Tout le Monde

Hallo?

This place is nuts! and everyday that i am here makes me realize how much i love it and how "normal" everything seems and how i fit right in except this dangh white stuff on my skin... well this week had a lot of ups and downs, there seems to be alot of them im finding out, well we taught a awful lot of lessons this week, about 40, and we are starting to see some success! this is the amazing part, wow so this Saturday we have three baptisms of our investigators and im sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited to see them baptised! lately i ask myself alot about how important and sacred these covenants are, i dont ever think i realized how sacred the nature of our covenants qt baptism really are, then watching and helping people turn their lives over to god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant even come close to describing that! and then this week, we had our first invitations for baptism, and what an experience it is when the spirit prompts you to commit someone to baptism!!!!!!!!!! all the sports ive played i have never had such an adrenaline rush!!! we had four people commit to baptism, so that was pretty cool this week........... this week what else has happend... j dont know, it has rained alot here and been "cold" for everyone and im still sweating, we picked up some new investigators that are progressing really well, ohh!! today we went and helped with the special Olympics of Benin today!!! it was really fun, ill upload a photo or two but it was really fun!!! played some soccer and helped them stretch, i went on splits with my DL this week, i like his area alot cause its down by the lake and all the houses are on stilts on the lake, it was pretty cool, almost lost my book of mormon through a slit on the floor, it was good cause he is the least apostate missionary here, makes ense right, and it was really good to know someone else wants to do this right, like the only time my comp got up on time this week is when we went running and 530, oh he loved it!! he is getting better, i worked him pretty hard this week and he working me over really really good in french, it sucks but one day perhaps ill be able tro speak it, kinda funny but it was good, i was soo sore, i got to do that more often, well i dont know what else ot write so im going to go, things will be good here and haave an amazing week!!!!!!

amour
elderly

this is a pics of right after i tripped over the ball and ate it, all the kids came over to see if i was okay, we were playing soccer 

Yeah even Benin knows which way The best state is......

This is some sign of a village when we went on our moto expediton

this is my mission, cant beat it...AFRICA!!!

Why should I leave Africa?

Its going to be very difficult for you guys to get me out of here, wow what an amazing week! Wednesday we had an apostle of the lord come here, to Benin, David A bednar to dedicate a whole country to the work of the Lord.... and maybe thirty people got to witness this great nation officially open up for the work! I cant even describe what it was like, an apostle called me, elder lee, by my name, shook my hand, looked into my eyes, and asked me how I was doing! sainte vache! the dedication was amazing, so we were going to do it outside in the countryside but it was really blowing and raining and stuff, so we did it in the chapel, what a spirit, an apostle of god was here, first time ever! the dedication was nothing like i have ever experienced.... hearing him say... ¨by the power of the holy apostleship i turn the key to open the door for the missionary work in the land of benin...¨ wow!!! not melchizedek priesthood, but another authority!!! it blew me out of the water when he said that! Just so you know... you, my family, i consider everyone this goes to my family, that an apostle of jesus christ has blessed you! its was something to behold! so in the middle of his dedication he said, just really out of the blue, ¨by the power of the holy apostleship i rebuke the adversary from the face of the land so that he will not have power over the hearts of the people of this nation!!! one of the greatest witness/spirit i have ever felt was on wednesday,june 13, 2007 in cotonou Benin!!!! so you now how i said it was raining before, as soon as he got up it began to clear, and once he was done, it was beautiful outside! I kid you not, it sounds like those mormon legends but i witnessed it! he chose the hymn #1, which was really fitting and said that one day in a few years we will sing this song again and remember this day and when the clouds of darkness lifted form this country and Zion was established here! the fireside was nuts too! He genuinely made prophesied in the name of jesus chirst, about a lot of things, he said that in a few years, god willing he will be back to established stakes in benin! there is one branch of about 80 active members right now in the whole country! we got a long way to go, i so stoked! i just want to speak french right now so i can tell everyone about how i feel right now. so my companion and i had a talk yesterday, i was getting sick of it, we were going to plan foir the next week and i told him that we really have to start being the missionary the lord wants us to be cause if not i might as well come home, he realized that before and we are going to be some big stude for the rest the next 6 weeks he is here, im going to work him and myself to the ground this week, we taught about 27 leçons last week, but we can do much much better! we get to do alot of tracking because most of our investigators will be baptised on the 30th, they were the investigators of the another comapionship before us, so im excited to see the whole process of conversion from begining to the temple, that is alot of what we do, is going around to members and reteaching them the lessons again, witht he goal to get them to attend the temple. good week we are going to have, p-day today was amazing! the pics we got are incrediable, we are going to make a dvd so i will send it home later, this one pic is in a village near the coast west of cotonou, awesome day, i caught over thousand pounds of fish today! the fishing here is pretty sweet, i saw a bunch of guys hauling in a net on the beach, i jumped off and helped them pull it in! i was the lone spot in about 60 people hauling in their load! i was fishing in africa! how sweet is that? well anyways life is good here i love it! the poeple are amazing, no idea, well anways got to go talk ot ya later, love ya!


elder lee