Hey family!
sheesh this week went by just as fast as last week.
crazy! i think this week is 5 months in africa. wow time is flying by. this week Togo
had a voting day for some deputy on thursday and so the missionaries couldn't
go out because they were afraid of some "manifestations." nothing
happened but we were just bored all day in the apartment. staying home is
rough. there is absolutely nothing to do. nothing, but the week was good.
no baptisms yesterday which was a bummer. marie's mom fell
like i said and she's in the hospital, not doing so great. she needs surgery
but it's expensive. we went to visit her
last monday night. hospitals here are pretty sketchy, and unlike the back
home if they can't find the money somewhere they won't do the surgery they'll
just leave her... BUT we stopped by again sunday morning and caught her at home
(she spends a lot of time at the hospital with her mom) and talked a little
about faith and how satan tries to give us doubts to destroy our faith, and we
talked about peter walking on water and lehi's tree of life and how those
stories could apply to her life, and talked about doing all the little stuff
still and not paying attention to the waves and tempest around us just focus on
the Savior, the reason we jumped out of the boat in the first place). AND
she came to church later that day even though she really wanted to go to the
hospital, she went right after. yes! the words more powerful effect than
the sword triumph!
i talked to a guy this week who said he'd live
forever. he also said that president monson
came to Togo after the mission president called him and told him that he should
get baptized and then he gave him his cell phone number but he threw it
away. he just went off about all this other stuff. i just
busted up laughing, and couldn't stop. and he didn't even break a sweat
just kept on going, it was great.
when is crystal and ryan's new house going to be
finished? school is going to start already? I thought you just told
me a few weeks ago that summer was starting? sounds like trina's baptism went
well. i'm sad that i had to miss it... but that's alright.
yes i teach english every saturday. i started the
class when i was still in hedzranawoe, and then just moved days when i moved to
attiegou. it goes pretty good. my english is getting worse and
worse though. takes me a little bit to warm up to english when i talk
with the other missionaries when i see them.
yes the only sisters are in our branch in kegue. kegue
is another area with two apartments, well technically its kegue and kelegougan
but its all the same thing and not and yes... we just call them both kegue
cause its shorter. so there is 12 missionaries in our branch crazy huh because
kegue is only a group for now and the sisters are new in togo. so our
branch is pretty big, relatively. so kegue has 8 missionaries if you didn't
figure that out 4 elders and 4 sisters. and the 4 with us makes 12. math.
mom! ça c'est quoi? tu m'as envoyé pas
meme deux phrases? continue à parler! il n'y a pas une meilleure manière
d'apprendre! il faut le faire afin que
quand je reviens on peux se parler! il faut trouver quelqu'un avec lequel
tu peux pratiquer. [Translation:
Mom! what is that? You only sent me two sentences. Continue talking!
There is not a better way to learn. You
must do it so when I come back we can talk to each other. You need to
find someone to practice with.]
thanks everyone for your letters! love
you all! have a great week!
Elder Rybin