Hey Family, Have an awesome thanksgiving eat lots of turkey for me!!!!!! Also this morning we taught maman audette that crazy momma cuz now she is ACTUALLY in our secteur hahah before she was in the zone leaders secteur, but they didn’t care. Now she’s in that part of my secteur so we have been visiting her, but anyways it was an amazing lesson this morning the spirit was so strong and she accepted the reality of the restoration for the first time every time we go she never wants to talk (the word of God) because she says she already knows it all and that she is a missionary like us but today she totally humbled herself cuz Monday night she came to our apartment to drop off food again and I told her just super firmly that mama we are coming tomorrow to teach you no more eating we have a message that is important and you need to listen to us to receive your own answer! I also told her that we have a baptism service each Saturday and that this Saturday she is going to be baptized and that Wednesday morning we will come talk to you about it. After giving her a day we went and taught her this morning and it so incredible she said okay I will get baptized in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because I see the importance of the gift of the Holy Ghost, but you have to give me time to think about it. We invited her to come see the baptismal service we have this Saturday and she accepted so yeah pray she will accept the baptism and that this next week or so we can baptize her!!!!! Just a short little story for ya hahahahahah love you guys sooooo much have a killer week!!!!!! 😘😘😘😘🦃
It’s been a good week. I got pretty discouraged yesterday seeing 0 investigators at church, but the Lord totally just came to my aide and I felt so good! It was like I could just feel him telling me this is all in his plan and it is his way of really teaching me to have patience that has how these past few months have been it has been a great teaching moment of my mission for sure!! The mission is so much like hills on my XC race. At first it’s so hard but after some time you become a pro at climbing them. By the end I was just like how it will be with the mish! I will be so sad the day I leave but so ready to go home hahahaha! Attitude is key in the mission man I have come to see the really power of positive thinking! Slowly this secteur will start coming around I just know it! Its the Lord’s guidance this last week we found 10 new people we are just talking to everyone and doing what you said Dad and then we just weed out the bad ones! The next missionaries that come here will be happy cuz they will be baptizing a lot. Hahaha This has happened my whole mission. I work super hard and the next people that come reep the rewards of it hahahahahaha I’ve come to see that this is really the Lord’s work man like it doesn’t matter about baptisms. It is obedience and doing your best to make the secteur better than the way you found it! We’re just focusing right now on the ones that are progressing. Ben wait, I can’t believe you are submitting your papers in six months. I need to see you! I will die coming home and not finding you hahahahahaha Geeeez you’re gonna kill me kid! I know he’s so ready but I just can’t wait another 3 yrs to see him man hahahahaha Give it 3 yrs and it will be like it was just yesterday hahahaha Can you believe that Elder died last week? He was my new companion’s companion in the MTC. He was only in the mission for 10 days. They don’t know what happened to him. He just woke up and wasn’t breathing right and then died in his trainers arms on the way to the hospital. They had to sit with his dead body for an hour until they could get the people to come and take it to the morgue hahahaha Those three missionaries that were with him are freakling studs. Man I have so much respect for them! One of them is like my best buddy he’s a great guy from Madagascar! Just so sad man! Also, his family aren’t members either. I hope they don’t hate the church for the rest of their lives. I think it’ll be good. President will take care of it. He already called them and talked with them, so I think it is good! It’s so sad, so please pray for his family. Well I’m gonna go. I love you guys sooo much have an awesome day and a great week!!!!
This week has been a great testimony builder for me for sure!!! I’m doing great!!! Alban gave me a blessing! It was great! He told me that I have a big work here in this secteur and that I need to work hard to find the people that need the gospel in their lives at this time and that I need to be a light to the missionaries around me and help them to see that obedience isn’t a bad thing! He’s awesome!!! I love you mommy!! You will be taken care of during your surgery!! Grandpa is gonna be right by you!!! He can leave me for a day! 😘
You need his strength more tomorrow than I do! I got a new companion I’m training from the Congo. He only speaks French, which I love. He’s super humble and a great guy. I’m going to enjoy training him! So we have a few investigators. We just have fr parfait, fr ahamed, and fr moise as our investigators, but we are gonna keep looking for more! Pray that fr moise will get baptised the 24th of this month and that we can set a day for fr parfait and that fr sedrick, his friend will come to church so he can be baptised the same day as fr moise and that we can just find more people to teach and stuff! Also, pray fr ahmed will come to church to and that we can set a date for him too! This week we are gonna work super hard! Have an awesome week!
Happy Birthday MOM!!!!! So cool I get to email you on your birthday!! I had an awesome week. I tell you all about it in my recording, but I had an incredible miracle this week. I grabbed a super hot pan and it sizzled my hand. It hurt so bad, but I got a blessing and the pain instantly left! It was amazing! It feels a ton better!!! The priesthood is so real man holy cow!!! Instant healing!!! It was the best miracle!! The Lord is so awesome! We also got commitments from the young investigators I’ve been teaching since I got here that their parents want them to be baptized. It was awesome! We also had 8 investigators at church! It was such a great week! I did experience something really scary though. So saturday night when we were coming home we were in way bad traffic and we got to this intersection and a bunch of people were crowding around and putting sticks on the ground to get the cars to go around this dude that had just laid his bike and was just chillin in a pool of blood. It was nuts man and then Sunday morning the same thing happened. I got in traffic on the freeway cuz this giant camion truck smashed the front of this baka and all the people were just out on the side of the road laying down holding their heads and stuff in pain and the driver was pinned in the front seat with the smashed front end gashed into his legs pinning him in and all these people were wedging crap in the front door to try to free him and his shirt was just covered in blood along with the door. So yeah pretty nuts! It was crazy. Makes me not want to get into another car here! Please pray for me. It was intense hahahaha! I bet it scared the heck outta Elder Morrell hahahahaha! It will for sure be something I don’t forget. I was thinking I wanted to buy a motorcycle when I got home. Yeah never will I ever own one!!! It was pretty nuts but it actually didn’t really phase me hahahah Don’t worry I’ll be safe. I got a giant legion of angels by my side!! I wear a seatbelt whenever I’m in the front seat. Problem is the ones in the back don’t have seatbelts, and it’s impossible to walk where we need to go hahahaha! The other thing is I’ve been so tired lately. Driving an hour every morning and every night is making us so tired. I’m just dying hahaha I’m gonna talk to the guys tonight and see what they think about doing prayers earlier so we can go to bed earlier. Anyway, the life of a missionary! Hahaha Tomorrow we have the conference with Elder Katcher, the Area President. I’m so stoked!!! Gotta get up at 5AM though, so I’m gonna die hahahhahahaha I try to do my best!!! My legs have been hurting a lot lately like growing pains hahaha or probably just from walking?! Another funny thing is I’m to the point that I don’t like AC hahaha I’m gonna freeze my butt off when I get home hahaha Oh, and send tons of the starburst chews and jolly rancher chews! Those were so good!!! I also LOVED my cheesecake! It was super rich, but soooo good. Americans eat so much sugar! Hahaha So this week I need you to pray that fr Loïc and sr Cynthia can get baptized this sunday with fr cyrille and that we can get fr Rodrigue ready for baptism and that fr chris and sr victoir can get baptized and that their parents will soften their hearts! We also have this guy I forget his name, but he just came from Nigeria. I told you guys about him a few weeks ago but he has been transferred to our ward because we have more english speakers so yeah pray he can be baptised soon and that he can find work and a place to live cuz he is still homeless on the streets. It is so sad man!! He has so much faith! Man he is gonna be baptised way quick! I hope we can have 8 baptisms this month! I will try my best!!!!! Its my birthday month so man i gotta kill it!!
Well family have an awesome week! I love you soooo much!!
On my birthday we had a baptismal service for chef de zone and after got to eat placcali with sauce gombo. It was killer and then got to serve by washing the dishes and stuff!! I just stole them from the young women and just started washing them. It was funny!!! And then we went to adjahui and it was supêr sick and then went to the mall to party and eat burger king it was the best birthday ever!!! THANK YOU!!! I loved my package so much!!!!!!! Everything was just perfect! It was funny because President texted me and was like make this day special! I was like okay I’m going to go to burger king tonight to celebrate hahahahaha!!! It was great because we met Elder Sorenson there and the APs from the other mission were there too. It was so cool to see them all! It was the best!!!! I loved the cards my bros put in the package! hahah I was dying of laughter!!! I’m so happy BYU won!! Finally!!!!! Dude yeah the football is beast as well. I love it! I was telling Elder Dawson about it!! We have a ball we use every Monday but its crap!! I can’t wait to give the new one a spin!!!! I also love the basketballl tooo!!!! Keep me posted with all the BYU Football happenings…I’m super stoked for their year! I’m gonna wear my Ferdette jersey to celebrate hahahahaha! Its so fun to play the Catan game too. It is so fun! I’m playing it with Elder Morrell!! It was the best!!! I love that guy! He and I have had a blast together!!! Oh also, I love the new belt! Now I use the old one for sectuer and the new one for Sundays and events and stuff its perfect!!! Thank you so much!! What sucks though is I jacked up my speaker….. I turned it on while it was charging accidentally and it just fried it hahahaha! Guess what?! My filling came out again! I had to go to the dentist and they filled it without Novocain. It hurt SOOOO badly!!! She did a way better job it just hurt. The other thing is my hip is bugging me again. It hurts even when I stretch it out. Please pray its ok. It’s swollen like the other one hahahah I just pray I can get through one more year! I don’t want to have to leave early to get that stupid thing fixed!! That would be horrible!! I have faith it will be ok!! I know you think it’s growing because it grows when I grow, but I don’t see it. My pants aren’t showing I’m growing. haha…I’ll be 5’10” forever! On another note, man, I miss the temple! I can’t believe its been a year since the first time I went in. What an experience that was!!! I miss it so much! I can’t believe I’ve almost been here for a year! Where did the time go! I want to stay here forever! Well, I have to go. I love you so much! Thanks again for the birthday package! It rocked! Have a great week!! I love you sooooo much!!
Man this week went by so fast! It was good, but it sure went fast. The upload is taking forever. I sure hope you get to see my pics. They’re great! It stopped raining so the weather is good now. So I’m letting my hair grow out again. I miss my hair. Haha! We also didn’t get our baptism because his dad wouldn’t let him get baptized cuz of his comportements. Not sure what that means in English. Haha. I just looked it up. It means behavior. His behavior was bad so he couldn’t get baptized. 🙁 Aunt Kersten sent me a great email with an awesome talk! It was great! I’m glad you like me speaking Noushi. Haha It’s like pigeon French, but if I speak it it’ll screw up my French. I love speaking French!! I will speak more Noushi after a year cuz i gotta master French first or at least do my best. I can too master it lolol Its soooo tough!!! Wait until you see my Jimmer jersey!! My comp saw another one so he went to buy it today so now we match hahahah its dope!!!! It was just in some hut this dude had jerseys hung up and one was Jimmer’s! So cool huh! All the way in Africa! Haha My comp is in love with BYU. He watched like all their games. I’m going to burger king for my birthday and Sorensen is gonna meet us there!! I’m so stoked!!! Best birthday gift ever!! I’m trying to get our whole zone to go hahaha! I’m gonna just use my card and load up on food for my birthday! Hope that’s ok! I also see a bunch of Dimarious Thomas jerseys here and I’m just like man I miss that sucker! hahahaha Elder Sorensen is gonna apply to BYU, and I bet he will get accepted way easy. I also talked about going to UVU with him so idk or provo. Honestly I don’t even know all I know is him and I are going to college together hahahahahaha! I absolutely love him! He’s become my best friend! I love these missionaries I serve with…we’re all brothers! Its really hard where we are right now because our area is an hour away from our apartment. We talk to as many people as we can!!! We had a super cool conversation with our cab driver just yesterday, and I just remembered it was super cool! We all wanted to do something fun today, but the ZLs called this morning and asked us all to clean our apartments. Ours is already immaculate so who knows what we’ll end up doing. Oh well, I came on my mission to work not play. haha! Oh I keep forgetting to tell you that I still suck at using my mosquito net because I got an allergic reaction to the chemicals in it so I haven’t been using it. But I am a master rice cooker now hahahahaha! I just wish we had more investigators. We’re working hard but we don’t have many. Pray we find more! Okay well I gotta go because time is up. Finished sooner than I thought!!! Love you guys!!!! Have a great week! I love you soooo much!!
Looks like you guys had a fun week! Do you like that pic of my comp? It was so funny. I was like dude get in the room I gotta take your picture. He was like okay I’m gonna do something crazy then he just got up on the beds it was so funny! He’s awesome! I love him. He’s had a really hard life, but he’s a great guy. Man, I’m so tired from sports this morning!!! It was super fun. We all got together as a zone and played soccer. I’m getting really good! haha . Earlier today I wrestled another missionary who was a huge Polynesian and put him on his butt. It was dope!!! Everyone went nuts hahahha! It was super funny. We haven’t been able to much work this week. We don’t get a lot of time in the secteur because it’s so far away. We do have a baptism lined up this Saturday. He’s this cute 14 year old. He’s a stud!!! Pray it goes through! Also pray we can find more investigators to teach that come to church lololol! My comp’s first trainer he had for only a few weeks because he wasn’t being obedient so the President gave him to me to train. He would go to the cyber for like 10 hrs at a time. Crazy, right? This mission is so different than any other mission in the world! Its tough, but I love it man!!! Never a dull moment. It’s all good. I really do love this place. The Lord has helped me a ton. I used to be such a negative person!!! I now see good in everything no matter what happens. I forgot to tell you the kid with the glasses is Elder Duncan he is my district leader and then I have some with me and Elder Morrelll and my comp and also with my new zone leader elder Motshikana. I love these guys. It’s the first time I’ve been in an apartment with such spiritual missionaries. It’s the best! Well family, have an awesome week! I’ll keep praying for all of you! I love you soooo much!
My week was awesome!!! hahaha It’s great here but lots of work especially with a prideful greenie! hahaha He is actually super great. I love the dude so much!!! I have come to see how I was when I first started my mission no wonder my comp hated me lolololol! He is such a cool guy! I love my comp so much he speaks so many languages its soooo cool! Mom, yours and Josh’s hand written letters made me cry. I have some really great pictures of my new comp, but my computer isn’t working! Computers in Africa!?!? Oh well.
l have this great pic of my comp I hope it downloads soon. It was so funny I was like get in our room I’m gonna take your pic so then he was like okay I’m gonna do something crazy! He then got up on the beds and did that pose you’ll see in the pic it was sooo funny!! Thanks for the new MP3 player. I love it! I’m super stoked because our new apartment we’re moving into has hot water and AC!!! We’re in a temporary apartment that’s like an hour from the secteur, so it’s super tough right now. We can’t leave until about 1 then we have to be back at the office about 5, so it’s a little crazy. It’ll get better when we move to the new apartment this week! We leave so late because we have to get everything done for the day in the morning. When we live near the apartment we will have a more normal schedule. The computer is just not working today, so I can’t upload these photos. I love my apartment right now! It’s the first time everyone has been super spiritual! We have two greenies. It’s awesome. The other greenie is American. He’s a stud. I love it!!! My comp basically speaks just like the Ivorians because he grew up here. It’s awesome. He’s a great guy. He had a tough life. His dad left there home when he was young. He’s had a rough life! He’s a really great guy!! We’ll the cyber is closing early today, so I got to go! I love you so much! Have a great week!
I got a new greenie this week! I’m training! I’m so happy to be able to train because this last week we only went into the secteur twice for only 2 hrs. It’s going to be nice to be calling the shots and we are going to work so hard!! We’re going to a new temporary apartment today, then we go to a new apartment next week. It’s just going to be the two of us in the apartment and I don’t know how to cook, so it should be interesting. Hopefully my greenie knows how to cook. I don’t cook! I just do dishes. Haha! If he doesn’t know how we’ll learn together. He’s from Nigeria, but he grew up in Cote d’Ivoire. He seems like a cool guy. Thanks for all your prayers and fasting for me. I feel it. You guys rock! I need them because I’m a little stressed about training. It’ll be great, but I’m stressed. I know the Lord will bless me. I get to spend a lot of time with President. He’s so awesome! I love him so much! I see why he’s Alban’s best friend. They’re both so awesome! We’re going to a new apartment, but still in the same place. My old comp pretty much killed the work because he wouldn’t go out, so we have a lot of work to rebuild. The Lord is with us so it is in His hands!!! My comp is a good guy. Just tired and didn’t want to work. I hope you like the photos because my comp was like let’s take some pictures together. Haha. Well, have a great week. I love you so much!!
