Solomon, the pastor, Mozambique, My way or Hardway? and, Will you be baptized on Dec. 4? No!

Well peoples it has been a very busy week. I came home every night and I was very tired. One night I cooked dinner and did my laundry after a very long day and after I just ended up putting dinner in the fridge. Because my companion was asleep and I was too exhausted to eat. So a lot happened this week. We were very busy.

So anyway we have this investigator, his name is Solomon and he is powerful. He has a gold medal from when he was on the Zimbabwean National Basketball team. The competition had about twelve African countries but he now teaches basketball at a church to help troubled youth stay away from bad things, he also works for the ministry of science. Let me tell you about a lesson we had with him. We went and we were sharing about the Restoration. We had in a previous lesson asked him to be baptized after we had explained the Book of Mormon but he had a question about the authority. So in this lesson we focused on Jesus Christ's Ministry and his church.

When we finish the lesson he is just looking at the Book of Mormon and the restoration Pamphlet and you can see that the Spirit has testified to him that it is true. He said, "I have learned something I didn't know. I didn't know this before. I have learned something today." He said he wants to know for himself and he said he would pray so he could find out for himself. This guy is a future Stake President or something! I also think he will teach me to play basketball.

Well this family that we found invited a pastor to a lesson without telling us so we found out when we got to their house. This poor pastor was so out of his league. He was being confounded. Even our investigator confounded him. So I am not sure what was up with him inviting the pastor but it was a really good lesson. But the pastor was confounded for sure. It was hilarious!

So on our way to a less active's house the branch missionary points to our left and say that is Mozambique. So we stop and we are in the mountain and we are looking down into a city in Mozambique. I tried to get a picture but it was night so it didn't turn out. But it was crazy that a city that was so close, was in a different country, with a completely different culture and language! All because of some imaginary line on the ground.

We have this new investigator named Hardway and he is great. He talks funny but he is powerful. He is keeping all the commitments we are leaving him with and he will be baptized on the Dec. 4!

This other investigator we have, the first time we went to see him, he had already talked to three friends and they were all interested so we showed up, expecting one, and found four! They are very enthusiastic and they were asking how they could be baptized and if they wanted their families baptized how would that happen, and when were we coming to their village and can we have some of these books we want to share them with our neighbors so when you come to the village we will have a congregation waiting to be baptized. In the first lesson! I was floored. I was not expecting that at all.

So we ask them to if they will be baptized on Dec. 4. They say no! They start discussing and they said it was too far! They want to be baptized sooner! Crazy, so we will be looking forward to that soon.

We had three exchanges this week. So we were always doing something. But yea anyway. this last week was busy and intense. I hope you have a great week!

Love,

Elder Gay