March 10, 2014 - Beira

  Well transfers today were pretty crazy - our whole house is staying exactly the same! I am excited though to stay here with Elder Peckham. This week we did a lot of marriage documents. We finally opened up Joao and Rosa’s process for the 22 of this month and we have two more families we are trying to baptize on the 29th who are both references from Douce and Ana, who are recent converts. They are actually on the video ‘It's a Miracle.’

    So in our area in Macute we have a part where we work which is pretty poor and on the other side of the road are just huge mansions. When we tried to do contacts over there nobody is ever home or are muslim. We actually contacted the ambassador from Zimbabwe over there. But anyways - this week we got a reference from other missionaries from a guy who they said had a super nice truck. So I called him and as soon as he explained where he lived I knew he had to be filthy rich. So we walked to where he said he lived and his house was 5 cars 3 story house!!! Biggest house I have been in in Mozambique. His name is Simon and he has a job pretty high up in the government. But he had tons of questions and really wants to know which church is true. He has been to tons of churches and he has a huge mix of beliefs, but we taught him twice on his balcony 3 stories up overlooking Macute. He didn't come to church, but has been reading in the Book of Mormon and we know he will help out the church a ton. Plus he gives us juice every time we go over!

    This month at the end I am pretty sure the branches in Beira will split and in Manga as well. As soon as that happens, more missionaries will be sent here to Mozambique! Our frequency yesterday was 263! We are working super hard trying to get 4 families we found last transfer baptized and I am super pumped!

   Love you guys

                 Elder Bigelow