SO I HAVENT TOLD ANY OF YOU CAUSE YOU WERENT EMAILING ME YOU SLACKERS BUT IN ABOUT A WEEK IM GOING HOME.
so yeah.
Friday, February 26, 2016
NEWS
Como estao.
This was a good week. Ive had lots of big decisions and havent had the courage to tell anyone here about them cause of extenuating circumstances.
Anyway. Elder Rash is still awesome and I love him to death.
we lose power at least once a week. Its sweet.
The ward here is incredible. I have about three People here that said that they re my mozambiquan mom.
We had an interesting question. A guy walked up to us and asked Why should we adore/worship God? We responded like Alma. All things testify of God and He gave it all to us. Por cause do amor que Ele tem por nos.
Ugh also ate a fish. I hate fish.
I have an afrikaans Book of Mormon. Its awesome.
We also saved some ones life. He passed out on the stairs and we caught him and literally i thought he was dying in my arms and was freaking out. But hes better now and we got hime some help.
We climbed some trees and ate some beans and basically partied all day every day.
I let some little girls put mesha(fake hair) in my hair but it wasnt sstaying cause my hair is too slick so I put some sand in it and then the hair stayed.
I fed an alligator by hand. So that was cool too.
Eu amo "Voces"
Elder Lorimer
Feb 8 Ainda estou aqui
Foi uma boa semana. Não posso queixar-me.
Got transfered again. Now im in the T3 area or as its called here the kindom of sand. Ugh so much sand. Im gonna have calf muscles of steel.
26 And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if ye have experienced a change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing thesong of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now?
Elder Lorimer
This week was great
This week was good. I had a sweet mile stone. So the incvestagator Eskameesa. Turns out his name is actually Chicamisse. I learned that while writing a ficha batismal. OR BAPTISM PAPER WORK
It was super cool to have my second baptism already and the first that i got to do.
He was super ready and aced the interview and since they dont have addresses here we got super frustrated with the gps but it all worked out in the end Chicamissa is a member of the church now and i think next week he will get the Priesthood and be ordained to a deacon and have his first calling. We are super excited.
I forgot my journal and so i dont remember everything thats going on.
My comp is brushing his teath with bleach to make them whiter despite my repeated warning for his life.
Theres something weird in my thoart that makes hiccuping hurt but im told ill be fine.
We have 11 more people to baptize this transfer.
Fernando and Juakima are moving with there documents (finally). we went and talked with the secretary of the bairo and he moved to process along.
Joao and Marta are just waiting for the mucipio to finish with their declaracao of residencia
We have algumas outras pesqisadores que estao a progredir.
today we went to the wood market and i bought a lion and a rhino. there pretty awesome.
tomorrow is zone conference which will be about humility and pride and will be awesome. THere will also be food there that we dont have to pay for.
the day after will be a day to go down in history.
It is a world wide missionary broadcast from the first presidency. Literally every single missionary will be listening at the same time aand its gonna be awesome!
any way
portugues e muito bom e eu gosto muito desta idioma.
What 'ere thou art,
Act well thy part.
Doesent matter if you are senior companio or zone leader or trainee or big sister of mom or dad or missionary or man or woman. God put us where we are in the position were in because he knows we can flourish there or because it will lead to a place we can flourish. We must act well our part.
Love "yall"
r
I Had A Great Week OK
I keep telling myself that. :)
I have several things I am currently working on. Mostly is can be described as oil off a ducks back. or something like that. SO its grudges and forgiveness and pride and charity and humility.
The people here are insanely prepared. We taught one guy a lesson and now he has a white shirt and has been to church and knows the gospel is true and prayed and is reading O Livro de Mormon and we didnt even ask him to!
Elders are annoying. I got in trouble for not talking about my dream girl. and all the other elders do is talk about the girls they're writing. Super annoying.
That Rm i mentioned last week came with us to one of our lessons and HOLY COW CAN HE CALL DOWN THE FIRES OF HEAVEN ON OUR LAZY INVESTIGATORS. It was really cool.
So i got homesick again. And talked to some people about it and long story short it was a long week.
We had someone to come fix our door but he got here and said that its not metal its aluminum so he cant fix it so our door is still about to fall off. I started talking with the other elders in our zone and they are super cool!
I found favourite passage in The Book Of Mormon. Its Second Nephi 4:16-35. It really helped me a lot this week. "I know in whom i have trusted"
We got our new mission plan for the year and everyone has very specific goals that were created based off the history of the area. So we need 29 contacts and like 20 total lessons per week. The elders upstairs need 270 contacts very week and 157 lessons. We all think its kinda funny. but i think this new lesson plan is a great idea and it will be difficult to put into practice.
There was one house here that didnt have water for a week.
We found some weird bug crab this thats food but is still alive when you buy it and they sell everything here.
I bought ketchup chips and was suprised and slightly dissapointed cause they taste like ketchup.
So we have to have proselyting shoes and shower shoes and house shoes in order to avoid the things that live on the ground. But Elder Rispress has been using my shower shoes for a few weeks. so we bought super girly ones for him.
Theres also a word here that is Brazilian that all the missionaries use. Its fubeka. Its like super lazy or doesnt do what theyre supposed to.
The gift of tounges is real man. I talked with the mission president on the phone and he thought he was talking with my comp.
Theres a river of death in our area. So peoples bathrooms are rooms with pipes that go to holes in the ground and they stink and avoid them but this is a river of filth. and its next to the busiest road in our area and we get a million contacts there.
Lost power for two days this week.
We had lunch with the castro deus couple and is was super good. I like Brazilian food. Mozambique doesnt have any food thats especially mozambiquan.
The transfer ended yesterday. I totalled everything up and we had 147 lessons in 6 weeks. Thats pretty good. I think I'm gonna baptize someone this saturday. :) His name is Eskimeesa and he is super cool. Hes been to church for like 8 months but was never baptized and we met another person like that.
transfers today. Not alot changed. I have the same comp.
Elder Castro Deus does something really cool. He takes pictures of the happy people here. Now he has more that 1000 different pictures of people "com almas feliz" with happy souls even though these people have nothing.
Eu lhes amo.
Elder Lorimer
Sunday, January 10, 2016
I think I slept more than I proscelyted
Its been a long good week.
On Monday night the only "Lesson" we had was with the Bishop. His name is Bishop Fumbe and he is super nice. He's trying to learn English so he can teach English at one of the four schools in our area and help his kids have better lives. So we helped him with English and taught them how to play "Go-Fish" for the activity of FHE.
He was super late, so Myself and Elder Huffaker sat and waited and talked about goals for the next transfer. I think we're looking at 12 baptisms this upcoming transfer. I think Three Jovens (young adults...?) and the rest families.
Yesterday Joao and Marta told us they wanted to pay a lobolo, which is a african tradition to pay the family of the wife 4000 metacais. Missionaries only get 7900 a month to live. Lobolo is a challenge for almost all of our families but it was especially disappointing because This family almost has there documents done and is ready to be baptized on the day 30 of January but now there's a 4000 metacais road block in the way.
I wasn't feeling good on Wednesday so my comp told me to take a nap after lunch and I slept for 6 hours(with permission from the senior couple in Beira) and woke up to go to work for three hours. We taught three lessons and found someone who speaks English. Unfortunately we can't teach him cause he's from South Africa.
So we had to be in the house at 17 on new years eve cause everyone is drunk and playing with fireworks. Firecrackers kinda sound exactly like the car crash so I am super jumpy, and the fire crackers aren't supposed to go away for another month.
Man being the newby is no fun, especially in my house cause My companion is District Leader and the other two elders in my district are the Zone Leaders so i am asked (very politely) if i will go have an extra 30 minutes of study time at least twice a week so they can talk about stuff.
So also because we had to be in the house so early, new years we didn't have study time in the morning we had it when we got back. That meant that we taught ten lessons that day! That's a lot.
We also have a new investigator Moises. He is keeping all his commitments and coming to church and we are super excited for him. When he prayed to know that Joseph Smith was a prophet someone knocked on his door during the prayer. It was a guy that owed him 8000 met. He got 8000 met that he wasn't expecting immediately after he asked the question. It was a miracle.
I also accidentally put bleach in my load of dark clothes so if anyone has an un-bleach pen i would love it.
Because every one came back early new years we had a dinner get together thing at 21:00 after we finished studies. We made so much popcorn. We ran out of it yesterday.
I eat a lot of rice.
We also got some grape frozys for free. drank them and they were delicious.
Later that night we were trying to find Moises again, and we couldn't so we said a prayer and ended up finding an old investigator that we had forgotten about and marking with him and them finding a casa de Moises.
After we got home I saw that free frozy again. (I think he is sayting he threw up) It was gross. And ended up on the wall but my sweet district people helped me clean it up which is way more than I would have done.
The next day I studied like normal but didn't feel like eating but I had to eat cause it was time to fast. So I ate lunch and went for another nap at 12:00 and i was allowed to sleep till 13:30 so we could still make it to our meeting to organize the home teachers(that's how new the church is) and didn't wake UP TILL 17:30. THAT IS WAY TO MUCH TIME IN BED EVEN IF YOUR SICK. but the senior couple allowed it.
Elder Huffaker is melting his name tags. On accident
We also got a call that we didn't answer in time, so we called back and the phone told us that number were trying to call doesn't exist....
One of the members here just got back from his mission like two weeks ago. We talked to him and he said his mission call was " we will have a car at your house tomorrow at 8. Be ready to leave for two years." And there was no MTC. Straight to marromeu for eight months and then to Brazil.
Missionaries don't know big words in English or Portuguese.
Elder Couch gave me a great description of a mission. He said that A mission is like a tunnel. when you first get in you you're walking backwards cause you miss the light and it goes really slowly. Then eventually the light fades and you're walking blind and time goes pretty quick. Then you see the light at the other end of the tunnel and get trunky and time flies by.
I think I'm about at the turning around point.
So our door doesn't work at all and sometimes opens by itself. It did that this morning and so my companion creeps out of the room with a pen completely forgetting that we have a machete.
My Portuguese is going super duper well. And its definitely not me cause I could not learn french to save my life.
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