family!
another week has flown by. we are already in
june! where is the time going? sounds like everyone has some pretty
great summer plans. everyone is taking off in a million different
directions. does benjamin even stay at home anymore? mom sounds like you
had a great birthday. i wished you happy birthday on friday from africa i hope
you heard. :)
mama patience didn't get baptized this last week but we are hopeful
for the next week or two. i really love that family a lot and i know it
will all work out eventually. she is awesome though, really starting to
see the benefits of the gospel and the changes in her kids and on their
family.
i hear there is watermelon here and i think i've seen some
but it's not that great i hear. i'll have to find some to try. cantaloupe
the same. the fruit in africa that is amazing is AMAZING but the others
that are just eh are just eh.
yeah we do street contacting, and knock "doors"
sometimes, but not super often. it is
usually our last resort. yeah we can just walk into a cour and talk to
people, most of the time it's family that lives together. it's too
expensive to move or start your own place most of the time so sometimes they'll
just build another little room in their cour for a new family.
people love to talk about Jesus Christ though, it's really
amazing. we taught a cool lesson last night too. we taught these
guys that were contacts from another secteur, richard and honoré. they are really
searching for the truth, and want answers. we didn't have a lot of time,
but they were just so hungry to learn and had so many awesome questions.
i told them at the end that i loved their questions and that we have the
answers, that they don't need to search anymore because i know this is the
truth they've been searching for. so they are showing a lot of promise i
hope all turns out well.
elder dickson's visit was super awesome. he and sister
dickson are really awesome people. they live in ghana right now and have
for the past 4 years i think and they have lived all over the world serving
where the apostles call them. really they have sacrificed so much, its
inspiring. i learned a lot and took some notes in my journal.
speaking of which i am coming up on the last few pages of my
journal and so i still have the two others you sent while i was in the mtc, but
if you send one more i think that will be enough to last until the end.
so you can add that to the list. also a lot of elders get packages and
there is a lot of stuff that we can get here pretty simple. it's kind of
weird what you can and can't get and how easily, so send me a list of things
you are thinking about sending and i'll tell you yeah nay, thank you :).
summer there looks great, grass... i never thought i'd miss
it like i do. mowing the lawn is a small price to pay to have some
grass. never thought you'd hear me say that right? i didn't either
haha. don't know what you've got till it's gone. so true. it
rained a really hard yesterday afternoon. when it rains, wow, it really
rains. streets are rivers, crazy. mud too. lots and lots of
mud. it makes things interesting. pictures of the church finally.
and just a random street where we were walking on the way home from church so
enjoy! i think that is all for this week. 
thanks for all your letters and prayers. have a great
week and a great start to summer!
Love Elder Rybin