November 19, 2012 - Manga

This Week in Africa:

            We had a big district conference (like Stake Conference) with all of Beira this weekend. It was good and Sunday we had like a video broadcast for the whole South Africa area where Elder Christopherson and President Monson talked. It was way nice but we only had one investigator at church because it takes 2 chapas just to get there from Manga.

          Things are going good. We are looking for a ton of new people and had to drop a few this week because they weren't reading or coming to church. We went on 2 divisions this week. For one division I showed my area to Elder Gomes from Cape Verde and for one I walked in another area. We have 2 more divisions this week. It was way nice to see all the other missionaries at the conference and we even saw some of the members from Dondo. As far as crazy stories we had a drunk guy totally wreck a lesson yesterday and Tuesday we were walking with a ward missionary doing contacts and this someone came up from behind us and started hanging on us in the middle, right? and I thought it was Isaias the ward missionary so I was like ‘what the heck’ and turn to say something and it was a super drunk old lady! So we move and she just kept following us around so we ended up having to run away from her and she chased us for a little ways.

     Maria should be baptized December first which is exciting. She has a strong testimony. And Francisco should be able to get married this month or the beginning of next month.

        I'm getting a haircut today and I'm super scared. You are a lot better at cutting hair than the people here, Mom. I think it was yesterday we took a chapa and the guy who takes all your money and opens and closes the door (they have a name here but it's in Portuguese) but anyway he was only like 13 and it was way funny - he was trying to get everyone to pay but nobody took him serious. But he was way good at his job and just the way he said stuff was funny. He was already pro.

       I have no idea what we are going to do for thanksgiving but last night we had a ton of cake and stuff because it was one of the elders birthday. And we had pineapple Fanta which is way good in a bottle. 1st time I have seen it in a bottle but I don't even think that it exists in the States. Have you guys heard where Holden is going yet? That would be crazy if he ended up coming here! I will talk to you guys more next week.

                                Elder Bigelow