Hello again family!
everyone sounds like their busy with school! thats
good, i hope all your classes and teachers are good. can you believe it's
already september? time just keeps on going and going.
so i think i said last week there was a mutation
[transfer] this week but turns out its
next week. soooo no new
exciting/surprising changes for now but next week there is going to be a lot of
big changes coming up because of all the missionaries leaving and the lot that
are coming in too. we'll see though. for now we're just moving
along here in attiegou.
i didn't send any "crazy" stories from last
week? i haven't had anything that "crazy" for the last little
bit. this week has been pretty mello just the same old teaching lessons
talking to people, you know the missionary work but lets see...
[Note: At times Elder Rybin uses the word "crazy". It is not meant to be disrespectful at all. He loves the people in Togo with all his heart. At times he is amused with their actions and words, hence his use of the word "crazy". However, he always says that the people of Africa are "awesome and amazing". He is grateful to be serving the Lord among the people in West Africa!]
the other day in english class i was talking about how to
buy something at the market and we learned some food vocabulary. We were doing some practice and i came up to
paul and the person he was working with. He said ok: "how much do these honies
cost?" so i usually do pretty good about not laughing when people
try to speak and it comes out weird or funny because i know how it is to learn
another language but this time i just lost it. haha he was like
what? and i then had to explain that honey is never plural otherwise it
becomes slang for something like wife or women, then we all had a good laugh
together. haha
also latest news from Hodessa, the guy that thinks he's
japanese, is that he was apparently created from a computer 2000 years before jesus
christ.... and also that he was the supreme leader of the government of the
planet before but it was abolished or something like that. haha i'm
really not sure what to think about him anymore he always has these stories but
he comes to english class and church so we are trying to figure out what to
do. he also said in english class that he can't sing anymore because when
he sings the weather changes and it thunders and brings storms. yep that's
hodessa.
one of the best things about missionary work is when
people tell you thank you. when it comes down to it we don't really do
much it's all God and the spirit book of mormon and all that, but we get to be
there and see the change, see the light come into their lives. it's
the most amazing thing to see. paul (from english class, same guy) is the
brother of yolande my recent covert from hedzranawoe. he was baptized by the zone leaders right
after i left, but he told me this week thank you, and i said you're welcome but
it's really not me who did this for you and your sister and family, but he said
no, if you weren't there maybe all this wouldn't have happened. thank
you. it's amazing.
yesterday we had a super awesome testimony meeting, i
love testimony meeting here, because pretty much everyone is a convert and have
so many of those cool missionary stories. the spirit is so strong i love
it.
so there's my stories for the week. and you?
i keep forgetting did you say september that crystal's house is going to be
done, or when? keep up the good work in school and life. hope you
all have a great week!
love
Elder Rybin