Alright what is good fam?!
It sounds like the rain has been coming down pretty
good but it also looked like DEvily and the girls had a beach ball in Hawaii. I
also hope that everyone loved conference! Got to give my shoutout of the email
to President Koch for being called as a general authority! I am so lucky to
have learned from President and Sister Koch for these past 19 months. I am the
missionary I am today because of them and their example of dedicated service to
the Lord. But, this next weekend will be really fun watching all the sessions,
I cannot wait!
So, this week flew by full of divisions, interviews,
baptisms, food, heat, and just overall good times! It started with us having a
great dinner visit with Sebastiao and Lidia on Monday night. We will be going
there tonight as well to celebrate the birthdays of one set of the 3 twins in
that fam. Wednesday, we got hit by a huge rainstorm at like 5 in the morning so
our planned division with Elder Da Cruz and Elder Francis was delayed until
Thursday. On Thursday, I was able to walk with Elder Francis in Liberdade and
it was a really good visiting lots of progressing investigators. We ended up
switching that night because in the morning on Friday I was going to be heading
out to Boane to do a division with Elder Baker as well. So, in the morning we
met up and Elder Baker started our adventure in Boane. Boane is the newest area
in the mission. It is about 2 hours out of Maputo, 1 hour out of Matola on your
way to either Swazi or South Africa and Elder Baker and Elder Kolditz have been
doing great work there. The group there, meets and has all of their meetings in
the house of the missionaries so it was cool to see their house and work there
for a day. We visited a family that lives in an uncomplete house without
electricity but have a spanking nice Audi A4 haha and no one drives in their
fam so that was chill. After a couple, more visits we headed out to the far
side of their area and visited Irma Judite. Irma Judite was practically mine
and Elder Griffeth's mother in Beira, always preparing food and what not for
us. And she has been in Maputo visiting family and so it was so fun to see her
for the first time since I left Beira and went to Swazi. On Saturday, we went
to the very firsts baptisms of the area Boane. The baptisms were held at the
Matola Chapel and I had the privilege of performing one of the baptisms. And to
top of a great morning we had an amazing lunch in the house of President and
Sister Massango with them and their family. In short it was dope.
So, with a long update I will just keep the spiritual
side of this email short. I would just like to invite you all to read in
April's Liahona the talk from Elder Larry R. Lawrence. I legit felt like I was
a quarterback again and watching film on the adversary and I was able to learn
his strategies and techniques that he uses to have us become all that Heavenly
Father wants us to be here, happy.
Sounds like everyone is great! Love and miss you all,
have great weeks!
Love,
Elder Chipman
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| Blessed that Gift chose me to perform his baptism. |
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| The first two baptisms from the area of Boane, Graca and Gift. |
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| Family lunch at the Massango's |
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| Cooking with Mama Lidia and Jessica. |
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| Sneak Peak at Boane |
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