Harper's Adventures in Africa: Exciting Week For Sure: BIG NEWS

HEY!

This was an exciting week for sure. Our ward participated in Mormon Helping Hands. Our project this year was renovating a house of one of our members. They have stayed in that house for long time and the house has been around for 80 years and there was some serious damage and it was starting to fall. So our ward raised some money and on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday many members came to help. We were able to go help- on Thursday and Friday. Most of what we did was the cooking for the lunch to feed the workers, and of course cause its Zambia we made nshima! So Sister Chikpoa (the bishop’s wife) and I and sister Kaunda (the Recent Convert) and also the lady who stays in the house and the other sister missionaries we made a TON of food. We made chicken, fish, sausage, and then a relish on the side made of cabbage and then we made the nshima! There was a lot of work to do but it was so fun! It kind of felt like camping because we were cooking on little coal holders? They call them embaulas. They are so nice! Everyone was joking that the azungu (white person) was cooking and that I would go back to America and cook the Zambian way! For sure I will! I learned some valuable cooking lessons for sure and it was so good to learn and be with our ward members.

This week besides doing the service project we also went on exchanges, went to meetings, and had Stake Conference! It was a fun week, and throughout the whole week it just didn’t seem like there was ever enough time in the day. I love that feeling cause it makes me so grateful for the time I have to spend being a missionary. Time is flying but I want to use every second I have and make it count!

We taught some awesome people this week seriously. I love this area more everyday and then of course like what always happens on mission… Saturday night our president called me. He told me I’m being transferred to LILONGWAY! That’s in Malawi! Its the other part of the Zambia Lusaka mission. I will be leaving at the end of this week! I was so sad and shocked. I cried that night thinking about all the people I would miss and the ones I had come to love and mostly my companion too!

(some of the Missionaries from the Zambia Lusaka Mission)

I’ve been with Sister Kivalu my whole mission but I know that this is what’s best for me and the people I will meet. Which brings me to how on Sunday we had stake conference. So we gathered with ALL the members from all around Lusaka at the stake center. The building was PACKED! And the best part was I got to see some of my old ward members from when I was back in Munali and even say goodbye to my dear ones from Woodlands. I will miss these epople so much. I was amazed by how people would come up to me and remember me and it made me so happy to see them again. I think that is what heaven will be like too! All of us reunited as happy as ever. And I’ll get to see those beautiful Zambian faces again.