Hakuna stima.
Okay, conference so far was very good. I have a rather long list of talks I need to revisit, and it turns out my mother and father were very correct when they mentioned to me that Africa came up a lot. I mostly heard about DRC and Ghana though – not Kenya.
I think I’ll need to relisten to Elder Renlund’s talk. Between this one and Abound with Blessings he’s shown himself to be a worthwhile speaker to go back and listen to.
Elder Bednar’s was fun. The cheetas provided a very good image for explaining the adversary.
I thought the Australian had a fun talk too, and the Colombian guy had a hard accent to follow, but his conversion story had me doubled over in laughter. Even E. Cole was looking at me with some level of concern when I was still giggling a few minutes later. I think it’s been too long since I had a good laugh.
Overall, the two sessions I saw were very good. I look forward to going back to see what else I can glean from them.
Next two tomorrow!
10/14
Cybered, Called home.
10/15
It was a good day today. The Lord blessed us and we randomly got a new investigator when this guy named Gideon just walked up to us while we were standing outside the chuch trying to call the person we were supposed to be meeting at that time. Well, it wasn't hard for us to switch our sights to him.
We taught the guy, and I tried a strategy I've been wanting to for a while: teaching the Book of Mormon first lesson. More specifically, I wanted to try hooking this guy in. We hit him with some information that some people have a hard time accepting (Prophets, God still speaks, we belive in Miracles, etc.) when he asked what the difference was between us and the Pentecostal church. It was a good lesson, we'll see if he comes back.
S. Emmaqulate also passed her interview today! So she should be baptized this week barring any issues. It was fun chatting with E. McGee for the time we had waiting for her to come.
Last thing, since it's week 6 I justified ordering pizza, and I wasn't the only one. E. Smith and E. Segale both had the same idea and when E. Mukendi and I went out to pick up our pizza they just randomly handed me one with Segale on in and really confused me for a long minute there before those two walked up. Fun. I'm not even too mad that they messed up my order.
10/17
"How to Kill a Congolieze"
Give them American candy.
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Well, yesterday was okay. We had DDM, then E. Mukendi and I taught a lesson with a brother named Julius. I'm still waiting to see if this guy will progress, but I'm not sure yet.
For today, we got bounced a few times, got a new investigator when a guy who can't keep time or remember appointments (he had even forgotten today, our call reminded him) showed up with his friend.
I don't know how the lesson was, all I know is that E. Mukendi started begging me to learn Swahili when it was over.
Fun.
We also visited a Recent Convert named Esther and re-taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ to help her review. We also learned that she'd been thinking long and hard about going back to her old church, but then she read Elder Cristofferson's talk: "Standing firm in the Testimony of Christ" and realized that she couldn't leave. Powerful, it's moments like these that make being a missionary worthwhile.
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