[On Saturday after the baptism, we went to the round-about in Magoanine we set up a couple of banners and we sang hymns while we passed out the pamphlets with Light the World with some members.
Then we went to Zimpeto to do the same thing, but when we got there, there was a huge storm that went through with lightning and it started to rain and the members did not show up, so we just gave up on singing hymns and we ended up just handing out pamphlets...we handed out like 200 pamphlets in 10 minutes. We went to the terminal where all of the buses were leaving and coming, so we just handed out pamphlets to all the people from the buses and all the people just walking around in the rain. Which was really fun.
After that, it got over around 7 p.m., and then we started driving back. We had to drop off the mission chapa at the office and pick up our car. But we got caught in traffic for 3 hours and it was awful traffic. You don't understand...it's like Mozambican traffic!!! There were people in all directions. It was supposed to be a 2 lane road with dirt on the side for where people could walk....but we got stuck in this traffic that had 6 lanes with big vehicles like garbage trucks and buses that were in the sidewalk or dirt area....it's not like 3 going in one direction and 3 in the other direction...it's a mess. We should have taken pictures....we were there for 3 hours;) There was a miracle that happened...we got stuck in the traffic so we started to read the Book of Mormon and we moved 10 ft. and then we stopped again:) We got home super late and then we got woken up super early by the AP's asking us to drop off the keys to them;)]
This week we had a cool story with a man we are teaching named Shelton, hahaha. He disappeared from off the face of the earth and it was really sad because the way he understands the Gospel is incredible. Anyways this week, before church.... randomly he found our house.... hahah because we are next door neighbors..... and he knocks on our door and says "so when are we going to church?" hahahahahahahahah man I love Mozambique. Anyways, we are preparing him to be baptized on the 29th of December.
Other people, we have a kid named Alberto, who's got 17 years and he is so solid. He comes to church about 40 minutes early every week and loves the Book of Mormon. The coolest part is how he has changed. When we met him, he was honestly a little ditzy, he didn't have a lot of confidence in responding about anything that had to do with God. He didn't go to church before and religion wasn't really important to him. Buuuut we started teaching and everything changed when he started reading the Book of Mormon. Till the point that we taught him about the Word of Wisdom and as we were speaking he started explaining to us doctrinaly how the Word of Wisdom makes complete sense. He is incredible. Also, we will be baptizing him on the 29th of this month.
[Today we stopped off at the house of Abel Fatima, one of the coolest families of all time. Elder Draney was there for his cousins wedding and their baptism. We baptized his grandson last week. So this week after we had printed off a bunch of their pictures from the wedding and baptism, we gave the pictures to them. They were super grateful and we sang hymns with them.
Last week we stopped off at Abel's house around 7 p.m. He told us he had a family he wanted us to meet. We said, okay, thinking it would be really close because he can't walk very well. We walked about like 3 miles to get to their home. They were a great family but they live really far away. They live right behind this huge garbage pile...The one that killed about 17 people last year...unfortunately they did not show up at church yesterday.]
Besides that the work is actually going pretty slow;) We have two siblings that were supposed to be baptized this week, but are having a hard time with work and getting to church, so we will have to see how that goes but we are praying that they can develop enough faith to come to church and also participate in this baptism on the 29th! Hahaha it would be a pretty awesome baptism day!
Anyways I would just like to testify of the power of the Book of Mormon. By following the teachings found therein we will come closer to God than through the teachings of any other book.(more or less what Joseph Smith said) I know that this is true because I've done it. I love the Book of Mormon and testify of its truthfulness.
Love Ya'll!
-Elder Thornton
Elder Castro, Elder Draney, Elder Van Orden, friend, Ana, friend, Jonny, Elder Nogueira
Light the World campaign
Edler Hammer, Elder Christensen, Elder Carlson, Elder Lorenzo, Elder de Jesus, Elder Chirinza, Elder Joao Front Row - Elder Draney, Elder Bertagnini, Elder Thornton
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