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August 3rd baptisms

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Hey y’all, this week has been so cool saw some miracles!  We are trying to plan a big group baptism for August 3rd, before Elder Smith goes home. Please pray for our friends we have on date right now, that they will stay strong and continue to progress!  Not much stuff this week to talk about. Bought some oranges from children on the road. Oldest was 10, youngest was 6, had been walking around all day trying to sell all the oranges...I bought alot so they could go home.  One cool thing did happen this week. I was watching the documentary on Thomas S. Monson, it's good go watch it. I had a feeling to go study the Christlike attribute "humility" so of course I stopped what I was doing and went and studied humility and I rediscovered this scripture that touched the fleshy tables of my heart, Ether 12:27.    "And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and My grace is sufficient for all men that hum...

Happy 4Th of July

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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!! Hope y'all ate steaks and burgers!  Bullet points (email me for stories)  • Had a great family night with a 4 member families  • Got a cool video of a voodoo god. It’s in my google photos. • Looked up more about the voodoo gods. Turns out there's a snake named Dan who's holding the world up (shout out Dan for keeping us safe).   • Ate some burgers for the fourth  • Had to go to the doctors for Elder Smiths ear (blocked with wax)  • Made some fire chicken sandwiches  • Found some cool paigne • Beat Elder Smith in chess  (im a genius) ( I didn't even know how) • Watched Dispicable Me 3 in French • Ate fish (big deal if ya know me) • Got "The Magic Treehouse" books in French  • Bought a ton of oranges from kids that have to sell everything on their heads before they can come home, child labor...and abuse...not fun  • sweeped the house  Spiritual thought!  I read Alma 9: 12-13  Good read it, ponder it, a...

Stomachache, accidents, 💩 poop

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Great week! Let me tell you about it!!  Start off, Tuesday morning, ate WAY to many broccolis body could not handle fiber like that. Huge stomachache all day, bad stomach cramps, felt like i may die...but i was a big boy and fought through it.  Second off, saw a voodoo god, he said "give me 5000 and I'll find you a wife", we said no and have him 300 and took a picture with him. Chill dude inside a weird costume, go check out google photos to see it, he crouches down for pictures, he's a normal size man, don't worry y’all, it's fake. Had to tell some kids they have more power than he does because they have the Aaronic Priesthood.  Third off, had so many spiritual lessons. Put like 13 people on date! July is gonna be lit!!! So cool seeing them feel and recognize the spirit for the first time! The mission is great y'all!  Fourth off, I T-boned a motto. The man did a u-turn without looking and my brake was broke and I couldn't stop, hit him...he knew it wa...

What's that smell??

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Good week, have a good read!  This week was so good! Gonna break it down by days. Monday: Went to the beach with the district it was so lit! We made the "Benin Temple" out of sand then made a huge wall to protect it from the waves it was a great district activity! Then, us and the ZL's went to a market to look for some paigne then back to the ZLs apartment to talk with fam.  Tuesday: Today  I had an exchange with Elder Black from Utah one of our ZLs and he just hit a year, he is such a cool guy and we had a lot of fun talking and I learned a lot from him! One of their new converts we met was having some problems with his neighbors and the police, but it all got worked out!  Wednesday: Today was a good day! Had fun time working with members and visting friends! The two members both want to serve missions and learn English so we decided to help them a little! We taught them the word "Poop" and they were pretty much yelling it and we wouldn't tell them what it ...

Busy Week

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This week on bullet points (possible stories idk)  - worked out booties off!  - i was very tired  - a dude asked us if he comes to church for the first time if he can be baptized right there  - met some really cool people  - it rained alot, still went out (look in album)  - ate some spaghetti  - I was able to send a new member reference to my cool cousin Max in Cote D’Ivore (shout out to Max in Cote D’Ivore) - had interviews, they were lit! Got some wisdom from president and talked about the grand vision of porto novo...gonna be a good time!  - someone told me I have nice skin and they want it... I told them I'm using it for the.moment  - so everyone and their dog here knows Elder Tolman (my trainer) and they asked about him alot this week (shout out Elder Tolman)  - burned my finger  - had family night at President's house with other Elders, it was lit. Gained knowledge and ate sandwiches  - ate some good doughnut balls, I'm g...