hey family!
how was your week? sounds like its getting pretty
cold back there. enjoy the snow.
so far all goes well in my new secteur [area]. yep it is a
little closer to the ocean but i can't see the beach from our apartment.
(there is one apartment where on the roof you have an ocean view...) but it's a
good apartment. i'll take some pictures and send them to you one of these
weeks.
Elder Dagrou is from the ivory coast. he is a
convert of 5 years this month. his family wasn't members when he started
his mission but now i think most of them are. he is a great missionary,
wants to work hard and so i think we'll be able to work well together.
our apartment has a banana tree, so that's pretty cool. i was going to
take a picture to send today, but then didn't... next week;. the apartment is a
lot smaller though which is kind of nice for the cleaning.
the secteur [area] is big but we have some great members in the
ward. we are in the ward of Anfame. I haven't got a chance to
really talk with the bishop but i really like him already. yesterday he
invited me and elder Yamapia (the other elder who just got here with me.
he is working with elder faerber) up to bear our testimonies. i get up
there and start to bear my testimony in french, but i finished in some
Ewe. everyone loved it! i could see them sitting up a little taller
listening and their faces just brightened up. and right when i finish,
everyone starts clapping.... haha not exactly the response i was expecting, but
oh well. as I'm walking back to my seat
the bishop gets up and says "sacrament meeting is sacred, we don't
clap" haha. but it helped win the hearts of some members so i was
happy. they love it when i speak their language.
i'm pretty sure everything in the package got here. everything
that was on the list was there. got the flash drive, but it didn't work
with the music thing i have. i plugged it in at the cyber and it worked
there, so i'll keep trying, but maybe it's in a different format than my gadget
can read. i don't know and I haven't really had much time to mess around
with it. peanut butter and oreos are delicious thanks! and yes pillow
cases fit, a bit big actually.
can you believe that i am at the one year mark this
week? I'm still a little in denial that half of my mission is done
already, i'm not sure what to think. but time just keeps going faster and
faster. if i'm not careful this next year will go by like a couple of
days and my mission will be over. just a day at a time though.
tomorrow we have a christmas party for the missionaries in togo. it
should be fun, i think we're going to eat some good food.
as of right now i have really no idea for our christmas
plans. the cyber we are at is pretty nice so skype is possible if we can work
out the schedule. so i'll find out more details by next week for sure, but our
number for our phone is 91034183. i feel like we might be able to skype
around 2 oclock here so 7 in the morning there or we could call at night.
but i'm really not sure. i will talk with elder dagrou and let you know
by next week. but also i don't know how to use skype... i assume i can
figure it out pretty quick but i don't have an account either. do you
have one i can use and one for you? we'll see though.
so benjamin's finally engaged huh. wow that took
forever. feb 8 is just around the corner though. not much
time. maybe at christmas i'll get to talk to my new sister, at least once
before they get married. but i think that is all for this week. it
was kind of a weird week with the mutation [transfer] but we should be all settled in and
picking up pace. have a great week of finals. i love you all. talk
to you soon.
love
Elder Rybin