2/23/15
Dear Family
Thanks for your letter. I'm glad to see that the week was
good. Haha that's funny that you couldn't do laundry for a week just because
the dryer didn't work. I have completely forgotten that dryers even exist. No
one that I know has a dryer here; I've never seen a dryer in anyone's home.
About internet, I also forgot that at home the internet can be
slow sometimes too. I guess I just assumed that in America everything works perfectly
well and quickly all the time. I've been away for too long ha-ha.
This past week
went pretty well. On Monday we returned from Maputo, as you know. On Tuesday we
had a mini P-day. We just did internet, the rest of the day was normal. On
Tuesday we also walked with Rafael, one of the young men who are preparing to
go on a mission. I really enjoy working with him; he's smart and has a really
good understanding of the gospel. On Wednesday we had some lessons, but a lot
of time got taken up by our branch presidency meeting. It was a good meeting,
though. It's nice that President Mabunda is back. It makes things easier for us
to focus on missionary work.
We got to visit a
nice family I baptized here in Mozambique. They are inactive right now, due to
a number of factors. They are always really busy with work so it is hard to sit
with them often. But we had a good visit. Hopefully in the coming weeks they
will start to come to church again. We'll keep working with them. Friday was a
good day; the work went pretty well that day too. Saturday and Sunday were
good, but we didn't have much time at all to go out and work. On Saturday there
were the usual activities: English class, institute, and the youth mutual
activity. On Sunday church was good, but the attendance was low. There's still
a lot of work to do to help get that up. The meetings were good, though.
After church,
Abrao and Cornelio hung around to take care of some branch things. They also
made lunch for us, it was nice. Then in the evening there was another little
youth activity. They made cake. I mean to say, they burned cake haha. They left
some behind for us, though. It was pretty good, the parts that weren't burnt.
At night we
visited President and Sister Mabunda at their home and had a little dinner with
them. They are a really nice couple, I enjoy conversations with them. We talked
about ideas and things to put into action to help the branch grow.
Our investigator family
that is progressing the most at this time is coming to church every week. We're
working with them to get them baptized this transfer. Elder Mutombo, my new
companion likes Quelimane a lot so far. We're working well together.
That’s all for
now, enjoy your week! I love you
Josh
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