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February 18, 2019 Attecoube (Week 23)
Hey Family,
So the week was pretty great!!! Tuesday we had a lesson with this new investigator we got from fr luc and fr marius and sr elodine those guys we’ve been teaching and it was pretty good. The thing is he knows what we say is true but he doesn’t put it in practice so it’s tough hahahahaha. Wednesday we had a few cancellations, but we just did a little contacting and then saw our other investigators fr pacome and sr michelline but fr pacome has to get married before he can be baptised so that’s been a bit of a difficulty but with time! Then sr michelline she left back to her village this week and wont come back so thats a bummer but its okay because she was living in concubinage also that night too we tried calling sr nyomie the girl that was supposed to be baptised but she didn’t answer either cuz she was at village too hahahahaha good thing is she is already back here hahahaha! Thursday morning we saw fr luc sr elodine and fr marius and had a good lesson with them. I was super forward with them maybe a little too harsh but I just told them how it is and that they can either take it or leave it but that we are here to teach not force and we had a big lesson on agency and the plan of salvation it was super good and at the end we talked about baptism it was super awesome!!! fr luc said he wants to be baptised this next Saturday but the others are super calacala so pray he and sr nyomie can be baptised and that we can get a hold of sr nyomie!!!! Thursday we did like contacting all day after that though cuz all our rendez-vous fell through hahahaha but it turned out great!!!!!! We found some new people so we will see if any of them progress got lots of rendez-vous with them this week! Friday we taught sr Aïcha this girl whose brother is a member fr leonce the kid a while back that wanted us to talk to his dad who’s a drunk and smoker and stuff. We had a good lesson with her and we found these less active members that I pounded their foutou!
Then after we went to see this girl we contacted but she just keeps giving face rendez-vous and stuff but then saturday we went and saw her and l met her siblings that were super interested in our message so it was super great to see how persistence with things just brings blessings. Then Saturday was the concert with the mission choir at the stake of niangon centre. On Sunday we had church and stuff and it was soooooo gooood sr tabitha came and she brought her made that works at her house and stuff that we have been trying to talk to for so long but she always refused and then she came to church so that was a miracle hahahahahaha!!! Then after church we had choir practice for stake conference cuz our stake president heard our zone has singers so we were invited to that it was fun! then after choir we went to my mt elder nkrumah’s appartement for a little party we had with some other elders in the zone it was pretty fun!!!
Photos:
Our ward
I decided to pound some foutou for these less active members they were surprised i knew how hahahah thanks to my good ole mama audettte who taught me a while back hahaha
My noushi hommies hahhahaha and elder bateman! it was at our concert we had saturday night with our mission choir!
February 11, 2019 Attecoube (Week 22)
Hey Family,
How are you doing?! Life is awesome. My comp is soooo coool man we have been having so much fun!!!!! I sure love this guy!!!!! He is my favorite comp I’ve had so far on my mission!!!!! Its nuts its coming to an end so fast!!!! It makes me sad man. I have fallen in love with these people!!!!! But don’t worry man my best mile is always the last!!!!!! Just pray for fr luc fr marus and sr elodine that they can see the importance of baptism! and that fr jean-constant will have a change of heart and come back to the church. He didn’t show up for his baptism so we went to find him and when we did he said he didn’t want anything to do with us anymore. I’ve never been so devastated my whole mission but I realized I cant rest on the devastation because it will discourage my comp so I just turned to him and told him bro it doesn’t matter man we aren’t here to baptize the world just like 1 corinthians 3:6-9 we are here to plant and harvest but the Lord is who makes them believe!!!!!! It was a really pivotal moment for me!!!! I was super discouraged man and I was just hiding it from my comp cuz I didn’t want him to feel bad and we had to run back to the appt right before the baptismal service for our ZLs cuz they had 3 guys to be baptised in our ward and so while I was there at the appt I just said a prayer that the Lord would help me to see the reasoning of all of this and I felt as if he was talking to me and I just kept hearing that scripture in my mind like he’s the one that makes them believe and I just saw that it was a complete trust thing. He wanted to see if I would still continue with this guy or just leave him after the first turn down and man it was just a tough experience but really good for me! And then also pray that sr nyomie can be baptized this Saturday!!!! She is supposed to be baptized this Saturday!! And then pray that we can find more people and that the ones we have already will come to church!!! I love you sooo much man I understand the love you have for me because it is what I have for you! You’re my best friend!!!! I can’t wait for that day I can squeeze the crap outta ya!!!!!!! I love you all so much!!!!!! Have an awesome week!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
Pictures: a dope suit I wanna buy hahahaha its expensive though is from angola its 35.000FCFA so like 70bucks hahahahahahahah it was fun tryin it on though and taken some pics!!!! our mangez-vous with family odjo had escargot and bœuf with foutou banane and sauce graine it was sooooo gooooooddd!! Our DOPE Ward! My wanna be daughter hahahahah she came over to me and my best friend Elder Kanza my ZL and I waved for her to come to me and she like ran over to me and came and sat on my lap she is seriously so precious man!!! I’m gonna miss these kids man!!!! but even more I’m gonna miss Elder Kanza. He is seriously my best friend man and such a good guy!!!!
February 4, 2019 Attecoube (Week 21)
Hey Family,
This week has been great. Water problems in the apartment are making me so grateful for running water back home. I haven’t had a hot shower since I got here. Gotta love bucket showers! Hahaha I’m absolutely loving my companion! He looks out for me so much. They’re really racist here and yell stuff at us all the time that’s super rude, and my comp yells right back and gets super mad at them. I say dude you’re a missionary you can’t say stuff like that. Haha. But I do love how he protects me! He’s seriously my favorite comp! I have really come to learn patience a lot on the mission and just not snapping right away at someone like I used to if they would say something against me hahahaha I don’t anymore. I guess I’m growing up. 🙂
You know it hasn’t been easy switching missions but it has forced me to be strong on my own and really just search the Lord! I’ve gotten so close to him!!! Satan has been working so hard on me lately but I have seen the power of the scriptures that just eliminates the temptations! It is amazing!!!
Pray for my investigators come to church and those who are preparing for baptism keep their commitments. I love you guys soooooo much!!!!!!!! Have an awesome week!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
Pictures: some attiéké(it wasn’t that great) we ate cuz we got back late from secteur and my maman wasn’t there to make me a super panini it was a good time though!!! notice i ate with my hand and he grabbed a spoon hahah it was sooo funny!!!! the other was some foufou my comp made it was good!!!
January 27, 2019 Attecoube (Week 20)
Family,
Looks like you guys had a good week! I seriously have been soooo blessed with this new companion! He is like my favorite comp so far hahahhahahah!!! He’s from Togo!!!!!!! So dope!!!!!! and sooo chill!!!! His name is Elder Akpotossou! He’s super cool!!! Freakin buff too hahahaha He wants to join the US Navy. I love him so much!
Well my investigators are not keeping their commitments. Please pray for fr luc that we can get a date for his baptism and sr nyomie that her father accepts and fr jean constant that he gets baptized this Saturday and fr pacome that he can continue to come to church and stuff and that sr evelyne, sr fidele, and sr joellle will come to church!!! Its cuz of your prayers that I’m still here!!! This week was great as well I talk about it all in the recording . We got a date set for sr nyomie so that rocks!!! Its the 16th of Feb!!! Sadly fr jean-constant wasn’t baptized. He had cadre de dignité so yeah bummer with that! IDK how to explain cadre de dignité in English cuz it has like no translation basically its just high sins like avortement or loi de chasteté parole de sagesse and just stuff like that hahahaha! He had helped someone do an avortement and he did one with a girl he got pregnant. I guess this dude used to be quite the player and then he got sick from drugs and alcohol and so now he is looking for God and he has stopped all that stuff for like a year or so cuz he just wants a better life. He’s such a great guy!!!! So yeah it should be this next Saturday that we will baptize him!!! With my new comp I think I may fall in love with training! That would be cool if you met the president! I’d love to see that pic you guys at dinner with him that would be sooo cool! Well I love you soooo much!!! Have an awesome week!!!!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
Pictures:
My new studly comp!!!! Elder Akpotossou
January 21, 2019 Attecoube (Week 19)
Hey Family,
This week was really great!!!!!! This transfer is going to be really good the Lord is soo amazing!!!! I have just seen him prepare me in so many ways for each transfer!!! I will be staying here in this secteur and will be training my 3rd son! At first I was super mad I was training again so I just went to my room and just got on my knees to pray for peace and it was just so incredible!!! I know with no doubt in my mind that this is exactly what the Lord wants and it is no question that is why I will be ending with that American president! This has been a bumpy ride but man has it been great! I have come so close to the Lord in so many ways!!! I will get my son tomorrow so we will see what nationality he is! I have a strong feeling he will be an english speaker. It is interesting because I have been praying so hard that I’ll be transferred and every time I just had a feeling I will train and then it happened but yeah it will be really great cuz we will have a baptism this Saturday for the fr constant!! Sadly we didn’t get those other investigators to church but I just know they will come. They are so close if they can just make it to church they will be baptized!!! Pray they can come to church!!!! They read the scriptures and have testimonies but they don’t come to church it is sooo hard to see but when you look at it you realize that everyone has their own agency! It kills you but all you can do is warn them and NEVER give up on them! I may be transferred and other missionaries in a year from now will baptize them like what has happened with fr pacome! I hope we can get him baptized!!! He just has to get out of all his sins. He loves going to hotels and bars! He parties tooo much and has a wife at port bouet. Its a sad situation but with the help of the Lord it can be made right!!! Sounds like u guys had a good week! Yeah that reminds me of the time I saw the blood moon here I will never forget it. I was at port bouet when it happened!!! Yeah I know that’s it tough with him leaving but don’t think in the present. Realize that he is going to become a man in the service of the Lord! There is no other way!!! The Lord will continue to strengthen you!!! Don’t worry grandpa will come lift you up! I think he’s got me back on my two feet for the moment! Plus you need it more hahahahaha!!! Just be patient with yourself! Regarding running mom, you will be back there and when I get home i’ll start running with you again!! I gotta get my rice belly away hahaha I got this small little roll hahaha and my arms are skin and bone and I got a little roll hahahahahahahahah! Man, I’m jealous you’re getting so much snow! I want to go snowboarding sooo bad hahahahahahah!!! Soon!!! In like 9 months hahaha!!!
So here’s a quick summary of the week since I didn’t get a chance to give you a recording. Tuesday was conference mulit zone so that was dope! had some great lessons on obedience and integrity! Wednesday we saw fr constant and then went and saw sr evelyne and sr joelle. It was a great lesson. We thought for sure they’d come to church but they didnt come sadly hahah Then Thursday we saw this one new investigator that came two weeks ago to church and is seriously golden!!!! She’s sooooo awesome her name is sr nyomie!!!!! She told us she wants to be baptized but has to talk to her dad so she will be baptized February! So hopefully right before I get transferd she’ll get baptized!!! We then went and tried to see this lady sr catherine that we contacted a while ago and ended up finding her younger sister at the house and had a good lesson with her. She doesn’t know if God exists and thinks that it is all fake and human made so we will help her with time hahhaha! Friday was good we saw sr tabitha and sr joelle again it was great lessons!! Saturday we saw fr pacome and taught with this guy fr tehin who is a member and camùe to find out it was him that referred him to the first missionaries and so we had him come to the lesson and it was so amazing the spirit was soo strong man in this lesson and in the one for sr nyomie like I almost started crying when sr nyomie was saying she wanted to serve a mission and get baptized and then she started crying a bit it was so insane man it was such a great week man!!!!
Well I love you sooo much!!!!! Have an awesome week!!!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
Pictures:
party at my mt elder nkruma’s place it was sooo lit we had fajitas!!!! elder harris made them that guy can cook man!!!! he’s a new american that came like 5 months ago it was fun! we were with elder nwachuku this missionary that’s goin home tomorrow.
a little party we had at picasso!!! also the going away present i gave to elder citeya!!!
Here’s some pics of when mercer left the apartment.
The going away party for elder nkachuku
January 14, 2019 Attecoube (Week 18)
Hey Family,
How are you? Seriously time is just blowing by I cant belive my comp is done with training the end of this week!!!!! Hallelujah hahhahahahah!!!!! My week has been such a great one!!! I listened to more church music, and I saw the blessings unfold!! We set a baptismal date for fr constant that brother in law of that wako dude that we taught last Saturday, and we also found these two new ladies sr evelyne and sr isabelle that are great ladies!! sr isabelle’s husband is a less active member so if we can get the two to start coming again that will be so awesome!!!!!!!! So yeah pray we can get them to come!! I’m so shocked sr evelyne didn’t come cuz she is seriously a golden investigator!!! Super great women and people to teach!!! Also, fr pacome we have been teaching him more weird enough he didn’t come to church so that was really sad we were pretty bummed about him and sr evelyne not coming but we ended up having some old investigators come back to church which was a great blessing!! sr tabitha came back and we also had sr pristile that 8 yr old girl and also fr constant and then these new young boys came with their friend and they are such bright kids super smart man!! we have a rendez-vous with them Saturday so that wuill be good! i want to teach their partents!! thats my misison is to track down and get all these peoples parents to start coming and then we will have so many families here and they will be able to split the ward!!! this very wekll could be my last week here so im gonna work super hard to get that done! yeah no it is soooo true mom i struggled with that so much when i friest started my mission but i came to realize that i am here to set an example to othersive really started to see a lot of these newer missionaries coming that just look to me and I’ve just seen that I’ve been able to help them in just small ways and idk I’ve just really started to see the reason for everything! This mission has been the hardest thing I’ve had to endure my whole life and there have been so many times that I have fallen down but I just always remember to that photo of the foot prints on the beach and I just know with out a question in my mind that the one that has been holding me up and keeping me to keep going and pushing is grandpa! I’m no longer walking on my two feet he’s just carrying me and letting me take a few steps here or there hahahah! but no I have really just felt the Lord helping me get by!!! I have just a few months left it seems like a lot but at this rate it is flyin by!!! yeah no question grandpa will carry me all the way to the finish line to leave me in your arms!!!!! how great will that day be!!! i love you sooo stinkin much and miss ya like crazy!!!! have an amazing week!!!!! love you tons!!! Have an awesome week!!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
January 7, 2019 Attecoube (Week 17)
What up fam?!
HAPPY NEW YEARS!!! It was super fun!!!!!! How was yours? This mission is dope!!! If I went to Senegal, you would think I was on vacation hahahahhahaha my only mt in this mission just came back from there the one that was with Dawson and now is in my zone its soooo dope he’s been with us all day he’s my homie!!! He’s from Ghana and is a total stud!!!
I’m doing sooo freakin good!!!! Really just so good man this mission has totally transformed for me in a way I can’t even explain and it is 100% because of the faith I put in the Lord to just lay it all at his feet and just do all I can to work hard even though I am starting to get a bit tired I’ve come to see that it really is just the little things like dad always says! It is seriously such a difference reading and studying compared to the days I don’t! Our investigators are super calacala but its aight we are gonna keep tryin with them! They’re goin good but I’m ready to be transferred though… hahahaha. My president shared something with me in an email this week and I don’t find it by chance that dad said the same thing to me this week in his email. It was super cool. He said FAITH + OBEDIENCE = MIRACLES. So true! Elder Renlund shared it with the Mission Presidents, and he shared it with me. I was very grateful he did! He knows I’m trying to hard to be so obedient and keep the faith!
Also, it was so good seein you guys!!! you all look sooo goood!!! especially mom cracked me up like apologizing for just wakin up but she looked like perfect hahaha It was like in the movies they wake up lookin perfect hahahahaha! my cute mama!!!! Honestly I’m so glad you called! I just felt like i didn’t get much time to talk with you and dad one on one that was just so nice thanks so much for following that impression because it put me at complete peace!!!!!! I haven’t even been homesick at all hahah it looks like you guys are more homesick for me than I am hahaha You babies just cryin all the time hahahahah I’m just kidding!!!! President got these charter buses for our party! It was sooo dope it was just a party the whole way there the the movie was sooo legit! yeah this mission is really starting to come around for sure!!!!!!! I’m getting there respect more and its great!!!!! At first it was rough but its good now!!! It’s so cool that the church is changing like it is right now. As a family we have already been doing this stuff that the first presidency is coming out with now it is amazing to see how in tune you and dad are!! You guys have done such an amazing job raising us!! Thank you soo much for your incredible examples!! We are who we are today cuz of you guys!!! I love you all sooo much!!!!! You guys are my best friends!!!! Have an amazing new years party hard for me!!!!!!! love you!!!!!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
Pictures: our dope new years party on tuesday! the dope key chaines i got you guys well really olo bought them hahahaha! me and elder taylor playing some pingpong and some nice pancakes i made i finally figured out how to make non-scrambled egg like pancakes hahahahahahahahahaha
December 31, 2018 Attecoube (Week 16)
Hey fam what up?! This week was SOOOOOO good! It was such a party!!! I talk about it a lot in the recording but it was a blast!!! Wednesday was such a blast!!!!!!!!!!! I’m sooooo happpy!!!!! hard work pays offff!!!!!!! Best of all we had two baptisms, and I got to see you all!!! It was so awesome! This mission is so legit!
Fr David went out and bought himself 3 white shirts and ties. I seriously was so touched to see his willingness to be a member of this church he is going to be an amazing missionary!!! He’s an 18 yr old dude that is the coolest kid!!!! There’s no question this family will be close to me forever!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s so cool cuz their aunt Sr Sara was the convert of Elder Roberts in the other mission so its cool he baptised her and I baptised the rest of her family!!!
We are gonna go back because we told them to prepare some people that we can teach so we will see what happens!!! The cool thing is now Fr David can in the future baptise his sister and his dad which will be sooo awesome!!! I hope I can see it happen!!!! Everyone we see we ask if they know someone who we can teach! He is preparing now for his mission already! He will leave in a year! His aunt Sr Sara is preparing to serve now too! Such a great family!!!! Those two little kids with those christmas hats are in that fam too there names are Yannick and Michael.
The plan is to baptize the whole family!! Those two little kids are too little but his dad and his sister should be baptised! We are gonna keep working on them!!! It was a huge blessing to have this baptism before the end of the year! I will remember this forever!!!! Things are great!! Maman Audette came to church yesterday too!! That lady is psycho hahahahahahahaha! She will hopefully get baptised!!! One day she will change! There is also these others we have been teaching named Sr Sarah and Sr Tabitha. They have been kinda calacala but its cuz of the parties and stuff after its all done it’ll be easier to see other investigators!!! We have like 3 new investigators who came to church yesterday. Two that members invited which is a huge blessing we go from one batch of investigators to the next it is so amazing to see how the lord has been blessing me! I will be so sad to leave this place it has been such a party!!!
Well have an awesome week. It’s been two amazing weeks for me! I’ll talk to you next week again. I love you all so much!!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
Pictures: my dope decorations that lasted for a matter of 15 mins…. makes sense why they were so bright hahhahahahahahha!!!! Pic of my district!! my zone leaders elder kanza my hommie elder houdegbe his comp and then sr kyungu and sr obiandu. Brownies and then my lil hommies they’re sr deborah and fr davids lil siblings they’re so cute!!! this dope cake elder taylor and i made its called a blondie its like white brownies!!! so good but i almost blew up the stove we left the gas goin and taylor was tryin to light it but it wasn’t workin so i was like step a side let the real man do the trick i grab a match and throw it in and the stove legit blows up hahahah like it came off the ground and I singed all the hairs on my arms hahhahahahahahahahaha it was soooo legit hahhahahahahah we were like YEEEEAAAAAHHHHH that’s how the real men do it hahhahahahahahahha it was so freakin funny that was like sunday or monday hhahahaha it was nuts!!! and then thats the pics from the concert on monday enjoy!!! Christmas eve and Christmas! Ran into a little friend!!!! his comp is the guy that would email me all those questions at the beginning of my mission hahahah dope to see him in person he was a cool guy!!! and of course was so dope to see ologundudu!!!! My chrismas suit! mcdougal and i got them done! then got to chill with mercer he came to our apt after the sports on wednesday to change and shower before the movie! thats a nice peach cobbler elder taylor made it was sooo goood!!! The nice lunch we had before the movie and then the cinéma! i sat with elder bateman the guy to my right in the photo he’s such a stud we were having such a good time!!!!! Me and my hommie elder kanza he’s my zl and he is the biggest stud!!!! more pics of the cinéma. The zone at the cinéma and then the mangez-vous with fr modeste at the baptism!! The baptism!!! fr david et sr deboprah!!!
December 17, 2018 Attecoube (Week 14)
Ma famille!!!!!!!!!
Comment allez-vous?!salut mon frère!!!!c’est comment?? ce n’est pas grave mon frère ne t’inquiète pas!! we are going to have a giant tournament avec tout la mission et après nous allons partir au cinéma pour regarder un film!!!!!! He’s taking us to see Aguaman! So dope, huh?!
After playing sports we will have a giant feast!! so dope huh!!!!!!!!!! I’m soooo pumped!!!!!
This mission is so hard, but so dope man!!!!! Our mission president is a beast!!! I’m feeling good. I’m getting better slowly hahaha the giant rain storms don’t help hahaha What happens is it rains like crazy hard and then gets super hot and evaporates all the shiz and crap on the ground into the air so it makes you sick hahahahah but I’m doing lots better it’s just been my allergies!!! This mission goes down in history as THE DOPEST MISSION!!!!!!! I hope Ben gets called here bro then we can work together hahaha that would be SICK!!!!! President is so awesome.
He said he will get my 5c iPhone from the other mission for me. Elder Austin has it with him. He was gonna give it to me but then he said that I should get permission from president, so what Im gonna do is just leave it at the bureau and Christmas and Mother’s Day I can come to the bureau and use it!!! He’s such a hommie!!!! And, mom, don’t you worry ben will get sent to some place even crazier than Africa hahahahahaha!!!
It’s a huge blessing it doesn’t feel like Christmas here!!!!!! I’d die if it felt like Christmas!!! For us we just get an extra party day and I get to see you what more could I ask for hahahaha! I think if it snowed here President would let me go snowboarding. Hahaha!
Well have an awesome week! I’m so excited to talk to you next week! Merry Christmas to all of you!! I love you so much!
Love,
Elder LeBaron
These pictures are of the party at picasso. It was soooo fuuunnnn!!!!! Me Elder Taylor and then the new missionary that Elder Dingando is training!!! He’s a cool dude his name is Elder Owrokuka. Pics of the light the world on friday morning that lil dude eli is my lil homie he’s the cutest kid!!!!
