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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

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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

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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!!!!

December 10, 2018 Attecoube (Week 13)

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

December 3, 2018 Attecoube (Week 12)

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!

November 26, 2018 Attecoube (Week 11)

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

November 19, 2018 Attecoube (Week 10)

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!!!!!! 😘😘😘😘🦃

November 12, 2018 Attecoube (Week 9)

Hey fam what up?

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!!!!
Love,
Elder LeBaron

November 5, 2018 Attecoube (Week 8)

What up fam?!

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!
I love you all so much!!
Love,
Elder LeBaron

September 10, 2018 Port Bouët (Week 20)

Yo what’s up guys?!

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!!  

Love,

Elder LeBaron

September 3, 2018 Port Bouët (Week 19)

Yo, yo, yo what’s up Fam!?!

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!!
Love,
Elder Tyler