Hey happy fathers day Dad! Hope you guys do something super fun like fishing or somethin! Thanks so much for helping me come out on my mission and for helping me before I left. I really hope things go well with Woodland and work. I love ya dude.
This week was pretty crazy. We found 2 families and lost 3. Maputo is such a different place then Beirra but I am learning a lot. I guess it's more of what people think of when they think of doing missionary work. A ton of knocking on doors . The good news is we had a super cool lesson last night and the couple does not even have a church yet! We taught the gospel principles class yesterday with like 5 minutes notice and it went pretty nice. We taught about the sacrament. And we knocked the biggest house in our area and we didn't even get rejected! It's only a single mom who lives with her kids and she was not home but I don't know why I love knocking huge houses. It's like playing the lottery - you hardly ever win but I'm sure if you do it feels super awesome. And having lessons in big houses is way cool. Even though the families we taught didn't really accept our message we had some pretty powerful lesson this week with the spirit. I am learning to be more bold with people. I think Inhamizua really helped me a lot with that.
I bought a batik of Captain Moroni! Well the guy is still making it but on the title of liberty I am having him write all the words in Shangana, the dialect here in Maputo.
Right now I am studying the New Testament. I am still in Matthew but I am learning a ton and I am in Mosiah of the Book of Mormon in Portuguese.
Things are going good and I am loving the work! We get to talk to tons of people every day with our 35 qualified contacts a week and this week we have a goal of 45 or 50.
(Oh and by the way you might want to take that picture of me and Candido and Domingas and Joao down in the church. I think he is on my shoulders and holding kids is against the mission rules. He was was crying to me saying 'Elder por favor me carrega!' So I did without really thinking. But now I learned my lesson.
David - that is super awesome you get to go to Kansas by train, man! I am super excited for you. You have to write me while you are there and tell me your crazy stories. And going by train is way fun. I have ridden a couple on my mission.
Well love ya guys tons,
Elder Bigelow
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