Pretty Fingers

Good morning brothers and sisters. I'm very grateful for this opportunity to write this email to you on this beautiful monday morning. For those who dont know me, I'm Elder Perkins and this is my weekly email.

I hope everyone had a great week! Things have been pretty nice over here. Mostly because it's been raining a lot more so it's been a lot cooler! Yay! It's honestly still pretty hot and humid but all the Ivorians think its freezing and are wearing hoodies and sweaters...if only they knew! 

Speaking of Ivorians, I dont know if they are just way too nice for their own good, very observant, or just plain creepy because it's happened multiple times where I've been complimented on my fingers...so maybe I should go into like hand modeling for men or something.

We had zone conference this week! It's super hype to see a wonderful group of missionaries ready to learn! My comp and I were in charge of getting food for our zone so we got tchep(basically just chicken with special rice and cooked vegetables) with fruit and soda and we dined like kings! We also learned a lot about consecration and Sister Lewis challenged us to find ways of how we can give EVERYTHING to the Lord!

Sunday we had ward conference for Andokoi and it was pretty neat because there was a lot more people there than usual! Most of them we stake leaders but a lot more members came nonetheless and a lot of amis were able to come, some for the first time! So it was pretty great! 

It was also pretty funny as we were going back out to sector after church with a member to visit her home. So a soccer player for the Ivorian nation team who is actually from Andokoi decided to come to town to play at the big dirt field in our area, which is also right next to the members house. So we tried walking by but the field was completely filled with people, including soldiers with AKs and tear gas so we were like NOPE and had to take the long way around. Pretty cool though!

Oh yeah funny thought I had yesterday. We watched the weekly missionary devotional(which are always phenomenal by the way) with Elder and Sister Christofferson. Sister Christofferson started and gave a really cool talk about how we need to unpack our bags and our hearts to fully settle into mission life and gave awesome examples of the saints in Kirtland, Ammon, and of course us missionaries! I really loved it but afterwards I had the thought "next time I unpack my bags, I'll be home lol" so that gave me a good laugh haha. I felt like I just got here honestly so it feels weird that I'm prepping to go home already. My fam got my flight plans last week so I'll be home Tuesday night, August 3rd! Crazy!

Sorry if this one turned a little long and I've been getting a little lazy with pictures so there's not even a temptation of at least scrolling through my email briefly just to look at my pictures haha but I wish everyone the best and to never forget that God loves you!

On est ensemble

Elder Perkins

Photos

We went by a part in our sector that we've honestly never been to before since it's huge and it was actually super pretty with lots of green and trees! So we decided to take some picture but none of them really turned out well but here they are nonetheless!