Should I be doing Voodoo?
Hey y’all, it's me Elder McKee! Welcome back to another episode of my youtube channel! Before we begin make sure to hit like and subscribe!!
Okay y'all for real tho, sorry for last weeks email. I reread it and it wasn't that interesting. I was beating myself up and wasn't in the happiest of moods, BUT after that email I ate some pineapple hi-chews and all was well and a member said my French sounded good, so that made me happy haha. Shout out to my momma for sending those hi-chews btw!
Okay, this past week was pretty dang fun! Let me tell ya about it!
From Tuesday-Thursday Tolman and I had absolutely ZERO rondez-vous planned so we were contacting every day for 4 days straight, but we had some crazy contacts. And I made alot of contacts so it was lit! I actually love contacting not gonna lie. You never know who is gonna answer the door, or what the person on the street is gonna be like! Pretty freaking awesome! We met Muslims that didn't want to talk to us, Catholics that talked to us cause we talk about Jesus, amis who are super interested, some lit 19 year olds that already had copies of the Book of Mormon (shout out to those sister missionaries), met a chick learning Spanish in school (usually they learn English) so I showed off my high school class Spanish on her and it was lit, a lit papa from Benin, the grand judge of Togo who got mad when we didn't know his name (lets hope he reads the brochure and calls us), a crazy blind dude who yelled at us for like 50 min about how the Bible is all we need quoting verses that didn't even match up, we showed him where he was wrong...well tried to show him, he was blind. 👨🦯 After yelling at us when we were leaving he said "come back any time! I'm always here willing to talk!" Home boy, where ya gonna go!? YOUR BLIND AND LIKE 800 YEARS OLD! A random chick from Kenya who speaks only English and Swahili (shout out to Elder Godfrey and Elder Brown for teaching me some Swahili) I said "oh you speak Swahili? Hakunamatata!" (It means no worries😉) She was impressed, then sad when I didn't speak anything else... ça va allez, and finally Koffi... he deserves his own paragraph cause I think it's funny.
So, in Togo some tribes give you a name depending on what day you are born, Friday is Koffi. I am a Koffi, fyi. I don’t know any of the other days, I will figure that out, but we went up talk to this guy in sweats, a crew neck, and a beanie, its 100 degrees with AT LEAST 80% humidity. So ya know, this dude is not right in the head. But, we talk to him and we ask if he goes to church and he is like " I do voodoo, my name is Koffi. All Koffi’s do voodoo." (They treat these names like white girls do with zodiac signs) and i say (in English) “We'll I'm a koffi and don't do voodoo" and Tolman kinda laughs and says (in French) “He's a Koffi and doesn't do voodoo." And koffi goes "oh dont worry he will come around...ALLLLL Koffis’ do." And we just laugh and talk a little longer before leaving. Crazy enough he wasn't interested to hear about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ... weird. Now, we always see this dude in the same spot, with like 2-3 beer bottles next to him, just absolutely wasted on the side of the street...voodoo people are ALWAYS drunk is what I am learning.
Also on Thursday morning we had a multi zone conference with every missionary in Togo, with an area 70 that came and talked to us. It was so cool. I saw so many of my MTC buddies I haven't seen in like 7 weeks. It was lit! I don't remember the 70's name... but it was a good lesson. He did teach some parts weird. He asked us our goals for finding this month and if anyones was bellow 50 he called them up and then talked about how they should have better goals and could be finding 400 people a month (crazy number, unrealistic and ended up embarrassing and kind of chastising these elders, who are hard workers btw) but, he was trying to say to everyone that we could have higher goals but idk, it was weird. Thennn, we got pizza after and it was delicious.
On Tuesday night when I was Hey y’all, it's me Elder McKee! Welcome back to another episode of my youtube channel! Before we begin make sure to hit like and subscribe!!
the shower, I noticed a weird spot on my chest, but didn’t think anything of it, but then the next day, THAT SUCKER HAD GROWN! I think it’s the a bug bite but it was about the size of a silver dollar, and hurt to touch, so I didn’t touch it..l.big brain. I was chillin with it hoping it would go away…then one night it kinda blistered or pimpled up and pushed was coming out of it so I told the senior couple and they said put this cream stuff on it, (haven’t been doing that) but all the pimple things popped and now it peeling. I think it’s gonna scar, which would be sick!
Okay y'all for real tho, sorry for last weeks email. I reread it and it wasn't that interesting. I was beating myself up and wasn't in the happiest of moods, BUT after that email I ate some pineapple hi-chews and all was well and a member said my French sounded good, so that made me happy haha. Shout out to my momma for sending those hi-chews btw!
Okay, this past week was pretty dang fun! Let me tell ya about it!
From Tuesday-Thursday Tolman and I had absolutely ZERO rondez-vous planned so we were contacting every day for 4 days straight, but we had some crazy contacts. And I made alot of contacts so it was lit! I actually love contacting not gonna lie. You never know who is gonna answer the door, or what the person on the street is gonna be like! Pretty freaking awesome! We met Muslims that didn't want to talk to us, Catholics that talked to us cause we talk about Jesus, amis who are super interested, some lit 19 year olds that already had copies of the Book of Mormon (shout out to those sister missionaries), met a chick learning Spanish in school (usually they learn English) so I showed off my high school class Spanish on her and it was lit, a lit papa from Benin, the grand judge of Togo who got mad when we didn't know his name (lets hope he reads the brochure and calls us), a crazy blind dude who yelled at us for like 50 min about how the Bible is all we need quoting verses that didn't even match up, we showed him where he was wrong...well tried to show him, he was blind. 👨🦯 After yelling at us when we were leaving he said "come back any time! I'm always here willing to talk!" Home boy, where ya gonna go!? YOUR BLIND AND LIKE 800 YEARS OLD! A random chick from Kenya who speaks only English and Swahili (shout out to Elder Godfrey and Elder Brown for teaching me some Swahili) I said "oh you speak Swahili? Hakunamatata!" (It means no worries😉) She was impressed, then sad when I didn't speak anything else... ça va allez, and finally Koffi... he deserves his own paragraph cause I think it's funny.
So, in Togo some tribes give you a name depending on what day you are born, Friday is Koffi. I am a Koffi, fyi. I don’t know any of the other days, I will figure that out, but we went up talk to this guy in sweats, a crew neck, and a beanie, its 100 degrees with AT LEAST 80% humidity. So ya know, this dude is not right in the head. But, we talk to him and we ask if he goes to church and he is like " I do voodoo, my name is Koffi. All Koffi’s do voodoo." (They treat these names like white girls do with zodiac signs) and i say (in English) “We'll I'm a koffi and don't do voodoo" and Tolman kinda laughs and says (in French) “He's a Koffi and doesn't do voodoo." And koffi goes "oh dont worry he will come around...ALLLLL Koffis’ do." And we just laugh and talk a little longer before leaving. Crazy enough he wasn't interested to hear about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ... weird. Now, we always see this dude in the same spot, with like 2-3 beer bottles next to him, just absolutely wasted on the side of the street...voodoo people are ALWAYS drunk is what I am learning.
Also on Thursday morning we had a multi zone conference with every missionary in Togo, with an area 70 that came and talked to us. It was so cool. I saw so many of my MTC buddies I haven't seen in like 7 weeks. It was lit! I don't remember the 70's name... but it was a good lesson. He did teach some parts weird. He asked us our goals for finding this month and if anyones was bellow 50 he called them up and then talked about how they should have better goals and could be finding 400 people a month (crazy number, unrealistic and ended up embarrassing and kind of chastising these elders, who are hard workers btw) but, he was trying to say to everyone that we could have higher goals but idk, it was weird. Thennn, we got pizza after and it was delicious.
On Tuesday night when I was in the shower, I noticed a weird spot on my chest, but didn’t think anything of it, but then the next day, THAT SUCKER HAD GROWN! I think it’s the a bug bite but it was about the size of a silver dollar, and hurt to touch, so I didn’t touch it..l.big brain. I was chillin with it hoping it would go away…then one night it kinda blistered or pimpled up and pushed was coming out of it so I told the senior couple and they said put this cream stuff on it, (haven’t been doing that) but all the pimple things popped and now it peeling. I think it’s gonna scar, which would be sick!
Anyways im trying think of what else happened. I talked some more French...sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they understood me...I think.
ALSO!! WE GOT TRANSFER CALLS! My first transfer on the mission is complete, i am not getting transferred anywhere tho...which is pretty normal for a trainee... ça va allez... but I get to help with transfers this Thursday! And, see all the elders coming to Togo so, thats lit!
Anyways, I was watching a short message from Holland (fav apostle btw) and I really liked it. Here's the link for y'all to watch. It talked about how it may be hard now, but better things are to come through the Lord. We need to keep pressing on with faith, go watch it it will make more sense.
Anyways, that's all for today. just a reminder to hit that subscribe button and follow along for more Fun stories with Elder McKee!!
the shower, I noticed a weird spot on my chest, but didn’t think anything of it, but then the next day, THAT SUCKER HAD GROWN! I think it’s the a bug bite but it was about the size of a silver dollar, and hurt to touch, so I didn’t touch it..l.big brain. I was chillin with it hoping it would go away…then one night it kinda blistered or pimpled up and pushed was coming out of it so I told the senior couple and they said put this cream stuff on it, (haven’t been doing that) but all the pimple things popped and now it peeling. I think it’s gonna scar, which would be sick!
Anyways im trying think of what else happened. I talked some more French...sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they understood me...I think.
ALSO!! WE GOT TRANSFER CALLS! My first transfer on the mission is complete, i am not getting transferred anywhere tho...which is pretty normal for a trainee... ça va allez... but I get to help with transfers this Thursday! And, see all the elders coming to Togo so, thats lit!
Anyways, I was watching a short message from Holland (fav apostle btw) and I really liked it. Here's the link for y'all to watch. It talked about how it may be hard now, but better things are to come through the Lord. We need to keep pressing on with faith, go watch it it will make more sense.
Anyways, that's all for today. just a reminder to hit that subscribe button and follow along for more Fun stories with Elder McKee!!
Love, Elder McKee
Elder Tolman and me
Thanksgiving dinner
Daniel
Girls from a family we are teaching.
My bug bite
They are all straight faced but I promise, they are happy.
A-frick-en love Africa
I just wanted to share a few verses with them.
Soirée famile (again they are all happy to be there...promise)
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