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Going to Benin!

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This week was good!  - had an exchange with Elder Paulsen and was in a trio this week with Elder Bradshaw!  - got transfer calls and ill be going back to Benin! I will be white washing with an Elder from Ghana names Elder Opare! I know him a little he's a cool dude!  - I will misss this ward  - members are threatening to kidnap me so I don't leave... - been in a trio all week and it has been fun!  Thats pretty much it! Sorry short on time!  Love, Elder McKee

Bonsoir Làaaaa

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Well hello again.  This week went by pretty good! Let me highlight some parts...  -had interviews with President and had a good, long talk about my zone, the split, life after mission, my families trips and more!  - had a fun exchange with Elder lLuzeyi, full of lessons . - had the last combined MLC for Togo and Benin with the mission split about to happen! Had a great time talking about how we can grow and help this mission! And Sister Lundeen made us sweet pork enchiladas! Costa Vida isn't ready for my return... - we have been working with the members to try and get them to help us find friends and Sunday we saw fruits from our labor! 4 new friends brought by members! It was awesome seeing these members pull up with their friends and other members pulling up with old members that had fallen inactive!  That's pretty much all! Had a great week, look at the pictures for more clips!  “It's great to know it...but it's not enough, you have to do it!" Love,  ELD...

Dead Mouse, exchanges, hair done

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Well, the title says pretty much my whole week...but for your wondering brains I will explain with a few more details  Dead mouse Turns out I am so good at killing mice I do it without even noticing! On Sunday I closed my desk drawer and heard a small squeek, me and my comp thought it was the wood scrapping so we ignored it and went on with our day...well come Wednesday I woke up and smelt something bad, thinking it was dirty clothes or bed sheets. I washed everything but the stink was worse...that evening I decided to investigate. Found it's stronger by my bed...then by my desk…then, I opened a drawer. Have you ever opened the oven and got hit in the face by the heat wave...it was like that but stench...then I saw it...a dead rotting mouse. Quickly cleaned and mouse was thrown outside for the stray cats and the stench was gone by morning!  Exchanges Had 1.5 echanges this week. One with Elder Aquino Valdez from the D.R. Super fun exchange with a funny man! He speaks English, S...

Big Nose, Small Nose

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Hey y’all,  another good week here for the email!  I started teasing some members cause Africans noses are small and kinda seemed smashed in and I don't even know how they can breath or smell through it, now they are making fun of my big nose and saying they will hit me and make mine smashed like theirs 😂  A few days after that conversation I was talking to the same member and she asked if I have hunted and fished my whole life so I sent her a Pic of me and my dad with some fish when I was like 7 or 8 and she said "even when you were a kid your nose was huge!!" 😂😂  We had zone conference and it went pretty good, gave a good presentation and learned a lot, and ate some DELICIOUS pizza.  I tell everyone I'm from Togo and that I'm Togoleas now and at church I wore an American tie for the first time in a while and a member came up to me and asked if I wanted to be American again since I wore that tie. I said "I'm an Togoleas in disguise"  This week wa...

African Battle Wounds

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Andy sent a voice memo this week, so here is the bullet points from that: ..Good Week, working with my comp from Congo, Elder Kinavuidi.  He’s super cool. He’s trying to learn english.  This last week we talked about his and hers.  French doesn’t have that.   …Fun week.  Just teaching and trying to find people.  The area I’m in right now is one of the oldest areas, the ward is the first ward that was created in this country.  A lot of people know the church.  It’s hard to find people, because it’s so old, everyone knows the church.  My comp and I decided this last week to take a couple days, and instead of knocking doors we would go and talk to members and go and get them involved in the work.  It was actually really cool.  We decided to choose members who were older in the ward, older in the church, and have callings, and know missionary work more.  We had some good ideas that we put into practice.  It was a lot of fun, a...