5/8/17

Ndhlovu did Nafula's hair and I did Beckstead's

Elephant Cloud

Lewis, Rachel, and Ndhlovu

Chalton being a G

Compa and I

Beautiful Sister Poshia

The Bride

5.8.17

Hey Fam!

Are you ready to hear about the craziest week of my life on mission? Here it goes-

Monday: After emailing, my companion did Sister Ndhlovu's hair. While Sister Beckstead and I were waiting, we decided that I was going to braid her hair, as well. Sister Ndhlovu and I were joking around about opening our own hair salon, so look out for that coming soon ladies and gents! We also had a lesson with Tendai (I will tell you more about her later) in preparation for her baptism!

Tuesday: District Meeting! It was kind of a crazy district meeting because we decided to combine with another district to help figure out how we could help the people of Bindura. It was super fun! It was nice to hear some other ideas from different people with the same issues. Then my companion and I went out to TEACH! We got to see Tendai again, and Mercy as well, who was also baptized this past week. We also had a nice dinner with the Pepa Family, some recent converts to the church. 

Wednesday: Lessons on lessons on lessons. We saw the MUZARADOPE family, also in preparation for their baptism. I will talk more about them later, as well. So do you want to hear a crazy story? No? Too bad! I am going to tell you anyway. SO Retreat is a mountainous place, right? The investigators that we were visiting told us that there was another family who wanted us to come and visit them. They told us it was a little bit of a walk, but we agreed. They sent their daughter to lead the way for us. We hiked this mountain for I think at least 1 mile and then we arrived at the house of the people who wanted to see us and THEY WEREN'T EVEN THEIR haha. So then we hiked the mile back and saw some other people. #missionarylife

Thursday: Did I mention that my companion is sick? She got like a sinus infection or something, but she also has really bad asthma, so she was really affected. We ended up having to go to the hospital on Thursday, which took up almost the whole day. She is okay! But we are still working on getting her better. They thought she had MALARIA and I almost died I was so worried haha but it was not anything that bad. She got some medicine and then we went out to teach a few short lessons! We had to do weekly planning in the evening. 

Friday: So here is the beginning of all of the crazy crazy stuff. We had interviews with President Mkhabela on Friday, which meant we were at the chapel from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. After interviews, we had to run our District Leader (Elder Tuua) around from place to place to interview all of our candidates for baptism. Part of the interviews were in Retreat, so we had to go super far. We started interviews like at 3 p.m. and finished at 9 p.m. because we had to do so much driving. It was crazy!

Saturday: SO GUYS SISTER NDHLOVU AND I HAD A MARRIAGE AND THEN WE BAPTIZED 8 PEOPLE AFTER THAT. Now do you see why things were so crazy? We had a WEDDING! I don't have pictures on my camera, so I will send them when I get them from Elder Tuua. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you have to be legally married before you can be baptized if you are living with someone. Noboth Muzaradope and Poshia Manyara were living together, but not legally married. They wanted to be baptized, so we helped them to get married! After the marriage, Noboth Muzaradope (49), Poshia Muzaradope (33), Itai Muzaradope (16), Thelma Muzaradope (10), Israel Muzaradope (13), Pegneg Mudzingwa (17), Mercy Kuyeli (9), and Tendai Sibanda (15) were BAPTIZED!

Sunday: Awesome day of confirmations!

GUYS I AM OUT OF TIME SO I WILL TELL YOU MORE NEXT WEEK BUT PRETTY MUCH I AM OVER THE MOON ABOUT THE WHOLE WEDDING/BAPTISM THING. Please include Sister Ndhlovu in your prayers! 

I LOVE YOU ALL

Sister Lewis