This week was absolutely amazing! My new companion is so awesome! He came from my zone and we were instant best friends. We are going to have so much success. It’s amazing to see how much the spirit relies on a close relationship. I have felt it so strong this week because we are constantly telling each other how much we love each other. It’s just so awesome! In my lessons this week I’ve been speaking perfect French! It’s totally the gift of tongues. My companion has let me teach in the lessons and actually take the lead. It’s been amazing to see the hand of the Lord guide me this week. I know I am going to learn so much from Elder Kimbembe. The other night I took my tie and tied it around my head and took a towel and made a cape and came running into the room where my comp was hanging out and he just started to die laughing. It was so funny. We just have so much fun together, which is wonderful since we are the only two elders in the apartment. The past 12 weeks have been very difficult at times, but I learned a lot. My goal is to baptize a ward since we have such few members here. We are already starting to see success. Please pray for us that we continue to baptize strong families! I love you so much!
It was another awesome week! I can’t believe today is my birthday. It doesn’t even feel like it. There’s no place I’d rather be than right here serving the Lord. Transfers are next week and my companion is getting transferred. I’m going to miss him. He’s been an amazing trainer and taught me a lot. Life is hard here, but I’m learning to love it. Talking to you guys every week makes it a lot easier. I miss you guys when I talk but seriously when I leave the cyber I don’t even think about you ever. It’s wonderful. The language continues to come and when I’m in lessons I’m able to speak perfectly. It truly is the gift of tongues. Well I love you all so much. Keep being awesome. Have a wonderful week.
Hey family, I am doing so great! This week flew by, and so has my mission! I can’t believe I have already been out for almost 4 months! I have realized out here that attitude is everything and I have seen Heavenly Fathers hand in my life more than ever.This week I had an awesome opportunity. My comp needed some new shoes. He has never owned a “nice” pair of shoes, so I figured I would get some for him. On Tuesday we stopped by this man who sells shoes on the streets. My comp tried some on and they were perfect, I used my bargaining skills to talk them down to a reasonable price haha. I am so excited because now we are going to start teaching this man! I’ve never seen my comp so happy haha I enjoyed watching his reaction! He just danced around the apartment in his shoes thanking me. I’m finishing my training this week and I get a new companion next week! Crazy! I’m so excited. Staying hand in hand with my Father in Heaven is key. He gives me the strength to push through! I love this gospel so much, it is so true! So ready for another week in the field!
This week was great! I went on a split with my ZL Friday and holy cow it was the best day out here on the mission! The spirit was so strong in the lessons, such a good day! Lessons are going great, we have 2 people preparing for baptism, one fr albert: 2 novembre, sr mardo: 09 novembre, french is still french lol Perseverance haha my comp and I are doing great, his birthday was Monday so I made dinner for him and just spoiled him a little haha I’m ready to keep working hard this next week!
This week was great, 3 months baby! We had zone conference on Thursday which was so awesome, i love my zone so much! and my mission president and his wife are freaking awesome! french is still kicking my butt but i love it out here! Sunday I actually had a super cool experience and i can testify that our father in heaven is in the details of our lives, on sunday, my comp and i were walking and all the sudden he turned to me and told me I’m contacting now and he went behind me and now i was the leader. a couple hours before this happened, the one thing i could understand in conference was to be confident and to know that I have the lord by my side, little did I know, 3hrs later id be the one to lead my comp, our father in heaven is just so amazing, anyways with confidence i started to lead us and i was led to this girl and her brother both in their 20s who listened to our message and are now one of our contacts, I know ill be taken care of and ill learn french as i continue to have confidence in the Lord and have faith. another week down and im so happy to be here teaching these humble people.
Hey man!!! yeah geeez it is so crazy its all coming to an end man!!! seriously i don’t even know what to think hahahaha!! I’m excited to come home for sure but like idk man I just know its going to be super different and i will never be the same after serving 2 years in Africa! It has been quite the experience!!! As I look back on my mission I just come to realize that through the ups and downs the only things that I remember are the good parts! There have been times I haven’t been super obedient others I’ve been crazy obedient and what I have come to realize is that it doesn’t matter what happens the most important is that you are constantly making small tweaks in your life to change and be better day by day week by week month by month and year by year! I look back on the start of my mission compared to know and i just see the amazing things the lord has blessed me with and truly the man he has forged in the fiery furnace of Africa hahahaha it has been tough but sooooooo worth it and I wouldn’t give anything to change this time I’ve given to the lord in his service for these last two years! i know who he really is now and i cant even imagine what it was like to be perfect in a world of so much imperfection and just the immense trust he has in us imperfect beings. That’s just goers to show how much more trust we need to have in HIM! Gosh a freaking can’t wait to come home and see you guys!!! The only thing is knowing Ben won’t be there. It seriously is killing me! Man like I miss him so much dude! But its okay you guys will be there to help me!!!! The great thing is when he comes home we are gonna have SO much in common!!!!! My lil chunker hahahahaha!!!! Well I just love you so much dad!!!! Have an awesome week!!!
hey mom!!!! seriously though hahahahah i am feeling so many emotions at the moment it is insane!!!! i have grown to love these people and the people i have served side by side with these past few years seriously it has been amazing the past two years i see why it is the best two years!!!!! i understand be cause i lived it and i endured it!!! thats all the lord wants us to do is to live and endure this life so we can understand as he understands and that way we will be capable to have all that he has! seriously as i look back on my mission i just see how fast it has gone and I’m sure that is how the lord felt on the cross looking back on his life seeing all he went through feeling all the pains a mortal man could feel and then saying it is finished into thy presence I commend myself!!! I just see with the simple mortal intelligence i have the great joy he felt in that moment knowing all the pain heart ache and stress will all be over and that he will finally be able to continue with the next part of his life as a God. I too in a since am commending myself now into your guys presence in just a few short day and how freaking great is my joy!!!!!!!! my work is finished!!! I have all the tools now to get me through the rest of my life!!!!!! gosh i seriously cant wait to get out of the plan and walk down that elevator to finally embraced you guys!!!! 2 years may be long but it has FLOWN by!!!!!!!! seriously it is insane!!!!!! i just love you sooo much and cannot wait to see you guys!!!!
I got transferred back to Toit Rouge. I’m with another missionary from Nigeria who the Mission President wants me to train to be a leader. His name is Elder Nsing. He’s super cool and I love the guy.
Our secteur got white washed we know no one and the members are not very active in missionary work besides the DMP but he has been busy all week and there was problems at the apartment that people had to come fix and then the days we went to the secteur the people we talked to weren’t interested and just wasted our time hahahahahah I just hope we can find the investigators. The other missionaries were teaching so they don’t get lost hahahah but its aight the Lord is in control! It doesn’t help that I’m super exhausted as well I have no desire to go to secteur anymore its bad, but I’m forcing myself so that my comp doesn’t get discouraged! We’re going to work hard these last few weeks together. Hard to believe I come home in 14 days. Crazy! I miss you guys like crazy and can’t wait to see you!
Here are my pics for the week, the first couple pics are of this African outfit i had made for me and then of course the Cameroon Veras i bought so dope! its the new 2019 jersey so cool, then some food we made with fufu and a little self and my bedroom lol. this last week was great i had to go to hospital for some health problems, but through faith and holding onto the Lord I’m doing great! we should have a baptism the 26 oct. which is so awesome because I’ve taught this guy from the beginning, my comp and i found him sept. 1 his name is Fr. Albert he’s so awesome he’s in like his 50s and he loves the gospel! my comp and i are doing great we keep working hard and slowly were seeing success. Cameroon is crazy its either super hot or monsoon rain haha gotta love Cameroon. Ready for another hard working week!
