Well, my once-a-transfer routine of getting sick has reared it's ugly head yet again. Last night sucked. Not much for today, we just cybered.
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| Cyber cafe. Awaiting a computer. |
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| Fluffy kitties -- cannot touch! |
Well, we tried to work. We taught a lesson, set up some appointments, contacted a bit, then had to come back early because of me.
The lesson we taught was with a guy who gave me a neat little headache because he exemplified several traits that I dislike about the people in my mission. 1: Money and/or Job. Even though it's been explained to him several times it's easy to tell that this guy is holding out a spark of hope that we'll give him one of those two things. 2: They all believe in Jesus Christ, does it matter which church I go to?
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Okay, this is an attitude I've found here that I really, really hate. A lot of people aren't even looking for truth, they're just looking for a church to pray at or whatever. They don't really care that these churches all teach different things or whatever, they just don't care. The only church they seem to care about here is Jehovah's Witnesses. That "care" is an oddly omnipresent hatred for them. I had one guy explain that they don't teach things like the Bible explains them, so that's why he hated them, but I still don't really get it. Aigh...
Anyway, we just couldn't get it into this guy's head that, yes, there is ONE true church. I just waived the white flag in the end and just told him that he doesn't need to believe what we were saying, but he needs to ask God if it's true. He agreed to do so, we'll see what happens.
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HOW DO THE PEOPLE HERE REALLY SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH ALL THESE CHURCHES AND ALL THIS CONFUSION??????????
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| Study room at Kayole 2 flat |
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| Kayole 2 flat |
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| Elder Mukendi |
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| Elders Benson & Mukendi |
9/25
Nothing today. We went to immigration first thing in the morning for my companion. We had planning on going to the Distribution center as well, but I said nope to that because of how miserable I feel. We've just been at the flat all day.
9/26
Well, we actually worked today. It almost killed me at two points, but we got things done.
We met with S. Emmaqulate this morning -she's the only one we have on date- and taught the rest of the Plan of Salvation. She's kinda having a hard time understanding this one, so we're having to take it slow, but we'll review next time to make sure she remembers and understands.
We went to see a member after that. She'd been wanting to have us over for a while, but she was always busy, so we went to see her today. This is the first point where I almost died: she whipped out food. My stomach isn't doing too good at this point, but I tried my best. I didn't feel too good after that, but the Lord blessed me and we were still able to share a good spiritual thought. We talked about making the sacrament more meaningful. It was pretty nice.
From there we had a decent walk to yet another member's home. This one is a standing weekly appointment and we had to follow up on a referral they'd given us last week, and see if they had anyone else they wanted to introduce us to. The answer to the first one is that we actually need to give that referral as a referral to the Mlolongo Elders. The answer to the second one is "yes," but they didn't come to church last Sunday like this family was hoping. Nice.
They also fed us, but I took one bit and waved the white flag. I wasn't as strong as I thought, and my illness overpowered me. Bleh. No, I didn't puke, but I did have to stop.
I explained the situation to this member and she was very understanding - still felt like dying.
I had the Spiritual Thought for this lesson so I pulled from Moroni 7 and talked about our ability to judge between good and evil, and tied that to what President Nelson has counseled us about in these last days, that "we won't be able to survive spiritually without...the Holy Ghost." It was a nice little thought.
Zone Conference tomorrow. My little playground. So long as I'm not too sick I'll have fun.
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| Elder Bamongo, Lucky Summer companion |
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