Mélange de deux mondes differents

Well sorry about writing late, yesterday was p-day but because of the rebels, there was an attack in the area, helicopters, tanks, jeeps with mounted machine guns, where wizzing by us and we could hear machine gun fire, so we decided to not to go out the internet yesterday... mom you scared? Côte d'Ivoire is not like that, not at least here up north but not in Abidjan, all is nice, way too nice, so last week was spent in Cotonou saying goodbyes to everyone, is was so crazy to be back, see all the changes and see all the old familiar faces and that they remembered me was incredible, alot thought I had already finished my mission, it was so good to see them all again. Benin is completely changed new couple, new missionaires, new members! So I went over with Elder Carter from Togo, then elder Phillips et Crooks left with us on thursday at 10h30, we took a plane ride over there and arrived 10h30 over there, all I got to say was it was a culture shock! Incrtediblably different over here! Everythign is top notch, the elders had to get shots cause they didnt have any record of shots, i did! But the whole airport airplane was crazy, we got there, president met us, jumped into some really nice cars and took off... on a FREEWAY! I was scared because of how fast we were going! Abidjan is like a mix of two worlds, I dont like it, its like a little of Togo, and what I can remember of home, freeways skyscrapers, big billboards, fancy flashy cars... the list goes on! I am with Elder Amany, we are the ZL's of Cocody. We are in the WARD cocody, in the STAKE of Cocody, and we have NO investigators, the area is dead, president gave me a lot of work to do, the missionaries are awesome, Amany reminds me of the movie actor, the rock. Yep, he is my comp! THe office missionaries are there too, we leave in the second story of an apartment, nice, witha bakery on the main floor, its great WHOLE GRAIN BREAD!!!! I remember that! We elave near the edge of Abidjan, its very quiet and nice, and very HILLY, not mountians but it will do, the countryside is not far, and everythign is really green! THe ward will be moving to a building the church is building, its big, i forgot. Ivorians are a lot less friendly, no body greets each other. grr. The little kids all speak french, and they are not really suprised when the see a white guy... All in all it different. To be honest, I feel liek I already finished my misson, said all my goodbyes to everyone I knew left on a airplane with basically the same missionaries that I came with. Its kinda hard right now, cause I got to start from scratch, but I guess it will keep me busy if I can refocus right again, I will just it feels like we are done as missionaries cause everything they do here is different. Elder Phillips and I talked about this today after conference. We had a regional Zone conference, meaning ALL the missionaries in Abidjan came, even the sister missionaires, sister missionaries..aie aie aie. they cause a lot of ruckus! That in itself is its own story, so different here. Anyways time to go, all will be great here and know that I love you all!!! Have a great week and remember who you are!!!

Elder Lee

Elder Lee
Mission Côte d'Ivoire
06 BP 1077 Abidjan 06
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Afrique d'Ouest