3/20/17

A Saviour is Born...Again

Hey, fam! Another great week commenced in Zimbabwe! Mission is running WAY TOO FAST! It needs to slow down! Here's what happened:

Monday: After Sister Jili and I finished emailing, we went to go get my hair done! I did braids again! They were a little different this time, though. We wanted to both get our hair done the same together, but it didn't work out because my hair ended up taking FOUR HOURS to finish. So by the time we were done, it was time to go home! I love my hair, though!

Tuesday: Zone meeting! We had a good zone meeting with our little zone. We just learned how to be better at planning and also how to be successful missionaries. After zone meeting we had a few lessons in this place called Batani. It is the hottest place in our area, I think. I love it, though! I always learn a ton of Shona when I am there! We also had a lot of fun with some of our investigators on Tuesday night. We helped them to bake a cake and then we had some lessons while it was baking! It was yummy and it turned out super cute. Everyday is a new adventure haha.

Wednesday: This day was a little stressful because we had car troubles at the beginning of the day. Our car ran out of battery water (who even knows what that is?) and apparently it was pretty dangerous to be driving without it...BUT WE WERE OKAY! We bought some and filled it up and we were on our way! We had a lot of lessons that were totally spread out, but it was a good day for lessons. 

Thursday: Weekly Planning! Sister Jili and I had a really good companionship inventory where were pretty much were just telling each other how much we love and appreciate each other and it was amazing. We may have cried a tiny bit. Did I mention I love Sister Jili? I will be a wreck when she leaves haha. We had a lesson with one of the funniest recent converts in this area, Sister Uchena. She totally made our day.

Friday: Another day in Batani! We had some good lessons where we met this super cute family called the Moyo's! In the night we had baptismal interviews for the candidates we baptized on...

SATURDAY: This day was SUCH a good day! To start off with, we had three baptisms! Sister Milliscent, Sister Linah, and Sister SAVIOUR were baptized. We baptized someone named Saviour. Coincidence? I think NOT! I still get teary every time I see people being baptized. It just reaffirmed to me that I am in the right place. Nothing makes me happier than the gospel! ALSO Saturday was Sister Jili's 24th BIRTHDAY! After the baptisms, we had some cake with all of the missionaries and members. It was super fun. We also went to see some recent converts who lived SO FAR AWAY! We walked forever haha. It was so cool because we walked through the bush pretty much haha. It was a great day. Sister Jili said she loved having her last birthday on mission with me!

Sunday: We spent half the day in Retreat Farm on Sunday, which was awesome. We were just visiting the people that were baptized, seeing other investigators, and visiting member families. We had a lot of fun and took a lot of pictures with the Manyara family. 

This week was awesome. Sister Jili and I are so sad to be halfway done with our time together. She is staying SO STRONG for the last few weeks of her mission. She is a hard worker, for sure. She is a great example to me. Next week is exchanges, which should be fun. I will be back in Harare for one day chete (only). I am still learning a lot of Shona. I am starting to speak Shonglish. I don't speak English chete anymore. I will throw in Shona words all over the place haha. #blessed

Have a great week, guys! Remember how much you are loved by your Father in Heaven. I have learned on mission that God will always keep the promises he makes to us. This week I had the chance to bear my testimony of that to a girl who was not sure if she could pay for her school fees. She looked into my eyes and told me, "I know God can perform miracles if I have enough faith." Let us all follow her words and have the faith to see miracles. I love you all.

Sister Lewis

Savior, Lina, Sister Jili and I

Sister Jili and I at District Conference

On our way to District Conference in our combi!

Car selfie!

Quick reminder to everyone!

4 weeks until my comp. goes home. Crazy!

My comp. doesn't have time for anyone's sass!

My beautiful Retreat!

3/13/17

Conference, Conference, Conference!

Hey guys! This week was a great week. Things finally calmed down just a little bit! We didn't have a bunch of crazy things happen, which was good. Here is what happened this week!

Monday: So after emailing on Monday, Sister Jili got sick because we think she accidentally took a little bit too much pain medication. She had taken some really small dose pills for her pain, but I never knew that she did. She was telling me about the pain, so I gave her some more medicine.  She did not remember about the medicine she took at the time. She got super light headed and nauseous, but SHE WAS OKAY! We went home and she slept for a few hours and when she woke up, she was A OKAY! We shopped for some groceries and then just called it a day!

Tuesday: District Meeting. We had a good meeting! I was conducting the meeting and I am pretty sure Elder Tu'ua will never ask me to conduct again because I was being silly and everyone was laughing. Maybe I should stick to choristing. Sister Jili and I also got to work with Brother Moses (cool name, huh?) on Tuesday. Moses is always super funny, so we enjoy taking him to our lessons so he can help us translate. It was a good day of teaching!

Wednesday: Zone Conference! It was a little crazy because we found out on Sunday that we were having Zone Conference on Wednesday. Usually they give us a few weeks notice, but this one was just out of the blue! It was so, SO nice, though. The zone (fourteen of us) piled into a combi that the mission rented to drive us to Harare. The ride was about one hour and a half long. Conference went from 10 to 2, and then we got lunch! I GOT TO SEE SISTER PARK!!! I was so excited. She is doing so good! Her trainee is doing awesome, too. Sister Park told me that this past Saturday they baptized a few of the people that she and I were teaching together. I am so proud! After Zone Conference was done, we had to wait around for a little while so President could meet with all the Zone Leaders and District Leaders for a minute. It was so nice to just catch up with all of the other sisters.

Thursday: Weekly Planning! Sister Jili only has 4 more of them left! I have 56 left haha. #powerful Lots of good lessons! At the end of the day, we went to go see the Pepa Family (Peppa Pig...shout out to my niece, Kendall, who can't even read this shoutout!) and they fed us dinner. YOH! That mama can COOK! It was super yummy, but she also fed us so much food.

Friday: Every so often on mission, we have fall-through days. This day was a fall-through day! Almost all of the people we planned to see weren't home! We did get to see a few of them, though, which was good! Sister Jili and I spent the night fixing our area book which died from the flood haha.

Saturday: We got to teach some lessons in RETREAT, aka my favorite part of my area. We taught this girl and her name is Savior. Literally the coolest name ever, right? She is being baptized this week if all goes according to plan! She is so super sweet. She is 15 years old. Her mom was just baptized a few weeks ago. I know she will be a strong member.

Sunday: HOLY MOLY Sunday was my favorite day of this week. We had a District Conference (a district is like a stake, but smaller). For two hours, I was just spiritually uplifted like crazy. There were SO MANY good talks! President Mkhabela's first counselor spoke about WOMEN and how powerful women in the church are. He talked about how men should respect women, and how husbands should treat their wives like queens. It was an awesome talk. At the very end of the conference, President Mkhabela (my mission president) gave one of the most incredible prayers I have ever heard in my whole life. He was giving a dedicatory prayer over the building. I was crying through the whole prayer, which was crazy because I have only cried like twice on mission. I can't even explain it, but the whole congregation could just feel the Spirit there so strongly! It was awesome.

This week was a really great week for me. I have seen myself growing so much. I can't wait to grow more. Today is the 6th month mark for my time in Zimbabwe! On March 13th, 2018 I will be flying home! It seems like time is running so fast. There is no way I am 1/3 of the way done with my mission! I really liked what Elder Ellis told us about mission, though. He said, "Of course they say that your mission is the best year and a half of your life. You get to walk with God for 18 months. When else do you get to say that?"

I love this gospel so much! I can't wait for this next upcoming year!

Have a great week, guys! I love you all and I pray for you! Try to do something good for someone else this week!

Love, Sister Lewis

3/6/17
Farewells, Flat Tire, Floods, Fries, Face.....

Bindra Sunset

Sister Park and I for the last time as companions (we didn't even mean to match)

Me carrying water on my head with some girls from Retreat

We found sunflowers

113 year old Sedura we met

My cute companion-Sister Jili

Retreat

3/6/17
Farewells, Flat Tires, Floods, Fries, Face....
Craziest week of my life? Yep. Did I enjoy it? YEP! Let me go back to the highlights of last week because I didn't get to write last week! 

Monday 20 Feb: We went to Lake Chivero! It was super fun and super beautiful. I am including pictures, so that is where we were haha. Sister Park, Thomas, Namugenyi, and I just walked around the lake and had fun!

Thursday 23 Feb: Missionary Broadcast! All the missionaries in Harare got together and were able to watch the broadcast that happened in January. I loved getting to hear the Apostles speak! David A. Bednar is SUCH a powerful guy! 

Saturday 25 Feb: Sister Park and I baptized 3 men on Saturday! We had like 20 people on date in Kuwadzana, so she will be baptizing all of them without me now! I was bummed to go before I got to baptize all the people I was teaching, but I was so glad to see Henry, Edward, and Prince baptized! They were especially important to me. I will attach pictures! 

Monday 27 Feb: It was such a huge long day that day haha. I emailed at the mission office from like 9-10, and then the rest of the day was spent running around with all of these other sisters. Sister Park and I split up since we weren't companions anymore. She had a different emailing time than me, so I hung out with Sister Erickson, Bergen, and Buthelezi for the day. It was fun, but most of the day was spent waiting at the office to leave for Bindura, which was hard. I was SO EXCITED though because I got to see some of the missionaries I was with in Gweru. It was just kind of an emotional day all over the place. I got to see old missionaries, but I also had to say goodbye to the ones I loved! Eventually, around 4, we left Harare for Bindura. It was about an hour ride, which wasn't bad. Man, Bindura is BEAUTIFUL! SO many mountains, SO GREEN! It is awesome.

Tuesday 28 Feb: First District Meeting! It was pretty good! We are all still getting to know each other, but I like my district! So right after District Meeting, we find out that we have a FLAT TIRE. Oh. P.S. I forgot to tell you. Sister Jili (AKA MY FAVORITE HUMAN BEING ON THE PLANET) can indeed drive a manual, but President Mkhabela still wants me to learn so that when she leaves in 5 weeks (saddest thing of my life) I will be able to drive. BUT! Back to the story. So the zone leaders took us to the tire repair place where it took like an hour to get all that sorted out. After that, we went for lunch. Eventually we FINALLY got to go to the area and teach some lessons. It was a good day, Crazy, but good. 

Wednesday 1 March: THE FLOOD. So Wednesday morning, Sister Jili and I wake up and there is WATER up to our ANKLES all over the floor. So that was cool. Our water wasn't working for a little bit, and someone turned a tap on without remembering to turn it off. The water turned on somewhere around 1 in the morning and just started filling our house. So from about 6 to 9 in the morning, we were scooping water out of our house. Then, we had to work on fixing all of the things that were water damaged on our floor. We had a TON of stuff on the floor since I was working on unpacking. EVERYTHING IS OKAY, THOUGH! Nothing got damaged beyond repair, which was awesome! We also had to do our laundry, though, because we didn't want our clothes to smell. There is no washing machine in this house, so Sister Jili and I were handwashing. It is actually super fun and easy so #yaas We didn't get to leave the house until like 1 and then we had to help the other sisters move out of our house where they were just staying temporarily, so I didn't really get to see very much of the area. 

Thursday 2 March: Weekly Planning! It was a little hard to weekly plan because our area books had gotten wet from the flood, and they are still not yet dry. We did, though, and then we went to the area for a full day! We also ate FRIES for lunch, so that matched our theme of "F" for the week. Farewells, flat tire, flood, fries. We also had a lot of fall through appointments on Thursday, which happens every so often. Sister Jili was given permission from President to learn how to drive a manual better, though, so on Thursday night we spent some time with the zone leaders while Elder Brooks was teaching Sister Jili how to drive the manual. It was fun and she did a really good job! I also learned a ton, but I didn't get behind the wheel...YET!

Friday 3 March: This was like a totally normal day full of lessons, which was a huge relief. I was missing normality in my life! 

Saturday 4 March: I got to see RETREAT aka the most beautiful place I have ever been in my whole life. Retreat are villages up in the mountains of Bindura. We just drove/hiked to people living in hut type things. It is a really open area with not a lot of houses, which is cool. I will attach pictures. 

Sunday 5 March: First Sunday in the branch was SOO GOOD!! We had some investigators come to church, which was good. I also ran my face into the gate of our house, which was not so much fun. I seriously just ran right into this hard part of the gate with my eye. Life is hard when you aren't coordinated. On Sunday night, Elder Brooks tested me on the manual. I DID SO GOOD! I did not even kill the engine once. I just need to be certified by Elder Carrell and then I will be good to drive around Bindura! I still need a little practice, but I am not terrible!

Life is good as usual, guys. I love Sister Jili so much. She is from South Africa! She goes home, like I said before, at the end of this transfer. I have never connected with someone as fast as I have connected with Sister Jili! She is my best friend. I feel so blessed that President chose ME to be her last companion. Heavenly Father truly has a plan for each of us. 

I love Bindura! It is super small town, which is awesome! Mountains everywhere, super green, kind people. I will send pictures for sure. Our house is nice! It is big for just the two of us, but we are enjoying. I am back to bucket bathing! No washing machine, like I said, which is gonna be a fun time haha. 

I am so disorganized still in my brain today, but I am happy! Sorry this group email was a hot mess, but I hope you enjoy! 

I want to testify to you that the gospel is real. Heavenly Father is real and He KNOWS what is best for each one of us. The moment we put our will and our life into His hands is when we become happy. I can handle any change that is thrown at me now because of that. I hope it will be something that all of you will get to experience. 

Ndino kuda! Have a great week!

Sister Lewis

P.S. Sister Jili speaks like FLUENT Shona, so I am learning so much from her!

P.P.S. Um...so I met this sekuru that is ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN YEARS OLD this week. Just chill. He still works in his own field and get his own firewood. what a champ. 

2/28/17
The Adventures of Lewis and Park: Farewell, Kuwadzana

Guys. SOS. I am just going to tell you this now because I can't wait haha. We got transfer news on Saturday that I am going to BINDURA with SISTER JILI! First, I am so sad I am leaving Sister Park in Kuwadzana (SHE IS TRAINING A NEW MISSIONARY!), but I am SO EXCITED to go be with Sister Jili in Bindura. Sister Jili is the most kind missionary I have met here in Zimbabwe. We have been talking for the past 2 transfers about how much we wanted to be companions. President Mkhabela came up to me today and was like, "Sister Lewis, why aren't you crying? I thought you would be angry with me." I told him I was excited to go to Bindura to be with Sister Jili. He said, "I am so glad. I was trying to figure out how to leave you in Kuwadzana, but I prayed for a really long time, and the Spirit told me you needed to be in Bindura with Sister Jili." My mission president is the LITERAL BEST! Revelation for the win! I sustain him fully haha. 

So I am just really disorganized right now and can't even think of what happened this week. Oh! I just remembered, though. There is a 75% chance I will be driving in Bindura...#whyme I was not so sure about that revelation, but I am rolling with it haha. I will be driving a stick shift I think. I learned how to once like 3 years ago, and Elder Carrell, the person in charge of the cars, was like, "You can do it, Sister Lewis! I believe in you!" So...we shall see. I will try for sure to be a good driver. Sister Jili can drive, too, but she doesn't know how to drive a stick at all...so...pakayipa (life is hard). 

I really can't even focus enough to write a good email right now, but I will next week haha. Sister Park and I had an awesome week! We baptized three people! I will talk about them next week.

Forgive me for my weakness in writing! Have a great week! Don't forget to pray

Love, 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. 

Matooke and Goat!

Sister Park "tasting the rainbow"

Sister Park pointed out that the shadow of our car looks like Shrek haha #true

I put Sister Namugenyi (former comp) on my back like a giant baby!

I am totally carrying my babies like this!

I may have fallen asleep like this last night...

---

KL

2/13/17

Selfie if the week. I was looking really tired

Sister Walbeck and I! She is so cute

So...we had a snake in the house this week. We named him Gilbert. We didn't kill him, and we didn't keep him.

Me and Gilbert

Marimba Park/Harare South Zone!

This week we found a puppy!

Me and Spike

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Sunset

My companion wearing Sister Thomas's glasses. She was trying to look Super Asian haha

Sister Park and I

House Picture! Sister Thomas, Sister Namugenyi, Sister Park, Sister Lewis

So...yeah. WE took a lot of funny pictures haha

Smolder

Joshua 7:10 "And the Lord said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?"

The Adventures of Lewis and Park Part 4: WORK!

Macadini! I hope you are all doing well! 

So...let me explain my scripture haha because it does have significance! This week, Sister Lewis got sick! BOO!  LUCKILY it was only like congestion and a cough. I wasn't sick to my stomach, which was a huge blessing. Everyday when I woke up this week, I couldn't talk for a solid ten minutes haha. My companion would always ask me if I needed to stay home to get better, and my response was always, "For what?!" We had way too much to do this week! There was no way I was staying inside. We had souls to save! So, instead of laying on my face all week, I worked! AND I GOT BETTER SO FAST! The Lord helped me out so much. I wasn't even tired or anything. It was awesome. #blessed I was bummed, though, because it was the first time on mission I have been sick. It was bound to happen, though, so I am glad it was just a tiny cold. 

Monday: After emailing, we went and shopped and stuff. I love spending preparation day with the sisters in my house. Sister Thomas is the best and obviously I love Sister Namugenyi because she used to be my literal companion. Oh, I forgot! Sister Park got pulled over on Monday for a totally nonsense reason haha. She was in the middle of the intersection when the light turned yellow, so she had to turn when the light was about to turn red. She got ticketed. Luckily it was only $10, but we were all not very excited about it haha. Now we laugh and joke about the light turning yellow whenever we drive. "What did you want me to do, officer?" We love Zim police haha. 

Tuesday: District Meeting! After DM, we ate lunch and then went to the area. Sister Park and I had a ton of lessons on Tuesday, which was good because the rest of the week was kind of crazy. We saw a ton of my favorite investigators this day, so I was in a good mood for sure! We had an awesome lesson about the Plan of Salvation with Lazarus, Alphios, and Alex. They are powerful guys. 

Wednesday: EXCHANGES! This day was literally so fun. Sister Park and I went to Chitunguiza to work with Sister Hopkins (Arizona) and Sister Walbeck (Utah). I got to work with Sister Walbeck, and I was so excited! We had an AWESOME day together! I would be so happy if she was my companion in the future. She is super awesome. It was so cool because all of the lessons we had were crazy spiritual. It was not even my area, but I got the feeling at the end of the day when I was praying that all of the people that I had met today were supposed to meet me. God works in mysterious ways! It was such a spiritually incredible day. I loved it. 

Thursday: So Thursday was a little bit challenging. We did weekly planning as usual, but then George (the guy who the church hired to fix our house) came over to fix this giant hole we had in our ceiling. He came at around 11, and didn't leave until 5 in the evening. Sister Thomas and Sister Namugenyi went to their area, so Sister Park and I had to stay home until George left. We didn't get to teach any lessons, which we were bummed about. We were super grateful that George fixed our house, though. It needed some work done. Sister Park and I worked from about 5 to 8 and just contacted, mainly. Our car also got stuck again haha. The only people around were a bunch of drunk guys, but they got it figured out which was awesome haha. They lifted our car and helped us get out! It was so nice of them.

Friday: Zone Meeting! On Friday we all got together as a zone to get some training from our Zone Leaders. It was supposed to go from 10-1, but it ended up going from 10-2. Sister Lewis doesn't do well these days sitting, so that was a challenge. It was really good, though! We enjoyed. After Zone Meeting, we grabbed lunch and then went to go teach. We only saw a handful of people, but it was a good day! We met this guy for the first time and he was like, "I want to be baptized! I prayed to know which church was the true church, and then someone gave me your number!" My companion and I were not even surprised. Heavenly Father can do anything! He prepares people for us, for sure. 

Saturday: Nothing on the schedule but TEACHING, which we were so excited about. We got to teach a ton of people, and it was a great day! We went to work for sure. 

Sunday: Church! I love church. Church is awesome. This week, Sister Park and I had 17 investigators attend church! We were so excited! The branch is really excited, too. Our goal is to turn the branch into a ward by the end of the year. Obviously Sister Park and I won't be there for that long, but we will try our best to help as much as possible! People in Kuwadzana are READY for the gospel! 

That was my week! I hope you guys had a great week! I did for sure. I am so happy! I never want to come home haha. I am still growing spiritually SO MUCH! Every week I have a different goal for myself. I have a lot of weaknesses, but I am slowly overcoming them through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. It feels so good to progress. I am glad I get to change while my investigators are changing, too!

I love Kuwadzana and I LOVE Sister Park. We are best friends haha. Love you guys!

Sister Lewis

2/6/17

Jenna and Housemates

Caught in the rain

Jenna and Sister Park

Sister Park with a cute kitten

Jenna with kitten

Drenched from the rain!

Elder from Denmark

The Adventures of Lewis and Park Part 3: "Burned for the Lord"

Hey guys! I had YET ANOTHER fabulous week...as usual! 

Monday: After emailing, we went and ate lunch and shopped. Guys, I will give you 5 bond notes if you can guess where we ate...KFC! I know you are all thinking, "what?!" Same. I was so shocked. My companion was like, "Do you want KFC for lunch?" and I was like, "Heck yeah!" So we got KFC. It honestly is a lot better here in Zimbabwe than it is in America. They also have sadza as a part of their menu, which was cool.

Tuesday: District Meeting! We ate Nando's for lunch after DM, which is such an incredibly wonderful place. TOO BAD it isn't in America! So I won't be able to eat there once I get home. Sister Park and I saw Lazarus, who is one of my favorite investigators! I probably say that about everyone, but Lazarus is just a cool guy. We taught him about the Book of Mormon and he was so excited to read it! 

Wednesday: This day was the literal craziest day, but it was good! So remember how last week we got Sacagawea stuck? Yeah so we really didn't want that to happen again. This time, we parked our car at one of our members houses and walked up to White Cliff South. Was it around a mile and a half walk? Yes. Did we enjoy it? Also yes. Did Sister Lewis wear sunscreen? NOPE. #regrets So we get up to White Cliff South, and ALL of our appointments fell through! We had about four appointments planned up there, but no one could see us! So we walked back down the mountain, and had our appointments in White Cliff. We saw a few people, and then made our way BACK to White Cliff South to see the boys. By the time we get back up there, I am pretty much fried. #oops So Tapiwa's mom said something SO POWERFUL as we were waiting for the boys. She only speaks broken English, but she was pointing out that I got burned. She looked at me in the eyes and said, "But you are burned for the Lord." I sat there in profound silence. I wasn't even mad that I got burned or anything, but I was like WOW this lady has awesome perspective. It was a great day!

Thursday: MISSION TOUR! So Elder Ellis from the Presidency of the Africa Southeast Area came and spoke to us. He was really inspired and gave us so much encouragement, and also things that we needed to work on. The most spiritual moment, though, was a talk that was given by one of the missionaries of our mission. I won't mention the name for privacy's sake, but they gave a beautiful talk about the Plan of Salvation. At the beginning of the talk, they told us that they had just found out the week before that their mom had passed away. I cannot even imagine the difficulty of losing your mom on mission. This missionary was so strong, though, and told us about their decision to stay on mission and finish until their time to go home. Please pray for this missionary! I am doing so. I really respect their strength and bravery.

Friday: Normal proselyting day, but we also got to do weekly planning on Friday since we didn't get to do it on Saturday! 

Saturday: Normal proselyting day! Nothing to report on. Lots of spiritual lessons! 

Sunday: Fast Sunday! These days are always my favorite. I love going to church every week! We had investigators keep their commitments of coming to church, which we were so happy about! Sister Park and I got to teach Young Women's because they didn't have a teacher! We also taught Gospel Principles. We just get to teach a whole lot haha. 

I had a great week! I am happy, healthy, and loving life! Have a great week!

Love, Sister Lewis