hey family!
school starting wow the summer has flown by. good luck with all your classes. yep 8 months today. wow crazy! that's one third.... dang its going
by so fast. i didn't go on my roof
monday night so i didn't see any meteors but sounds like you had fun. good work with the book of mormon
nathan. what'd ya learn? mom did you start at the beginning in french
or just where you were? i am luc [Luke] now in the bible in french. its coming along. i like reading and then reading the explanations
in jesus the christ.
yep mathias and engonam are amazing. it was my camera battery that died so were
good there. this week i accidentally
called their little son, prince, a big monkey instead of a big boss in
éwé. haha oops. i'm learning a lot in
éwé but it's hard because it's all about the way you say it sometimes. but i like learning and i'm determined to
testify in éwé when i leave attiegou, which will be hard but i can do it. they love it when i speak though. their faces just light up even just a few
words. :)
the church is pretty much always open
but we don't really do tours i don't know if we'll start or what. the church is so young here that we can't
really keep up with all the new advances and programs but we do our best. the branch is improving though. I'm really making an effort to make some
changes here and get some things rolling rather than just sitting back and
doing the regular missionary stuff. its
going good so far but just takes time.
this week we taught a guy who turned out to be a pastor
who started preaching to us all this stuff, and then he started to speak to us
in tongues! (giberish) he said if we really had the spirit we would have
understood. ahhh....
also did i tell you about our neighbor yet! I've never seen her as far as i
know but every wednesday she prays all day long into a microphone in her
house. no joke ALL day long. she just repeats as far as i understand thank
you god over and over almost singing yelling.
we visited this old member couple pascal and afi this
week. they are so great. they don't really speak french so we brought
a member, elolo, with us. i wish you
could just be there sometimes to experience the people because there is just
too much to explain in writing. picture
is a thousand words kinda deal. he's
blind in one eye, doesn't walk very well, but is there at church every week. he has lived in his little shack with his
family for 19 years now. And he's happy! i told him that seeing him and all his
family makes me really happy and that god was happy too. he just told me thank you like 10 times and
shook my hand over and over. now he
calls me "mon ami" haha i love
the african people so much. they are the most amazing people ever!
that's all for this week! i love you all! have a great week (in school haha)
loves,
Elder Rybin