Elder CJ Rees

I have had to drive all day!  Not able to write, but know that I am good and I know this Gospel is True!!  More next week!

Great week, I don't even know where to start!  So i'll break it down.  Monday - p-day talked with the family  Tuesday- normal day.  We did some great work in the area.  We are spending a lot of time in Chamba( the 2nd area we are working) We have 5 people on date to be Baptized this Saturday.  It looks like it will happen.    Wednesday-  Great day again!  We have been out teaching in our main area.   We got a call about our flight to Maputo. We leave Friday morning.  We have been dropping of stuff in Dondo and driving lots today also. To top it off, we had a meeting preparing a big Christmas party for the Manga and Beira zones! We are putting together something big and fun!  I am pretty pumped.  Thursday-  Packed items and getting ready to go down to Maputo to see Elder Holland.  We are working with a boy named Edmilson (19 years).  We have really been focusing with hi...

It's been a good week.  Lots of work in the area and we continue to find lots of people who want to learn more.  The energy has fallen every day this week!  Such a pain!  I have been eating ok.  We have been trying to buy good food. I eat probably 15-20 apples a week.  They are cheap.  I eat them with peanut butter (protein!!) and that is expensive to buy.  You know the chewy vitamins you sent me at the beginning of the mission?  Well, all the missionaries thought it was candy and they ate them all.  I kept telling them that you have to be careful because it was not candy, but they did not care.  So, I don't have vitamins now, but I did for a little bit.  Tuesday - We found a man named Edmilson.  He's been coming to church.  Friday we marked him for a Baptismal date.   We returned home at 2200 that night and had walked home from some areas.  The next day we heard there was a killing in the area....

What a week!  We have had tons of interviews and have been pulled over a lot.  The International License does help, but they still try and get money from us.  We have been without power in most of the areas for a whole week!  Elder Silva and I have been driving around bottled water to our missionaries and making sure they have everything they need. We had a surprise call from the District President on Sunday.  He was furious and said their was water throughout the church building!  He said that one of the missionaries had done it.  We apologized and told him we would get over there immediately!  While we drove over we called and found out that a missionary was filling the font on Thursday and the power went out.  The water shut off and he thought that the water was off.  So they left.  When the power came back on the water had been running for 3 days!!! The District President was right!  Water was throughout the whole churc...