Hey everybody! Here's another email for y'all from Elder Perkins! I'm doing great and I'm having lots of fun! Let's dive into the week.
So if you didn't know, Africans are all about dreams. We know the stories from the bible and from church history of dreams affected people's lives. However, we sont get too much of that anymore in the States nowadays. Africa still has that over here and it's awesome! I've heard so many dreams from very concerned people wanting to know if God was angry at them or not. Now I'm no Joseph of Egypt or anything so I'm not much of an interpreter. However some of their dreams can be pretty wild and it makes me believe that Heavenly Father really does use dreams to nudge people in the right direction sometimes. I heard two stories this week that were super interesting.
First story is from an ami. He basically was traveling the world and had a bunch of stuff because his work was scamming people on the internet. However, he fell sick one day and even fell into a coma. During the coma, he had a dream of a bright man standing in front of him. He couldn't see his face but he asked him a question. "Do you see what you life is like? Do you think I'm happy with this?" And He also asked the question "What do you think I want you to do?" And the ami answered to repent. After that he woke up from his coma and he left all of that worldly stuff and became a Christian, trying to follow biblical principles and to lead a good life. Pretty crazy right? Btw if it sounds familiar, it does. *cough* Alma the Younger *cough* Super Cool!
Second story comes from the bishop in our ward. He was super against joining the church for a while as his family was trying to convert him. He met with missionaries a lot but he just wouldn't listen. He then dreamt that one day it was raining super hard and the missionaries took shelter in his living room, while they were their he asked three questions. That was it. But when he woke up, he remembered that his dream said that would happen a year from that day. Lo and behold a year later, he found himself in his living room with the missionaries, it pouring rain outside, and he asked them his three questions. He didn't realize it until afterwards and he took it as a sign from God. Now he's a bishop. Crazy story!
Besides the dreams, we had a great week! Lots of getting to know the sector and the members! Finding lots of new people as well! There's this one little girl named Lafélicité who is probably one of the smartest and most polite girls I have met here! Another is a true African Mama who called to us on the street by "Les Elders!" So we went by and she said the missionaries taught her a while ago but they stopped coming. Probably covid caused that. Anyway her name's Mama Djoma and she's super nice and very passionate about God so that's going to be fun as well!
3 weeks to go! I'm working and training my comp as much as I can before I head back to the States. Still got the last leg of the race to go, but the end is definitely in sight! Have a great week everyone and I wish you all the best!
Elder Perkins
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