Prisca continues to progress towards
her baptism on May 31st. We are really under pressure right now to make
sure that she is prepared for her interview this coming Sunday. This
last week we had to finish teaching both the Plan of Salvation and
Gospel of Jesus Christ if we wanted any hopes of having her baptized on
time. Thankfully, we made two appointments with her, and we taught some
really wonderful lessons with her. She has been completing the
assignments that we leave behind with her, and it helped us teaching her
SO MUCH. Peter - our fellowshipper for Prisca - has left for Blantyre
for an extended period of time, so we involved his sister Ruth in our
discussions now. Ruth is a returned-missionary just like Peter, having
served in the Kenya Nairobi Mission. She is a really good teacher and
she could even expound some things better than we could. She has been a
great deal of help to us, and we're excited to have Prisca interviewed
this Sunday.
We also began teaching somebody
named James. James is a referral from Peter and was formerly taught by
missionaries a long time ago and had attended church so often that he
saw himself as a 'member' of the church. When he told us that he was a
member, we were very confused because we were told that he wasn't
baptized. After calling some of his friends who are members of the
church, we figured out that he has yet to be baptized. We haven't taught
him much though. His English isn't the best, so we are going to need an
interpreter to teach him. That said, we've decided to commit him to be
baptized on the last Sunday of June. It should give us more than enough
time to get him ready.
Throughout the week we
continued to do some tracting. We haven't had much success yet in that
regard, but we do have maybe a couple of follow ups this week. We talked
with someone yesterday for a few minutes explaining what we teach and
what we do as missionaries. We bore testimony as well, and it was really
nice. When we go tracting, we usually don't have experiences like this.
Usually it goes for a minute where we briefly summarize something that
we believe in, and then we leave a pamphlet and collect the necessary
contact information - that is, if we do get to talk to somebody. Most of
the time we just wind up speaking to the home owner's gardener or maid
who know very little English. They usually go inside to check if the
owner is home and they come back saying that he's either not home or
busy.It's tough, but we keep trying.
On Sunday,
we had some very unique visitors. There was a Sister missionary who
served here named Sister Getts who has long since finished her mission.
Well, yesterday she came back with a lot of friends from BYU. All of
them are on some internship program where they spend the Summer here in
Malawi. Apparently they will be here and attending our branch for the
next three months! It will be interesting to see how it all works out.
Yesterday after they realized no one plays the piano, one of them went
up front and played the piano for all the hymns. I'm seeing that in the
next few months the branch is going to be (too) reliant on these Sisters
for running the branch.
Well, great to hear from all of you guys again! Hope everything is well!
Elder Massey
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