Almost everyone...

by dad

From June 11th thru July 11th, 32 countries will compete in the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup. It's held once every four years. For the first time ever Africa, specifically, South Africa will host the World Cup. Six of the teams competing; Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, South Africa, and GHANA are from Africa. In most countries, normal life stops during matches. It's estimated to have cumulative views of over 26 billion, from all over the world. That would be 250 times the record 106 million that watched the 2010 Super Bowl. Almost everyone in the world will be watching, almost everyone.

... zone conf was so powerful. as of May 23, 73 missionaries have completed the mission goal. so in 6 weeks over 55 missionaries need to baptize a part member fam. :) President Sabey just laid down the law and let us know that without the Lords help we can't do that. it’s not realistic. he told us that the path ahead is dark and unclear, but as H. B. Lee taught, we need to "walk to the edge of the light and perhaps a few steps into the darkness, and you will find that the light will appear and move ahead of you" Pres. Sabey talked about how we were going to do that. so we are starting another goal. and its crazy, but so sweet! he said this is the best way to get help from God.

New goal... 1) every missionary will enter into and keep a covenant not to watch any football matches from June 11th to July 11th (World Cup) and 2) by Sunday Sept 26th, every missionary will be blessed to baptize someone who was found while a World Cup football match was being played.

Boom right?!?

The point of this goal is "a unique opportunity for us to draw near to the lord and covenant to obey him and in the process find peculiar and powerful people" super excited for this. he went into depth about it and said every night each missionary will report to his district leader on their obedience and every night we will get a text from the assistances with the scores of each game each day so we stay in the loop. sweet right. its gonna be crazy.

To Africa, the World Cup is more important than anything, and when you have a mission of 60% Africans its quite crazy. excited to see how that turns out. it will give us a chance to receive help thru obedience.

Alex will participate in his first baptism on June 1st.

we have a bapt. tomorrow the 1st, King David, Joseph, and Kojo. Kojo will complete the goal for us. crazy to teach him. he doesn’t know any English at all. it was interesting when we were filling out bapt. info sheet. we had some problems... ahhaha. he lives in a small fishing village and has no idea how old he is. or for that matter, how old any of his kids are. we asked and he said. um... 50. then the wife said no 60? then another 57? they have no idea. stinks right.

i love it here.

i love you all so very much i think about you guys like crazy. Can’t wait for letters.

Xoxox

elder darrow