Well, today was fairly busy, but not as much as we wanted.
We started the morning off by visiting B. Steven who have a very interesting question about blessings and curses "unto the third and fourth generation." I'm personally not too sure in regards to blessings, I see the good things your parents left behind for you as blessings, the relationships, items, memories, and teachings received from them are all things I perceived as blessings passed down. I don't really know if blessings in the usual "mystical" understanding of them apply in this sense, I don't know of any doctrine regarding it.
As far as curses that was easy, I just (either perfectly or paraphrased, not sure which) quoted a scripture from the Book of Mormon: "I the Lord am a jealous God, visiting the curses of the fathers unto the third and fourth generation of THOSE THAT HATE ME." (Emphasis added) In the temporal sense, our forefathers can definitely pass down curses very easily to the children: debt, feuds, mistakes, and decisions will haunt their children, not always cursing them, but sometimes making them a victim. As far as other curses from the Lord I'm not too specific, but if you repent you don't need to worry about it.
Anyway, I thought it was an interesting question, so I just wanted to share what we talked about there.
We tried to go see a brother named Mutua after that, the Fundi wa Viatoo (Fixer of Shoes) we met a few weeks ago, but we took one look at his work load and walked away after a quick greeting.
Did a bit of contacting.
Then we spent a while at the church waiting for Benson and the member who referred him to us named Mike. We had a pretty good lesson with them and answered a lot of questions.
Usually E. Mukendi has to pull me back when I get excited and start sharing too much information, but this time we reversed roles with me being "yes, that is all very true, but there's too much information there for you to understand it all at once, we'll talk about it all more later."
After that we visited the Kasanga family and watched some of "Joseph Smith Prophet of the Restoration" while we ate, then I shared the Mormon Message "Continue in Patience" and we discussed it for the spiritual thought.
If ya'll are wondering, I have a flash drive specifically for teaching. I don't have much on it for now, but I'm staring at Monday like a villain while rubbing my hands together greedily waiting to increase my collection. Fun.
11/2
Weekly Planning, bounce, visited a Recent Convert named brother Benson, and met a guy named Emmanuel (is this sacrilegious?). He seems to be doing well, but he made me mad a few times during the lesson because I could practically see the Adversary putting words into his mouth to undermine the teachings.
He asked questions like "How did Joseph Smith come up with this church?" and the were all like that, all implying that this church was a church of man and not the church of God. Every time I noticed I would straight up call it out and cut it down. I'm not going to have a repeat of what happened to Moses.
"Moses, thou son of man, worship me!"
blah, blah, blah. If you don't know the full story I'm referring to ask someone who does, it's a pretty well known one after all.
Anyway, for the funny moment of the day. E. Mukendi needed to get his hair cut and since we were bounced again we had time, so we went to a kinyozi that E. Macapella recommended.
The second E. Mukendi's butt hits the chair this guy starts guilt tripping him to try and make him a repeat customer, then swaps strategies and baits E. Mukendi into contacting him. Of course, we being missionaries, he bites the hook and leaves a book. This guy is just trying to get us to come back, it's something I find hilarious.
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