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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...
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Lot's Happened

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Yooo, what's up yall  These past few weeks have been good, so bullet points  - baptized mama Florence she's the goat super ready super elect  - got a new comp, Elder Kinavuidi from Congo! - a drunk dude told me he has liver problems and doesn't know why, then told me his mom is white, me too dude that's not a brag!  - brother got engaged! Good job joshie poo! ❤️❤️  - been getting along with these member's, amazingly great ward  - got my hair cut today  - got in trouble for having dusty windows - got my homecoming talk date, Sept. 13th pull up y'all  - saw a cool video, link below - did a baptismal interview for the other companionship here and then the girl asked me to baptise her...first time i had ever talked to her  - been grinding the English connect Lessons with my comp 😌 my English is improving as much as his True Christianity https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/video/inspirational-messages/2014-06-005-true-christianity?lang=eng ...
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It was a good week!

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Hello everyone!  This week was good.  Had a lit conference watching session at the church on my phone with everyone because the leaders didn't show up to unlock the room for the tv... Conference was super cool, lots of personal inspiration was received, go watch it if you haven't and watch it again if you have!  The mission is lit, i love the ward I'm in right now and the work is moving nicely.  Had an exchange but a rainstorm kept us from doing work for a day so we stayed for the morning after to get some stuff done! I'm not one to talk about numbers a whole lot...but we had a great miracle as a mission last month. So, we are usually sitting around 150 baptisms a month but this last month we were able to break 200! We got 222 baptisms this last month and that was so cool to see it all happen and be apart of this work here in Africa. Ok enough number talk.  I bought ranch today, if you know me you know that's super exciting for me! Me and my comp got stuck in a ...
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Another Day, Another Week

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This last week was good!  - had zone conference and it went pretty good! Good presentations were given and I learned a lot!  - had an exchange with Elder Belnap but home boy was super sick in the morning so, he slept while I cleaned the house out of boredom - had an amazing lesson with a new friend who said he has showed his friends the brochure and they are interested, too!  - giant rain storm came in and destroyed so many houses! It flooded like 20 houses, destroyed the showers (the showers here are for the whole parcel), a  couple people's boutiques and the roads...crazy storm  - had the coldest shower of the mission yet from the rain cooling it down, it might be because I haven't had a good hot shower in over a year and a half, but cold showers are so nice - had stake conference on Sunday, it was supposed to be 10-12 but it was 10:30-1:30...we love Togo time! - on the bus back from stake conference I was teaching members the Macarena dance, and they taught m...
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