What is up fam?! Sounds like everything back home is
going great! Loved seeing the pics from Teag's dance recital/competition and
from Burke's basketball games. Baby Renz is looking like the cutest guy on the
block and big shout out to Stacie Bowen for the water painting... pretty much the
coolest thing that I have ever seen!
I am writing this email after playing soccer with the
zone and I realized two things... Africa is hot and I still suck at soccer
hahaha. But it was super fun to be with the whole zone together playing around
a little bit. Now I am just feeling bad for everyone in this humid internet
cafe because I stank but its whatevs!
This past week was really good, involved lots of
running around to other areas to do interviews for upcoming baptisms in the
zone, preparing Cacilda for her baptisms and trying everything to pull off a
combined baptism on Saturday without water. So the plans this past Saturday was
to have a baptism together with three of the wards here in Matola and it seemed
like everything was going to run smoother than Usain Bolt but... how soon we
forgot that Maputo is on water restrictions and we pegged the day at the church
when there was no water so trying to work out things with a water tanker to
come and fill up the font we decided to just moved the baptisms to this next
Saturday but we still went through watching some videos we had plan to show
with the baptisms and had snacks so people weren’t mad at all haha. But other
than that it was a pretty average week, trying to find new people and get the
area popping. This next week should be pretty great... hopefully with some
cooler days, Leadership Council on Thursday and baptisms on Saturday.
For a quick spiritual guy... I am just finishing up
the book of Alma in the Book of Mormon right now and with all of the stories of
wars, battles, and contentions I have realized something. The Lord always
favored the side that was most prepared and the side that was most prepared in
this case was the side of the Nephites because of their righteous desires.
Elder Dallin H. Oaks taught, "Desires dictate our priorities, priorities
shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. The desires we act on
determine our changing, our achieving and our becoming." Throughout the
later chapters of the book of Alma we see that the desire of the Nephites was
to protect their liberty, their families, and their religion. Set by the example
of Captain Moroni, their desires were not worldy things. We should remember
that righteous desires cannot be superficial, impulsive or temporary (the
treasures that we cannot bring to heaven). They must be heartfelt, unwavering
and permanent. So, motivated we will seek for that condition described by
Joseph Smith as the state to "overcome the evils of (our lives) and lost
every desire for sin." I know that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ
we can obtain these righteous desires and receive all the blessing that
Heavenly Father has to give us to overcome and to achieve the righteous desires
of our lives.
Love yall!! Shout out to Chance to the Rapper for
balling out at the Grammys and shout out to the KFC's in Maputo that have new
Pina Colada and Strawberry Lemonade Krushers! Have a great week!
Elder Chipman
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| Divisions with Elder Da Cruz |
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| I was missing home and Mexican food do I attempted to make a Cafe Rio Chicken Salad. |
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| "Heroes get remembered butlegends never die" #RIPSamora |
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| Watercolor by Stacey Bowen from a picture taken of Elder Chipman and friends last March while he was serving in Beira. |
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