Abrao read his mission call. "He was called to the best mission in the world, the Mozambique Maputo Mission! He will report to the Brazil MTC on May 27. He was so happy when he read it and all the members present clapped afterwards and congratulated him. It was a historic moment for Quelimane, the first mission call and the first missionary called from Quelimane.”
Dear family!
I love
you so much! Thank you for your letter this week. I realize I'm sending letters
pretty later than usual. That's because we went to the beach today! It's called
Zalala Beach and it's 30 km outside of the city, it was really cool. The beach
is sooo beatiful. I took a lot of pictures. I can't wait to be able to show you
ALL of the photos I took during my mission. I was only able to download a
portion of them during my mission.
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| On the way to Zalala Beach near Quelimane |
Monday-Friday
were good days, they went pretty normally with lessons and contacts and such.
We've been working a lot to find new investigators through references from
members and investigators and Its working really well. This week we received 14
referrals! We were able to find a new family through these references and a
couple young men who are really interested in learning about the gospel. We
also found a new family that were investigators in Beira then moved up here to
Quelimane. They are really nice as well. The people that will be baptized on
Saturday, Estevao, Tina, and Manuel, are all doing well and progressing. If nothing
changes, they will be the last people that I baptize here in Quelimane, and on
the mission. Saturday and Sunday we watched General Conference. It went really
well. I loved the conference this year and I can't wait to watch and review it
again when i get home.
Another
very special thing happened this week. On Saturday, we received an envelope
from Maputo, which came from Salt Lake. It was Abrao's mission call! We set up
a nice surprise for Abrao. On Sunday after the conference ended I got up to
make the announcement for the branch, as would usually happen during a
sacrament meeting. Then I called Abrao to come up to the front, along with President
Mabunda (we hadn't told him beforehand either). Then Elder Souza pulled out the
envelope, which President Mabunda opened then he gave it to Abrao. Then Abrao
read the call letter. He was called to the best mission in the world, the
Mozambique Maputo Mission! He will report to the Brazil MTC on May 27. He was
so happy when he read it and all the members present clapped afterwards and
congratulated him.
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| Abrao in the center, holding his mission call |
It was a historic moment for Quelimane, the first mission
call letter to arrive. I felt a very special spirit in that moment. I
remembered vividly the moment when I opened my call letter. I knew when I read
the words "Mozambique Maputo Mission" that this was the place the
Lord wanted me to serve. And I know that Abrao felt that same thing as he read
his letter. I was so grateful to be able to share that moment with everyone
here. Now I'm entering into my last week in Quelimane. I plan on making it a
week full of hard work, as usual. Of course I will spend time visiting people
for the last time and taking pictures. But I want to make it as normal of a
week as possible. My companion, Elder Souza, is very very good at helping me
stay focus. We get along super well and he's helped me sooo much during this
transfer. He will take over as 2nd counselor in the branch when I leave, and he
will do an awesome job! I will miss everyone here, of course. I know I'll
return again someday to visit these amazing people.
It's
cool you've been able to see so many returned missionaries speak during these
past few months. I'm a little nervous for my talk already. It will be weird to
give a full length talk in English again. But I'll try my best. But first I
need to prepare a talk for this coming Sunday, my "farewell" talk to
Quelimane.
I'm glad you had good experiences this week with the family. I hope you have another great week. I love you sooo much and can't wait to write to you again next Monday!
Love
Josh
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| Message to my family from Zalala Beach!!! |
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