So I have been in contact with some missionaries in Dar es Salaam which is where I would go to church when I was going to be living in Bagamoyo (The middle coastal region of Tanzania) but now I am going to be living in Arusha (which is in the north near Mt. Kilimanjaro.) I have been corresponding with Ireta Jensen (a senior missionary in Dar es Salaam) and she informed me that only FOUR months ago they opened that area to missionaries and opened up a branch in Arusha.
They have four elders serving in that area (odds seem pretty good eh?) and i looked up a report on the church expanding here and it is really exciting! They had only twenty members meet on the first day but the mission president is confident that it will expand quickly because the region is predominantly Christian as opposed to Dar es Salaam which is Muslim. This makes for the fifth branch in Tanzania and brings Tanzania to a standing membership of 800. This is really exciting to me and I can't wait to participate in the work over there... geeze I sound like I'm going on a mission. :) But hey who knows, maybe they will be able to make Tanzania more than just a zone in the Kenya, Nairobi mission and it can become its own mission! That would be awesome!
This is the map of Africa and the location of the stakes and districts over there (Prior to three of them) Yellow means Stake; Green means Branch
