Letters from Sister Lewis

2/20/17

The Adventures of Lewis and Park Part 5: The Egyptian Cobra

*Disclaimer* I really apologize for my terrible English in this letter. A lot happened this week and I am trying to fit it all in about 5 minutes. Also my English is really broken these days because Shona and Zimbabwe and stuff, so I can't English anymore. Don't judge me, just pray for me haha. Don't let any of my former English teachers read this.

Hey guys! Sister Park and I had another GREAT WEEK! This has been my best week on mission so far, I think! We worked our tags off! It was awesome. Hopefully I remember everything lol.

Monday: After emailing, all of us from our house went to this place called the Tanzania club! It was super yummy. I ate Matooke (bananas) and goat. I have eaten many different animals at this point in my life haha. I do love goat, though. 4/4 sisters would recommend!

Tuesday: No District Meeting! So our District Leader made an inspired decision to not hold DM this week since we had Zone Meeting on Friday last week. Sister Park and I took the time that we would have normally spent in DM walking to White Cliff South! We saw some of the boys, which was super fun. It started pouring rain while we were up there, though, so we had to wait for a little bit before we went back. We also worked with one of our members Elena on Tuesday, and she is one of my favorite people ever. Cutest human I know. We had a ton of good lessons on Tuesday. Such a productive day! The spirit was just THERE! ALL DAY!

Wednesday: Lessons on lessons on lessons again! We were so busy. We started proselyting at 10 a.m. and we got back home at like 8:30. I LOVE IT when I come home absolutely exhausted from missionary work. It is the bomb. Favorite feeling ever! We got to see Henry on Wednesday, though, which was so nice. Henry is one of my favorite investigators. (Do I say that about everyone? Yes. Do I care? No. Can you guys deal with it? You will have to. MWAHA) (Sorry I am super hyper today) We taught Henry the Plan of Salvation and it was the easiest lesson ever because he just gets the gospel.

Thursday: Interviews with President! So we weekly planned in the morning (always a party). Sister Park and I go a little crazy about 98% of the time with weekly planning. It is not possible for either of us to sit for 4 hours in a row (personal study, companion study, weekly planning), so we always end up doing something crazy or stupid about half way through. This week was not an exception haha. We went to town for lunch before our interviews with President, and we discovered SCHWARMA!! It is literally the love of my life. Google it please because I don't have time to explain it. It is a Jewish dish, I think? I don't know, but I am planning on eating at least 50 more before I leave Zim. After lunch, we got to the office at around 2. We were supposed to be interviewed at 2:20, but because President Mkhabela is a busy guy with a lot of his plate and some missionaries need more love and care, we weren't interviewed until around 5. It was really nice to talk with him one on one for a little bit! We hurried back to our area and had two quick lessons before we went home.

Friday: Just a whole bunch of lessons!

Saturday: Okay so I think Saturday was the literal craziest day I have had on mission. So we started off our day around 10 am. We had a few lessons in White Cliff, which was awesome and nothing crazy happened. Then we walked to Granary and had a few more lessons, no big deal. Then we had to drive super far to DZ Extension, where we had a few other lessons, all went well. THEN we drive back to Snake Park for our lesson with Patrick. So here is innocent little me thinking that Snake Park is just a coincidental name. We walk through this corn field to get to Patrick's place. When we get there, everyone is freaking out and we can't figure out why. Patrick lives with a few other people alone in this big corn field. So we walk over to see why they are freaking out, and they are all like, "Snake, snake!" I was looking everywhere to see it, but I couldn't find it because I was trying to look at the ground for it. Eventually my companion is like, "No, look in the middle of the corn!" THIS HUGE SNAKE WAS LIKE SLITHERING ITS WAY UP THE CORN STALK. It was literally AS BIG AS A CORN STALK. I was like oh my gosh, this is the day that I die haha. Except it was nowhere even close to me and yeah. But all of the people were like, "It is an Egyptian Cobra!" So if you want to see what the snake looked like, google it. It literally had a cobra head though. I was like holy cow I did not sign up for that. So Sister Lewis is not a fan of Snake Park. THEN we went to go try and find this investigator who lives in Granary. We had no idea how to get there, so we decided just to ask people. Long story short because I am running out of time, we walked for about an hour and a half trying to find this guy, when his house is like FIVE MINUTES from where we parked our car. It was a nice work out, though! THEN I got home and found out that I almost burned our house down haha. I totally forgot in the morning that I was boiling some eggs and then we left. The oven was on from like 10 to like 7. I am so super blessed that our house didn't burn down haha. It smelled like burnt eggs for a solid day, though. Pakayipa for sure.

Sunday: Normal Sunday! We had ten people come to church, which was awesome! 3 of them should be getting baptized this week, unless anything goes awry.

Guys I love you so much! I am out of time, so I have to go! Please forgive me for my terrible English today haha. I will be better next time!

READ YOUR SCRIPTURES. SAY YOUR PRAYERS. BE HAPPY AND HEALTHY.

Sister Lewis

P.S. I am not sick anymore! But I did get Sister Park sick. Sister Park, when you read this in the future, I AM SO SORRY, but I LOVE YOU!

And P.S. .

"This may be the last week of The Adventures of Lewis and Park! Transfer news comes this Saturday, and we might be split up. I am PRAYING that we won't be, but we are both ready to do whatever the Lord wants us to do."

And one more P.S. One of my investigators said something so inspired the other day. He said, "Jesus is the answer to every situation if we accept him into our lives."

Just thought I would share that. It was so cool.