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
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