The week flew by though! And I
believe that's due to working hard and enjoying the work everyday!
On Tuesday, I led my first District Meeting and I feel it
went well! The Zingwanagwa District is powerful! The sisters and the Beals and
my companion are all great missionaries! We discussed more about committing
people to baptism in the first lesson and helping them to see our purpose in that
first visit because all to often here in Malawi people think we are just going
around to study the Bible with people. And it's funny because before mission if
the missionaries were teaching one of my friends at home and committed them to
baptism the first lesson I would have given them fire, but now that I am a
missionary I see how important that is because that's what we want for everyone
since it is so essential! (John 3:5).
We had many many fall-throughs
this week, but we didn't let it get us down and kept going and found some more
great people. Although sometimes you might come home and want to say eesh today
was a bad day beacuse we had so many fall throughs or something, but when I
think about it, it was still a good day and I'm happy to be here. The days are
truly starting to go by faster and faster when before they would never end!
This week we had a branch movie
activity and it was sweet! We invited many people and challenged the branch
memebers to bring a friend and we ended up having a huge turnout! We played a
question game about the Old Testament that got everyone excited because they
know the Bible really well here and then we watched The Prince of Egypt. Yeahh
I watched an animated movie on my mission!
We didn't have any investigators
come to Church on Sunday which was kinda sad, but I was pretty stoked that we
had 2 less-actives come! And something really cool happened as well. During the
meeting, 6 woman came and sat down in the congregation and it was obvious they
hadn't been there before. Well afterwards we all went up and greeted them and
found out they had come because they had seen us last week doing the service in
the rain helping move the Nthenda's things to their parent's house, which as I
mentioned last week, is very far from the Church. Well they all walked all the
way from that area to the Church which probably took around 2 hours! The Church
is true!
Although some parts of the week were hard, like I said in
the title, there are no bad days! I'm loving this work!
Love you all, thanks for all the support!
Happy Birthday to my beautiful
Amayi! (mom)
Elder Grant Hiltbrand
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| Grant's new companion, Elder Ngendabanka, from Burundi. |