Bonjour,
Well I think I need to be speaking alot more French now because after transfers were over, my companion is French. His name is Elder Foucher! He speaks with a very French accent and is very hard for me to understand and everyone else too. He has been out for 7 or so months. From what I have heard, ive kinda got to be the senior comp of sorts. I am sooo excited cause this means I am now forced to speak French or else I will die! No, not literally but yeah know what I mean. He understands English perfectly but refuses to talk in english so, my French is going to improve rapidly!
The area I was working in got alot bigger, there were four areas before this Zone Conference, I adopted one of the areas so now mine is HUGE! A lot of walking and travel time but that means a lot more people and better odds of finding 'the ones.' The area I adopted was dead of sorts but we have plans to change that. From whaqt an Elder told me, its takes about 3 months of very hard work to get and area going, I plan cutting that in two. I really am excited for this because I can now work as hard as I want to, the first transfer for me was playing follow behind. Just getting used to being here, its been the hardest two months of my life, so so hard... but I realize how difficult, fustrating, painful, sorrowful I have been, I have grown so much. From self disipline, mental toughness, desire, charity, self motivation, to self happiness. And this next stage looks even tougher, I am really enthused beyond all comprehension! I really like now the tough times cause you grow so much than you would other wise.
Investigators, well Elise and Michel are scheduled for baptism Oct 11, we are re-teaching them the lessons and hopefully they will be ready for this. Danic, he didnt come to church this week but if I understood right, he told me he wouldnt be able to. He is amazing, understand everything perfectly, believes it, or at least I think he does, and wants to change. Serge, I cant say enough about Serge. He is the man, he is a moto repairman and asks amazing questions! He really seems very very sincere about everything. Another investigator is Bienvenue, his name means Welcome, he did have a baptismal date, but the last two rendez-vous have turned into rattiez-vous, meaning he didnt show up.
We had a lot of mangez-vous(meals at member houses) because we lost alot people.Elder Gunnell, Elder Fox, Elder Lamarr, Elder Rawlings, and Elder Richard. We only had three replacements come in. Two are brand new Elders so that means Im not the new one anymore! One is French though and he is in my apartment so life going to be rough if i dont learn the French fast! So much change, but yet im think im ready for the challenge, I was born to come here to Africa and find those certain people I promised to bring the gospel to. I have been here 4 months or a 1/6 of my mission! I dont have much time left, heck im almost done and I havnt found them yet!
Well I think I will leave you with a funny story if thats okay.... So we had Zone Conference today, a big long meeting where our Zone gets together, the mission President and His Wife along with the APs come and give us instruction. So we were three hours into this thing and I was sitting in a plastic chair. Just sitting there while Sister Dil was giving her talk. All the sudden this chair collaspes from under me!! THe legs fork out and just collaspes. It scared the heck out of me, depending on who you talked to, there where reports of me giving a little yelp as I went down. It was really funny, or at least I thought!! So I guess I must be putting on wieght in Africa, that is a feat unto itself!!
Well hope you are all rigoling to yourself now, imagining me breaking this chair, but untill next time, remember who your are and I love ya guys!
Love
elderly
Monday, July 30, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
Umm.... What to write
So this week in the beautful country of Benin... Not much. I dunno what I going to write in this email so its probably going to be a lot of random thoughts and little stories.... should be interesting.
Well transfers are coming up tomorrow, and we have three leaving, for good. And rumor has it that someone is going to be transfered to Togo. So for all I know I could be going to Togo!! I hope not cause this week was a very up and down week. Comp has packed his bags already and is ready to go, andi ts very hard to get him to work sometimes but we have been rewarded with two very fidel investigators, you want to know the word for investigators is in French? amis de l'église, meaning friends of the church, i duno i always think its funny calling our investigators friends! But yeah, their names are Danic and Serge. this is a cool story, so Danic was one day walking down the strret when he saw Paul, a member, he stopped him, and said, why are you so happy, there is something about you that i want, what is it? They guys is amazing!Very humble, energetic men that could have a very bright future, so this week we doubled our total of investigators at church right! IMPROVEMENT!!! Every mission has its difficulties so I this is what I have been called to bear!!
So a cool story about living and working it Africa, we were tracting down an investigator, some random road, just walking along, minding my own, business when i glance to my left.... a see a bamboon! It was so cool! Just sitting in a cage, its was huge! So later this week we are going to go back and take some pictures, im pretty excited. This is why I love Africa, just never know what is going to happen, keeps things interesting... I have started a book of little stupid ridiculous stuff that happens each day that I know that I i will want to remember but will forget over time, Im pretty excited for this at the end of the mission.
What else... OIh I went on splits with the member missionaries this week, so much fun! I went with Godwin, a member who was baptised about three weeks ago, it was so fun cause i got to control, who we saw, what we did, how long, is way a good time. my french is horrid but i have reached the point i can say i n very broked french about anything and with a lot of hand motions they understand, it was really cool. I like Godwin alot! Very good guy, goes with the missionaries 2,3 times a week all day. I really like the cool feeling being "on your own"! Someday, im excited! It was a good experience cause I can now see how far i have grown in my french and just in self disipline.
Senagalise food, AMAZING!
I miss peanut butter, wal mart, my canoe and fishing, mowing lawns, and Idaho!!
I dunno what else, so I ll be going hope verything is incredible for you all and I love and take care, souviens-toi que tu crois!
love
elderly
Well transfers are coming up tomorrow, and we have three leaving, for good. And rumor has it that someone is going to be transfered to Togo. So for all I know I could be going to Togo!! I hope not cause this week was a very up and down week. Comp has packed his bags already and is ready to go, andi ts very hard to get him to work sometimes but we have been rewarded with two very fidel investigators, you want to know the word for investigators is in French? amis de l'église, meaning friends of the church, i duno i always think its funny calling our investigators friends! But yeah, their names are Danic and Serge. this is a cool story, so Danic was one day walking down the strret when he saw Paul, a member, he stopped him, and said, why are you so happy, there is something about you that i want, what is it? They guys is amazing!Very humble, energetic men that could have a very bright future, so this week we doubled our total of investigators at church right! IMPROVEMENT!!! Every mission has its difficulties so I this is what I have been called to bear!!
So a cool story about living and working it Africa, we were tracting down an investigator, some random road, just walking along, minding my own, business when i glance to my left.... a see a bamboon! It was so cool! Just sitting in a cage, its was huge! So later this week we are going to go back and take some pictures, im pretty excited. This is why I love Africa, just never know what is going to happen, keeps things interesting... I have started a book of little stupid ridiculous stuff that happens each day that I know that I i will want to remember but will forget over time, Im pretty excited for this at the end of the mission.
What else... OIh I went on splits with the member missionaries this week, so much fun! I went with Godwin, a member who was baptised about three weeks ago, it was so fun cause i got to control, who we saw, what we did, how long, is way a good time. my french is horrid but i have reached the point i can say i n very broked french about anything and with a lot of hand motions they understand, it was really cool. I like Godwin alot! Very good guy, goes with the missionaries 2,3 times a week all day. I really like the cool feeling being "on your own"! Someday, im excited! It was a good experience cause I can now see how far i have grown in my french and just in self disipline.
Senagalise food, AMAZING!
I miss peanut butter, wal mart, my canoe and fishing, mowing lawns, and Idaho!!
I dunno what else, so I ll be going hope verything is incredible for you all and I love and take care, souviens-toi que tu crois!
love
elderly
Monday, July 16, 2007
My Head is Pounding!
So so much has happened here and even more has happened there! First of all I gots to say Felicitations to the new Sister(Hermanna) Collette, who is going to GUATEMALA, GUATEMALA CITY NORTH MISSION SPANISH SPEAKING! That is nuts, im so excited for her! MY old house was flooded, family went to oregon, my boat is safely secure now, i got mail for the first time here in Africa which im very very gateful from ma mere, the Rhoades and the Luebkes! ITs true, like when the mail comes in the movie, The Best Two Years and they all flip out cause the mail came, well its worse here cquse mail comes every five or so weeks! Everyone went nuts and grabbed their mail, ran into a corner by themselves and read like rabid rabbits!!! It was pretty fun!
So the work here had its ups and downs, sideways, whichways, underways, highways, and byways, everything is never the same, there is no such thing has a dull day in Africa! Anything can happen at anytime, and it does. I like it cause it fits perfect with my ADD and attention span. Always changing and never dull! So we went through a period where we dropped a lot of iunvestigators and did a lot of contacting, the people here are so greetable and friendly, but they like to lie. So naturally, im a pretty trusting person, so when people tell me they are coming to church, i believe them, and when they dont, oooh, they dont want to make fun of this chiniose! So the biggest thing i have found out here is Africans will tell you anything you want to hear, Oh i want to hear the word of God, i will come to church, yahda yahda yahda. They will also do anything to cheat you, this is another story later, but so this week we wanted to see how serious Africans are, last week we invited 127 people to come to church, guess how many showed up....0! It was a very slow week for us, even our serious investigators, only two came. So lots and lots and lots of work to do.
I just finished my first transfer/planner, so i have been here in Benin for 6weeks now, thats crazy and my french still sounds comme english. I think though I am making progress, so those that really know me, know that I sleep talk, pretty well, well my companion says that i have started to sleep talk in French now... I pretty stoked cause im not even conscience and yet I get extra practice at french and i dont have to endure the misery!!! Also I want to clear up a point... IM NOT IN GHANA? IM IN BENIN!!!!! Ghana est pour les oiseaux(for the birds), Benin is where it is at! Just to let you all know!
Maybe the 28th our investigators will get baptised, Michel and Elise, I think im going to bring Michel back with me, he is totally righteous, so mom make sure there is another bed in the room for me in our new house!! He is the funniest kd i have ever met, just the coolest person ever!!! So here is your warning!!
There had been alot of stupid drama between missionaires and also the branch. I thought i was out of high school and never had to deal with it again, mostly its between two missionaires, really lame but whatever.
We played basketballl today, how could i forget this!!!! Amazing, never thought i would see a hoop and net again, but we found a place to play!! We played among the missionaries here because nobody came to play and it felt soooooo good to shoot a basketball, i found out that gravity here in Benin is the same in Idaho, cause i can still dunk it pretty easy, i was estactic!! So even still if i never play basketball again, i can say i still ended on a dunk!!
I really love it here, everything is so cheap, so today we went to Odazazar and Meesaboo, huge markets filled with anyhting and everything you want, stuff is dirt cheap but everyone tries to cheat ya. So I found this place for silk ties, like the ones back home, but not quite as nice for 200 Francs, or about 40 cents each, so dont bother sending ties, unless you want me to remember you by them, bought a awesome, brand new soccer jersey for a dollar. and my most prized possession, this backpack!!! Found this backback, not really even looking for it, A Columbia, all waterproof, 80 buck backpack for 6000, or 12 dollars, the thing is amazing, something i will use so much! espcially during the rainey season, so remember how i said that Africans will try to cheap you? intial price 28000, you have to do a lot of bargaining here, especially being white, so thats my accomplishment for the day, and inviting all the ties guys to church!
There is so much to tell, all the stupid little things here that just make my day, oh in life its all about the small and simple things. Alma 37:6,7 have really become my favorite scripture while on a mission, everyday i want to comprehend all, speak perfect french all the time, and baptised thousands, but that is not how the Lord works, he only asks me to do small things! everyday Im trying to pick a few small things and work on them and do them until i can do it, then the next day pick a few more, until you realise, wow ive been here for over 100 day sq and these thing have really addded up!! I cant express how much this scripture has helped me, just doing the little things, appreciate the small and simple things of life, and also being grateful for them. It really has been the focal of my mission, trying and doing small simple things, that and Charity, the both go hand and hand and I LOVE IT!!!!!
Anyways im going to go but I love ya all and hope everything is well, appreciate the small things, and see what happens, alright§ Love Ya!!!
Amour
Elder Lee
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So the work here had its ups and downs, sideways, whichways, underways, highways, and byways, everything is never the same, there is no such thing has a dull day in Africa! Anything can happen at anytime, and it does. I like it cause it fits perfect with my ADD and attention span. Always changing and never dull! So we went through a period where we dropped a lot of iunvestigators and did a lot of contacting, the people here are so greetable and friendly, but they like to lie. So naturally, im a pretty trusting person, so when people tell me they are coming to church, i believe them, and when they dont, oooh, they dont want to make fun of this chiniose! So the biggest thing i have found out here is Africans will tell you anything you want to hear, Oh i want to hear the word of God, i will come to church, yahda yahda yahda. They will also do anything to cheat you, this is another story later, but so this week we wanted to see how serious Africans are, last week we invited 127 people to come to church, guess how many showed up....0! It was a very slow week for us, even our serious investigators, only two came. So lots and lots and lots of work to do.
I just finished my first transfer/planner, so i have been here in Benin for 6weeks now, thats crazy and my french still sounds comme english. I think though I am making progress, so those that really know me, know that I sleep talk, pretty well, well my companion says that i have started to sleep talk in French now... I pretty stoked cause im not even conscience and yet I get extra practice at french and i dont have to endure the misery!!! Also I want to clear up a point... IM NOT IN GHANA? IM IN BENIN!!!!! Ghana est pour les oiseaux(for the birds), Benin is where it is at! Just to let you all know!
Maybe the 28th our investigators will get baptised, Michel and Elise, I think im going to bring Michel back with me, he is totally righteous, so mom make sure there is another bed in the room for me in our new house!! He is the funniest kd i have ever met, just the coolest person ever!!! So here is your warning!!
There had been alot of stupid drama between missionaires and also the branch. I thought i was out of high school and never had to deal with it again, mostly its between two missionaires, really lame but whatever.
We played basketballl today, how could i forget this!!!! Amazing, never thought i would see a hoop and net again, but we found a place to play!! We played among the missionaries here because nobody came to play and it felt soooooo good to shoot a basketball, i found out that gravity here in Benin is the same in Idaho, cause i can still dunk it pretty easy, i was estactic!! So even still if i never play basketball again, i can say i still ended on a dunk!!
I really love it here, everything is so cheap, so today we went to Odazazar and Meesaboo, huge markets filled with anyhting and everything you want, stuff is dirt cheap but everyone tries to cheat ya. So I found this place for silk ties, like the ones back home, but not quite as nice for 200 Francs, or about 40 cents each, so dont bother sending ties, unless you want me to remember you by them, bought a awesome, brand new soccer jersey for a dollar. and my most prized possession, this backpack!!! Found this backback, not really even looking for it, A Columbia, all waterproof, 80 buck backpack for 6000, or 12 dollars, the thing is amazing, something i will use so much! espcially during the rainey season, so remember how i said that Africans will try to cheap you? intial price 28000, you have to do a lot of bargaining here, especially being white, so thats my accomplishment for the day, and inviting all the ties guys to church!
There is so much to tell, all the stupid little things here that just make my day, oh in life its all about the small and simple things. Alma 37:6,7 have really become my favorite scripture while on a mission, everyday i want to comprehend all, speak perfect french all the time, and baptised thousands, but that is not how the Lord works, he only asks me to do small things! everyday Im trying to pick a few small things and work on them and do them until i can do it, then the next day pick a few more, until you realise, wow ive been here for over 100 day sq and these thing have really addded up!! I cant express how much this scripture has helped me, just doing the little things, appreciate the small and simple things of life, and also being grateful for them. It really has been the focal of my mission, trying and doing small simple things, that and Charity, the both go hand and hand and I LOVE IT!!!!!
Anyways im going to go but I love ya all and hope everything is well, appreciate the small things, and see what happens, alright§ Love Ya!!!
Amour
Elder Lee
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Monday, July 9, 2007
ma famille
so i found out that you qre in oregon this week, so i hope that was fun, dad did you ever get my email i sent you, i sent it to work but i have no idea if it forwarded it or not, things qre going really good, mom thanks for the letter, i got it this week, and it was the first mail i gotten since in benin. so crazy how things from across the world can actually find me another place all the way across the world. so how was your guys fourth of july? hopefully it went out with a big bang since its the last one in idaho, that is wierd to think about, wow. so im sure you guys will be busy packing and stuff, when is it that you actually move out? last trip to oregon, no we better go back, or at least i willl cause i really like crabs and mo's clam chowder!! well love you guys and hope everyhting is going well qnd smooth, mom just calm down and dont get stressed out about this move, k? love ya guys!
love
elderly
love
elderly
Fourth of July in Benin, yeah I actually celebrated it!
So they do celebrate the 4th of july here, well at least ay the american embassy. SO all of us missionaries went there and they had a fourth of july party of sorts, kinda, okay it was really wierd cause everyone was white! it like was a little different for me, i cant imagine what the other misionaries thought, it really kinda felt like i was home or sorts, cause there was grass, white people, blue red decorations, hamburgers, hot dogs, sun, and COUNTRY MUSIC!
the music i felt really really guilty cause i knew a lot of the song and it reminded me of 'babylon' it was really wierd, lots of peace corps workers, other missionaries from other hurches, embassy workers, and some businessmen, but we totally stuck out cause everyone was in causal clothes and we were all dressed up. it was really wierd, i cant explain it, made me miss home and you guys, so that day i probably thought about home the most so far, but once that was done it was back top work as usual!
things are going pretty good here, we dropped alot of our non serious investigators, and so we did a lot of tracking, a lot, and going and searching all our referrals, i had a really cool experience on saturday, so saturday, they branch had football game they hosted, and it was the missionaries against the branch members, mae wea(blackman in Fong) vs yovo(whiteman in Fong). it was a blast and they slaughter us, we only scored a couple of goals and i scored one cause we wrapped un the goalie and dragged him away from the goal.
but afterwards, i was soooo beat, my companion was worst, so i convinced him thorugh physical force to go out and do tracking, we were pretty far away from our apartment in the outskirts of our cartier, and i was eating a fan ice,(more about later) and i looked down this street and i was really really curious what was down it, more than usual, so i decided that i wanted to go find out and my comp said it was a dead end, but we went down it anyways; at the very very end my comp started talking with this guy and i wasnt interested really, while i was standing there i saw this guy motion me over and and so i decided to venture out on my own and try to have a conversation with him, the guy that called me over wasnt serious at all, but his friend was amazing! so i sat down and started to tell him about myself and why i was here, it was really difficult cause my french skills are lacking but with the help of some animated hand motions i taught this guy the first lesson! by myself, answering all his questions and invited him to church! oh he was so interested acting and enthusatic and he understood my french!
so sunday rolls around and i was anxiously waiting but he never showed up. really disappointing but hopefully next week or ill run into him again, but i thought wow, here am i, amazingly tired, qnd there was this road with a dead end, and at the very very very very end was this guys that i talked to, and taught him, just a good example of following through with my feelings! *
oh yeah so there is this thing we went to, called a revenon festival,this one was like a block away from our apartment, basically it is where everyone gathers in the street, and these people dressed up in these colorful costumes go around and just whip people with branches, its used to be a vodo sort of a thing back in the day but some people took it way to seriously! it was kinda funny to watch, everyone running away from these revenons cause if the revenon catches you, you have to pay some money to them, they tried to get me to pay and they were whipping me with the stupid stick kinda hard, then i think they realiwed how much bigger i was than them and i was kinda getting mad so they left the yovo alone.
So july 12th we will have a couple of baptisms so we are pretty excited for that, a lot of traking again this week, well i guess not a much as i think but yeah, anways i dont think there i much else so, hope you guys had a happy fourth and ill talk to ya later!
love
elderly
the music i felt really really guilty cause i knew a lot of the song and it reminded me of 'babylon' it was really wierd, lots of peace corps workers, other missionaries from other hurches, embassy workers, and some businessmen, but we totally stuck out cause everyone was in causal clothes and we were all dressed up. it was really wierd, i cant explain it, made me miss home and you guys, so that day i probably thought about home the most so far, but once that was done it was back top work as usual!
things are going pretty good here, we dropped alot of our non serious investigators, and so we did a lot of tracking, a lot, and going and searching all our referrals, i had a really cool experience on saturday, so saturday, they branch had football game they hosted, and it was the missionaries against the branch members, mae wea(blackman in Fong) vs yovo(whiteman in Fong). it was a blast and they slaughter us, we only scored a couple of goals and i scored one cause we wrapped un the goalie and dragged him away from the goal.
but afterwards, i was soooo beat, my companion was worst, so i convinced him thorugh physical force to go out and do tracking, we were pretty far away from our apartment in the outskirts of our cartier, and i was eating a fan ice,(more about later) and i looked down this street and i was really really curious what was down it, more than usual, so i decided that i wanted to go find out and my comp said it was a dead end, but we went down it anyways; at the very very end my comp started talking with this guy and i wasnt interested really, while i was standing there i saw this guy motion me over and and so i decided to venture out on my own and try to have a conversation with him, the guy that called me over wasnt serious at all, but his friend was amazing! so i sat down and started to tell him about myself and why i was here, it was really difficult cause my french skills are lacking but with the help of some animated hand motions i taught this guy the first lesson! by myself, answering all his questions and invited him to church! oh he was so interested acting and enthusatic and he understood my french!
so sunday rolls around and i was anxiously waiting but he never showed up. really disappointing but hopefully next week or ill run into him again, but i thought wow, here am i, amazingly tired, qnd there was this road with a dead end, and at the very very very very end was this guys that i talked to, and taught him, just a good example of following through with my feelings! *
oh yeah so there is this thing we went to, called a revenon festival,this one was like a block away from our apartment, basically it is where everyone gathers in the street, and these people dressed up in these colorful costumes go around and just whip people with branches, its used to be a vodo sort of a thing back in the day but some people took it way to seriously! it was kinda funny to watch, everyone running away from these revenons cause if the revenon catches you, you have to pay some money to them, they tried to get me to pay and they were whipping me with the stupid stick kinda hard, then i think they realiwed how much bigger i was than them and i was kinda getting mad so they left the yovo alone.
So july 12th we will have a couple of baptisms so we are pretty excited for that, a lot of traking again this week, well i guess not a much as i think but yeah, anways i dont think there i much else so, hope you guys had a happy fourth and ill talk to ya later!
love
elderly
Monday, July 2, 2007
another week in benin.... yeah right AMAZING just cause i'm in africa
Tout le monde,
So i decided qfter one month the french still sucks. I think i hqte it more now than ever cause i hear it all the time but i really cant understand it qnd sometimes when i talk, the tell me to speak french cause they dont understand english, but i was trying to speak in french! when that happens i just laugh, i dunno its fustrating but funny all at the same time, so this week was a pretty big week for me, we had our first baptisms!!! Florian, Prosper, Elvis. what an awesome experience!! just knowing that ui helped in some small way to help bring those people unto Christ, was an amazing feeling! watching them walk into the font was quite the sense of accomplishment! i was kinda struggling , feeling baqd for myself, the whole stupid pity thing, oh i hate it, just so fustrated with french in general, thinking up ways i could teaxch everyone english so i wouldnt have to learn it, just stupid pity stuff, but when each one of them walked into the baptismal font, i felt that wow, its definititly worth it! wow i really kinda like it! so it was good timing for me, what else this week..... oh we found this sengalise food that is amazing!!! i think we get it everyday for far since we found it, the whole meal, cost us less than a dollar and is sometimes quite filling, depends on how i feel, but its quite the dish, i think tonite im going to set up an snapfish account for something, ill be on in qbout three four hours so if anyone is on, throw me a line! anyways whats new..... 12 we could have as many as five baptisms or sopmething like that, people that my comp and i foundso im pretty stoked about that, i dunno things are just going, seems unreal that im in africa still myself asking that im in africa for over a month and im still alive! amazing! so the fourth we are going the the american embassy for a party i dunno, should be pretty interesting! i think there will be alot of yovos there,white people in Fong, their nqtive langauge, so i guess ill be celbrating the fourth, so today we did so sweet stuff for our p_day, we rented motos, there are alot of zimms drivers, taxi drivers, so we pulled some over, asked to rent their moto for the day, gave them about four bucks, and took their motos for the day! nuts, we went and visited some villages and it was ablast! i think i might buy a moto/scooter when i get back, they just make sense, very good gas milages and they are just plain awesome!!! what else..... im in the best mission, is doing pretty good, my comps are all apostate still but they are turning around, or at least mine is, never easy but you dont grow when its not easy, n'est pas? so anyways ill send some pics later when the computer is better or ill do a snapfish or something; got to go, miss ya and love ya tons!
love
elderly
So i decided qfter one month the french still sucks. I think i hqte it more now than ever cause i hear it all the time but i really cant understand it qnd sometimes when i talk, the tell me to speak french cause they dont understand english, but i was trying to speak in french! when that happens i just laugh, i dunno its fustrating but funny all at the same time, so this week was a pretty big week for me, we had our first baptisms!!! Florian, Prosper, Elvis. what an awesome experience!! just knowing that ui helped in some small way to help bring those people unto Christ, was an amazing feeling! watching them walk into the font was quite the sense of accomplishment! i was kinda struggling , feeling baqd for myself, the whole stupid pity thing, oh i hate it, just so fustrated with french in general, thinking up ways i could teaxch everyone english so i wouldnt have to learn it, just stupid pity stuff, but when each one of them walked into the baptismal font, i felt that wow, its definititly worth it! wow i really kinda like it! so it was good timing for me, what else this week..... oh we found this sengalise food that is amazing!!! i think we get it everyday for far since we found it, the whole meal, cost us less than a dollar and is sometimes quite filling, depends on how i feel, but its quite the dish, i think tonite im going to set up an snapfish account for something, ill be on in qbout three four hours so if anyone is on, throw me a line! anyways whats new..... 12 we could have as many as five baptisms or sopmething like that, people that my comp and i foundso im pretty stoked about that, i dunno things are just going, seems unreal that im in africa still myself asking that im in africa for over a month and im still alive! amazing! so the fourth we are going the the american embassy for a party i dunno, should be pretty interesting! i think there will be alot of yovos there,white people in Fong, their nqtive langauge, so i guess ill be celbrating the fourth, so today we did so sweet stuff for our p_day, we rented motos, there are alot of zimms drivers, taxi drivers, so we pulled some over, asked to rent their moto for the day, gave them about four bucks, and took their motos for the day! nuts, we went and visited some villages and it was ablast! i think i might buy a moto/scooter when i get back, they just make sense, very good gas milages and they are just plain awesome!!! what else..... im in the best mission, is doing pretty good, my comps are all apostate still but they are turning around, or at least mine is, never easy but you dont grow when its not easy, n'est pas? so anyways ill send some pics later when the computer is better or ill do a snapfish or something; got to go, miss ya and love ya tons!
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elderly
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