well, bahbijio lo.
that means don't be angry in ewe. i said i was going to send some
pictures today but the computer i'm at doesn't recognize that i have my usb in
so that'll have to be next week again. sorry. i do have some nice
pictures from kpalime. sounds like life from home is good. i can't
believe fourth quarter is already here that's so weird. spring too.
school sounds like its building up for the last little bit. i just was
kind of blasted in the past thinking about this time of year and all that i had
going on at the end of school years and beginning of summer time. crazy!
we had mutation [transfer] calls this week. don't worry i'm
not going anywhere but i am getting a new companion. or i should say
another companion. elder Gnenenon is coming over from Benin to work with
Rav and i in a tripanionship for a couple of weeks until Elder Rav goes
home. he leaves the 16th of april. Elder Gnenenon is ivoirian.
this will be my fourth ivoirian companion! he's a chef de zone [zone leader] already in
benin. also elder digbe if you remember him got called to replace elder
Gnenenon in benin. speaking of old comps did i say that elder Ouonnebo
just finished his mission last sunday? he is normally in the group with elder
rav but he had to go home early for school. its weird! other good
news i'm going to become a grandpere! [Grandfather, meaning that the elder he
trained (his son) is going to train a
new elder {grandson)] elder kongolo mon fils [my son] is going to train a new
missionary. it's not sure yet but he could train the first hawaiian that
we are getting soon.
i think i already told you that our new President already
got called right? his name is President Morin. he's from canada,
quebeque [Quebec]. the changes in the mission are all getting ready for
him to come. President Weed is trying to set everything up so that it
will be the smoothest transition possible. there's lots of changes coming
up as always, lots of rumors too, so we'll see what happens.
This week i have studied about humility so much. it's
been amazing. i feel like God has been teaching me so much. I've
been trying to work on stripping myself of all pride. and when you dig
deep we all have a lot of pride. pride is so much more than just being
prideful but all rebellion can be traced back to pride and humility needs to be
a constant and permanent part of who we are, the very basis of our
characters. i studied a lot the story of Job and found some great
scriptures. what an awesome book in the old testament. humility is
also a key to conversion. it's the "fertile soil".
another random thought. do you have the patriarchal
blessings for grandma and grandpa? or farther than that? can't you get
them from salt lake? if you can i think i'd like to read them. i read
mine again today and that thought came to me.
anyways sorry again for the pictures. next week for
sure. haha i love you all! have a great week!
loves
loves
Elder Rybin