hey family
it was good to talk to you on Christmas. can you
believe that i only have one more time to call home? crazy.
this week was hard with Christmas. so many people were busy. Christmas, our rendezvous [appointments] all fell
through so we visited lots of members. this week again it's going to be
the same kind of thing. new years here is bigger than Christmas. it's
probably the biggest holiday of the year. kind of weird huh.
presidents having us all come in at dark tomorrow. 2014 is here!
wow.
the areas in my zone are be-kpota, ablogame,
souza-netimé, baguida, and anfame. anfame is a big quartier [area] but
small at the same time. meaning you say anfame in general to mean all of
those bigger places. but really anfame
is only elder faerber and elder yamapia's secteur and those are the two other
elders in our apartment. our area covers the smaller quartiers [neighborhoods] of
kpota-colas, adakpamé, atteigouvi and i think some others. that's kind of
how they've just divided up the city based on random things in the area
sometimes and everyone just knows that's where you are. if you tell
someone anfame he'll say where and you can say anfame anfame or bekpota or
adakpame and then he'll ask where again sometimes and you can say by the big
tree or the school or the church etc. it works.
here are some pictures of the primary party at the church
we had.
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| all the primary children dancing to "alo le dji" one of the most popular togolais songs. |
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| this is Rosa |
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| a super cute little girl that i forgot her name. |
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| Henry (a little turd...) |
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the
street out front from the roof.
if you
look closely at the street picture you can see the lady with the baby on
her back. that is how everyone carries their babies around. pretty
convenient.
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| bananas!!! |
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| Our banana tree in the back yard |
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| our living room |
there are some panoramic pics of the rooftop. you
should be able to orient yourself with the street and stuff but one i took in
front of the big black water tank and the other in front of the door.
all in all you should be able to get a 360 degree view of the top of the roof. lots of trees huh.
oh today's elder dagrou's birthday. he's 24 today.
we didn't really do anything special today though.
i think that's all for this week. have a week with
new years and all. love you all!
Elder Rybin