The Last Zone Conference
First off, sou homem (I am a man). Second, things are really starting to come to a close. I still have 3-4 more weeks but I'm passing by all the landmarks. My last zone confrence, my last testimony, my last interview (until my going home interview). I've gotten a lot of good things done, but I feel the time slipping between my fingers. Plus with interviews, zone confrence, baptisms and everything else we didn't get as much work done as we would like. But I'm actually quite happy and content, and not trunky at all (which has me a little surprised).
Wednesday we were able to head to Baixa (downtown) to finalize some marriage preparations. Our couple is super close now! When we got the documents they told us we would need to get signatures for both the husband and the wife. The husband was with us but the wife was working. We found out that she works in a cemetery on the other side of downtown, so we had to walk all the way there, and then come back. But after a few hours it was done. We'll pick up the documents soon and then we just need to mark a wedding date. It will be awesome.
Friday was my last zone conference. It was really cool, the biggest change is they made it a multi-zone conference, including 3 out of the 4 zones (sorry Nampula zone). There was a ton of missionaries there, so many familiar faces, as well as some new ones. It was super fun. We had some sweet trainings, Sister Moraes talked three times about physical problems or health issues missionaries were having. It was pretty typical. Then we had some solid trainings by the AP's (shoutout to Mikkelson and Allen). Then we had final testimonies and of course out of the six missionaries going home, I was last. It's crazy, I have seen so many going home testimonies and now I have born mine. After I bore my testimony I literally just sat there and thought for 15 minutes about what had just happened. It's crazy. President's training was really good. I don't know exactly what the message was but he was very proud of our work and also very sad. I have never seen President so sad. I'm not totally sure why he was sad, but he was doing really good in my interview the next day.
The biggest problem the mission is confronting right now is all the old, tired and sad missionaries. Just to be clear, work here is awesome, I have heard our mission is the highest baptizing in the world. However, for various reasons all the missionaries who are going home are really tired and sad. It's tough but it'll work out.
A not as cool or fun note this week is that our washing machine broke this week and for whatever reason it took the repair man a few days to show up and when he fixed it, it broke again pretty quickly. It's really fun in a house with six missionaries.
Now for a cooler and more fun note we did some service! We were walking to a lesson and we saw one of our investigators hoeing (to pull up grass). We had mentioned service to her earlier so when we asked if we could help she accepted (very rare here). So we started hoeing and let me tell you, its a lot easier in Minecraft. After pulling up grass for a while Elder Falcão hit something that wasn't grass. It was a snake! And it was alive! And it was black (poisonous)! Fortuatly, snakes are really weak and Elder Falcão cut off its head. It was creepy because the head kept on writhing around and opening and closing, it was creepy. But hey, it's a pretty good story.
That's all for this week, thank you for your continual attention, have an excellent week. And I'll see you next time (cue outro).
Elder McDonald
Wednesday we were able to head to Baixa (downtown) to finalize some marriage preparations. Our couple is super close now! When we got the documents they told us we would need to get signatures for both the husband and the wife. The husband was with us but the wife was working. We found out that she works in a cemetery on the other side of downtown, so we had to walk all the way there, and then come back. But after a few hours it was done. We'll pick up the documents soon and then we just need to mark a wedding date. It will be awesome.
Friday was my last zone conference. It was really cool, the biggest change is they made it a multi-zone conference, including 3 out of the 4 zones (sorry Nampula zone). There was a ton of missionaries there, so many familiar faces, as well as some new ones. It was super fun. We had some sweet trainings, Sister Moraes talked three times about physical problems or health issues missionaries were having. It was pretty typical. Then we had some solid trainings by the AP's (shoutout to Mikkelson and Allen). Then we had final testimonies and of course out of the six missionaries going home, I was last. It's crazy, I have seen so many going home testimonies and now I have born mine. After I bore my testimony I literally just sat there and thought for 15 minutes about what had just happened. It's crazy. President's training was really good. I don't know exactly what the message was but he was very proud of our work and also very sad. I have never seen President so sad. I'm not totally sure why he was sad, but he was doing really good in my interview the next day.
The biggest problem the mission is confronting right now is all the old, tired and sad missionaries. Just to be clear, work here is awesome, I have heard our mission is the highest baptizing in the world. However, for various reasons all the missionaries who are going home are really tired and sad. It's tough but it'll work out.
A not as cool or fun note this week is that our washing machine broke this week and for whatever reason it took the repair man a few days to show up and when he fixed it, it broke again pretty quickly. It's really fun in a house with six missionaries.
Now for a cooler and more fun note we did some service! We were walking to a lesson and we saw one of our investigators hoeing (to pull up grass). We had mentioned service to her earlier so when we asked if we could help she accepted (very rare here). So we started hoeing and let me tell you, its a lot easier in Minecraft. After pulling up grass for a while Elder Falcão hit something that wasn't grass. It was a snake! And it was alive! And it was black (poisonous)! Fortuatly, snakes are really weak and Elder Falcão cut off its head. It was creepy because the head kept on writhing around and opening and closing, it was creepy. But hey, it's a pretty good story.
That's all for this week, thank you for your continual attention, have an excellent week. And I'll see you next time (cue outro).
Elder McDonald
Editor's Note:
The note in the beginning about being a man is an inside joke with some of the Brazilians in my apartment.
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