Well this week was nuts, I don’t have a ton of time
to write today which stinks because I did so much this week. They say your
mission doesn’t start until after your training and wow that feels about right.
Me and Kola went to work this week, hard. Kola is a great teacher he studied educational
methods before he came here and also does some mad personal study and has basically
all the standard works memorized. He is strong, it’s crazy. We fixed 7 baptism
dates this week and 2 of them were in the first lesson we taught with them.
Kola knows how to invite people to baptism. It is like magic. I don’t know how
he does it, but I’m going to learn. The guy knows how to work by the spirit too,
he just looked at the numbers we had from the new sector we inherited and picked
one that he felt good about. We taught him at the church and fixed a baptism
date. We saw him again that week and he came to church. Kola, wow. We taught
lessons like mad 27 lessons in one week! That’s my record and found 11 new
investigators. We were out in the sector all day every day coming back late a
few nights because Kola is not afraid to walk super far for our last meetings.
So we walked a ton this week which is good. I like walking for the
investigators that progress. I took what little time I had to relax to enjoy Benin
knock off products. If you find the American brand name it still is never quite
the same so I always go the cheaper knock off so when it tastes a little weird
it’s justified. I took some picture I hope you enjoy!
Also with Kola I eat good; he cooks a lot. I’m
trying to step in and help out but he just goes and cooks. We have had some
really amazing peanut sauce this week that has been my favorite thing to eat
here and also just great spaghetti. We made a kind of like pancake crepe thing,
ahh so good. The food situation is great now, and I can still eat that tomato
sauce and chicken too. It is still appealing to me, I have no idea how, but I
like it still.
Oh btw I found a scale this week just to weigh myself.
I found out that I’m 62kilos which meant nothing. I figured out I weigh 136lbs which
means I have lost 7lbs already on my mission, wow, what a diet and exercise
plan they have put together for this mission. Also there are lots of miracles
that happen when you work well with your companion and do the missionary work
to the best of your ability. I have been searching for one of the old
investigators of Elder Olela. He was super interested in the church all he
wanted was to be baptized he came to church every week and knew our church is
true. However, when Olela and Warr got sick after 3 weeks of not having the
lessons or anything he stopped coming. It was such a shame but I didn’t have his
number or any way to find him, he was just lost, such a pity. However, I went
on spits with Dorsey to help out in Jericho and out of the blue he is like hey there
is an investigator of yours who works in Jericho, I said oh really who is it?
and he is like idk but he says he was taught by Elder Warr and Olela. I didn’t
even think of this guy. However, we go to see him and look who it is but it’s Er___!
I was so happy, I couldn’t get his number because he doesn’t have one but he
says he is going to come back to church and we can always call the Jericho elders
to keep in touch, Its super cool! Miracles of God for Elders who work hard.
And I worked hard this week. When you send in your
mission papers you ask if your physically able to handle walking a ton of miles
every week, and I’m like sure yeah I can do that. I never thought that would be
reached but sure enough I walked to and from the stake center every day this
week which is 45mins away that’s 1hour and 30 mins of walking and that’s just
for usually one or two lessons then were back to walking. It’s great I’m not
tired I’m being helped, I can feel it.
Also, they passed a new law in Benin where you can’t
like have porches that go out on the side walk. I didn’t even know there were sidewalks
here because everyone’s cement porch goes right up to the road. So, every
person has to destroy their porch with pickaxes and shovels and chisels. So, Benin
is getting destroyed from the inside. Everyone is breaking up their porches, it’s
nuts and Kola loves service so we’ve been getting dirty with our white shirts
and joining in on the fun of destroying Benin one porch at a time.
Delicious peanut sauce
My best self given haircut so far
Off Brand Twix and KitKat
Look closely - Ray Dan; Off brand sun glasses
