Letters from Sister Lewis

8/21/17
HEY FAM!

Oh my goodness gracious you guys! What a FABULOUS WEEK! It went by literally so fast and I adjusted so well to everything like beautifully, you would not even imagine. My whole mission I have never adjusted to a transfer change this well so go me for being good at change now!

Let me tell you about our week!

Monday: This was the craziest day ever. You guys already know that I left Bindura in the morning and came here to Harare. It was a sad day of saying goodbye to old friends that were going HOME from mission because they finished their time! but also a good day of saying hi to new friends! After emailing all of you guys, we had to sit around at the mission office for just a little bit, and then Sister Dyantyisi and I went to go shop. Guys...I forgot that there were like nice nice foods that existed. I was definitely coming from a small town. ALSO SOS BECAUSE I HATE DRIVING IN THE CITY HAHAHA. Sister D and I got home (CUTEST HOUSE!) and planned for the day ahead of us!

Tuesday: District Meeting! Man I haven't been transferred in so long it was so weird like having a whole new district at a whole new chapel haha. I now am in a four man district. Elder Hanson is my district leader (DAD he loves the Seahawks hahahaha imagine small world), and his companion is Elder Leneham. Elder Hanson is from America and Elder Leneham is from Australia. We had a great District Meeting, and we ate banana bread afterwards haha. After District Meeting, we hit the pavement! We saw some investigators and some recent converts. This area is FLIPPING HUGE and I am supposed to learn it all by like tomorrow because of exchanges hahahahahah. Pray for me guys. It was a great first day in the area!

Wednesday: Lessons on lessons on lessons. YOH! We just were trying to find people to teach all day long, and for sure we found a lot!

Thursday: Weekly Planning! I was just trying so hard to remember everything that Sister Dyantyisi was telling me about all these people. After that we saw some cool people, as well. SHOUTOUT to one of our investigators who is named KEITH because that is literally my nephew's name haha.

Friday: HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY KEITH MATTHEW LEWIS! Can you guys imagine that my nephew barely turned two a few days before I left and now he can like talk fluent CHIRUNGU! (English). Pakaipa. FARAI-day (Farai means happy in Shona....coincidence? Definitely because they have their own word for Friday...) was a cool day of just teaching lessons. We also had a baptismal interview for TINO THE TINO. He passed. Shout out to him.

Saturday: We taught some lessons in the morning, and then we had a baptism in the afternoon for Tino! Everything was just kind of crazy because at first we didn't have water in our meetinghouse, but then we did...but it was successful! I didn't know Tino that long before I came, but I was still so happy for him to get baptized! We had some powerful lessons in the evening, too.

Sunday: FABULOUS day of just getting to know all of the members in our branch! I bore my testimony is Shona and everyone was so happy! They were surprised.

THIS WAS A GREAT WEEK! I am so grateful to have a companion like Sister Dyantyisi! She is so amazing. She has had so much patience with me. I can't even say how cool she is, guys. She goes home in like 11 weeks, so we are thinking that maybe I will be her last companion. She was a little sick this week, so please just keep her in your prayers! I love you all so much, and I am so happy and doing well!

HAHAHAHA BEING IN HARARE IS SO FUNNY because I was literally like in farms and the smallest town and now I am in the capital where you can find things like coconut oil and rice cakes. Also....so many white people around again?

LOVE YOU!

Sister Lewis