The Machete Brigade

This is an ENORMOUS tree we took out! It took 20 hours in total with us 6! It's been really fun though! We just climb up the tree with a machete and cut branches off! We had to take the whole thing out of the ground! It's way fun though we like it! The guy with all the sticks is Elder Briggs, one of the guys I live with. Rodizio's was pretty good. No joke though, we ate all their meat! They ran out of food! ha ha ha I could have eaten more too! We even told them that we were coming and that they should make a lot of food cuz we eat alot.... yeah they still didn't make enough! I felt kinda bad because for the rest of the day they had no meat! This week was pretty good. With transfers there were a lot of changes. He even created a new zone! He split the Beira zone and so now there are 4 zones. When I got here there were just Maputo zone and Beira zone. Now there is Maputo, Matola, Beira, and Manga. Nothing changed with me however, my district even stayed the same. That's alright though, I like my district.

I'm trying to think if there is anything else significant that happened this week.... oh ya we had all but 2 of our investigators come to church yesterday so that was pretty cool! We also had a lot of inactive members who live in our area come and to me those are 10 times more important so I really enjoyed church this week. As long as we have the gospel, it doesn't really matter what happens in life. That is another thing I have learned, is that the bad things that happen in this life are so unimportant in the eternal spectrum of things. It doesn't matter how much money you make or how hard your life is, as long as you are a good member and live the gospel, you'll be alright. I'm just gald that the Lord's blessings aren't all after this life, but also during this life. We just have to make it through these 60 70 80 years and we'll be alright. That's one thing I try and hit on a lot with the people I teach. People will stop going to church if they find a job that they work on Sundays in a heart beat. Money is such a temptation for them! I try and explain that as long as we put the Lord at the first on our list, everything will be alright.

Anyways I better get going. Thanks for the letters! I always love getting them from you! Have a good week! I love you and I will talk to you later!

Love Brady

Questions:
Here's our questions this week:
1. Anything interesting with Transfers?
There is a new zone, Elder Spaulding and Clegg are zl's together in Beira, other than that nothing too interesting.
2. We watched a hunting show on Mozambique this week and it brought up the following questions:
A) They said that the people there still communicate from village to village with drums. Really?
Maybe out in the boonies but I'm not sure ha ha never been there.
B) They worried about brown scorpions. Do you have those? Are they scarry?
Ya they have them here. I've never seen them though. Pretty much any living thing here they kill.
C) They were hunting elephants because they said they trample people and eat all their gardens and people would starve. Is that a real problem or did they just want an excuse for killing an elephant?
Well talking to people, they say that there are TONS of elephants and they can't kill them fast enough! I'm not sure how true that is but one thing is for sure, there is no shortage of Ivory here ha ha you can buy rings for less than a buck!
3. How's the comp doing with language and work?
Pretty good, better than I was doing with the language when I got here.