Akbé‏

What a week! Running round like a chicken with our heads cut off trying to see everyone that we needed to. We had no phone this week the grilledour sim card so that we had to buy another one and that one didnt work. This week President Ayekoué came. We had our little Zone Conference, its interesting with a little baby... President became sick during it and was throwing up, the little baby also had to go to the hospital for something... It was interesting... President has a heavy load ono his shoulders. He came here on Thursday, we ahd our entretiens with him, Vendredi was Zone Conference, he had to do all our polygomy and abortion entretiens, he had to choose a new branch president. the next day he held an amazing training session with the leaders here. Went to Benin the same day for something over there. Came back sunday to divide the branch. Then returned to do Zone conference over there. He is a busy man! That is the big news, we divided the branch here! In fact the new branch was the quartier that I served in for 6 months! Its a good feeling knowing all that work is paying off over there! We had transfers and it looks like Im going back to the same area as I was in when I first came here, Békpota, and with an old companion Elder Howard. I think that is going to be wierd, going back to an old branch, apartment, area and companion. Im sad to be leaving this area and elder picard, he is by far my favorite companion yet, we taught and heard each other well. This week we worked hard, and one of our families came to church for the first time! we were estatic! From all our work we ahve lots of investigators and now is the time to enjoy it and im leaving, grr, and I hear that my new area has a desprite need of new investigators, so starting over!!! really my area is awesome right now, this week we found 8 new investigators that the Lord really lead us to and are the big fishes of the sea! One investigators, has this huge house and we watched the retablissement, afterwards, he was the first person I have ever heard say so no churches are true, and god restored the verite back on the earth. wow is it true? How can I know? That is what we call un ami d'or!  a friend of gold! It was amazing, he even prayed for us and asked God if it was true, the first prayer he ever said!!! Awesome, so I figure ther are some people waiting for me in Békota so I guess I got to go. sounds like mom had an interesting trip. Olympics that missed me, but during lunch a couple of times we saw a little bit of it. I even saw the 110H hurdles! That was great! anyways have a great day and remember who you are!! Love ya much!

Love,
Elder Lee(Chinois) this hat is awesome!

Dandy Dan Lee

So mom, I dont know what you are worrying about, I did too send a letter. It just wasnt very long.  Mom, Im glad to know that you love me! This week was amazing! We found lots and lots of new and interesting people to teach. Especially families! We talked to lots of good families this week! So it looks like fishing for big fishes in big ponds is working! We even started teaching a couple who is here on vaction, orginally there are from France, and will leave in the next couple of weeks, but we will have planted some seeds! The families we found are quite the sight, one of them has like five or six daughters, and its pretty crazy but the parents understood amazingly well! We started teaching a Protestant pastor, maybe he will be become converted and then his congration afterwards. We also are teaching some Muslims. I like teaching them cause usually they dont have these ridiculously false ideas that pastors pound into people head. Doing porte à porte we ran into a paster with a HUGE house, it felt really wierd thinking that this big house of his was from is job as a pastor of a c hurch, Im glad we have the true chruch! I love this work! Elder Picard and I worked really hard, leaving early and not coming back until late. But our efforts are paying off! With lots of new people and old people making progress,  we set a land speed record yesterday, in the morning we set off early to encourage people to get up and go to church, and we kinda lost track of time, when we looked at our phone it was 8h36, and we were  so far away from the chapel, usually its takes us 1h10 to walk to the church from where we were. But we set off at an amazing speed speed vite walking speed and got there in less than 30 mintues, it was really a miracle, we almost beat some members who took a taxi to get there! I got some photos I would send home but there is a problem, but next week it will be taken care of and I will send some. Its hard to believe its already August, time going by soo fast! Amanda is a senior? Jayne looks so big! I will be coming home to a new family! I played basketball the other day, it really energized me, i miss it, I played against some kids that were like 6'9'' 6'6'', they didnt think a yovo could play with them until I blocked  both of their shots, haha it was good! well there is always so much stuff to say but little time. Anyways hope you have a good day and remember who you are!!! Love ya!

Love
Edler Leee