Bom Dia for me, and Boa noite for you. This was a good week. Elder Taukiuvea and I worked and we found and we did some baptizing too. But yeah, to be honest, I really dont remember anything crazy. We did normal missionary work, so I guess I could send you my weekly numbers or something, but that probably wouldnt mean much to you all. We have been prepping our families for baptism, and they are getting closer and closer. We have one family Arlindo and Virginia, they are a cool family. They live in a little mud house an hour and a half away, but they come to church every week. They are pretty poor, but that is normal here I guess. They like everyone are having difficulty arranging money to get married. He needed to travel to get a birth certificate and to buy the certificate and pay the trave would be about $17US, just to give you an idea, but that is enough to feed a family of 5-6 for like 2 weeks, and he didnt have that money, and we didnt really know what to do. But a few weeks ago we got a church headquarters reference for a guy, except he lives super far from the city in a district called moma. But he was coming into Nampula that weekend so we set up an appointment and we visited him, he liked the message and we were able to give him a book of mormon and stuff and he went back, and he lives so far away that we can't expect him to come to church, it is like 8 hours by chapa. But we found out he was from the same district where Arlindos documents were, so we called and sent some money and he bought the documents and sent them with a friend coming into Nampula, it was super cool to see that the Lord will help us. I dont know that this man will ever progress, but at least he was key in helping someone else with desire get baptized. This saturday we had the baptism of Jose and Euzebio, that is a whale of a story in itself. We went to fill up the font on saturday morning, and would you believe, the font has a hole in it, like a big hole. So we run around town trying to find something to use to patch it. We find something, run home set it up, and start filling. Then we check the font an hour later, and water has stopped flowing. We found out the water company hasnt been pumping water for a few days so our 2500 liter tank was empty and the font was no where near full. To make matters worse it was draining because our patch hadnt held super well. We were frantically calling trying to figure out if there was a river that was deep enough out of town that we could get to or something, but there was nothing, and we couldnt think of any places with a pool. Finally someone tells us to try this club, so we go. This was 30 minutes before the baptism was supposed to start, but we get there and this stupid portuguese man tells us we have to go and that we cant use the pool, we asked who he was to tell us that, and he was no one related to the club, he just wanted to be a jerk, so I told him off (I am repenting of that one), and we left. But we checked the pool one more time and found some old guard dude. We talked to him and he said we could use the pool becuase it was a baptism and he was a pastor and knew that it was important, so we did it, and it felt really good to spite that prideful portuguese sucker. But yeah, so we baptized them in a public pool it was pretty cool. That is about all that happened. For a spiritual thought, I was reading in the Book of Mormon, the account of nephi going back to get the plates with his brother, and I was super confused, like why didnt they just get the plates on the way out instead of the 116 mile travel just to go back, I am pretty sure God knew he was going to want them to get the plates, and of everbody, Lehi probably could have negotiated for them way better. But yeah, I was confused, but then as I read, I got to 1 Nephi chapter 5:8(i think that is the verse), where it says that sariah had been complaining against Lehi and not trusting in the Lord, but then when her sons got back she said that she now knew with surety that her husband was called of God. So had they just brought the plates the first time she wouldnt have had that surety and could have doubted at a more crucial point of the journey. So yeah, sometimes God prompts us, or lets us suffer a little bit, to prove to us that he has a plan. So have faith, and I love and miss you all.
Love,
Elder Anthony Holt
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| Cool Sunset in the Area |
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