This week has been really good.... but tough. Really tough. This week we ran out of water. About 4 days ago we stopped having water and we don't have electricity a lot of the time either. Anyways so for my caption it was yesterday and we were sitting in a lesson and I started to smell something really similar to a mix of rotten egg and smelly dog. So I continued to teach and after the lesson finished I was so glad because I wanted to get away from the smell so bad. But when we left the smell followed me until I just stopped walking and said "is it me?!" hahaha I guess thats what happens when you can't shower for 4 days in African weather.
But also we have had a hard time with our lessons because our Area is huge!! like we live in the middle of a big circle of a city and to walk to the outside of our area would be about 3 hours in any direction and we are the only missionaries there so when we have lessons far apart it is hard to teach a lot. But this week we had a lot of people bail on us when we arrive at their house after about an hour of walking just to get there. It is really frustrating but we are still having a lot of success so things are all right.
Right now we are teaching a group of siblings named Charmela, Manecas and Artur. They are probably the coolest family I have met here. They are all super intelligent and feel that the church is true. This last Sunday was our fast sunday testimony meeting and we brought them to church and all of them got up and bore testimony for the (kind of) ward. So our "ward" here in Dondo is actually what is called a group. I don't actually understand it fully but we are pushing really hard to become a ward. We just need 15 priesthood holders to pay tithing one week and they can be a ward. Our group/ward thingy has about 60-90 people that show up every week which is so cool.
We had a really cool experience this week when one of our lessons fell through and we needed to go contacting but the area is huge and we didn't know where to go. SO we both prayed to know which direction to go and When we said where we thought I pointed north and Elder Flitton pointed East. So I said lets just go in the middle. Anyways I was feeling super weird that like we both had prayed and received different answers but then while we were walking we found about 4 people in 30 minutes. I knew God had directed us and my doubts disappeared.
Anyways I was asked about my p-day so ill let you know a little. Our pdays actually kindof really stink. We have to wake up at 5 to catch the Chappa to beira to get to a place that we can use computers so we arrive around 730 and email until 930 and then have to go grocery shopping which usually takes about 2 hours to walk there buy the stuff and walk back. Then we Catch a chappa back and get home around 2 and then we commence an attempt at cleaning our house. We eat and by then we usually have about 1 hour before we need to go out to the field. Hahaha so not much time to relax or anything but whatever.
Food wise I am literally a chef. The both of us have made some of the best food that I have had in my life. Probably because i'm just super hungry all the time but who knows maybe i'll come home and start a super awesome mozambican restaurant... HAHAHA
but everthing is okay here. At times its hard especially when you don't have any water or energy but besides that things are coming along. I am learning a ton of the language every day and that is super exciting. Until next week!
-Elder Thornton
Our sad faces because no water but we had some coke so it's all good
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