Hello everyone! It's been a fun week and I hope everyone had a great Father's Day! Seems like yesterday was Mother's Day so that shows how fast time is going by! Anyways I love my papa who has taught me so much! Thanks for giving me a love for nature and all of God's creations! And thanks for your support in my soccer games, musicals, and especially my mission!
So today starts my last transfer or six weeks of my mission, which means there's gonna be a lot of lasts coming up here pretty soon such as last area, last comp, etc. However, I'm really excited for this last transfer because I have been called to train an new missionary! President Lewis is an inspired man because that's lowkey what I wanted even though I never told him hehe. I don't know who I'm training yet, since the missionaries arent coming in until Thursday. But it will most likely be and African who speaks French so I'm excited to leave my last imprints on the mission! I'll be in the zone of Yopougon Attié in the Kouté ward.
Sadly, this means that I will be leaving Andokoi and the Selmer Zone. I've been here for 4 months so basically everyone knows who I am especially the kids and it's been a good time. There's a lot of special and super prepared people here and I'm excited to see when they get baptized! I'm also leaving the Zone and all the missionaries have been a blast to work with. I'm grateful for my companion, Elder Owuor, who was so helpful in me getting used to African life once again and finding so much joy in the work and in the people!
On another note, we had an awesome conference with Elder Vinson this week! He was the old area president for west africa so he knows what's up! Including french which was cool to listen to with his Australian accent! We had a mini meeting right before with the mission leaders and him and he was so loving and supportive of us as missionaries so it was such a treat! We also were able to sing a little musical number for him which by african standards was pretty dang good honestly. It was also cool to see so many missionaries, both from my mission and Abidjan East!
Oh yeah I almost forgot, so the old president of Cote d'Ivoire just got out of prison where he's been for the last 10 years and came home last thursday. We were all pretty aware of it because everyone was talking about it since everyone loved him I guess. Even President Lewis let us know that we would probably be asked to go to our apartments during the day to avoid riots and such. It was pretty interesting to follow but overall it wasn't too bad. There was some looting and theft in other, more sketchy, parts of abidjan, but where we were was pretty calm. Mostly just big groups of people running around singing which is chill. We were told to go inside at lunchtime but after a couple hours they said it was fine to go back outside so we did and nothing bad happened!
Anyway I'm excited for this new transfer to start as a trainer! How fitting that I'm becoming a (mission) dad around Father's Day! Anyway I know that these next weeks will be going by super fast as I'm training and doubling into a new area so before I know it I'll be home...yako pour moi eh?
Elder Perkins
PHOTOS
1. Rose Kinneth is a wild child but super fun! She stole my glasses though...
2. Got those (totally real)Gucci flip flops so what else do I really need from Africa?
3. Comp Selfie in a green part of our area!
4-7 Pics from conference with my fellow APM missioanries, my mts where we'll all be on the same plane going home, temple pic and choir pic!
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