01/30/17

Poor Sacagawea

Some of the White Cliff South boys

A beautiful suset!

A rainbow

Lewis and Park

1/30/17

The Adventures of Lewis and Park Part 2: Sacagawea Gets Stuck

Hey guys! This week was actually incredible and amazing and I loved it! I am loving Kuwadzana so much! Sister Park and I are really enjoying all the people we are meeting! Here is the run down of the week!

Monday: After emailing, we went to this culinary arts school for lunch. We were so super excited to eat like fancy African food...BUT IT WAS AMERICAN. We were like what in the actual heck. BUT it was super duper good. It was only a five dollar meal for four courses, too, which was awesome. After lunch we shopped a little bit at this place called LONGCHENG. It is like Wal-Mart on steroids. It is more like a little shopping center place. There are a few supermarkets, a few restaurants, places to eat, etc. It was started by Chinese people, hence the name Longcheng. It was fun to run around there for a little bit. I am pretty sure Longcheng has literally anything that anybody could ever need. I even bought a curling iron for my hair for $14 CHETE (only). I was pretty pumped.

Tuesday: I had to give Doctrinal Study at District Meeting, which was actually a super cool experience. I taught about repentance, and with all of the comments that everyone gave, it was a super good lesson. We all learned a lot. As missionaries, we have to apply everything to ourselves before we teach our investigators those things. I wrote a few things that I need to work on, and so did the other missionaries! It was a powerful District Meeting. We went to our area after DM and saw one of my favorite investigators, Lazarus. He has really cool dreads. We had a great lesson about prophets!

Wednesday: This was probably the craziest day of the week, but it was the most awesome. So there is this part of our area called White Cliff South that we have about 10 investigators in. White Cliff South has only dirt roads, and with how much it has been raining, we can't take the car up there, so Sister Park and I have to leave Sacagawea and then walk up to White Cliff South, which is probably about a mile walk. The first time we went up there, we had a member who lives there come with us. This time, however, we didn't have him, and we got lost for a few minutes haha! This super nice girl helped get us to where we needed to go, though. So we find out after we get up there that the 4 boys we were planning to see got called into work...so we literally walked right back down the mountain without teaching them haha. We went and taught some other lessons in White Cliff, and then we went BACK up the mountain to see the boys. So one of our members who is 18 years old is called Tapiwa, and all of his friends were interested in learning the gospel. First we just met four of them, but when we went back on Wednesday evening we found EIGHT of them just sitting there waiting for us. We proceeded to teach Brandon, Agrippa, Funwell, Munashe, Rashiti, Savannah, DOLLAR, and BISCUIT. They are all incredible people, and they are super open to the gospel. We taught them about faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. It was such a powerful lesson. 

Thursday: Weekly Planning! Sister Park and I were super excited to plan this week because we actually had a ton of investigators to plan for! It was really powerful. We also had a dinner appointment at the end of the day with one of our members, and she fed us so much food. It was super good, though. 

Friday: We spent the day trying to figure out the last part of our area that we had never been to. It was confusing and we got lost a few times, but it was good! We met some really nice people in that area that came to church on Sunday. We also went back up to White Cliff South again to teach some lessons, which was awesome. We tired driving up this time. The journey up went great, Sacagawea took it like a champ and Sister Park was a pro driver. On the way BACK, however, we got STUCK! Sacagawea failed us! Luckily, there was a group of like five or six guys that helped attach us to a combi, and the combi pulled us out. #combiforthewin My legs did get covered in mud, however. Also something funny that happened on Friday was when we got home. We have this really zhing (messed up) chair in our house that is always broken. I totally forgot that it was broken, and I was sitting on it for about five minutes when it COLLAPSED on me! It was super funny and my companion was dead laughing. 

Saturday: Sister Park and I had a really powerful lesson on Saturday about the Book of Mormon. At the end of the lesson, I bore a testimony about the Book of Mormon that was definitely led by the Spirit. I didn't even know I could speak with such power! I love the Spirit so much. He definitely guides every single lesson that we have. Without Him, no one would be converted! I am so grateful that I get to read the Book of Mormon everyday!

Sunday: CHECH! (church) I love church! We had 10 investigator come to church on Sunday, and we were able to have a really awesome lesson about Heavenly Father 

So that is a run down of how my week went! I hope it wasn't too disorganized. I am doing SO WELL! I am also picking up Shona a lot faster these days! Shout out to the Gift of Tongues haha. Hopefully by the time I come home I will be able to speak fluently! I won't have very many people to speak it with though haha. 

I hope you all have an incredible week! Remember your Savior and what He has done for YOU! I love you!

Sister Lewis