Four is Better than One??!!

Hello! So the subject line explains my week! My dear sweet second daughter (haha) Sister Tukufa was taken to Malawi this week. I miss her so much. We knew she would get moved after a month but it came so fast! So now I am with the other two companionships I live with. We switch off who I go with depending on what the schedule is and who needs me to drive them. For example, at church I drove the first set of sisters to their ward, stayed for their ward and then as soon as the other sisters arrived by bus I went with them and finished with my ward and then stayed with them the rest of the day and we switch back and forth when we need too. Its pretty fun. Honestly, I love these sisters so much and they make me so happy haha. Nakale and Orchard and I are always laughing cause when we go to their area there are such insane people! One of their investigators compared getting baptized to getting engaged, "You have to get to know Jesus before you commit!" It was pretty funny. So yeah, its stressful balancing two areas but the work still moves forward and its not fun to be alone so I’m glad I’ve got four companions now!  

So this week we received this referral from the elders in Lusaka and honestly I’m not sure if this guy actually stays in our area cause he says one thing and when we go he says another but we started teaching him and turns out he has been taught everything and was ready to be baptized but his family moved!  So he wasn’t able but be baptized yet but he expressed to us how much he wanted to be baptized! Like alot alot. So we will see what happens as we keep teaching him, but Heavenly Father really prepares people and gives everyone second chances! 

Also this week we got some of the worst excuses ever for not being at church... this week was a little rough for our area because each companionship was in two areas and so this week at church we had no investigators. It was so sad. Even Kelvin he is doing so well and was ready to come to church at 7 am and told his family he was going and then his dad said before he went to church he had a whole list of things he needed to do around the house and it took him up until we saw him after church to finish. He was so sad and asked what he could read about what we learned in church. Poor guy its like a Cinderella story honestly, but he can do it! And it’s been amazing to see how happy the gospel makes him! Even this week he brought one of his friends to the lesson and his friend was so interested! Kelvin is even being a missionary!  Okay but then some of our investigators had some pretty crazy excuses, "My uncle is coming to pick me to go to cabway," or they just don’t answer their phone and my favorite of the week from one of our old investigators, BONIFACE, "Sorry I’ve been busy trying to get married" WHAT???? I have attached picture evidence to prove that haha. But hey, everyone has their agency and we do everything we can as missionaries… we call the night before, we invite, we promise blessings, we pray they will come, we offer to walk with them, we offer to send a member to get them and then its up to them to make it. And when they do, they see blessings. I am grateful for the opportunity to go to church every week. I took it for granted back home but it is honestly one of the best parts of the week. It’s a time to recharge, learn, remember and rest from the world and I know it is truly a day God wants us to observe and keep holy. 

Oh and just today ah it was the coolest things! Okay so we went to go get sister Nakale’s hair done (she has dreadlocks so we took her to the place to fix them-- she is way cool by the way) and the place is in like a little market and there are restaurants and shops and next to the dreadlock place there was a lady stirring the biggest pot of shima I have EVER SEEN!!!!!!! It was huge. I think I’ve explained this before but Zambians eat shima as their main food. They eat it with a choice of meat and relish (vegetable cooked) so its kind of like play dough consistency. You mold it and use it to eat the meat and vegetable so you don’t have to use utensils. It is made out of corn flour and water. They stir it and boil it for a long time. I have come to really enjoy shima on mission! So I went up to the lady who was making it and she let me stir it and cho it was so hard! You have to be super buff! 

So this next week should be fun balancing two areas, transfer news, and more crazy stories, but I am truly grateful for the experiences I am having on mission. It isn’t easy somedays. I get sad about our people but then you just keep going, keep talking to people, keep teaching and keep listening to the Spirit and Heavenly Father does the rest. 

Hope you all have a good week! 

Happy late Father's Day to my Dad!

with lots and lots of love, 

Sister Moulton