Bonjour tout le monde!
My beloved readers, I would like to inform you that despite my beliefs, I am not and probably will never get used to the heat and humidity here haha. We had the power go out a couple more times this week. One lasting all throughout the night, and I realized that the closest I'll ever get to swimming as a missionary is either in the baptismal font or lying in bed in my own sweat as my fan isn't working...Woohoo!
As my title suggests, if there's one thing African's like to do, it's talk. It started with a whisper or question, and that is when they talked for a very long time. We can ask a simple question like "Why do you think God wants us to pray?" and then they just go off for what feels like forever about a random story that's slightly connected to prayer. But we have to just sit there and listen respectfully. Half of the time I get distracted while they are talking by a kid or something and then by the time I get back into the conversation, I am completely lost. We have had to cut some people off a couple times because the rendez-vous went over due to their excessive comments. Even a prayer one time haha. We asked this old Catholic lady to pray and she prayed for probably ten minutes until my comp eventually said "Amen". It was hilarious.
The highlight of this week was probably my interview with President Lewis where we discussed the new rules and such and he gave me a lot of encouragement about continuing to be a faithful and obedient missionary throughout all of my mission. A task of which I will gladly strive to accomplish! Besides that we just continued the usual missionary grind of teaching, walking, sweating, repeat. We have a couple of amis who are actually showing a real interest in the church and the gospel and actually are reading the Book of Mormon so that keeps my spirits up. One frère that we have met only once showed up to church with his entire family which included who knows how many children. I sat by a lot of them during sacrament meeting which was a wonderful pleasure. However one tried to steal my mini hymnbook so maybe kids aren't completely innocent from sin?
That's really it for me this week! My language skills are still growing and I am far from fluency but at least I can teach and my amis actually understand me now so that has been very reassuring that I am really making a difference here. I am also still waiting for the hidden camera crew to come out and reveal that this has all been a Truman Show style filming for the next set of District videos and this has all been fake haha not really. Sometimes I do really wish I had a camera to look at whenever my comp or an ami says something weird and do the classic "Jim Glance" from The Office because believe me, it would happen A LOT.
Sorry the connection in this cyber is garbage so the photos are taking too long to load. Until next week!
P.S. RIP Kobe Bryant that was honestly so shocking. I hope his family and everybody else is doing okay.
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I've added a couple pics from zone conference that President Lewis added till his blog.
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