Rain

Another great week has come and gone here in Francistown. We have a
lot of people progressing towards baptisms, hopefully, if all goes
well, I will get to see four or five or more on the 20th! We are
working really hard for that. We have some good, dedicated people we
are teaching. Well, it did rain this week, which is great for
Botswana, but bad for the church. People here are afraid of rain, and
stay in their homes when it rains, and it was raining Sunday morning.
When sister ChirChir and I woke up, we both said...."Oh no!! People
won't come to church!!" And we were only somewhat right. We still had
a good number of people come out and join us. It stopped raining
right before church started, so more came late. But in sacrament
meeting, we had around 60 people. Which is about half of the people
that came last week. So,the rain stopped alot of people from coming,
but we got to see who the dedicated people were. Church was just
better this week. It was less hectic. I did a lot to help the Relief
Society group leader get more organized, and we had a much better
class this week. It also helped that we got Gospel Principles manuals
this week to use as well. So, the work is going great here. It is
very exciting. I wish all of you could be here to experience this.
We are making history. Francistown also became its own zone. So, now
there are three zones in Botswana; when I came on mission there was
one! Now, there are three! This mission is completely different from
the one that I came to a year and a half ago! Wow, and the changes
are so exciting. So, that is the news from Francistown. One more
thing though, we had a very interesting Friday evening. Sister
ChirChir and I were walking form a member's home to our car, and as we
were passing by this house, the little girl wanted to greet us. The
only problem is, that their two HUGE dogs, also wanted to greet us!
When they came barking to the gate, I immediately went to the car, but
my companion stayed outside the gate in the street to greet the little
girl. Well, the dogs beat the girl to it. Sister ChirChir got
attacked by these two huge dogs, and bit on both arms, and her left
hand! It is really a great thing that it was raining earlier, because
her rain jacket saved her forearms from major bites. But her hand got
bit pretty bad, you could see the bone on the pinky finger! She is
fine now, but dogs and missionaries don't mix. So, that was an
interesting experience we had this week. But don't worry, she is
fine, the dogs had their rabies shots, which we were also grateful
for. Well, I am hoping for another good week here on mission, but I
know it will be because we FINALLY get to watch general conference!!!
Only a month late!!! But i am excited to listen to the prophet and
apostles. And I hope everyone else is as well!!