April 14, 2014 - Beira - LAST POST FROM AFRICA

This week has been nice, just finishing up my last p-day, and we had a huge beach bask with everyone from the Manga and Beira zones. I was able to give letters to missionaries to give to people in Inhamizua and Manga. Sometimes I am super pumped to come home but sometimes just super sad. I really am going to miss all the people here. Abreu and Carla finally got the marriage process opened in Matola but they are going to get married May 17th so I will miss it. Sergio and Ana should open up the process this week and get married on the 26^th, and we are helping a few youth get baptized on the 19th that have been coming to church for a long time. I have been getting email addresses from the few that have them and trying to call everybody. Still have some left to do though.

  Experience of the week: So Ana and Douce, the couple on the ‘Its a miracle’ video live in Macuti and she has tons - I mean tons - of brothers, sisters, cousins, just tons of family out in our area. We saw her last week and she asked if we would come by and give her dad a blessing. He has been pretty sick lately. So Wednesday we are on divisions and I was walking with Elder Stewart and we go to her dad's house to give him a blessing. So Ana is there, Bartalameu and Audora (old investigators) and like ten other people, most older women who only spoke dialect. So we go in and Ana wanted to start with a hymn but said they would sing one in dialect. So the whole family starts singing this song which sounds super cool and as they are singing just like all these neighbor woman like answer the call and pile into the house. So we gave him a priesthood blessing. Then we got some references of her brothers out of it. One actually came to church with his wife and are really interested. So last night we went to teach them at her dad’s house again. Two more of her brothers sat with us and one had tons of good questions about the restoration. I don't think I have ever taught someone the first lesson who has just understood everything like he did. I had to ask Elder Peckham to make sure he wasn't a member! Also Manuel and Eugenia are seeing a huge difference in their lives and are on fire right now.

     Things are going great and I am going to miss this place but I know the Lord will have other stuff for me to do back in the States. Me and dad will just have to come back and do a safari here in like a year or two!

                                                                                                               Love ya guys. See you soon!

                                                                                                                                           Elder Bigelow