A lot of good things have come from our three recent converts, Effort, Craig and Munashe! They have a lot of friends and neighbors who have become interested and want to be baptized, so we always love visiting them because there always seems to be a new person!

I have seen that the Lord rewards us for our good works. It’s amazing what can come if you are working hard and doing what you should! I love the quote, “Simple obedience bring the spirit into our hearts.” How true I have seen that is!

Love you all and hope you have a good week!

Sister Burt

This week was the last week of the transfer and I was exhausted! But I’m energetic and ready for a new transfer!

I’m trying to think back on the week and recall special events that happened.. it was a long week because we had a lot of fall through appointments and our teaching pool has gone way down, so this week we will be working hard on bringing it back up and hopefully will start baptizing again in a few weeks!

On Tuesday we had a very long, but very good zone meeting. This time on mission is a once in a lifetime opportunity and we are engaged in such an amazing work. It is the Lord’s work and as long as we always have our purpose in mind and do what we are supposed to do, we will be so blessed. This is not our time, it is the Lord’s time.

So funny story of the week:Tuesday evening at one of our appointments in our very far area, I went to the car to get a Book of Mormon out of the boot for the lesson and I accidentally shut the boot with the keys inside of it. Luckily the doors were unlocked so I went to open the door but right before I grabbed the handle, the doors locked. Don’t ask who’s smart idea it was to make a car that automatically locks itself, or who’s smart idea it was to give Sister Burt such a car. So here we are stranded in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but our scriptures. I had left my bag in the car with all my money, the phone, and everything in it. So we ended up having to walk down the small mountain we were on to go to the main road and luckily my comp had a $50 bill so we were able to find a kombi that had $48 change, mostly in $5’s and $1’s and we went to Edna’s house where we were able to buy airtime and use her sister’s phone to call the zone leaders who’s number we were able to get through a funny but very fortunate connection Edna had. So they came with a spare key and we were able to get our car! At first they had us convinced that they didn’t have the spare key and that they were either going to have to use a wire hanger or break the window. Thankfully that didn’t happen and we made it home by the end of the night!

Yesterday Effort, Munashe and Craig were able to be confirmed! So excited for those ones, and now they can start preparing for missions!

Other than that and besides the mourning of Sister Bergen and elder Mhlungu leaving the district, I’m excited for a new week and a new transfer!

I love you all. Keep up the great work and have a wonderful week!

This week was very eventful. I got pulled over for the first time on Tuesday. I’m surprised it didn’t happen earlier.. These cops pull you over for no reason.. and that’s exactly what happened haha. Not actually that funny… Also there is also a money crisis happening here in Zimbabwe. there is no cash in any of the banks so nobody has money. So come allotment this week, we decided to go to the bank early in the morning so we’d have a better chance of getting cash. Luckily the second bank we tried had cash. Come to find out later on in the day that we were the only ones in Harare who got cash. So we loaned some money to a few missionaries and slowly over the course of the next few days, most people got most of their money.

Wednesday, we worked with our branch president, President Gonzo, which was super great! He is really excited about missionary work right now and helping the branch turn into a ward. He took us to White Cliff, where he stays, and showed us around and brought us to his mom’s house where we taught 7 referrals! It was a powerful lesson. We are the first missionaries to proselyte in that area though and people seem interested so hopefully things keep going well there! And if things keep going well, we are going to baptize the 3 boys we’ve been teaching there on Saturday! Effort, Manashe and Craig. They are powerful! We are just praying for approval from the parents!

Lovemore was baptized on Saturday which was awesome! When we got to the chapel though, the font wasn’t filled and water pressure is a problem here, so we were all bringing buckets of water back and forth to help fill the font quicker haha. Then later that day we had a branch activity for the member and investigators and they put us in charge of coming up with games to play, which was like totally stressing me out because I had no idea what kind of games to play, but everything went so much better than I thought and everyone had a lot of fun!

Yesterday we had a powerful testimony meeting. A lot of people talked about how much the gospel has changed their lives and the way they live and the blessings that have come and the spirit was so strong. And it was amazing because we had so many investigators at church! Our investigators class was packed!

Anyways, I hope you all have a great week! Thanks for everything. I love you all.

Sister Burt