Yovo: Family

So what a week! With New Year starting, and Im still in Africa and ALIVE!!!! It is some good news! Well to welcome the new year in, everyone here was party and alcohol-stricken! But not us! Everyone was so busy from preparing fufu and slaughtering thousands of goats and chickens to get ready to celebrate, that no one had time for us, or they were too drunk to even tell us their name! It was a different world! So anways,a member invited us over to celebrate on New Years and so the missionnaires from the Tokion branch, or our apartment was all there, and we ate some delicious Wakumé with pâte de arachide, or peanut sauce, and ate manyoke with eggs, until I wanted to explode and then watermelon!!! It was some good eating!!! I am going to have to learn how to make this peanut sauce cause I dont know how I lived without it!!! It is soo good! Afterwards, everyone was dancing and so they decided they were going to teach us an traditional african dance, lets say its VERY funny to watch and do!!! Its was a good experience, the pic that is attached is little christine, the cutest little african girl ever!!! I want to stash her in my luggage and take her home with me!!! She is a doll!
So I am going to try to send more photos, will see if they work. This week was nuts again trying to get to all of our rendez-vous and stuff, this week we have a baptism, Gentil le grand! He is a very smart kid who was well prepared by a member, to the point that alot of the time he taught us the lessons, we are pretty excited for him! As usual we will running like chickens with our heads cut off trying to make it to all of our rendez-vous, better than nothing to do, right? This week I was attacked by an army of African Red Ants, I leaned up against a tree real quick like and stepped away, then like 30 seconds later 30 red ants are all over my arm and down my shirt, biting/pinching me! I kinda started spamsing out, all the natives started laughing watching the yovo get eaten alive!! It kinda hurt, it was just more annoying than anything, but now I got a cool story!
What else is new.... still in a threesome, I dont like it, missionary work is hard for a threesome, especially with two françophones who love to talk and discuss deep dark mysteries of the gospel, it hard cause for me I am still working of Faith and repentance! Its interesting hearing the theories of stuff that the french moromons have about the gospel, wow!!
We got the new teachings of Joseph Smith book yesterday, and after planning session I started to read it, it a BIG book compared to all the other teaching manuals, but I think I am going to study this for my personal study, cause in French, you cant just breeze through reading like in English, but actually think a little bit, also I think by reading it I might pick up somethings to share with investigators!!! Well anyways all is well here in togo, things are rolling along, hope you have a good week and that you know that I love ya and remember who you are!!!

love
elderly

Camera, the prices here are ridiculous, I say send it, I found out that a member works here in the post office, and she handles ALL the packages and takes good care of us, so it safe to send, also could you send me some clippers? I used them last friday and they werent working very well then my comp was about to use them and they quit working all together! It would be much appreicated!! Thanks love you!!!