I am doing well. I will be serving in Lilongwe. We will be driving down there tomorrow. I will be driving now since I will be the Zone leader. I am just going to be super busy now. doing all sorts of stuff. Lilongwe is the capital city of Malawi. However, it you can believe it, Blantyre is more developed that Lilongwe. Lilongwe It is more like a village. My new area is called Kuwhale and it is definitely a village. It has been dry here and with the heat it has been super dusty. I have found that for the most part, Africa is super Dusty.
My new companion will be Elder Govidisami . He is an Indian, but he is from Durban South Africa. I met him once in Zambia, he is a young missionary but he is smart. We will be busy this week dealing with all of the logistics, since many people will be moving out and coming here. We have to get everyone situated in their perspective areas and make sure everything runs smoothly.
Today we are going to hike Soche mountain today. That should be fun. I was with Elder Muthoka from Kenya Elder Fairbanks from Highland and Elder Ngobeni from South Africa last night and we made Chapattis which are like tortillas but, they make them African style. I will make them for everyone when I come home and we can eat burritos I guess( haha).
3/8
I am doing well; being a zone leader is a bit busy. Today they are rioting because the opposition party wanted to remove Joyce Banda. They went with the police to arrest her, but the military surrounded her house so they couldn't get to her. Then they arrested the leader of her opposition party, who is a son to the previous president of Malawi. Anyways, there was some violence around the cities, as a result we are on lock down, but we were allowed to go to a small store to shop for the week. So, we were very busy today running missionaries to and from places. I am driving- driving quite a bit now just doing stuff for the zone. . It is difficult being a zone leader it is a lot of responsibility I feel overwhelmed at times especially today I have to prepare tomorrow for zone meeting and make zone goals and help the zone to progress. I will have a lot of work to do when I get back seems over whelming.
We did have 4 baptisms on Sunday that was nice. Families are a gift from God that lasts forever through sacred ordinances preformed in his holy house. How great is the restored gospel of Jesus Christ
3/18
Yeah this zone leader thing is busy we drive around a lot. We drove 88 miles in one day just doing errands and stuff, but we still managed to get 30 lessons this week! I don’t know if I told you or not that last week we had four baptisms. That is exciting.
There is a lot of crime in the area. For example, we had our car window smashed by some crazy dude in our area. He threw a metal rod through the window. Then, my companion drove the truck into a drainage ditch that only took twenty five men to lift it out. That was yesterday, not to mention it was raining (pouring) and I was soaked. This week is just been crazy.
Well, it is getting down to the final countdown. I only have a short time left here, only six months. It doesn’t seem like I have been away for so long. The difficult thing about being a zone leader is trying to keep a zone unity (missionaries getting along) we have had a few bumps in the road already. Looking after each and every missionary and making sure they are doing what they are suppose to be doing. The one thing that I have to realize is that I will not be able to be everyone’s friend because they don’t like it when you correct them a bit. I am grateful for my companion. My companion is good; he is smart and knows a lot of doctrine.
I am hopeful we will be able to go to Lake Malawi for our Zone activity, but we have to wait till we get the other car back it is being repaired. When we get the car back we should be able to go we have zone conference next week.
Devin.
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