I Miss The Mountains- Week 23

Bonjour! Tout le monde va bien?

Now dawns another week of being an instrument in the hands of God. Let's just hope that I'm in tune...

So as I read Saints 2 of the course of the week, reading the many descriptions of the Salt Lake Valley and other cities in Utah, I just couldn't help picturing those beautiful mountains that I was so used to when I was back at home. Then the cherry on top was when I saw a picture in this month's Ensign magazine of downtown Salt Lake along with those towering mountains and I'd be lying if I said I didn't get a little trunky haha

I love seeing the fruits of my labors! Frère Olivier's baptism this last Saturday was awesome! His spirit and testimony are so strong and I can't wait for his future as a disciple of Christ!

We had the amazing opportunity of trying the drink Yamakou, an african delicacy. First off , no it's not alcoholic so don't worry, but boy oh boy is that drink one of the most horrid things my taste buds have come in contact with? Yes. It completely burns your mouth and throat and you just want to die. Like yeah I was expecting to come in contact with weird food and drinks on my mission, but wow that was something else. I'm sacrificing more than my time, efforts, on my mission. Also my taste buds and digestive system.

That's really it for this week! I love y'all so much I really do and I hope everybody is doing alright!

Elder Perkins

PHOTOS

1. The Boba Boys. Basically everyone wears these things here so we decided to join the club!

2. Olivier's Baptism! 

3. We also decided to immerse ourselves a little more in the culture when we needed to get more gas. Whenever someone needs to cary something heavy for a while. They just throw it on their head so it was super funny when people were looking at two white guys doing it too!

Elder Adam's email... we talked too long, so Elder Adam's gave more details!

Well I have a great surprise and a couple of miracles for you guys today so here we go!!

        This week was full of walking; talking and my favorite teaching! We found a new amis this week (Soeur Clarisse) and taught her twice this week. Funny Story; so she has her own little restaurant and sells all African food of course and was super nice to feed us one day before our rendez-vous. The main meal was super good; but then came the dessert that about killed us! it was like green goop with little like seeds in it hahah its so hard to describe. but we had to eat it all of course! so we were just praying we didn't throw up while we were just throwing it down our throat.   So then we thought we were done and told her we were done but then she wanted us to try this other drink called Yamakoo and my goodness I would never want any of you to try it hahaha!! it burns your throat when you drink it and it's like gritty and i don't know how to describe it but wow-- it was exciting and we got through it!! But... after that we had a wonderful lesson with Soeur Clarisse (with yamakoo in our bellies) about le Livre de Mormon and are excited about her progress!!

            I think i've talked about Frere Olivia a couple times in my last emails but if not ill recap who he is!! He was a contact given to us from a member just before Perkins came to Selmer. Olivia was the first Amis that Perkins and I taught together, the left side of his body is not super functional due to an accident that happened about 2 years ago, which means he walks with a cane and his speech is very slurred as well. But this never stopped him from walking about a mile n a half to church every sunday!! Such an animal

        Anyways we've been teaching him for about a month and a half now and truly with the gift of tongues! The first time we taught him we understood about 5 percent (due to slurred speech,but then add on French haha) but now a days we are understanding around 80%!! and here comes the surprise....... We had a Baptismal service for him last Saturday!!!!! and got confirmed yesterday at church ;) we are stoked over here! it was a little difficult with his disability but the lord helped us out and it went perfectly!!

     hope you are all doing well. let me know what's going on in your guys life i wanna hear!!! 

Love you all the church is true and don't forget to "doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith"-Utchdorf