Eternal Secretary

Alright, so I just want to say that I'm sorry it took me so long to write but this week has been craaazy and a lot of changes happened.

So first off we had Alberto's baptism that was super great! Of course he got there about 45 minutes early and was way excited for everything. He even helped set up for a wedding before everything started. So the baptism went well and also the couple that we helped out a little to get married this last week, the wife got baptized with Alberto and that was pretty rewarding.

After all that, we also had a great family night with some of the people that we were teaching and have dates to get baptized this month. They taught us how to make something called Frango a zambeziano (Zambezi Chicken).... which is incrivel (incredible).

When transfer news came it turned out that both Elder Draney and I would be leaving. So we showed the new Elders a bunch of stuff and people in the ward to try and help them get a good start.

Then, I took Elder Draney to his new area with my car and then I became for the next week,..... a secretary!! hahaha again.... but it was all good because I spent a ton of time with Elder Mere and Elder Hansen and we did a ton of secretary stuff. ...Driving people to their new areas, buying stuff for the mission and taking people to the airport. Some crazy visa stuff went down here for Elder Hansen, so one day we had to go and resolve all of that....so we had to run over to Swaziland and go in there and try to help him get some stamp so that he can stay here in Mozambique..... so I drove a ton on January 2nd...the trip went well and we ended up getting everything worked out for now hahaha..

Also, just barely I got to meet my new companion Elder Latu. He is probably the most laid back guy I've met out here. He comes from California and played a lot of Football. Hahaha, yeah he's a pretty strong guy and his family comes from Tonga. He has a pretty good sized family and is learning Portuguese super well.

But it looks like we are still going to be here in Maputo for a while as the embassy is closed for the holidays and we need to have clearance to travel. So we are here with the secretary's and we are just helping out with some electrical emergencies and other fun stuff that's been going down this week.

Thanks for all the letters and love. I also love ya'll and I'm excited for the new area with Elder Latu.

Love y'all

Goodbyes in Mahotas