Le Pardon

Bonjour from Côte d'Iviore! This week was a blur, I have no idea where the time went. We've been working hard, and some good things have happened! It's been wonderful to work with Elder Palmer for these past 3 weeks. He goes home in 1 week, which will be wonderful for him. Our rats like to do races or breakdancing in the ceiling while we're cooking or showering and it's the scariest thing ever, it makes it seem like the ceiling is going to cave in haha. Some guys sprayed insecticide in our apartment and there was so many dead cockroaches... I've swept at least 50 thumb sized cockroaches off of our stairs. It made a bird really happy, who came back and forth, eating all the roaches. I've drank way too much baobab juice this week, and it's really hot once again.

We taught Sr Adeline on mecredi, and my companion (it was Elder Nokes at the time. We were doing splits. He's super cool, and the first person here that likes Jon Bellion) meant to ask 'can we help you make food?' but instead, he said 'can we help you eat food?' Something like that. Anyways, then Sr Adeline gave us her dinner. Like her whole dinner. We tried to explain that wasn't what we meant, but she insisted nope, go ahead and eat. So Elder Nokes and I ate Sr Adeline's dinner. Futu banane and sauce jumble (joombileh). It was really good, but it was her dinner. We accidentally stole this lady's dinner. She was happy to give her food to 'les hommes de Dieu' but still we felt bad. On vendredi we taught the famille Djehi about the Holy Ghost, the law of chastity, and persevering until the end. It was a good lesson, with the only drawback being the nature channel on the TV in the background displaying all the animals that exist in africa mating... But it was a good lesson. It was kind of weird to have to explain what the Holy Ghost is, because everyone else I've taught has a Christian background, but it was good. They had their baptismal interviews on samedi, and they're ready for baptism! It's going to be so cool, I can't wait for the day that they get sealed in the temple to their 6 kids. So cool. That's about it for our ami's this week. 

To introduce my thought for this week, I'll start with a story. I think that the new Book of Mormon videos portray it pretty well. For some reason, often when Nephi says that his brothers "sought to take away his life," I've always thought ah yeah typical Laman and Lemuel, showing their brotherly love by hurting Nephi. But with that video I realized jeez, they really are trying to kill their brother. It was a serious thing that they were doing, one of the top 3 most grievous sins. Anyways, what they were doing was grave. They tied Nephi up and left him in the desert to be eaten by wild beasts. Nephi prays, breaks the ropes, and comes back, still trying to help them. With the help of some of the family of Ishmael, they stopped them from killing their brother. Here's what happens next:

"And it came to pass that they were sorrowful, because of their wickedness, insomuch that they did bow down before me, and did plead with me that I would forgive them of the thing that they had done against me."

"And it came to pass that I did frankly forgive them for all that they had done." (1 Nephi 7:20-21)

In this example, Laman and Lemuel realized their mistake and asked Nephi for forgiveness. Nephi forgave them, and they continued on. We have been commanded to forgive others if we want to be forgiven too. Soeur Bouanga asked a really good question at district council a month ago ish. She asked something like 'how can we forget what someone did after we've forgiven them?' Very interesting, I studied that question a lot. In this story, Laman and Lemuel realized their mistake they made, and they came in humility to Nephi asking for forgiveness. Most of the time, that's not what happens. Nevertheless, we need to forgive everyone, no matter what they do. Nephi forgave his brothers, but do you think he ever forgot what they did? I'm fairly certain that he didn't ever forget. He forgave them, letting go of any negative feelings against them, and saw them as Christ does. He forgave them, but because of the seriousness of what they did, I'm sure he never forgot. Another, perfect example. Envision our Lord and Savior, being mocked, beat, scourged, tortured, and eventually hung on the cross. He was 'hurt in the house of his friends,' killed by the hands of his own covenant people. As the scribes and pharisees said their last jeering words at their Messiah, Jesus, once again showing his infinite and perfect love for us, said:

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34)

I can't understand the depth of His love, to be able to do that for them. Jesus forgave them, but He will always have the memory of that experience and what they did. So, yes it is possible to forget, but it is far more important to work on forgiving. Whether someone took your pencil and didn't give it back, or something more grave, it is possible to forgive that person. Pray for help to forgive them, pray to feel love towards them, not negative feelings. Burdens that you may not have known were there will be lifted from your chest and you will see the light in life. I know that as we try our best to forgive others, whether for minor or major circumstances, that our hearts will become light and we will walk closer with the Lord. 

I love the mission, I love this people here, and most of all, I love my Savior. There's nowhere else I'd rather be than here, gathering Israel. This work is true, and it does bring joy. Have a good week everyone.

-Elder Lyman

This is Soeur Linda. She is a ward missionary and helps the elders out.

a random boy who was outside when the PestControl was inside spraying, so elder Lyman hung out with him.

Camouflage isn't enough to hide that roach.

 

some of the dead roaches

Sauce graene and fish, with a side of rice. And Baobab juice

Tchep. looks delicious. Elder Lyman said it made his stomach happy.

 

Duckman

Bonjour from Côte d’Iviore! This week was great! The heat has somewhat retourned, and now life is back to normal in that sense. The french is going well, I really need to work on my accent though. I know what I’m saying, and I know the french words, but other people don’t quite understand haha. Ça va aller. Being district leader has been fine, although district council sucked. Ça va aller once again. Other than those two things, this week has been great! Here’s some interesting experiences that I hope you’ll enjoy:

Mecredi soir, we get back to the apartment. Everything is normal. We head straight to the kitchen as normal, because we’re always really thirsty. We drink some cold water, everything is good. We try to turn on the sink. No water. We think hmm. We go to the shower. No water. Well that’s great. We went to bed, hoping that the next day there would be water. Nope. We used our reserve barrels of water to shower, make breakfast, and make food. We went to the conference de zone. Came back. Yeah still no water. So that was really awesome. We tried to find the problem, but we couldn’t find where the water connects to the house. Super sweet. We had already drank all of our drinking water, so we went to bed pretty thirsty. We called a guy to come check on it, and he said he was coming, but the next day. The next morning, vendredi. Still. No. Water. Around lunchtime, finally this guy came to check the water. Apparently, some genius saw our pipe leaking, and so he turned our water off. Does the water leak from the pipe anymore? Nope. Does it leak in the apartment? Nope. Is there even water in the apartment? Definitely not. This mans turned off our water and didn’t tell us haha. Now that we know where that switch is, we can hopefully not have that happen again. It made me really appreciate water though haha.

The same day that the water came back, I guess I was really thirsty all throughout the day, because that night I bought a ton of juice. It was our first time buying juice from this lady, she makes the best juice I’ve had here. I’m probably gonna start to grossir again. She makes passion, which I’ve mentioned before. It’s passionfruit juice, which is absolutely amazing. Next, there’s bissap. They do something with hibiscus leaves or something, I don’t know. It doesn’t matter really, as long as it tastes good. Then, there’s baobab. I think that takes first place. I just found it this week, and it tastes so good. It’s hard to explain, but it has the consistency of a smoothie, and tastes like the fruit in lehi’s vision. Just kidding. It's just SO good. They all come in these little bags a little bigger than a pingpong ball, and they’re only 50f each, which in dollars, is not even close to a dollar. It’s less than 8 cents. So. Good. I wish we had that stuff back home. So, if you ever have a chance to try passion, bissap, or baobab, definitely do it. Your life will be changed.

I just realized that most of the exciting stuff this week happened on vendredi haha. That day at sector, one of our rendez-vous nous a fuit, or one of our appointments wasn’t there. While we were waiting, we stopped by Sr Linda’s house (one of the ward missionaries), and talked to her for a little bit. As we did that, this weird looking guy came by, selling shoes. He was an older guy, with a cowboy hat, dreadlocks, and glasses like Harry Potter. He was a fou. Before him there was just the fou that asks for brochures (who we had another encounter with last week) and the fou that picks up trash and yells at towels. Now, there’s this fou. I think I’ll call him the duck fou. All of the fous here have one thing in common: they’re mostly, if not completely, incomprehensible. This guy was the best one yet. For every 1 word of french, he said probably 1 sentence of nothing comprehensible, and 1 duck noise. When he turned and started talking to Sr Linda, I could not keep it together, it was so funny. Here’s an example of some of the stuff he said: “Life’s not easy (2 minutes of not a real language) hallelujah *duck noise* The other day (incomprehensible again for a minute) amen *duck noise* *another, longer duck noise* (still can’t understand 3 minutes) ...and that’s why you’ll be blessed *duck noise* I was crying I was laughing so hard. After he finished every sentence, whether in french or in fou, he would make some duck noise. It was the funniest thing ever. Also, after about 20 minutes of this, he said “okay I’ll see you guys later.” Shook our hands, took a step back, and started talking again! This guy. He shook our hands 5 more times, and finally, he saluted us, made one final duck noise, and continued on. Here’s some stats from that encounter:

Combined total of minutes - 30ish

Amount of french spoken by fou de canard - 175

Combined total of duck noises - at least 20

XP gained  - 4,501

Tears shed because of laughing - probably 6 or 7

Amount of times he shook our hands making us think he was leaving - 6

It was so funny. I hope I see him again, maybe I’ll try to talk to him in his fou language.

One jeudi, we had zone conference. It was really good. I had to go to the leader meeting before, and that was kinda scary, but it was okay. The conference was wonderful. The main focus of the conference was to choose to be obedient because of our love for God. The mission REALLY needs that. There’s so much futezz here, you guys have no idea. But anyways, it was a wonderful conference. My companion bore his testimony, and it was great too. It’s gonna suck to have to send another comp home haha but it’s all good. After eating soggy fries for lunch and the monthly stats for our zone and the mission (our mission had 101 baptisms in December. So cool huh?), I went to another leader discussion after. Scary again, but it wasn’t too bad. Anyways, in the briefest way possible, that was zone conference. I’m excited to see what the future will bring and hopefully that we apply what we learned there.

Before I finish, I’ll update you on our ami’s de l’eglise! On mecredi, Elder Palmer and I were at sector. We had set a rendez-vous with this lady (Sr Flora) that we hadn’t met with before. It kinda surprised us when she showed up within 30 minutes of our set time. We talked for a while, and she was distracted a lot (we were talking to her not in her house, but on the sand road outside). A bunch of kids were running around playing right next to us, and we just finished teaching about how God is our loving Heavenly Father. We asked her if any of the kids there were hers. She said yeah, three of the little girls were. I asked her, “you love them right?” Her eyes zeroed in on mine and she said “Yeah, I do.” I asked her if she wanted to be with them forever, as in after our life here. She said yes, and we started talking about eternal families. Before we mentioned that subject, she was distracted, checking her phone, looking away. But after that, she locked eyes with us. It was almost scary how she did that, but I thought it was a really cool experience. Hopefully we’ll be able to meet with her again next week. On samedi, we were trying to find new people to teach, and I thought hey, let’s go say hi to these members. We walked over into one of the house complexes, and at the end, Fr Michael was there! I think I’ve mentioned him before, but it was probably back in November. He left in November for some vacation, and as of this week, he’s back! He’s a really cool guy, Hopefully we can meet with him this week. And last but not least, la famille Djehi. Let’s go back to mecredi. Right after we met with Sr Flora, we went over to teach them about baptism. I had always known that they would be baptized, and so we planned to ask them to be baptized then. We taught a good lesson, but only the Fr Djehi was there. We taught everything, and asked him if he would be baptized. He said yeah, no problem. Then his wife came in, and we weren’t sure if we would have to reteach, or if she would reject it, or what. She came in, and Fr Djehi said something to the extent of “Honey, the men of God say we’re getting baptized.” Her response surprised Elder Palmer. “Oh, that’s good! When?” So that was super cool, they’re planned to get baptized on the 1st of February. I’ve always known that they’d be baptized. Now, I just pray that they will be sealed together. They’re a super cool family, I hope with all my heart that they’ll be sealed. I can’t explain the smallest part of what I feel.

My scriptural thought for this week is on the subject of what we learned at zone conference. There’s many scriptures that talk about obedience, but this one seemed the most appropriate to share.

“And again, I say unto you, I give unto you a new commandment, that you may understand my will concerning you: Or, in other words, I give unto you directions how you may act before me, that it may turn to you for your salvation. I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say, but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise.” (D&C 82:8-10, see also 83:20-21)

No matter who you are, this law applies to you. When we are obedient and do the things that we know are right, we are promised blessings. When we don’t, we “have no promise.” Exact obedience is often very hard. Satan has innumerable schemes, traps, and devices that he uses to try and lure us into temptation and unhappiness. Sometimes it’s easy to see and avoid, other times it’s not as easy. Sometimes it’s a decision between two good things, and which one is better. There are so many ways that he tries to harm us and hinder God’s work. What’s important is that we need to do our best to follow Christ as best we can. If we love Him, then we will keep his commandments. Sometimes obedience is easy, other times it’s not. God will never put us through a trial that we aren’t capable of handling. If you’re doing good with obedience already, that’s wonderful, I’m so happy for you. If you aren’t doing so well, or have maybe strayed from the covenant path, it’s okay. He loves you and He will never leave you. Step by step, He will help you back to the light if you want Him to. I know personally that when we do our best to keep his commandments and live a life unspotted from the world, we will be blessed. It may not seem easy at first, but if we try our hardest to make all of our decisions under His influence and follow His teachings, life will become full of joy and we will be able to feel His love more. If we are obedient, blessings will come, and our life will change for the better. I know personally that this is true. I love you guys with all my heart. Vous me manquez. Until next week.

- Elder Lyman

Also fun fact I wrote this (on his Neo2) while Elder Tehiva threw pieces of concrete at our bedroom window. Not pebbles, or rocks, but chunks of concrete. 

•It is hard to set up appointments with people because they are hard to contact, leave when they know the elders might be coming, and are often not around when they say they will be. 

•futezz = disobedience. Dumb disobedience (in Elder Lyman's words)

•No photos in the future. Elder Lyman's camera disappeared with 4 months of his companion’s photos. 

•fou = crazy

dinner at branch president's house

Another trip to the beach with the district

Pests

Bonjour from Côte d’Iviore! This week was good. It's been kinda crazy, I haven't had much time to pretype anything super interesting, but here's what I have.

So, last week I mentioned the rat family. They live above our kitchen, and often you can hear them scurrying around. We’ve been trying to solve the problem by keeping our food more safe and protected, and I think it’s helped. Unfortunately, now they eat the geckos that live here instead. I’ve walked down the stairs some mornings and just seen a dead gecko with only his tail eaten a few times. It must be the rat family. We are currently searching for a better solution with them. Also, I don’t know when they came, but we now have cockroaches as well. We had seen one or two small ones throughout the week, usually the size of a jolly rancher. Then, on samedi, Elder Palmer was looking for his bouncy ball. We searched everywhere, and couldn’t find it. We then thought, “Hm, maybe it went down the drain.” So we lifted up the cement cover to the plumbing system for our house, I don’t know how to explain it to you guys very well. Anyways, we lifted it up, and probably 4 or 5 cockroaches, bigger than the size of my thumb, came scurrying out from the grate. And yes, of course, all in OUR direction. There was a lot of jumping, running, and yelling, but we killed them with wooden poles. There were a couple more of the big ones in the sewage hole, and we washed them away. Nope, we did not find the ball either.

So yeah, that was great. Here’s another wonderful story: On dimanche, Elder Palmer and I were hungry. Earlier in the week, we had the idea to make funnel cake. So we tried to make it. Even though we have the most ghetto kitchen supplies and a homemade recipe, we did it. Kind of. Not really. Yeah, it didn’t work. We made pancake batter, put it in a ziploc bag, and cut a hole in the end. We put oil in a pan and heated it up. Trial run 1: we poured some batter in the pan, and it worked well. It wasn’t quite funnel cake, but it was close enough. Trial run 1: success. Trial run 2:  I was pouring some of the batter into the pan, like before, when suddenly the ziploc part of the bag opened and all of the batter dumped into the pan. Trial run 2: fail. We continued cooking the batter in the pan, just because we couldn’t let all the batter go to waste, and it became a MASSIVE pancake: almost an inch thick and the size of the pan. Not a funnel cake. A cake the size of the pan. A pancake in the most literal sense you can imagine. It didn’t even fit on the plate we put it on, so we had to chop it up. It was still good, but not a funnel cake.

That’s it for stories this week. Now to business matters. Last week, I briefly touched on the fact that I changed companions and that I’m now chef du district. So, normally, a missionary who has just finished with training, stays junior companion to other missionaries for a while, and then eventually is considered to be senior comp or a chef or something like that. So, I finished training just a month ago. I’m senior comp and chef du district. It’s wild. Now I have to take charge of our companionship, set rendezvous, and other stuff like that. Not too bad. As chef du district, I have to plan a district council each week, send indicateurs clefs (I don’t know what it’s called in English) to the chef du zone weekly, do baptismal interviews for investigators who are ready for baptism, correct any problems in my district, among other things. So yeah, life is pretty crazy. I didn’t think I’d ever say this, but the mission is hard. Or at least, it’s not easy. Mais, ça va aller, c’est bon maintenant. 

We had planned on inviting the famille Djehi to get baptized this week, but things didn’t work out. Fr Djehi’s older brother was really sick, so he had to go to the hospital. I don’t know any other details on that. Sr Adeline and Sr Marie came to church! Sr Adeline is amazing, she fed us attieke and sauce graene at sector on samedi. Sr Marie is awesome too. She always has inspired questions for us. Unfortunately, she will be moving away soonish, like Fr Ette. It’s going good with our ami’s. This week Fr Peter (a member in Vridi canal that we’re friends with) leaves on his mission to Nigeria, and we have zone conference. I think that’s about it for this week. 

Here’s my scripture for the week:

“And it came to pass that the servants did go and labor with their mights; and the Lord of the vineyard labored also with them; and they did obey the commandments of the Lord of the vineyard in all things.” (Jacob 5:72)

So, this scripture comes from the huge parable in the book of Jacob, where Jacob quotes Zenos and compares the world to a vineyard. It talks about the efforts that the Lord of the vineyard (Jesus Christ)did to try and save the branches of the tree (Israel) and his servants that helped him too in his efforts to ‘preserve the natural fruit.’ His servants in this story, are us. We need to do our best to obey the commandments of the Lord in all things. We need to be diligent to work in His vineyard with our might. If we do this, He will be with us. working with us, comforting us, and carrying us when we fall. I know personally that heaven is a lot closer than we think, and through obedience to our Lord, and especially through prayer and scripture study, we will realize that He isn't as far as we think, and that He will always be there to help us, no matter what our needs may be. I love you guys, have a good week.

Elder Lyman

The kids in the ward wanted to walk home with Elder Lyman and Elder Palmer after church.

Elder Lyman made chili his grandma sent him. He said it was really good.

When we asked Elder Lyman what he was going to do about the rats he told us he wasn't sure, but they are very hard to perish.

Many are cold, but few are frozen

Bonjour from Côte d'Iviore! This week was pretty crazy. Because of New Year's, we didn't have many rendez-vous(lessons), because everyone was getting ready to celebrate, partying, or sleeping afterwards, and stuff like that. New Year's Eve we didn't really do anything. We just had the conseil du district (district meeting)and ate some food that members gave us (which by the way, did not sit well at all in my stomach, but that's a story for another time). That night, I went to sleep at about 22h00, so on time. I was hoping to be able to sleep through all the ruckus that the church next to us was gonna cause, but that definitely didn't happen. I woke up at about 23h50 to someone breaking our door down, yelling and screaming, and explosions. For the first 30 seconds, as my mind was waking up, I thought that some civil war was happening and that we were gonna die, or something like that. Thankfully, that is not what happened. What really happened was Elder Tehiva repetitively body-slamming our door, yelling "HAPPEE NEW YEER" as loud as he could, the church next to us was playing their music as loud as they possibly could, of course, Elder David and Elder Ngindu were singing hymns at the top of their lungs for who knows why, fireworks were exploding right outside our window, and lastly people were yelling and whooping at the church next to us. That was probably the worst sleep I've gotten here so far. But ça va aller, life's all about experience.

Okay, weathertime. For the first half of the week, the weather was normal, and the temperature was the consistent sauna feeling. The average day here. On jeudi, near the end of the day, Elder Agbahounzo and I were at sector, and all of a sudden, a cold, dry breeze came through. We stopped walking and thought wow, that's really nice. Even though it smells like all of the oh so wonderful smells of Africa, it's nice. Then, we continued on proselytizing and didn't think much of it. The next morning, I woke up absolutely freezing. I thought "that's weird." I looked over at my companion, and he was curled up in a ball, obviously not having the best time of his life. I wondered what is going on, why is it so cold. After I got out of bed, my blood started flowing, and it didn't feel as cold as before. I showered, and yeah the water was cold, as usual. I got out, and oh man. Ohhhohohhoh man. It. Was. COLD. That's the most miserable I've been here so far, that minute and a half running from the shower to our room. Something is definitely wrong here. Even though it's probably like a comfortable temperature back home, here it does not feel normal. The weather has continued like that ever since, and it's been nice at sector because now we don't sweat through our shirts, but at night it's uncomfortable for sure. That's the weather update for this week.

Elder Lyman and Elder Agbahounzo

 

 

A couple quick things:

-Elder Agbahounzo and I went to the "beach" with the Soeurs in our district. It was covered in trash and wasn't the best beach. But we took some pictures, and that was fun I guess.

These girls were selling Arachide and coconut shavings

 

 

-Elder David and Elder Ngindu moved out and went back to their apartment, so now it's an apartment of 4 again thankfully.

-Someone has been leaving half finished bananas in the kitchen overnight, and I've discovered the culprit. There's a family of rats that live above the kitchen. Which is super duper awesome.

That's it for random fun facts I think. Now it's time for big facts. On jeudi evening, Elder Agbahounzo and I got a call from the mission president. My comp was leaving Vridi1 to be the companion to the zone leader of Niangon Sud, which was the zone that he just left, and I was going to become district leader here, with Elder Palmer being my new companion. So yeah that was super unexpected and crazy, but hey, issall good now I guess. The next day, Elder Agbahounzo and I had our monthlyish interview with president, ate some pizza, and then I said goodbye. Elder Palmer came about half an hour later. He's from Blanding, Utah, and he finishes with his mission in exactly 4 weeks, so that'll be interesting. He's super cool, and we've been working hard! I'm excited to see what the future will bring.

Even though we didn't get to teach that much this week, I'll share a few experiences that happened. We taught Sr Adeline again on jeudi. She understands really well, and this time she asked questions about baptism, and how she could get baptized and stuff. Next time I'm hoping to ask her to be baptized. She also brought 3 of her non-member friends to church, which was super cool too. Another one of our ami's is also very interested. Fr Ette is a football trainer, and he's really cool. The only problem is that he talks way too much. Elder Palmer and I taught him on dimanche, and with how much he talked, you'd think he taught us, instead of the other way around. He's super cool though. I think he might get baptized too, but unfortunately he's moving soon, so I don't know how much we'll be able to do for him. Lastly, la famille Djehi. We didn't teach them this week, but we taught their daughter, Sr Esthel. They came to church again, and they're always so nice to us. It's so cool. I can't wait to teach them again this week, and really all of our ami's. It's such a blessing to be here.

My spiritual thought for this week is in 1 Nephi 15. Nephi is always teaching his brothers and having to deal with their shenanigans. This one comes from when Nephi is trying to explain the meaning of Lehi's dream to them. He explained some stuff to them, and they said (this is in my own words) Yeah, we don't understand, it's too hard. Nephi asks them, well, have you prayed about it? They said no, he won't show us, why do you think he would do that for us? Nephi said you guys, c'mon. It's not that hard. Then he said this:

"Do ye not remember the things which the Lord hath said?—If ye will not harden your hearts, and ask me in faith, believing that ye shall receive, with diligence in keeping my commandments, surely these things shall be made known unto you" (1 Nephi 15:11).

There's a big lesson we can learn from this. Laman and Lemuel didn't believe that God would answer their prayers, or, they didn't have faith that he would answer. If they had faith, He would have answered their prayers. Every blessing and response from heaven is dependent on our faith. If we have faith and are living worthily, we have been promised the answers to our prayers and help in our lives. Often, in my experience at least, I haven't had the confidence in myself to ask for things or something like that. For example, when asked "who wants to have eternal life" everyone raises their hand. But when posed the question, "who thinks they'll get eternal life?" few people raise their hands. One of the adversary's grand schemes right now is undermining our self-confidence. Whether physically, intellectually, or spiritually, he works very hard to distract us from the fact that we're children of God, that we were created in His image, and that we have been promised His divine help. If we have weaknesses, he gave them to us so that through Him, we can become strong. There's a lot more I could say in this section, but I'll just keep it short. Don't compare yourselves to others. God has created you perfectly in His eyes. He loves you, along with all of the family and friends that He has placed in your life. When you have a question or a need, He will help you as long as you are doing your best to live worthily. All you have to do is believe in Him and that He will respond and help you.

I know personally that this is true. Our Heavenly Father loves us so much, he's constantly waiting to bless us and help us, the only variable is us. As we try to grow closer to Him, He will come closer to us and we will feel His love. I love the mission, my comp, the ami's, members, and my calling. The food and the weather too. There's nowhere else I'd rather be right now than here. I love you guys, until next week!

Elder Lyman

Elder Tehiva fixed up the apartment's living room. It is super nice now.

President and Sister Lewis and their daughter visited Vridi1 for church

 

 

•Someone came and changed the water pressure at the apartment to showers are now possible. Even though they are cold.

•The rats scared Elder Palmer really bad. They scurried suddenly in the ceiling and he thought the ceiling was going to collapse and cave in on he and Elder Lyman. Then he realized it was rats...

•There isn't any bickering in the apartment anymore.