February 5, 2013 - Inhamizua

Well Bobo, the guy we found last week, is married on the register! I

can count the number of people I have talked to in Inhamizua married

in the register on 1 hand pretty much, and none of them were interested.

And then we find out that someone is interested and married. Super nice! His

family lives in Maputo right now so we told the missionaries down there

to start teaching them and then they can be baptized on the same date.

But we will see what happens. A lot of the families we are teaching

have absolutely no money for marriage so it's pretty tough. But I know

if they really want it and show the Lord they want it, the Lord will

provide a way for them to be able to be married and baptized.

Manga had a collective marriage and we helped with it all day

Friday. Three couples married and baptized. African weddings are nice!

I blessed a baby in sacrament meeting Sunday - that was crazy. So

this lady comes to the front right before the meeting starts with

this tiny baby and asks President to bless her during sacrament

meeting and give her a name and stuff and I ask him if he knows

how to do it and he and the first counselor just look at me and shake

their heads and ask me to do it and then started the meeting. So I looked

how to do it in the missionary handbook in English while they were

opening and then gave the baby a blessing.

We finally got our energy (electricity) fixed in our chapel so we could have fans

and not die of heat and had drinking water for people. Now we just

need running water so the bathroom works and everything will be good.

We are always just trying to find new ways to do things and get

new investigators.  Super excited for Holden! Give me updates on mission calls.

Hope everything goes well for all you guys this week. Love ya!

Elder Bigelow