Nothing too exciting happened this week, was still a crazy week tho haha. we had exchanges for 2 days with the sisters, which was fun, though we had to stay at their house and we didn’t sleep like at all for the 2 nights because iot is hotter than the sun in there lol I love our apartment. after exchanges on thursday, we had a thanksgiving feast… chapatis and soup! me fav.!! it was yummm.

We did service at sister Siwela’s by helping her take the labels and wrappers off old drink containers… basically i will never touch Maheu ever again.

The sisters had a baptism in Mpopoma on Saturday, which is where we will have to hold our baptisms from now on because of the water restrictions and the leaking font at our chapel. There was a better turn out than we thought because of the transportation, which was nice!

We had a fun experience with our cranky old lady neighbors haha. was pretty exciting. Though I though they were going to break down the door and come beat us!

Still just looking for solid investigators who will start progressing as we build our teaching pool! We have a lot of new people to see this week, so hopefully we will find a few powerful ones 🙂 December should be a good month!

love you guys so much 🙂

This week was kind of crazy! We can just assume from now on that very week is haha. But things are a bit hard in the area and we are having fall-throughs like crazy!! We did have a good day on Friday though with nice appointments,, but come Sunday, nobody was at church. Finding new people and trying to build the teaching pool is pakayipa!!! Came across Alma 26:27 though which gave me so much hope. Success is just down the road.

I have been cooking a bit more and you should have seen me shopping the other day! I felt like a wife hahaha!! My companion has been teaching me to cook nicely 😉

We got pulled over twice this week, once they wanted me to pay $20 for an “offense”… I was barely past the first white line at the robot hahaha after a while we got out of it though lol we invited him to church and everything and told him we didn’t have money to pay because we were just missionaries and we go and preach the gospel every day. Then we gave him a Book of Mormon before we left. Now he will be baptized one day and have the most powerful conversion story. The other time was on the way back from cleaning Sister Joice’s house and they stopped us just to say hi and ask us if he had food or drinks for them hahaha when you see the cops so many times that you are just best buds and wave and smile as you pass. Zimbabwe haha.

It has been raining off and on which is the BEST!!  I love rainstorms. Today there was thunder and HARD rain. I LOVE it!!

Also rumor has it that bond notes are coming this week… but they have been saying that for who knows how long… so we’ll see! haha

Anyways, I love you guys and hope you have a great week!

Love, Sister Burt

Pictures:

zone conference

So we have been teaching Khulu John’s son, Willard, who has been visiting from SA for the past couple of months. He believes in God, but has his reasons as to why he doesn’t like coming to church. But the more we would go to teach, the more interested he got and he finally came to church and he wants to be baptized and everything! Only one problem now tho… he had to go back to SA the other week 😦 it was so sad to say goodbye. But he is excited to find the missionaries and church in SA 🙂

Brother Ngulube,  powerful member in the branch, passed away the other week. We visited him the day he passed away. It was hard being in that hospital and seeing him in the condition he was in, but we sang fro him his favorite hymn, “I’ll go where you want me to go.” We spent some time at the funeral though and our hearts and prayers go out to the Ngulube family.

Tinashe’s baptism was a couple Saturdays ago!! It was such a happy day!! He was so excited. And I’ve never seen him smile how he did while he was baring his testimony. It was just so amazing to see him finally enter that waters of baptism!! His time finally came! Tinashe is just so powerful.

Tinashe’s Baptism:

Richie’s Baptism:

We are now teaching Paul (10 years) and Shepard (9 years), Richie’s cousins, and they are going to be baptized on Saturday! Their dad was the first person to be baptized in this branch but he is late now. Their mother was baptized too but she now stays with her parents who go to another church and want her to go to the same church. but it is her and her husband’s wish that Paul and Shepard both get baptized and continue going to this church! They are the CUTEST boys and love coming to church and are SO excited to get baptized and I just love them to death.

Last Monday, all of us 4 Bulawayo sisters went to Harare and that night, we spent in the transfer house with 13 sisters! It was a party. Then the next day, since we were in town, President invited me and my companion to go to MLC. It was fun to sit in and listen and learn.

We finally got to see Khulu John last week for the first time in over a week! He was in the rurals checking on his cattle. It was good to see him… we missed our Khulu!! And it was great to see him walking up to church at 8:15 yesterday when we pulled up 🙂 So excited for his baptism on Saturday!!

This week I was reading in the book of Mosiah and I love chapter 24 how even though Alma and his people were being threatened and persecuted, the Lord still went to them in their afflictions and tells them to life up their heads and be of good comfort. They then even submitted cheerfully and with patience. It reminded me of one of my favorite talks given in this last  general conference by Elder Nelson. I love his statement “Saints can be happy under every circumstance. We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!” He later says “Joy is powerful, and focusing on joy brings God’s power into our lives.” Having joy is the most important thing in life! And we know exactly where and how to find that joy!

I love you all and hope you have a great week 🙂

Sister Burt