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

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

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!!!

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!!!!

Ma famille formidable!!!!!!!!!!

I’m doing great!  My comp is doing better. He’s way more chill! I think the mission just stresses him out!!!  Transfers were this last week but I didn’t get transferred!  There were tons of changes!  They were great!  Lots of new ZLs hahah President got rid of all the crap!  I’m the only American in the apartment again.  I have three other Congolis.  Should be interesting.  They just talk to each other in their native language.  Kinda sucks.  Most of the ZLs are Americans, which is super cool!  They’re awesome!  My ZLs are Elder Kanza that stud I speak English with all the time and then this other lil  dude from Benin. He’s a hommie hahaha I think I’m gonna talk to pres to see if i can use my iPhone to FaceTime you at the bureau.  We had a really funny experience with mama. hahha It was awesome how my comp just totally jumped in and hooked me up! It was awesome!!! I feel a little better, but I still have a cold and am really stuffy.  You’ll hear in the recording.  I think it’s the stupid flu shot they gave all of us.  Like everyone in the mission is sick right now!!!  I don’t know why they gave that to us!  It made us all sick!!  Pray I feel better, and can you pray that fr moise and junior will accept to be baptized and maman audette and that we can set a date for sr tabitha and that we can get fr hamed o get to church with his friends and that all our others will progress and fr parfait that he will come to church.  Well have an awesome week.  I love you all!

Love,

Elder LeBaron

Hey Fam,

This week was ok.  I finally gave you a recording though so that should make you happy.  Hahaha  My comp is being a baby.  He keeps running to this other Congoli ZL telling him I don’t train him.  Bottom line is we are working so hard I don’t alway have time to train him.  I’m training him with all the missionary work we’re doing.  Haha.  This week I got some dope shirts and made some cool designs on my cell phone.  It was pretty cool.  Its been a humbling week with my comp that’s for sure.  Just tough.  I have to just love him I know.  It’s just really hard to love Congolis sometimes.  They’re super prideful people and I get the same way sometimes.  Anyways, it was a tough week, but we got through it.  Next week will be better. I’m super excited to be able to see you all in a few weeks!  Can’t believe it’s Christmas already.  We had a wonderful time with the Mission President at our ALL Mission Conference.  He pulled all the Americans aside and told us how much he loved us and that the other missionaries need help with obedience and we need help with forgiveness.  He’s like Americans are my favorite keep being awesome hahahaha!  It was great!  Well enjoy the recording.  Have an awesome week!  I love you so much!

Love,

Elder LeBaron

It was great!

What up fam? happy thanksgiving!!!!!

This week was great!!! So the beginning of the week our zone leader stayed the night with us cuz his comp was sick at the hospital so we went out to secteur with him Tuesday. It was great we finally got to teach fr parfait again so that was great!! The spirit was so strong it was awesome!!!! You could tell he could feel it too!!! Then after that we went to find our other people we had meetings with but sadly they weren’t there. Wednesday was good. That was the great lesson with maman audette!!!! Then after we went to teach fr moise and that was when he told us he wasn’t ready for his baptism and stuff so that was sad. He has relieved like all the lessons he just has lots of doubts and like Sunday we went to get him from his house but he was busy cleaning his house! I think with time he will come around! We also had a great lesson with this kid we have been teaching named fr emmanuel. He’s a good kid! He is calacala a little though hahahaha! Thursday we went to teach fr emmanuel but he just wanted to sleep hahahaha We then went and taught fr hamed so that was good cuz it has been a while since we have seen him. He still is calacala too hahahaha! Then Friday we had this conference with the whole mission with Elder and Sister Blackwell who are the health people here in east Africa They’re cool. They were at the mtc when I was there so it was cool to see them again!!! Super nice people!!  Then Saturday we had the baptismal service in the morning that was good! After we had a great lesson with mama. She was just going off how girls that put the yarn in their hair and the wigs and stuff don’t follow the commandments and all this weird crap so I stopped her and got her back on track with our lesson and then I just went off baring my testimony to her and the spirit was so strong it was like I was just nailing her with power hahaha I felt it so strong like stronger than any moment in my mission, and then after that I pointed it out to mama and told her how you can you feel the spirit and it was so awesome!!! She just kinda backed down and was like just give me more time to pray and think hahahaha and then Sunday she was sick so she didn’t come to church sadly!  We had fr junior come to church cuz we went to get him fr cedrique fr moise and fr yoan but they were all busy except for fr junior and then this new member brought her sister to church so that was great!!!!! so we finally had more than 0 people come to church hahahahahahahaha!  Well that was my week.  Pretty awesome missionary work going on in my area now.  It’s super hard, but we’re working really hard and the Lord is blessing us!  Have an awesome week!!

Love,

Elder LeBaron