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
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