Hello my wonderful friends and family! Has it been a good week? You know what? If you didn't have a good week, go and treat yourself to something nice and fun because we always need that everyone and then!
My week was fun but yet again interesting as our adventures have taken us to the bizarro world of the African Hospital! Oooooohhhh spooooooky! Dont worry it's not for me! So as you probably know, the sun is super strong here but especially the past two weeks it's actually been pretty bad. My companion started getting super tired and worn out since wednesday and then starting thursday he was having bloody noses pretty constantly. He still wanted to go to sector but we had to go up a pretty steep hill and the sun was blazing so yeah after that my comp was bleeding again and was like yeah okay let's go back.
Long story short we were told to go to the hospital which is funny because I've actually never been inside a hospital for very long so to get started in Africa was interesting. It actually wasn't super sketchy because we went to a pretty nice one near downtown Abidjan. I dont think the wait time was any different because we waited there for nearly 5 hours just to get the test results back, which then they told us to come back the next day to get a consultation, and then the next day he needed to get an x-ray which means that we need to come back AGAIN tomorrow to get the results. So basically I'm already not a huge fan of hospitals.
However it was neat because while we were waiting, it was in the room where other patients were waiting just being separated by the curtain so I started reading from the Book of Mormon out loud because why not I was bored. It was a little awkward at some points because it was actually dead silent at times other than me reading so the other people definitely heard me and we could hear them talking about it. I read some classics like Alma 32 and 34, Mosiah 5. It was neat and I was ready to just hand out BoMs all around but that's would've been a little weird.
Okay but other than that we had a fun time working in our new ward! It's a very interesting area with lots of hills and ghettos which also borders the Banco Forest(no we can't go in there). We also worked a lot with probably the most elect member I've ever met. His name is Frère Adjossan and he is a convert of just over a year but he has the fire of 5 greenie missionaries that were born and raised in the church! He just took us around his whole neighborhood showing us everyone who is even slightly interested and just knows what's up. He speaks so passionately when he testifies which is borderline hilarious but also inspirational. Like if every ward had a member like this, missionary work would double easily.
Okay sorry this email is long but last thing is that the steeple and the Angel Moroni were put up on the temple this week! I'm super excited for the members here to have wayyyyy better access to His Holy House! It's sad sometimes because there's a lot of members still who haven't been endowed or sealed, let alone even know what the temple is for, so I'm excited! Pics will be below!
Okay well that will be it for this week! I love you all and I pray for you all to receive the bountiful blessings the Lord has in store for you!
On s'attrape!
Elder Perkins
PHOTOS
1. Selfie with the boys(elders sorry)
2+9. Some neat views to give y'all a little more taste of the African ghetto scape.
3. Last pic with our recent convert Mary Loh. She had to make to difficult choice to move to a different part of Abidjan which is sadly outside the mission. However there's still a ward over there so we made sure she would get in contact with them!
4-5. Temple pics! Fun fact: This temple has the first Angel Moroni to be silver and not gold so BOOM history was made.
6. Hospital selfie
7. Pretty big millipede that I almost stepped on
8. The baptismal font at our ward building. Pretty neat, right?
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