Trolled by...Members?

January 14, 2019

A good example of why we
shouldn't throw our trash in rivers...

So we were walking down the street this week and we were super late already to do interviews for the sisters at the church which was on the far side of our sector. Well, this guy stopped us on his moto and that's pretty typical for people to just start talking cause we stick out like a grain of rice in a pot of black beans, and we explained what 2 white guys are doing in Africa and started to share our message with him. Well, he sounded pretty interested but when we tried to give him a brochure of the restoration he wouldn't take it. That was really weird cause usually when you tell them it's free they take it no problem so we were kind of weirded out already, but then he wanted to take us to his sister's house. He said it wasn't far so we followed him on his moto to this house back behind this little boutique. Everyone was sitting around this table with alcohol all over it and were slammed! At this point, we are really confused about what we are doing here but we get introduced to everyone and all of the kids that live there and then this guy who we had followed just looks at us and was like "aahh got you guys! I'm actually a member of the high council in the stake over!" And he proceeds to show us his Book of Mormon and everything. It was frustrating cause now we were super late but it was hilarious! AND biggest plus is that we ended up giving the brochure he didn't take to his sister's family and now we have started teaching the whole family! 

We had an awesome Conference with President Dube from the 70 this week which was super good and had a pretty rough baptism Saturday for 3 kids from part-member families. We had combined our baptism with the sisters but when we had all showed up on time no one was there! Not the leaders, candidates, guy who brings the clothes, no one. Well, when everyone finally got it going 2 hours late they reminded us that we are on "African" time and when we say 2:00 it's practically the same as 4:00 :') But hey, it finally happened and they all got baptized so that's what counts right! 

Love y'all and have a great week!

Elder Briggs