Fubeca Forever
I am back again for another email, I hope you are ready.
Yeah, it was a solid week. We worked a lot with the people we are focusing on. Focusing our efforts has helped a lot and we are already seeing the benefits. Part of our focus is getting some couples married because our area has like 10 unmarried people we are teaching and almost all of them literally just need to get married to get baptized. I don't know how but all of them have very different and unique challenges and reasons they aren't married. It has been fun and sometimes a little frustrating. However, I think that Elder Mateus and I both have enough experience to know how to help these couples. If I had done this earlier on my mission I probably would have no idea what I am doing. So it has been a good experience and little by little we are helping these people out.
On Wednesday one of the young men asked to walk with us so we stopped by his house and picked him up, then not 5 minutes later we got a call from another youth saying that he was waiting outside of our house to walk with us that day too. Neither had walked with the missionaries before but somehow both wanted to on the same day. So we brought them both, which went all right. It was definitely too many people for some of our visits and they didn't really know how to teach which was expected for the first time. Then we had a lesson with one of their friends and man that lesson do not go as planned, but we managed to teach something and afterwards their friend wanted to walk with too. And Elder Mateus and I were like, okay we have one more visit before they go to seminary, so we took all 3. The lesson actually went really well because we just visited a member who was sick and they were silent the whole time. It was a pretty fun day.
Ward council was pretty fun this week. We were basically the only organization to show up on time so we got roasted by Bishop by ourselves about stuff we need to improve. It was still a productive meeting and towards the end some of the other leaders showed up. It did make us late to our next appointment. That really stunk because they told us that they were going to make us dinner which we thought was a joke but then they definitely did make us dinner. But we had another lesson to get to and because we were late we had to completely skip out on them.
I think that is about it for this week, Mozambique is a blast, except for some parts, like our door being broken for the entire week (making it much easier to rob us). Finally on Sunday some guys showed up and fixed it. But I am doing good.
So that's all, until next time,
Elder Andrew McDonald
Oh yeah I should explain the title, fubeca is a term used by Portuguese speaking missionaries and literally it means fu=fumar (smoking) be=beber (drinking) ca=castidade (as in breaking the law of chastity). So in general it is pretty bad, it also can refer to disobedience in general. Anyway we have a member in our ward who is a return missionary and literally anytime he sees us he says "fubeca forever" and does the Wakanda forever arm cross. Anyway, it is pretty funny and has led to a lot of jokes including this email title.
Yeah, it was a solid week. We worked a lot with the people we are focusing on. Focusing our efforts has helped a lot and we are already seeing the benefits. Part of our focus is getting some couples married because our area has like 10 unmarried people we are teaching and almost all of them literally just need to get married to get baptized. I don't know how but all of them have very different and unique challenges and reasons they aren't married. It has been fun and sometimes a little frustrating. However, I think that Elder Mateus and I both have enough experience to know how to help these couples. If I had done this earlier on my mission I probably would have no idea what I am doing. So it has been a good experience and little by little we are helping these people out.
On Wednesday one of the young men asked to walk with us so we stopped by his house and picked him up, then not 5 minutes later we got a call from another youth saying that he was waiting outside of our house to walk with us that day too. Neither had walked with the missionaries before but somehow both wanted to on the same day. So we brought them both, which went all right. It was definitely too many people for some of our visits and they didn't really know how to teach which was expected for the first time. Then we had a lesson with one of their friends and man that lesson do not go as planned, but we managed to teach something and afterwards their friend wanted to walk with too. And Elder Mateus and I were like, okay we have one more visit before they go to seminary, so we took all 3. The lesson actually went really well because we just visited a member who was sick and they were silent the whole time. It was a pretty fun day.
Ward council was pretty fun this week. We were basically the only organization to show up on time so we got roasted by Bishop by ourselves about stuff we need to improve. It was still a productive meeting and towards the end some of the other leaders showed up. It did make us late to our next appointment. That really stunk because they told us that they were going to make us dinner which we thought was a joke but then they definitely did make us dinner. But we had another lesson to get to and because we were late we had to completely skip out on them.
I think that is about it for this week, Mozambique is a blast, except for some parts, like our door being broken for the entire week (making it much easier to rob us). Finally on Sunday some guys showed up and fixed it. But I am doing good.
So that's all, until next time,
Elder Andrew McDonald
Oh yeah I should explain the title, fubeca is a term used by Portuguese speaking missionaries and literally it means fu=fumar (smoking) be=beber (drinking) ca=castidade (as in breaking the law of chastity). So in general it is pretty bad, it also can refer to disobedience in general. Anyway we have a member in our ward who is a return missionary and literally anytime he sees us he says "fubeca forever" and does the Wakanda forever arm cross. Anyway, it is pretty funny and has led to a lot of jokes including this email title.
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