I love you so much!!!!! I got a new companion this week. He’s from Hati and he’s so awesome! Don’t you even worry for a second about me! I am in the Lord’s hands!!!!! Whatever happens is His plan! Just like with President Dial the lord needs him in the spirit world! Sometimes it is hard at first but what a blessing it is we have the gospel and the knowledge that we will see him again i was just thinking about that after we signed off!! You have nothing to worry about man!!!! As for my week it was super great! It was really tough. We had a lot of rejection and to top it off some lady freaked out at us yesterday saying that our work is in vain and that we shouldn’t come back to see her because we will never convince her and yeah it was kinda funny. She was kinda crazy too! My comp and I after just laughed it off and it was so motivational just knowing that really when you know the truth it doesn’t matter what anyone tells you because the truth we have is complete! Like so many people have the worry of talking to other confessions but there is nothing to fear for us as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because we have the fulness of the gospel. We have the full picture everyone else is to the side trying to guess what the picture could be where we see the clear picture and know exactly what it is which is why it is so important to share our testimonies with everyone to help them see how we see! I love Elder Neil Anderson’s talk on having and eye of faith. It is sooo true and so powerful. I was studying it this morning!!!! So awesome!!! but yeah even though the week was tough there were the blessings of everyday that made it awesome! our investigators had us walking in circles all week but it led us to find other people that can really progress!!! It was amazing to see that in following the promptings of the Lord as hard as it was with all the rejections we were guided to find new investigators. Even though they didn’t come to church they will with time. It is sure!!! so yeah family doué is slowly progressing they need lots of prayers! we started teaching their kids yesterday we had a great lesson on the family and the roles we all play in the family as explained in ephesians 5:22-25, 31-33 and 6:1-4. It was super great!! So yeah that’s like it for the week!!! love you!!!! Have a great week!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
Our lil homies hahahah they’re the cutest kids they’re twins
FHE with our new converts family ninssémon, another family who is seriously the best and completely are holding this ward together. Family bolly and then family doué, the ones who have been struggling with their marriage, and then there was this vieux père fr seri who seriously reminds me so much of mom’s dad ron. Seriously the coolest guy!! And then fr dalo the Sunday School president! Such a great night seriously! I have never felt the spirit so strong and seriously that night the lord spoke to these brothers and sisters through me! It was the most incredible experience I’ve ever had on mission! I understand really now how peter felt teaching the disciples of christ with Jesus! Idk it was an amazing experience!!! On top of that fr ninssémon shared a war story which is really his conversion story. It seriously brought tears to my eyes!!!! During the war he was taken hostage and separated from his family for a year and had no communication with them. They had no clue where he was and what had happened and if he was even alive! During this time he was at a camp and was put in a cell that literally was 3ft by 5ft by 6ft or something like that. Just some puny little box that to lay down to sleep at night he had to turn his body and put his legs up on the wall just to get his back flat. It was when i heard that that literally i just wanted to cry. He explained how they treated him super bad and he didn’t have much food or water and then it wasn’t till after that one day they came and said that he was free to go and that he was the only one free to go that they had no charges against him. On the other side back at home his wife everyday would pray for him and never lost hope everyone thought he was gone and dead but she never lost hope in him and now they are back together and happy. Seriously he just started getting emotional at this point just thanking us for the blessing we have been to him that the gospel has changed his life completely. That Sunday his little brother came over right after his confirmation and was trying to get him to go to the bar with him (he was a heavy drinker before his baptism). He followed the spirit and didn’t go and in explaining that seriously the spirit was so strong everyone was so shocked! It was so incredible! He is this huge jacked military guy that turned soft cuz of the gospel! It has been so amazing to see his life completely change !!!!! So yeah super awesome experience and the highlight for sure of the week!!!!! We then had a mangez-vous with family doué chez ma famille gueré on a mangé foufou manioc avec sauce longueur c’était très doux je te dis!!!!!! So yeah super awesome week!!!! Have an awesome week!
FAMILY NINSSEMON GOT BAPTISED!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhh it was sooo dope!!!! fr bienvenue was the one that baptised him and it was so cool because fr bienvenue was just baptised a couple months ago and fr ninssemon and him are friends of 20 yrs so super awesome!!!! They were in the military together!!!! We also had leadership council this week and I absolutely love President!!! He is teaching us so much. He is so filled with the spirit and love. I just love him! At leadership council I saw Elder Mortensen my bud from the other mission who is assistant now so great to see him!!! He goes home already with my comp it is sooo crazy!!!! Time is just going too fast hahahahaha!!!! Pray for family Doué that sr doué can accept the church! Its that family that was gonna get divorced but we managed to save their marriage hahahaha it’s pretty incredible to watch the atonement work in their lives. I just pray that she can continue with her progression and accept to be baptised!!!! Their family is huge so like if we got her converted the whole fam is going to be baptized. It’s like a total of 6 baptisms which would be so dope hahahahahaha So really pray we can get them coming to church and stuff!!! but yeah everything is going great here!!!!!! I just feel so blessed hahaha like I cant even explain the joy I feel man!!!!! Missions are so incredible! I love you all so much!! Have an awesome week!
I’m gonna miss that Ben like crazy!!!!!!! lucky for you guys have been with him these last 2 yrs i got another 2 before i see my best friend hahhahaha really it is getting real for me! I’m just trying to lose myself in the work and the thoughts go away so it’s good! That is sooo awesome that Alban bore his testimony in our ward! I love that guy seriously! Ben is going to freakin rock it man!!!!!! Our investigators are doing sooo great!!! we have a couple that are getting baptised this saturday and then their daughter in 2 weeks after she gets back from vacation! pray she will come back before my comp goes so that he can be there for her baptism!! also sr chimel is getting ready for the 27th to be baptised and then pray that fr abib will keep coming to church its been two sundays he hasn’t come and he wants to be baptised but just pray he will keep coming to church and stuff!!! fr akim the guy a taught with the return missionary has yet to come back to church and we don’t know where he lives so it has been super hard to do suivi so pray we can find him!! also pray that the contact we got last monday from FHE will come to church so she can get baptised and just that we can keep finding more investigators!!!! also really pray for our ward that the less actives can start coming and that the members will do visits and stuff!!! and just pray that we can be inspired to know how we can work in the lord’s place to arrange his ward here at gesco!!! love you sooo much man!!!!! have a great week!!!!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
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Zone Conference
party at cosmos for the 4th!! un mangez-vous avec un membre c’était trop doux!!!!!!!
We had an all mission conference to say goodbye to President Hamand this week. It was awesome to see everyone. It makes me so sad he’s leaving, but I’m excited to meet my new president. I love President Hamand so much and I know I will be close to him for the rest of my life! I also had some fun taking pictures of my new soccer jerseys!!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
Photos: At the conference with all my vieux pères!! elder mitua my favorite comp and elder asamoah adjei and then elder moruba my mt hopped the the photos hahahha!!!! then me and elder tanoh my assistant that is such a stud as well!!! gonna miss these guys sooooooo bad!!!!! especially mitua geeez!!!! that guy will be my bro for life i can’t wait till the day he comes to america!!!
LETS GOOOO ÉLÉPHANTS!!!! goin strong so far they won their first game to south africa but lost the second to maroc! its aight they’re still in it!!!!!!! african cup 2019 Egypt!!!!!!
the other jersey i got i got a white and orange one they’re sooo dope!!! im sad though cuz the guy didnt have your size dad so i’ll just have to keep searching hahahah!!!
This week was amazing. I got to go visit my first village!!! It was one of the most amazing experiences. We had many experiences I don’t have time to write down, so I’ll tell you when we connect today. I hope you love the pictures as much as I loved taking them!!!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
Photos: Trip to village cosrou at our split at dabou.
my lil gang of minions!!! the kid climbed this giant palm tree like it was nothing we were all so shocked it was oooo dope gave him cent franc for it hahhahahah its basically like a quarter worth of money in usa
last pics of the village and then the splits i had with my mt elder morouba we had a good time!!!!!
after the visit with srge beynaud we visited his restaurant he opened it was pretty decent not that amazing though but so dope meeting him!!! i had no idea he lived juste à coté de mon premier secteur à gonzagville or however its spelled
So I just wanted to hurry and write an email explaining what had happened yesterday seriously a miracle! After church I was sitting talking with brother touguira a return missionary that I served with in my last mission. We were just reminiscing about our missions and just how far I’ve come through all I’ve been through and just how far he has come since he’s getting married this Thursday. We then just were talking about life after the mission he was asking me about my plans and stuff and it just got me thinking a lot about that and just how I don’t have a plan really but he was just saying not to worry about it and that the Lord will provide a way and will lighten the way! After that another brother came over and introduced his friend he invited to church and so we got talking. Long story short the kid had talk to missionaries before but it has been a while since he came to church he said he’s already assisted at church over 3 times and has read the bofm and knows that joseph smith is a prophet i was klouike what how is this kid not baptised like he comes to church has a solid testimony what’s holding him back? I just felt like I needed to take him to a room and teach him with the return missionary I was talking with so I followed the prompting and we started the lesson after a super solid lesson on the gospel of jesus christ the spirit was sooooo strong we had just finished talking about faith and the importance of showing the lord we have faith by acting. We then told him the importance of repentance and we read a few scriptures with him just in alma 39:9 and then the brother i was with explained his conversion story that was seriously sooooo powerful!!!!! the spirit was soooo strong he explained his problem with alcohol and how he over came it and stuff and then he said how everyone has something that weakens them and that it is when you recognize this weakness or weaknesses and turn to the lord for strength that the lord blesses you in so many ways i then shared mosiah 18:10 with him and asked the same question that alma asked the lamanites and he then just totally opened up to us and explained his problem he has had with the law of chastity and it was just so powerful i just felt prompted to share 1 cor 10:13 and alma 34:32-35 with him and at the end we committed him to baptism the 29th of this month seriously like the most incredible experience if I hadn’t listened to the spirit we wouldn’t have fixed his baptismal date seriously in looking at this experience i had i know without a doubt in my mind that the lord is in control and that if we humble ourselves enough to follow his will not our propre volonté le seigneur nous bénira vraiment chers frères et sœurs suivent tous les impressions que le seigneur vous donnera et vous ne serez jamais égarés!
Sorry for my grammar, but I can’t speak English anymore!! Hahaha Have an awesome week!!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
Photos: Mangez-vous with family teko we had one of my favorite dishes that elder akpotossou my old son would make all the time called akoumai or something like that its a type of foufou. The other was with this family named kah that we saw last Monday and seriously had the best meal my favorite one given I’m guéré it was rice with sauce feuilles de manioc it is the best its like bownang or something like that hahhaha we ate the same sauce again with the family we visited last night family bosson it was so fun!! its been the best doing the 3rd hour with these families and fhe!!
I had a great week!!!! I’m right on track to achieve the goals we’ve set for ourselves! I’ve really been seeing just the personal revelation that comes from personal study it has been so strengthening for me!!!! The secteur is slowly moving a long. We have this family we’ve been teaching that they are just so convinced of the truthfulness of our message they read the Book of Mormon and they came to church for their first time this last week so it was super great!! We also had like 3 new investigators come so it was like 7 investigators at church it was great given I’ve been sick since Thursday with symptoms of Malaria, so keep me in your prayers hahaha We did splits Thursday and that morning I just woke up feeling crummy and then Friday it was just worse like I had a fever so I just took some meds and slept the whole day and then, saturday morning same thing but I got to strength to go to the baptismal service the afternoon and then we went to and activity for one of the wards in the zone so it was super good. Sunday I felt way better we went to the coolest part of our secteur it’s a total village I had no idea cuz we are just right in the city and then you just go out a little ways and it’s just village its sooooo dope!!! The members there are sooo humble and awesome too!!!! I’m so in love with this secteur hahaha!! We have been trying to really visit the members a lot to motivate them to give us investigators! I will see at least 125-140 assistance by the end so easy!!!!! I just feel like this secteur is going to be so great there is so much work here to do!!! I pray I will have enough time to get it to were the Lord needs it to be! I know He will give me the strength as He gave to Nephi!!!! I’ve already been seeing the spirit guide me in this secteur. It is the first time I’ve really prayed to have the Lord help guide me to really get to know this secteur well and fast so that I can do the work He needs me to in the little time that I have left. It has just been amazing to see the blessings of the Lord continue to pour upon us!!!!! I’m really missing my comp now! I’ve had to cook a lot more in this secteur since the comp I have doesn’t know how to cook! I’ve just realized Elder Mitua my last comp was such a blessing for me in so many ways and it totally prepared me for this secteur!!!!! I’m so glad you guys are all having such a good experience with Come Follow Me. That should be number one focus for everyone in the family!!! If you continue to focus on that you guys will see the blessings!!! Everyone has to to it!!! You’ll see the change and the strength the Lord will give you guys during this difficult time with Ben leaving you guys got to really make the time everyone in the family for personal and family study!!! The Come Follow Me is sooooooo amazing! We have been doing the 3rd hr with families every Sunday since I’ve been here and it has been so awesome!!! I haven’t really studied much that manuel but man it is so awesome!!!!! Our prophet is so inspired!!! but yeah I just love you sooooo stinking much!!!!!! Can’t believe I’m almost at the finish line!!! During our leadership council Tuesday at the very end president showed us a video of a marathon and we just used that to compare it to a mission and it was just sooo cool to see how all the connections I have made personally to running and the mission that then the assistants and president talked about the same thing it was so cool! The spirit just whispered to me “it’s time to kick” just like I felt during my cross country races!!!! I’m at the sprint and there is no lookin back!!!!! Finish line here I come!!!!!!! Love you soo much!!! Have a great week!!!!
Love you,
Elder LeBaron
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Had a nice meal at leader council we went to the same place as last time it was great! we also had a baptism! fr ulrich got baptised so that was super dope!!!
I made a bracelet for ologundudu!!! I also made another for sorensen!!! Just more pics of the baptism and then fr ulrich with his brother who got to the service just at the end hahaha he felt bad but we told him don’t worry we will take your pics and it will be like you were there the whole time hahahahaha it was awesome!!!!
I got transferred to a new area called Mondoukou. My comp is great. We’re still getting to know each other so that’s fun, but he seems like a good missionary. Also, we met with Elder Christofferson this week with the other mission as well. It was amazing!! It was so great to get together with the other mission and see him. So awesome!!! Hope you love the pictures!
Love you,
Elder LeBaron
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The MTs!!! Elder Sorensen, Elder Ologundudu, Elder Bullock, and Elder Pond!!!!! I saw Elder Lukombe my father on mission sadly the photo didn’t turn out too great so I didn’t include it, elder kayembe my homie from my first zone on mission, elder habluto, and elder temahuki at the end! crazy all these guys go home sooo soon!!!!! Man it was so great seeing all these guys!!!
Party on the bus trip home after the conference!
Little pit stop at Burger King with the bros! Some dope new ties I got and then the bamboo bracelet that elder mitua my old (favorite comp) showed me how to make that I finally finished it was quite the project hahaha
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