Dang it, they're still here?

The investigators here are trying new and creative ways to avoid us. We had one older man say for us to come over one day as we passed by his house. Then as we went over to see him, he saw us coming and quickly tilted his head and pretended to be asleep. But we saw him do that. We thought it was weird so we got close to him and wondered what to do. Should we try to wake him up? Even though we knew he was fake sleeping. Then we saw him keep opening his eyes a little to see if we were still there and then closing them. We decided to just leave because the gospel is not forced. I don’t know why people want to see us one day and the next they do everything to get us to leave.

We did get to reactivate a member this week so that was cool.

I’m starting to see what the zone leader stuff is all about. It basically means if there are baptism interviews to do, you got to go do them. We have Porto-Novo in our zone so we have to make trips up there from time to time. So we go up there. We do get to visit our zone members often, we got some good elders here. We also did a split this week with Elder Angbo and Jenson it was fun to see Elder Jenson back in the mission he is a fun guy.

When Jenson and Angbo came we executed project babysitting with four missionaries in our sector. Jenson and I took care of all the kids in a house where we know the oldest sister can really progress, but is often distracted by her younger sisters. So, Jensen and I took them on charge while Segal and Angbo fixed a baptism date for her. It was great and funny enough the people we were babysitting weren’t kids one was 14 the other 16 they are just big disturbers.

On our way back from Porto-Novo we saw a dead lady on the street. (Death count now is 2). She had just been in an accident. We don’t know what happened but there were two motos and two cars involved and at least one fatality that we saw. When accidents happen they attract huge crowds here, like there was a crowd of over 100 people standing around and yelling. When people have a problem here everyone and their brother comes to add his opinion to the situation even if he wasn’t even there. It’s really funny.

Segal is a somewhat spiritual guy and is always motivating me saying there are people prepared for the gospel in our sector. Not just for anyone tho but for me and Segal specifically to teach and baptize them and I think we found one of these people. We met Fab__, a very young banker, who has had quite a sinful life but is now looking for Jesus. Segal and I are the right people to teach him. He has met with the missionaries before but he said he was never quite on board. But when Segal and I taught him he said he was comfortable and knows this will work. And before I will go home he will be in the US actually so I’ll have a convert in the US too that will be cool.

A good busy week.

Pictures at a dinner with a member family

Segal and I doing zone stuff

With one of our investigators