No Speak English

Hello family and friends!  

This week was quite the week. So first off we are no longer in a trio! A new sister this week and so Sister Jones is training her. The sister is from the Democratic Republic of Congo. They speak French there. So this new sister doesn’t speak very much English. Hence the subject of my email. The first night we taught her words like shower, bread and chicken. It was pretty fun! Then she teaches us how to say it in French. Poor girl though she is called to serve in English in a country where they speak nyanja and bimba so she is just getting confused! haha It makes me so so grateful Heavenly Father called me to serve English speaking cause I don’t know how I would have done it. She is sweet though and we are learning different ways to communicate. 

Also me and Kivalu had some fun this week! She tried carrying me like the Zambia wowmen carry their babies. It worked pretty well! haha

This week we had another baptism! His name is Obey. (Awesome names the past two weeks right?) He invited his family members and the baptismal service was so good. A lot of our investigators were there and that was awesome for them to see how baptism is performed in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Obey is super tall and so the first time he went under he didn’t get completely immersed and so they had to do it again. And one of our investigators named Teddy was really confused and so I explained to him that it has to be done exactly right in order to be a real baptism. Our bishop also shared an analogy about enduring to the end. Ill share it with all of you. 

So I’ll paraphrase. "Imagine if someone told you that waiting outside was Jesus Christ. Would you go outside? "

Obviously yes

Okay so you go outside and he is there waiting to pick you up. He is in a van with some other people and they are on the way to heaven. Jesus Christ is the driver and he tells you to jump in. Would you jump in?" 

Obviously yes

Okay so you start driving and things are so nice. The road is clear, the aircon is on, the radio is playing nice Mormon Tabernacle Choir music. You would enjoy that right?" 

yes

okay but about an hour in, the radio stops working so now you just get to listen to the tires turning and the aircon blowing. Would you get out or stay in the car?" 

Stay in right?

Okay and then a couple minutes later the aircon goes out AND one of the tires go flat. Are you gonna get out?"

No you stay in right? 

Okay and so now you’re hot, there is no music, and you are traveling at 5 km per hour and all of the sudden a nice Range Rover sport drives up along side you, music blaring, aircon blowing and the driver offers you a ride as he pulls along side you. Would you get in the car?"

Hmmm and you see this is where maybe some people would think, “yeah I would get in the car. But you see the car is going the other way and Jesus Christ is NOT the driver. 

Our bishop, he compared this to how sometimes in life after we decided to get baptized and "get in the car" things they don’t always go smoothly. In fact, they never do. But we have to choose to keep going in the right way and in the end we will be blessed for staying on, so keep enduring!!!!

Also update on Kelvin and Lloyd, his friend. Kelvin is doing great. He should get baptized this week! He and Lloyd were walking to church on Sunday and our bishop drove by and saw them and picked them up! They enjoyed church SO much and stayed the whole time so that they could see the baptism. Every time Kelvin comes he sits next to the blind man in our ward named Noelle. This guy, he is very interesting, if ya know what I mean, but Kelvin loves talking to him and so he just goes and sits the whole time. And Lloyd does his best to sing the songs. They are awesome. This week though we met with Kelvin and he still has some concerns about Russell M. Nelson. We talked about it and gave him the resources to find out more about him and we invited him to continue praying. It’s hard for the people here in Zambia though because when they think of prophets, they think of men that cast out demons and that can prophesy for their lives. When really we know prophets are men called of God to teach us. I am grateful to know there is true prophet on the earth today! 

Anyways I hope you all have a great week! 

with lots and lots of love, 

Sister Moulton