Hey, so in case you didnt know this Elder Holts weekly email. This was a great week, and we are doing work. The transfers happened, and I will be staying in Mozal B with Elder Sharpe. But I will be the District Leader, so that is interesting, they dont have any manuals or anything on that, but hey, why not wing it? But this week was super hot, it got above 40 degrees every day until friday. Then we had some weird indescisive rain, haha. But it is only going to get hotter. We were able to find some new investigator families. Unfortunately, they didnt come to church. That has been one of the biggest challenges my whole mission, is getting people to come. The weird thing is that once you get someone to come once they dont usually miss again. But lately we get people to come 1,2,3 times and then they just stop, it is definitely a mental/spiritual headache. But it is all good. We had a cool experience with an investigator this week. So he lives on the edge of our area, like 1.5hrs by chapa. And when we get to the stop, we get out and I looked at Elder Sharpe and we both said to each other, "I think we found Africa..." But anyways, we get all the way out there and we call the guy to figure out how to get to his house, and his phone was turned off. We had confirmed the lesson before we got on the chapa, so we were super ticked, but for some reason instead of turning around like we normally would, it just seemed to make sense to start walking(which makes zero sense with as busy as we are) and so we did. I called the dude for like 25 minutes while we were walking, and nothing. Finally we here someone say Elder and we turn our heads, and this guy comes up and says, I am Iazim, I am Iazim, how did you find my house. So we found the dudes house and taught him, as if that wasnt cool enough, we found out that a year ago, the elders visited him, just once, but they left a book of mormon, and challenged him to read and pray, and he did. And he kept reading and praying because he believed his answer would come in the form of a dream, and after like 6 months, he read, prayed, and that night he had a dream, of his father, preaching to a bunch of people saying that the Book of Mormon was the word of God. He took that as his answer, and we were the first missionaries to get to visit him in a while. Suffice it to say, we gave him a baptismal date, and we will work and pray for the best with him. Other than that we were able to talk to another family about the law of chastity, and they accepted it without a problem, their biggest concern was that there baby would have a hard time being away from its mother during the marriage ceremony. We also have another family showing a lot of potential, and both familes andpossibly a 3rd will be baptized on the 20 of February, and cool thing, on the 20 of february, Elder Neil L. Andersen is going to come visit Maputo, and just maputo, supposedly we will get a meeting with just him, the 40 missionaries in the 2 zones, and Elder Ellis of the 70. So yeah, that is exciting, so Elder Sharpe and I are working especially hard to get these families to the 20th, just because there is the absolute smallest of a chance that maybe an apostle could watch the baptisms. But yeah, please send your prayers, we need them really bad. But I am doing well. I turned 19 no problems, thank you all for the birthday wishes. I know what I am doing is real, and I am so grateful for all the support from every single one of you. Have a fantastic week.
Love,
Elder Anthony Holt
Also, in case you were wondering what the scriptures mean when they say Long-Suffering, it is literally that. Suffering for a Long Time, we figured that out this week...
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