don't worry).
Then after Church we were talking in our meeting with the leadership about Sis Solomon and I say that she was there at church that day. They start discussing and they pin point her and apparently everyone thought she was a member. Because in the Sunday School class she was making contributions and participating which really got the branch excited about fellowshipping her. So she will be baptized soon enough.
Then after church I get a text and I will write it exactly as I received it(if you you have small children reading this, tell them to turn away)
hello can Elder GAY
Come and discuss
the bible with me. i
have a problem.i am
a man but a lot of
other men are
So I see this page first and I am wondering who this is, I don't recognize the number and then I press down on the phone and I was incredibly shocked. Read and partake of my surprise
asking me to have
sex with them.
Are you shocked because I know I was! Really? Why me? Anyway so we call him back and I find out it is Godfrey, the guy at the gym I was so excited to go and use! So we might not be using the gym until we learn more about what is going on there. Anyway we plan to see him that very day. We go and my companion isn't saying anything. So I am trying my best to figure out his real concern because this statement I could tell was just the tip of the iceberg. A very large, ominous, fragmented, and looming iceberg. I have no idea why these things happen to me. Why couldn't they happen to someone without my last name? Because these things happening to me are just so ironic that they could make a stone cold killer cry with mirth. And me to cry with disbelief (ok so I really didn't cry but I was very shocked). He also said in a later text that, "love you my elders" Is anyone else concerned?!?!?! I am a little concerned and maybe even more than a little.
Also I found out that Brother Solomon is a diamond dealer! I mean it is all legal, but isn't that insane? He works in the diamond fields of Chiadzwa! Diamonds!!!!!!!!
Love,
Elder Steven Gay
Have a nice day!!!
Traveling, Baptism, and Crispen Sept 6th 2010
Well this last week has been very busy. Very.
We had a pretty regular and powerful P-day in which we watched Tarzan, played soccer and ate pizza. Then the next day we had a District meeting that was ok.... it could have been better but we had some good success and we found out that I am getting a new companion! Elder Xingashe, you say it with a sucking click noise in the beginning, but I have yet to meet him. Because of reasons that will be revealed later. Anyway, later that same day we were back from the day and we were planning, when we get a phone call. I answer, "Hello this is Elder Gay"
"Hello, uh you need to arrange a branch missionary for your companion you will be driving to Harare tomorrow for Zone Leader Council." Comes the response from the other side of the line.
"Uh ok," Says a perplexed Elder Gay, as he thinks but I am not a Zone Leader....
Anyway so I get a Branch missionary and I leave the next morning to Harare. we get there and we don't have really anything to do that night so I drove to Kuwadzana and I saw some of my converts! I felt good to see them.
But the next day we had the council and then we drove back. We had a baptism on Saturday of a girl named Shamiso, it was kind of a pentecostal baptism because it had to be repeated like five times...mostly because she would fight going down in the water and she wouldn't go all the way under.
Then I have to get a branch missionary because my companion was leaving to his new area and I end up working with Crsipen the person we just baptized on Sunday, he wasn't even confirmed yet! But it was powerful. But I am back in Harare for four or five more days for another leadership training. I am traveling so much but I am out of internet time!
Love,
Elder Gay
We had a pretty regular and powerful P-day in which we watched Tarzan, played soccer and ate pizza. Then the next day we had a District meeting that was ok.... it could have been better but we had some good success and we found out that I am getting a new companion! Elder Xingashe, you say it with a sucking click noise in the beginning, but I have yet to meet him. Because of reasons that will be revealed later. Anyway, later that same day we were back from the day and we were planning, when we get a phone call. I answer, "Hello this is Elder Gay"
"Hello, uh you need to arrange a branch missionary for your companion you will be driving to Harare tomorrow for Zone Leader Council." Comes the response from the other side of the line.
"Uh ok," Says a perplexed Elder Gay, as he thinks but I am not a Zone Leader....
Anyway so I get a Branch missionary and I leave the next morning to Harare. we get there and we don't have really anything to do that night so I drove to Kuwadzana and I saw some of my converts! I felt good to see them.
But the next day we had the council and then we drove back. We had a baptism on Saturday of a girl named Shamiso, it was kind of a pentecostal baptism because it had to be repeated like five times...mostly because she would fight going down in the water and she wouldn't go all the way under.
Then I have to get a branch missionary because my companion was leaving to his new area and I end up working with Crsipen the person we just baptized on Sunday, he wasn't even confirmed yet! But it was powerful. But I am back in Harare for four or five more days for another leadership training. I am traveling so much but I am out of internet time!
Love,
Elder Gay
AHHH!! zone conference 8/23/10
Well this last week we traveled back to Harare for Zone Conference
because Elder Koelliker came. It was an amazing experience. He had
such great counsel and I feel like the work will shoot forward. We are
on the verge of Africa just exploding with missionary work I can feel
it! But somehow I got assigned to organize the photo so I was
instructing everyone to stand hither and thither which I thought was
kind of random. Then I somehow found myself setting up the food for
everyone and then after the Mission President called me out. So I was
wondering what was going on.... But to my surprise he wanted me to
dish the desserts... Then after I found myself back in the kitchen
cleaning ALL the dishes.... How did all these things happen, I don't
have a clue. I even ended up clearing the dishes and being a personal
waiter to the coupe missionaries, President and his wife and Elder and
Sister Koelliker. After all this was over I pondered on how these
things occurred. I have yet to determine a solution but I will
continue to ponder and pray about it.
Also driving in to the mission office we passed the guard who I
always thanked for opening the gate. She smiled accusingly and asked
me where I had been. I said, "Mutare." But I thought it was funny that
she remembered me and knew that I hadn't been around. I have only said
thank you to her. She is not a member but hopefully she will be soon.
But I got to talk to Elder Bonface(in kuwadzana) and he is saying they
have five baptisms this coming Sunday! All people I taught. He also
said that everyone is asking about me, even the drunks I always
invited to church. They are asking for me by name.... strange because
they could never seem to remember when church starts.... But it seems
like they are continuing with the good work! I hope sometime I get to
go back and visit there.
We just had Mormon Helping Hands all over Africa and we went to a deaf
center and we cleaned. Which was good, although sometimes when I tried
to talk to people they didn't respond because they were deaf...
awkward! But in the children's room I saw anti AIDS posters, good,
right? Wrong! They were very explicit pictures on the preventative
methods.... I was telling everyone there not to look at that side of
the room. It was in the children's rooms!!!!! I couldn't believe it.
Anyway this last week has been very busy with traveling and everything
but it is wonderful.
Love,
Elder Gay
P.S. Ricky and Mike, respond to my letters or dinokurova!(I'll beat you.)
because Elder Koelliker came. It was an amazing experience. He had
such great counsel and I feel like the work will shoot forward. We are
on the verge of Africa just exploding with missionary work I can feel
it! But somehow I got assigned to organize the photo so I was
instructing everyone to stand hither and thither which I thought was
kind of random. Then I somehow found myself setting up the food for
everyone and then after the Mission President called me out. So I was
wondering what was going on.... But to my surprise he wanted me to
dish the desserts... Then after I found myself back in the kitchen
cleaning ALL the dishes.... How did all these things happen, I don't
have a clue. I even ended up clearing the dishes and being a personal
waiter to the coupe missionaries, President and his wife and Elder and
Sister Koelliker. After all this was over I pondered on how these
things occurred. I have yet to determine a solution but I will
continue to ponder and pray about it.
Also driving in to the mission office we passed the guard who I
always thanked for opening the gate. She smiled accusingly and asked
me where I had been. I said, "Mutare." But I thought it was funny that
she remembered me and knew that I hadn't been around. I have only said
thank you to her. She is not a member but hopefully she will be soon.
But I got to talk to Elder Bonface(in kuwadzana) and he is saying they
have five baptisms this coming Sunday! All people I taught. He also
said that everyone is asking about me, even the drunks I always
invited to church. They are asking for me by name.... strange because
they could never seem to remember when church starts.... But it seems
like they are continuing with the good work! I hope sometime I get to
go back and visit there.
We just had Mormon Helping Hands all over Africa and we went to a deaf
center and we cleaned. Which was good, although sometimes when I tried
to talk to people they didn't respond because they were deaf...
awkward! But in the children's room I saw anti AIDS posters, good,
right? Wrong! They were very explicit pictures on the preventative
methods.... I was telling everyone there not to look at that side of
the room. It was in the children's rooms!!!!! I couldn't believe it.
Anyway this last week has been very busy with traveling and everything
but it is wonderful.
Love,
Elder Gay
P.S. Ricky and Mike, respond to my letters or dinokurova!(I'll beat you.)
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