Hey Everybody it's nice and cool now! Come on out!-Suits On The Loose
Just so everyone knows...it's still hot in Cote d'Ivoire and actually despite what you may think, it's actually cooler outside than inside because there is zero air-conditioned houses and it gets crazy hot inside so everyone just hangs outside where it's definitely still hot but not as hot.
So there is a bunch of stuff that happened this week so I'm going to try my best to cover it all because it's been a party with many ups and downs. We went over to an ami's house one morning to learn how to cook foutou! Foutou is basically like a banana paste that you eat by hand and dip in sauce. But it's super fun to make because you have a big wooden stick that you mash the bananas and other ingredients with. She let us do it for a little bit but she soon took over because we were pretty bad haha. After we had a bountiful meal with delicious foutou and probably the spiciest sauce I have ever eaten in my life and it was great! We also learned the secret of getting african women to just absolutely love you...talk about ivorian food. Once we bring up that we love foutou, attiéké, alocco, etc. they just go off about how to cook it and they invite us over to cook together or just give us free food. I really do want to learn how to cook more ivorian food so I can maybe cook it once I'm home whenever that happens haha.
The other marvelous thing that occurred this week was when we woke up on Saturday morning to about three inches of water all over our apartment floor! Woohoo! It's kind of a long story haha. So to get water in our apartment, we need to go to the ground floor and turn on the machine to pump water up to our apartment. However, sometimes after a bit the water just stops running and so we forget to turn off the faucet. Well this particular night we had some plates that were blocking the sink drain and the water started going again during the middle of the night and so the sink overflowed and water got everywhere. Including flowing out our door and down the stairs. So we spent the whole morning just pushing all of the water off of our balcony and trying to save as much as we could. Some of the victims included our scriptures, our phone, magazines, and other stuff that just got destroyed. So that was a little bit of a bummer but after leaving our scriptures all day under a fan, they weren't completely ruined and now my triple combo has some dope battle scars now so that's just a constant reminder of a funny memory. We are borrowing an old phone from someone in our ward right now until the mission sends us another but we lost a lot of our contacts because some were saved to the phone and not the SIM card. Luckily we were just cleaning the ward building that night so we didn't need our scriptures or phone. I was kind of in a downer mood for the rest of the day but luckily the next day was Sunday and I felt a lot of peace and comfort during the sacrament so I was feeling better after that.
The work is going great! We set up a baptismal date for Frère Olivier for March 7th! He's an awesome ami because he is actually reading the Book of Mormon, understands and accepts what we teach, and has been coming to church by himself every week! He just seems so peaceful during church and it makes me so happy to seem it. We have another ami Frère Ivo who recently prayed to know that Joseph Smith was a prophet and he knows it's true! When he told me that I was a little dumbfounded and I was at a loss for words for a moment haha. What a special time to be a missionary honestly! To see people find the truth and the hope of something better in their lives!
We've had some more fun adventures that I might expound upon a little later because this is already pretty long haha but I got lots of pictures so be sure to check those out! I love you all and you guys are the best! God loves each and every one of you and never forget it! Also Happy Late Valentines Day! My valentine was the air conditioning unit in the clerk's office after a long sweaty day.
Elder Perkins
PHOTOS
1. Waiting for my turn to make some foutou!(pronounced footoo)
2. The whole gang!
3. The final product! The yellow balls on the table is foutou
4. A common occurence on many school walls here in Côte d'ivoire. They love to paint disney and other cartoon characters and sometimes they are a little weird. Please zoom in haha
5. Happy Valentines Day! We got some sketchy ice cream to celebrate!
6-8. Tragedy and Aftermath of our little flooding incident!
9. So we went to change the water filter to discover that no one has changed it in probably a year. It's supposed to be changed every month...
10. Selfie with the chillest little kid in our ward. His name is Dylan and he wants us to teach him english and he asks us so many questions about America with which I willingly obliged to answer.
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