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August 27, 2018 Port Bouët (Week 18)

Hey Family,

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!!

Love,

Elder LeBaron

 

August 20, 2018 Port Bouët (Week 17)

Hey Family,

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!

Love,

Elder LeBaron

August 13, 2018 Port Bouët (Week 16)

Yo what’s up Family!

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!
Love,
Elder LeBaron

August 6, 2018 Port Bouët (Week 15)

Hey Family,

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!!  

Love,

Elder LeBaron