This week was our Presidents wifes birthday, Sister Senna. President Senna came up with a great idea of a surprise party, the only catch being that he was traveling out of the country so the arrangements and all that jazz became our responsibility. Cool no problem, we just solicited the help of the sisters with their Cake baking powers and we made some decorations and found out a way to get about 40 missionaries there to celebrate her birthday. It was going to be perfect, they were going to get home on the plane at about 7 at night and we would have this little tiny party and that would be that, buuut that didn't happen.
We went to the airport and found out that their flight had been moved a little bit. They were actually going to get in at ...... 10:30 AHHAHA soo awesome, the only problem was that there wasn't enough time for us to get all the other elders back to their areas and all that and President still wanted the party so we decided to do the following... go back to the house, pretend that we had President and Sister senna with us, and then surprise them all with the news that the flight got delayed and that they were going to have to stay there wayyy late!! ?Hahaha they didn't think it was that funny, but I sure did.
Then we had an Elder who decided that his insides really really wanted to be on his outsides so he went ahead and had an appendicitis. The surgery went well and he is recovering but he will be staying with us for a while. Also, I have been chilling with Elder Grange and Elder Moreira here in Maputo as Elder Moreira figures out some health problems too. It's been great.
This week I also had the opportunity to teach a couple of people and wow it was amazing. We found A girl that was baptised a year ago with a bunch of her family. She asked us over to help the other siblings get strong in the church again. We went and talked to them and had a good lesson and then she took us around to all of her neighbors and set up visits with them with us. IT is incredible to see the courage of the people here. They don't get caught up in the social image the "what will they think, will they say no" mindset. They just share the gospel. Press forward with an eye single to the glory of God, doubt not, fear not. This church is true and blessings come when we share what we have. You can believe what I say or you can actually LIVE IT the choice is yours.
Love you all hope its an awesome week. Skype here in no time... it's going to be awesome. .....and the journey continues....
-Elder Thornton
P.S. Also I may have given the impression that the Elder blew an appendix the same night we had the surprise party..... if so that assumption is false, the surprise party went great and the Elder decided to eject his appendix on different days so.... yeah
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