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...Oh hi didn't see ya there! Here's another weekly email in case you're really bored I guess...

This week was very weird but very fun as always! So this week marks 10 weeks until the end of my mission, or 70 days, or two months, or one and a half transfers(but who's counting?) Honestly though if there weren't p-days or other people reminding me, I would probably have no idea how much more I've got because it's honestly so easy to get lost in the work here. I can never say enough about how grateful I am to be here and to "just get after it"(as President Eyre from my States mission would say)

Well to kick things off with a bang there was a little bit of clashing happening between Ivorians and people from Niger throughout the week. Some random video popped up online showing some Ivorians(supposedly) being tied up and being tortured by people in Niger. So Ivorians seeing this and being the passionate and intense people they are decided to exact revenge of some sort. There's a lot of Nigeriens here that sell garba which is super popular here so it's not hard to find them and so people were pretty much hunting, beating up, and in some cases killing them even though they had nothing to do with it. Pretty wack stuff. Luckily we were able to avoid most of it even though a lot of it happened in our sector. We were with our Bishops wife at the time and she made sure we were out of danger and got home safe. The weirdest thing was of how nonchalant everyone was about it like it was a normal occurence...which it actually is when you think that this country was in political division a couple months ago, and a civil war like ten years ago.

Other than that the work is going great! We put two of our amazing amis, Richard and Aisha, on date this week for June 5th! We hope that the four amis we have on date can make it and not be pushed back anymore because we have people ready for baptism but things just keep getting in the way such as work, vacations, sickness, etc. But you know I'm just loving teaching all day. Like I said above, it makes everything go faster! 

The english connect class this week had an interesting start when the teacher played a movie in english which is a great idea(I definitely had no initial objections lol) but then he played a very Rated-R movie with lots of swearing and stuff which like for most of them they couldn't understand but for those who did, they were just laughing the whole time. Pretty funny but a little weird since we were in a church building so that's a first.

We got word that our mission was getting the COVID-19 vaccination! I was super hyped for it but then they said that the two doses would be three months apart to be the most effective, plus the certain vaccination isn't available in the states yet so just to be safe and certain with everything I just chose to get vaccinated once I got home. Not too bad especially since I had COVID in December and they say that you're immune for 8 months after having it so that takes me until the end of my mission.

Well if you prayed for rains...it kind of worked. It rained pretty hard for two straight days but then afterwards it's just been all sun all day and its killer. So keep praying please!

Anyway that's it for this week! I'm loving life and loving the work! And that's all that matters! On s'attrape!

Elder Perkins 

PHOTOS

1. Ange-Oh! One of my favorite kids!(Ange is angel in french and then Africans put "oh" at then end of names a lot)

2. Idk my mom asked for an pic with a kids hand in my hand. I'm so artsy

3. I honestly dont know the name of this game but kids play it everywhere. Hard to explain but basically they just dans around the two cords. I was standing on the other end.

Chinese Jumprope!!!