This week in Africa‏

So just a bunch of random stuff I was going to write last week but forgot... So I guess when you are on the other side of the world some things have to be backwards, like light switches. Down is on and up is off. When you sweat here it's gross you get sticky. And you sweat alot. The African's love japri's (jean capris) Sorry Adam... Yay Alex and regan /flex. I don't remember if I talked about bucket showers. But they suck. If we don't have water we have to get cold water we have stored in the bath tub and take a bucket and a your stuff and go do it using that. And it's cold and not very effective. Oh and women have mustaches and beards here. And chest hair. I seriously saw one with it. Oh and the people here like the asians don't pronounce their 'L's and use 'R's instead. Like herro. But there have been alot of things I've gained a testimony of while I've been here. Like dishwashers, running water, hot water (which we got for the first time this week woo! but only worked once so far :( ), and washing machines especially. I hate hand washing clothes. It takes forever and doesn't do nearly as good of a job. But that's what happens. So anyways now that I got that out of the way we'll get to the serious stuff. Prayer, I've learned more about praying and have gained a serious testimony of it and know it works! Before I came out here I sucked at praying. But now I ask for everything in there, because you can. And you should. Pray often, it helps. The next is patriarchal blessings. They are powerful. I've noticed 3 new things in mine this week that I didn't notice before or instead have a new meaning. So if you have yours reread it. If you don't have it, go get it. So I've found that I come to Africa and I still have to do what I did before I came out here. Which is computer repair. I've had several occassions on which I've had to use that. Our senior couple missionaries here needed their comp fixed and fed us for doing it. So it was worth it! :D And then the district comps out here need some fixing so they'll probably have me doing that as well. So this week we had Zone and District Conference and we had a general Authority with us. It was Elder Renlund. He spoke in this last General Conference when he was called to be a member of the 70. It was powerful. We heard alot from him this weekend. He talked alot from Section 84. One part I'll share is in verse 77. Where we are commanded to be a friend with God and Jesus. And If you are a real friend you would do anything for that friend. He did for you. So you should do it! And that's the short version of it. So investigators. We have 6 progressing investigators, and all of them came to conference. We have David Lengwe, he's powerful and does his commitments. We haven't been able to see him much recently because of his work and he's been traveling so we have to push his baptism back. We have Sis. Mercy. Her husband is a member but he's been less active. But we've been reactivating him and they've been at church since then. She finally got the desire to be baptized after we had this powerful lesson with them. But we can't baptize her yet because she's pregnant and is close. So we have to wait. Jacob and Christoph are 2 boys that just moved back. They were in another area and were being taught by the sister missionaries. And they have a friend named Lawrence who came with them and is really interested. And we have a bap date for them on the 7th! Then we have Sis Ennie. She's been coming to church for a while. She's almost 13 and has been coming with her sister, but never was baptized. So we're going to baptize her at the same time. So that's all the ones we have right now that are really progressing. So hopefully we'll have 4 baptisms on the 7th. It will be powerful! Well my camera is being a downy right now and is freaking out the computer. So if I can get it working I will upload pics but we'll see. But that's all for now. Talk to you all later!
~Elder JV