So the subject title quote is from little Kayla yesterday… talk about play-on words… lol she is my number 1.
But wow! This week was crazy. But so powerful.
My health was back to normal last week. Thank you all for the many prayers.
We have been continuing to go to physio therapy every other morning for my companion, which we quite enjoy because when we go, CNN is always on so we get to hear the latest on what’s going on. First of all, Donald Trump needs a haircut. Second, wow. Zimbabwe making national news! These riots are crazy. We are very safe though. So don’t even worry.
We have a new investigator we have started teaching named John. He is 86 years old, had 6 wives, has 36 children, and a mine. He is so old and cute and has the best laugh.
We met a guy named Greatman at Brian’s place, buying cigarettes and drinking like nobody’s business. He was HILARIOUS. And he sat and talked to us for forever. He named me smiley and told us he was going to come to church and kept saying “I’m being serious. Don’t you even worry.” As long as he could sit by “smiley” haha.
So Friday night, we had a bit of an incident. President was in town and wanted to see us for a bit, so after the area we stopped to get groceries because we hadn’t had food in the house for like days. So we get our groceries, load all $120 worth of food into the boot, shut the boot, only to realize that, oh no, the key is not in the keyhole on the boot. Wow. Second time I’ve done this now. But the problem now, is that all the spare keys are 6 hours away in Harare at the mission office! So we called the zone leaders and they picked us up to go to President, who was wearing sandals… legit haha. Then after we were done there, we told him what happened so what ended up happening is he go someone to arrange for some people who know how to break into cars to come break into our car. So he drove us to the other sister’s apartment and they gave us a wire hanger, then he took us to the store where our car was and left us with the zone leaders and the guys who, yes, eventually broke into the car and we got the keys from the boot.
On Saturday morning, we went to President Siwela’s house to help his wife water the garden because it is hard for her to carry the buckets of water all the way down the long staircase to the garden, but when we got there the water was not working, so we were able to help instead by washing out the plastic bottles she collects to sell. It was great to be able to do service.
We have been continuing to teach Innocent, who loves seeing us. he is one of a kind. He has been keeping himself busy while he isn’t at work, so he is drinking a bit less, but the problem comes in when there isn’t anything to do. His wife is pregnant with child number 2, which is super exciting! We are going to start teaching her this week as well! Innocent accepted the baptismal date we gave him this week, so we are going to continue teaching him with much faith that he will be ready by November!!
We also started teaching Daniel last week, one of the guys who hangs around at Brian’s place. He has a son who just turned 2 months old and seems to be ready for the gospel and wants to change to be able to be an example to raise his son. He started praying for the first time in a long time after the first lesson we taught him with a couple of the other guys and he was talking about how great it is. He also accepted the baptism date and is almost as excited as us!
Sunday was the best. We left for church early so we could park the car and walk to go fetch some of our investigators. When we got to Brian’s place, both Innocent and Daniel showed up!! Wow talk about our hearts swelling with joy!!! Then on the way, we even got Greatman to leave the guys he was drinking with to come with us! he started walking with us but still tried making excuses to get out of it haha. He kept saying his shirt was dirty so he needed to go change it first… no way. Not letting you out of our sight! hahah! Then he even pushed Brian’s wheelchair while we walked 🙂 But wow. It was so great and Innocent and Daniel were dressed up all nice and there was a ton of people who knew them, so it was just great!! Everyone was quite shocked, mostly to see Greatman at church lol. I love these people.
I love in Enos, verses 15-17 that teaches us about having faith in Christ. If we ask with faith, we will receive. And when we covenant with the Lord, if we keep our side of the promise, he will always keep His. So if we are keeping the commandments and keeping our promises, we don’t even have to worry.
I love you all so much!
Have a great week!
Sister Burt
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