This week I can't
even explain how many miracles we are seeing in our area. We had 7 complete
investigator families at church even though it rained! We watched ‘Work of Salvation’
with our zone and are trying really hard to work with our branch leaders. We went
and visited our branch president because he was coming off and on to church and
not a lot was happening in our branch - We have a lot of inactive recent
converts. So we just went and asked him how we could help and showed him that
we support him and want to work together and it was a super nice lesson with
his whole family. He had a super good plan in reactivating these families and
asked our advice. So Sunday after church he schedules branch council and he
sits down with us and all the leaders and he says “today we are not going to
talk much I just want us all to come up with a list of in-active members and an
area to start and we are going to go out and visit these families right now and
give them home teachers and visiting teachers and next week we will gout with a
different group and visit other inactives and give them home teachers and
visiting teachers.” He really stepped up and has an inspired plan. I don't
think I have been in a branch here where home teaching and visiting teaching
has been really working but he has a whole plan of who everybody is going to
account to and everything. We also visited our elders quorum president and had
the same type of lesson and things went super well. The future of missionary
work is the members!
This week we are going to baptize Zaria
I am not sure if I wrote you guys or not about a new couple we found 2 weeks
ago, Joao and Rosa, but they are one of the most prepared families I have
taught. They have come to church twice, kept all their commitments and today we
got all his marriage documents. By next week we should be able to open the
process and they are getting baptized and married on march 8th. We also have
like 4 or 5 super solid families in Macuti 2 which were references.
One of our investigators, Sergio, called me this week while we were out walking
and was like ''I am kinda in a tough situation. I am in jail and my wife
doesn't know yet'' and after he said that I tried to ask him questions but his
phone didn't have very good connection so I couldn't understand anything, I
tried calling him back but they took his phone from him - guess he only got one
call and decided to call us. So we were super worried trying to figure out what
happened. We talked to his wife later and she found out and told us what
happened. So he is a guard for some Chinese guy and was working the night shift
and fell asleep so when he fell asleep the place got robbed and the Chinese
took him to prison. While he was there they found the stolen stuff so all
charges against him got dropped but the police wouldn't let him out until he paid
2000 met. Super corrupt! But anyways he
got back and came to church we were able to talk to him he is super funny. Their
area was super flooded and they came to church anyway. He may or may not lose
his job though.
We are
going to have a lot of baptisms in March and April I think. The people here are
just super prepared and as we work with the branch and take care of our recent
converts the Lord will lead us to these families who will get baptized.
I called
some of the families I baptized down in Maputo
We are
just staying super super busy and the weeks are flying by! It's crazy. Thanks
for the story you sent about Cathryn. That is awesome she is fine. You had me
worried the whole letter. And as for the ASU info can you send that to me
please? Thanks. I just want to check
some stuff. When you talk to Colton
Love ya guys,
Elder Bigelow
Oh and Lucia gets
back tomorrow so we are going to go visit her.
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