Elder Alberto, F. Alberto, Thornock and I are sitting around the table, casually talking about our day, lessons, friends, strange stories. It is just another normal night. Suddenly, both of our phones light up and we see Sister Moraes posted something in the chat. We see it is a picture saying "Pay Attention! This is important" At this moment we are expecting the worst, another angry email about something we didn't do. We wait. Finally she sends the message Elder Alberto reads it and grabs my phone and tells me not to read it. Then he reads the message to all of us. The President of Mozambique announced that in two days he would remove the ban on baptisms. We can baptize. All of us shocked and excited. We immediately start making plans, call ward leaders and friends. It is incredible. Everything has changed.
Now for what happened this week. That announcement was on the 20th (4/20) and on the 21st we had some pretty cool stories. We met a new investigator that was pretty cool. As we were walking to her house we passed by a school right as school was ending for the day. So there was 100s of kids leaving. And man kids in Africa are funny. Literally all the kids stared at me, some called me names and even a few followed us around. When we got to the friends house her parents had to shoo away probably 10 kids that had followed us there.
Later that day we had a lesson with a family we haven't been able to meet for a while. I was expecting them to be less interested and maybe even drop us just because it had been a few weeks and they had cancelled a lot of appointments. But when we got there and asked if he had any questions and his first one was "what should I do if I am thinking of switching congregations?" Yeah he also read one of our pamphlets about tithing and was practically teaching us about it. They are doing pretty good, definitely still need more but Africa never ceases to subvert my expectations.
The rest of the days we actually had some problems with the rains. It was kinda annoying but we still got some stuff done. Surprisingly like 10 people showed up to our ward activity while it was raining which goes against all cultural norms here. Still the rain was pretty annoying.
We also spent the rest of our time getting some of our friends ready for baptism this next week. We have five people that are ready to get baptized. It has been a lot of work getting everything sorted out but they are super ready. We just have to get them there. Hopefully everything goes well this next week. The work has changed so much just because of this announcement. Transfers are also this next week and there is a pretty solid chance I leave which really stinks now. But we will see.
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