how was your week?? Sorry about the recording and stuff. The connection sucks, and I can hardly even write you right now hahaha hope you get my message hahaha! My connection and keyboard are trash this week. My week was great though! Crazy that everyone is basically done with school for the summer. Looks like you guys had a blast this week. We have to wait for our investigators’ birth certificates to get sent and stuff so it may be the end of this next month I hope before they can get baptized!
They’re good though!!! We just gotta get them to church lol! It rained yesterday so we had like one person show up 🙁 We actually only have one investigator right now and not too many members so we have a lot of work to do! So Dad you asked me what I do every day. You crack me up dad! Not much basically just teaching a lot more! I basically explain it all in the recording! I get to connect with the AP’s every Sunday cuz their ward meets at the same place. They’re pretty cool dudes! They’re also in my district but never come to district meetings lol! They’re just too busy. I did talk to them about the new mission changes and it sounds like I will get sent to the new mission if I’m still here in July. I think this whole Zone will go to the West mission. It’ll probably happen this next transfer. If it happens I hope Elder Austin comes with me! We’ll see. It’s in the Lord’s hands. Also, we have a General Authority coming this week, so that should be great! Sounds like Josh is killing it at the OR! That’s dope that he got trained in the neuro team. Well, I really do love it here! hahaha I miss you guys like crazy!!! When we played uno yesterday it totally reminded me of when we would play board games as a family it cracked me up!!! I came to realize my comp is literally Ben and it is so weird!! I also realized I’ve changed a lot with games I’m not as competitive as I was. hahaha I feel like half the time it was me why we couldn’t finish games lol!!!!! I know you want pictures of the area, but its tough to get good picks of it cuz its in the city and you don’t wanna look like a tourist takin pics haha Well, I love you all sooo much have an awesome time in France. I can’t wait to hear about it next week:!!!! Love you guys!!!!!!!😘😘😘😘😘
So president said we could come to the office today to face time you guys but like I don’t now how that would work cuz like everyone has school and work! What do you guys think?? I hope it works out because I would really like to see all of you!!! President invited a bunch of missionaries to come to the office to do it! He’s so awesome! It was so awesome to talk to you all yesterday! It made my week!! Everyone sounds so good! It made me so happy to talk to everyone. This week was pretty great! We had a baptism! It was awesome! Listen to the recording because I tell you all about her! The thing that stunk was the rain spoiled a lot of our appointments haha! We got a few from members but we haven’t had time to teach them cuz of the rain but its a lot better now so hopefully we go and teach them this week! When it rains my comp doesn’t like going out so we just sit in the apartment lol! He’s been out the same amount of time as Austin, and so he’s just tired and stuff but he’s a good guy! We get along great! Was it like that for you, dad in the mission? Like after a year the missionaries just get super tired and sleep a bunch?? Is that normal? Did you ever get like that? A mission is like a XC race…after being here a year I’m sure it’s like mile 2! I haven’t really been homesick, which is a blessing! This morning I felt it a little but it left pretty quick! I feel like its not gonna be a big deal especially once tomorrow comes and we get back to teaching and stuff! I figured it would be like this, like I think about home but it doesn’t consume me. It’s nothing like the beginning of the mission! Its honestly way easier now! I feel like its so weird at first I was like what did i do, but now i like it! Oh, I hope you like my hair. I shaved it off! I have pictures below. 🙂 It’s a ton easier and WAY cooler! Also, I would really love a recording of Tanner playing the piano!! I can’t believe how good he has gotten!! So this week we don’t have much planned. Hopefully we get Sr Syntia and Fr Jean to get baptized, but they aren’t keeping to commitments so pray they do so they can be baptized! We’ll also probably go to that village to keep teaching family Faye and hopefully get a date set for their baptism and marriage! They’re like basically our 4 investigators, but we just got some more contacts that were gonna go visit this week so hopefully they’re more promising lol!! Its honestly a tough secteur because we’re not teaching a lot of people, but its also cuz we’re new so I’m not worried its gonna be great!! Well, I hope we can Skype. We’re leaving the cyber soon and we’ll go to the mission home. I love you all so much! Have an awesome week!! Love,
How are you guys? My health is way better!!! Elder Austin told me there is a good chance when the new mission opens that my zone I’m in now will move over to Abidjan West, so that will be interesting! It’s in the Lord’s hands! How are Zach and Tanner. They don’t write me anymore and it makes me sad haha! I miss those li’l dudes! hahaha I love those lil dudes! I miss them like crazy! All week they’ve been on my mind hahaha!!! Well I love them tons and all you guys!!! That is so crazy that school is almost out!!! It’ll be so fun!!! Its a tough area from a missionary perspective. haha The ward is super jacked up and we’re both pretty new. We don’t have much lessons scheduled, but it is going good. I love it cuz I can just work hard just like Gonzaugue. It wasn’t till the end until it got good anyways. I’m stoked to see how it goes! Did you ever figure out the correct address to send a package. I want a package lol! I need the red handbook in english like a hard copy of it and in French if you can find it. I just want that cuz I need to help these leaders. Man it is bad! They have no training and it feels like the church is so apostate here haha! You could also send some candy and granola bars and stuff too! hahaha Can you guys also send me the conference talks like you were going to haha. I got the last one. It was perfect so whatever you did, do it again lol! Can you also send me an Ensign with the pictures of the new leaders? I love it because I use it to teach! Like in the middle of it there is a picture of the first presidency and like the other 12 and 70. That would be awesome! I need to be obedient. Missionaries are talking about breaking the rules and Skyping home this Mother’s Day. I’d rater be obedient and stay healthy then disobedient and die of a disease! lol Listen to my recording. There was a sister that got possessed?! I guess it was super scary! It happened to Elder Sorenson in his ward yesterday! He said it was super sketchy like out of the horror movies sketchy! Elder Sorenson said he was terrified! I talk about it in my recording. My French is getting better. Its tough though there are a lot of grammar rules! My problem is the accent! Gosh I’m gonna kill this computer the connection is sucking again haha! Well I can’t wait to talk to you next week. I love you all soooo much! Have a great week!
The power of prayer is real! I have been praying so hard for you and the Lord answered my prayer and protected all of you! I can’t believe you guys almost all died on your trip home from Denver! I thank the Lord he protected you!!! So I’m in a new area called Porbouet. It’s in the same Zone as the mission office. It’s so much nicer here because we have paved roads, running water, and a SHOWER!! haha My new comp’s name is Elder Dikebele from the Congo. He’s been out a little over a year! He was in the MTC with Wabunga and they are really close. It’s so cool you guys are going to Paris soon! I can’t wait to see pics. We will have to go there when I get back! I was worried at first that it would be weird with my companion since he’s good friends with Wabunga, but I just don’t let it be weird. I just pray he doesn’t try anything with me, but I’m not worried. I just told him this is in the past and we have a work to do so I don’t want to talk about it and he seemed ok with that answer. He’s a great guy and super funny. I’m also with Elder Austin from the East Coast and he and his companion are the Zone Leaders so it’s super fun! It’s a party!! He went to BYU before his mission. He’s awesome! He was also in the MTC with Wabunga. All of the Elders in my apartment are awesome. I got a blessing from Elder Austin because I think I may have tapeworms. In my blessing I was told the Lord knows exactly what I’m going through right now and that it is for my benefit! The doctors checked and they found nothing, so its weird but its okay I will get it fixed. I also fasted yesterday for it as well. Thank you for your prayers too. 🙂 The Lord has been helping me in so many ways more than you will ever know haha! He has showed me all of my weaknesses and has helped me make them strengths! The Lord has humbled me so much I am so happy for this amazing experience I’ve had!! I didn’t realize it until after the transfer I look back and see how the Lord has helped me without me even knowing it! It’s been such a great blessing!! I’m just glad its not over yet!! I’m going to just stay obedient though cuz I’ve come to realize that 12 baptisms in a month isnt easy to do here haha I thought it was just normal, but it’s because of our hard work and obedience. I’m planning to get 10 this next month too! I think it is possible. We take this super sketchy boat to a village where we’re teaching a lot of investigators, but its so dope! You can see the picture of the boat below. Also, my retainer got messed up so Elder Austin had to help me! Well I love you so much! Have a great week!!!
I wasn’t able to communicate with you last week because I got transferred. I got to baptize Fr. Sahi who I am super close with and it was awesome. I also got a certificate with my companion for having the most baptisms in the mission. It was so special. Well I love you.
You guys look like you had such a good time in California!!! It was such a great week!! My connection is better this week…not perfect, but better. Haha Super weird that Brandon is married, but that’s awesome. So I’m getting transferred. It’ll be nice to get a change. I’m still in the dark where I’m going, so I think it’ll come Saturday where I go. I knew I was gonna be transferred. I could just feel it! It was like the Lord was preparing me! We have a lot of Elders coming and going so it’s a little nuts right now. Typically thats how it is like it should’ve been today, but all the other stuff changed it. Fr. Chris and Fr. Jean got baptized Saturday!! It was awesome!! Thanks so much for trying to send me another package. I pray this one gets here. hahaha!!! The mission doctor said it wasn’t a big deal. He said it’s because the water isn’t clean here, so I have to just drink bottled water, but like it’s impossible for me to drink bottled water all of the time. I’m not worried I was blessed with the immunities!! The lord will take care of me! Good news is my stomach is a lot better. I’m like 71 kg so I don’t think I have lost that much weight. I just look really skinny hahaha! My health is great though so that’s a huge blessing. I just have to be obedient and those blessings will keep on coming!!! I just think president was super worried and thought it was worse than it was hahahahaha I love my Mission President. He’s the best! I hardly see him not really he writes me though almost every week! He just sends like a scripture to read or gives me a good quote or something and just says he’s praying for my heath and stuff…just simple stuff. Its cool. He’s a great guy. The missionaries just don’t respect him, which is sad! It will change soon hopefully! If I don’t email just know I’m still alive lol!! Maybe they’ll be sending me to the city so I will have a better connection, but idk we will see what happens!! haha I’m just so excited!!! I’ve grown to love the mission!!! I have seen by turning myself over to the Lord I’ve been so blessed. The Lord is so great. I have gotten so close to him! I’m so happy I love it here!!! I have really grown to love this place. I’m sad to leave it but excited for the new adventures!! BTW, before I forget the names of the girls that got baptized last week were Sr Blandine and Sr Aminata haha I forgot to say that last week! So this transfer the second assistant is gonna become the first cuz the first is leaving and he is kinda a punk so we will see what happens with the power the president gives him. I pray he doesn’t destroy the mission lol!!!! hahaha Good thing I get a long with all of them! I really love our ZLs! They’re awesome! Bottom line is I just try my best to just stay focused on the now! I’m getting a long better with my comp. He is off and on haha He cracks me up though. He reminds me of justin and tanner in a way it is weird haha! Missionaries remind me of different people back home and so do members. Its weird like Menegbes wife reminds me of Simone it is so weird they are like the same person!! Haha!! I’ll miss these members tons!!!! I love this place!!! It’s ok though. The bishopric is so awesome too. I love them so much. I got their emails so I can write them. Just so much happened here. Great memories!!!!! It’s been so good for me though. I’ve needed them all! I’ve grown to really love my comp. He has had a rough life!!! My comp really saved me after Wabunga. I needed that guy no question he whipped me into shape! 🙂 Well not sure if I’ll get to email next week because of transfers. I’ll be ok though. Don’t worry about me! I miss you guys like crazy but I’m also so focused!! The Lord just fills the void!! 😘 It’s starting to really click for me! I’m going to ball my eyes out the day I have to leave this place!! That is so great to hear that you guys are reading Preach My Gospel as a family. That makes me so happy!!! That is seriously so important!! It is revelation from prophets!!! This week pray that Fr Siee can keep preparing for his baptism and also that Sr Mireielle can soften her heart! Also pray for Fr Silivan the weird voodoo Hindu guy hahaha!! Don’t worry we are bold with him and my comp said he was gonna take all his stuff and burn it lol!! haha Yeah so don’t worry!!😉😘 He is the best!! yeah I love that guy!!! He has really opened my eyes!!! It has been super cool. I have seen the Lord’s wisdom in putting us together!! It is great he has helped me so much!! I’m sad I’m leaving him and this place, but I know everything will be ok. I will just work my heart out!! i love you guys too so much!!! i will you guys too!!!!! I love you guys too!! Its in the Lord’s hands!! Have a great week!! Love you guys!!!! Have an awesome week!!!!!😘 Hope you love my little gift in my second recording! 😉😘
Holy cow this connection is horrible this week! 🙁 Oh well. Good news is I feel great! Sorry I didn’t reply to the other emails I don’t have great connection haha! Transfers are next week. I just have to say the baptism last week was seriously the best experience ever!! If I get transferred I’m going to miss Family Brou so much! So I can’t believe school is almost out. That’s crazy!! Sacrament meeting was great! Basically the members just got up and just talked about there experience with us and how the missionaries changed their life and stuff. It was super cool! Not cool, but our freezer and refrigerator doesn’t work so that’s not good. We have been trying to get this person to fix it, but its been a struggle haha!! We have to just make what we got and then buy stuff haha hopefully it gets fixed soon. It works like off and on! For real we are spoiled in America!! I now just have to buy food more often and use what I have on reserve! Unfortunately, we didn’t get to hear everything from Conference. The missionaries from here all just think that it is just revelation for America. The missionaries are funny here haha!!! President Nelson is the best!! I haven’t been able to hear any talks though 🙁 I tried to download some talks, but the connection was so bad I couldn’t. Hopefully I don’t get sent to a village because they may not have internet there and you won’t hear from me. The fact we don’t have internet everyone is really hard for the missionaries that serve here. Crazy thing about this mission is the thing about this mission is the fact that not only is it a struggle for Americans it is also a struggle for the other Africans as well haha which says a lot! yeah that is true! My French is starting to come!! Not prefect but getting better haha! Don’t worry. It’ll be perfect by the end! 🙂 We have FHE with family Brou tonight, so that will be awesome!!! I love that family!!!! This week was hard because I was in the hospital so much doing all the tests for my stomach. I didn’t get a lot of time to study and teach, which was really hard. The good news is since I’ve been to the hospital a lot it is less likely for me to go to a village haha! It was a hard week, but man you guys always pick me up I love you guys sooo much you have no idea what you do for me hahah!!!!! I’m just glad I got you guys for eternity!!! I am so blessed! My comp has the worst family life! I get more and more details about it when he shares stories with investigators! It is so sad to see how some people live here man you got no idea haha!!! I feel all of your prayers and thoughts!!!!! Last night I had a dream about mom, Josh and Ben! They were all sitting on a rock by the beach and I walked up to them and gave them all huge hugs, but Josh was just looking at his phone and I was like wow man I haven’t seen you for 4 years and that’s how you’re gonna be and then he realized I was standing right there and gave me the biggest hug ever and he and I just cried in each others arms! It was super weird though!! Like it was like Josh didn’t even recognize me and then when he did he like flipped and hugged me so tight!! It was pretty great!!! I seriously miss him so much you have no idea hahaha!!! I cried in his arms to in the dream!!! It was a super crazy dream like it felt like I was right there with you guys. It was so weird! It was like I was with you mom and you were like Josh, Josh sweety…Tyler is home! It was like the Lord gave me a little gift after the week I had. I love my brothers so much. I miss them sooo much!! I feel their love!! I miss Zach and Tan so much haha I got so close with them before I left!! They make me feel so special! I feel their love in their emails!!! I love them!! Keep them coming always even if I don’t reply!!! Keep it up haha it helps me so much!!! Just pray that Fr Koffi can stop his word of wisdom problem and then Fr Chris will do what he needs to so he can be baptized. Well, I love you guys so much! Thank you so much for always being there for me!!!!!! I love you guys:!!!!!!!😘😘😘😘
I’m doing great!!!! 🙂 We crushed our baptism goal this month!! We had another seven baptisms on Saturday!! Experiencing those baptisms made all the pain and trials ALL worth it!!! Here’s who was baptized. Fr Brou, Sr Brou, Sr Vanessa, Fr Kevin, Fr David, and Sr Amiata, and I can’t remember the name of the other lady who was baptized by her husband. I’m feeling really good right now!!! Pray for Family Brou’s oldest daughter though because she doesn’t want to get baptized! They are such an awesome family, and I know it would be so good for her to be baptized with the rest of the family. We are gonna try and get her to get baptized this next month! I forgot to tell you guys this last week, but I want you to start doing something! For the next 13 weeks or so I want you to read the Preach my Gospel together as a family, and then have each of my brothers take turns giving lessons on the different chapters for family home evening! It will prepare my bros so much for a mission especially with the expert RM back at home!!I was just realizing how this world is getting worse and worse and my bros need to be better prepared for the mission!! Also, my stomach is feeling much better. I’ve gone to the hospital and had some tests, and they want me to come back on Thursday for an ultrasound. I can’t believe all the change that came with conference. I think it’s all good change though! It’s so awesome that Elder Olo’s family are staying with you! Oh, I got to play the piano this week, and the Lord has completely preserved my ability to play!! He has also helped strengthen my ability to sing! It’s super cool! I love singing lol!! It was so great!!!! I love it as always, and I miss playing the uke so much!! I wish I could beatbox, but I have to be careful not to call attention to me in public. Its pretty tough because everyone looks at me like I have issues haha, but its all good its a great way to teach the gospel!!! hahaha My comps do think its super cool I beatbox haha! Next week are transfers, and I’m pretty sure I’ll get transferred cuz there are like 4 or 5 new Americans coming. They were supposed to come with the last group, but they’re French was bad so they had to stay at the MTC a little longer lol! I’m so grateful my French is getting better. 😉 Thanks for the prayers!!! Also, will you please thank Alban for me? I love him so much! He has helped me get some great people to help me here! Like Elder Onleu is taking me to the hospital tomorrow cuz I saw him when we had conference and told him about it. He is such a stud!!! Before I forget have you tried sending another package cuz a lot more elders are getting them? I hope so!! 🙂 Well I love you all so much! Please pray that we can find people to teach and stuff and also for Fr Chris and the others I talk about in the recording!! Have a great week! I love you!!!
I finally got to send my recordings!! I’ve literally been praying all week it would work! My prayers were answered! (for those reading this go back the past few weeks to listen to Tyler’s recordings) Also, the pictures are of the zone after we played soccer on P-day! Life is great here!!! I think I may have worms though cuz I’ve been having diarrhea and I get pains in my stomach sometimes when I eat again. 🙁 Good news my ingrown toenails are gone, so that’s good!! I need to call Mama Benine tonight. I feel your prayers, and they’re working!!! It’s just not that sanitary here…Josh would hate it. Haha! French is good. Its starting to come a lot better. I’ll have days where like people don’t understand me and then others when they understand me perfect hahah. It’s frustrating, but its all good it works out!! My comp is a stud!!! I convinced my comp to go to the better cyber this week so I could send these recordings. I just paid for our transport to come here lol! When we went and got our money today for the month this guy was like freaking out at us and almost hit Elder Ayama it was nuts!!! The Lord was on our side though and we were totally protected! 🙂 So we have been focusing a lot on Family Brou and finding more people to teach for this next month. We don’t have any steady investigators yet. Fr Siee won’t come to church and Fr Chris didn’t come either so we are gonna go talk with them this week and some others!
They just gotta come to church haha! So Fr Brou is a welder so thats super cool I’ve gotten to do some welding with him which is super dope! He speaks English and a bunch of other languages cuz he travels all over Africa! They have 5 kids the oldest is 17 then 15 12 9 and they have a little baby! The oldest is a girl then girl then boy, boy then the baby is a girl. So the oldest and second oldest are super tied to their church, so we are hoping they will listen to the lessons and come to church so pray for them! Its been cool to see them progress!! I’m doing way good! I had a dream this last week that Ben and I went to some giant rollercoaster park and then the other day I was on a cruise with you guys lol!!! I’ve been super great! 🙂 I just pray I don’t get transferred so I can see the baptisms of all of these investigators happen next week! Please pray that we can find new investigators and that the ones we have like Fr Siee, Fr Chris, Sr Sara keep progressing and also the new investigator Fr Denis! I feel all of your prayers!! Thank you soooo much!! Well I love you all soooo much!!! I’m praying that my French will get better, so please pray for that too. I love you guys so much! Thank you for all your prayers!!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
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