Missionary Service Project and Matero District Activity

The road outside the Mission Office was very narrow and rutted and had to be driven with care.  In preparation for the new mission president, President Erickson approved a service project to widen the road.  The missionaries really dug in and worked hard.  It was supposed to be a half day project, but proved to be a bigger project than anticipated and ended up going most of the day.  The sisters were a great held.  Way to go Sister Tuai, Sister Owusu Afriyie, Sister Reid and Sister Mukweya.

            
The weeds we cut with "slashers" and Elder Cunningham knows how to swing it and make it work!
                                                       We have not quite figured out why the broom and  shovel in Zambia have such short handles.  It makes the work so hard on the back, but they got the job done!
Elder Zimene makes it look almost easy!                                                      
                 
Quite a crew!

There was no water at the Woodlands Chapel on a day when a baptism was scheduled.  So the missionaries brought water bottles--two truck loads--to the mission office and filled them with a hose so there could be enough water to conduct the baptism.  It wasn't very warm, but the day warm so it was OK to have cooler water!

One Preparation Day our district decided to go out to Lilayi, the baby elephant orphanage.  We had been there before, but the others in our district had not.  The elephants were fun to watch. It was a fun way to spend our anniversary. 

  

We also stopped at Eureka, a small animal park in Lusaka.  We saw some zebra and giraffe. Also some Kudus and Impalas.  It's so interesting that most of the African missionaries had never seen these animals before.  They were pretty excited and kept trying to get close to get pictures, which usually resulted in the animals running away from us.  .
   

 
We concluded the activity with lunch at KFC!  Yes, there really is one here and the chicken was great.  We were not thrilled about the runny potatoes and gravy nor the coleslaw, but the chicken was really good.  We had a great time together! Those who went on the trip were Elders Komakech, Sstegooba, Hiltbarnd, Bobowski, Day and Almeida,