How's everybody doing this beautiful Christmas season? I hope everyone takes time to really appreciate this wonderful time of love and charity towards one another and knows the true meaning of Christmas! As for me, I honestly forget that it's christmas sometimes due to the lack of snow and lack of radios blasting christmas music everywhere but we have a cool event on Christmas Eve with our mission, the east mission, and even other religions meeting together to
sing and rejoice in our Savior so that is something I'mvery much looking forward to! I also got roped into singing a duet of "The First Noel" for it so that will be fun also!
This week has been a blast! The highlight was definitely that I had the opportunity to singing "La Paix Est En Christ"(Peace in Christ) for three different zone conferences comprising of 6 zones! About a month ago, Presiden Lewis asked if I would sing it and keep it a secret(especially from my mom) since it was the answer to a bunch of scripture clues that they have been giving every month. It was such a cool experience to already have opportunities to bear my testimony on my mission in French! There were also a lot of unseen perks from doing this haha. First off, since the standard of singing here is very very low, everyone was VERY impressed with my song and so everyone thinks I'm a professional singer or something haha. Also some Sister missionary is making me a cake so no complaints there. Also the pagne products dude heard me sing to and he gave me a free tie because he liked it so much!
That also lead to my Treat Yoself this week! When the Pagne guy gave me the free tie he also gave me a discount for an awesome pagne backpack so I couldn't resist and it's also Christmas so why not? Then I also decided to treat myself even more and get a whole roll of pagne and gave it to a tailor to make a complete custom outfit for me so I am really excited for that. I already know that I will be covered in pagne when I get home haha.
This Saturday was mutations(transfers)! My comp got transferred out so I'm staying in Beago with my new companion, Elder Fernando! He's from Benin and super chill so I think we'll get along fine! I've only been with him a couple hours but there's been no problems so far haha. It was sad to see Elder Agbahounzo leave though. We got super close this past week since my french has been getting a lot better so we joked around a lot and it was a party with him. With all of my singing and all, he started joking around with others that he is my manager and that if they want we to sing, they have to go through him so that was super funny.
The work hit a little slump this week mostly due to the fact of how busy we were. It was pretty disappointing though because we had 3 baptisms lined up but they all fell through. Sr Flore accepted our baptism invitation but then her mom said she wasn't ready so we had to put it off for a while, then Sr Rochelle's mother said she couldn't be baptised right as we were about to invite her to be baptised, then Fr Odilo who has been progressing and coming to church every week for the past few months, suddenly decided to return to his Catholic church which was probably one of the most disheartening things so far on the mission. It was pretty hard and I was honestly pretty angry because I want to save these people's souls so bad and I want these people to accept the truth so bad! Hopefully they all work out eventually and my companion gave me good advice from Elder Bednar that this work doesn't really start until someone tells you no so I'm going to take that to heart and continue this work with boldness!
WEEKLY WISDOM: "Il est l'espoir quand tout est perdu Il est ma force quand je n'en peux plus Il est un rempart devant les tourments Quand le monde est triste LA PAIX EST EN CHRIST"
There was a lot this week but I hope my emails give you a good sense of my adventures here in Cote d'Ivoire! I have my trials and difficulties for sure but this work and my love for it helps me overcome everything and I progress as a missionary and disciple of Christ!
PHOTOS
1. Last pic with my formateur!(I'll have a pic with my new comp next week!)
2. Zone Conference pic!https://youtu.be/lP42RvRp-DA
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