oh my favorite family!
happy
easter to you as well. i forgot.... elder potter reminded me in the
morning that it was easter. we had a "super special easter
feast" right after church which just meant that we ate a lot of rice with
some super old gravy packages that elder potter had BUT with lots of chicken.
it was good. that night.... nothing special..... the togolese, like
most of their parties some people got drunk and played their drums really loud.
there was a lot of people at church though which was good. but i
heard that the catholics do this jesus walk where someone pretends to be jesus
and carries a cross through town while people beat him to reinact. yeah i'm
not sure how that all worked out but holidays here in general are just not as
big of a deal.
huge
surprise this week though! we got transfer calls this last saturday
morning...... i'm going over to benin to replace our american assistant and
work with elder kognani. crazy huh?! i'm still in denial about it all.
i still keep thinking that it can't possibly be true as if i'd heard
wrong over the phone or something i don't know.... i'm still in shock. i'll be
working in a secteur [area] called cocotome. i'll work in another three
with the two assistants right now, elder kognani and elder ritchie, for a
couple of weeks to make a smooth transition. also elder ritchie said that
they are going to send me some information today to get me an international
driver's license so that i can start driving as soon as possible. he said
that you have to do something back home and then mail it i think, but i'll let
you know more when they call or write me. but yeah.... the mission is
full of surprises. don't ever get to comfortable.
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other
news: we went to kegue to the grand stadium to do our annual member versus
missionary tournament on easter monday. the members had four teams and we
had two but we didn't win.... i took some pictures that i'm going to try to
send at the end of my letter. it was fun to be with all the missionaries
and the members. over the last year i've come to know a lot of the
members here in lome. it is weird saying goodbye. with the way the
mission is looking and the change of president weed to president morin, i will
most likely stay assistant until i finish. like i said no one knows and
there's always surprises but most likely i will finish my mission in
benin. but i'll visit togo frequently for zone conferences and transfers and
all that kind of stuff.
not much
other news. a bird pooped on my face yesterday.... it was very liquidy
and green.... it felt like a big raindrop.... but the worst part... it was
warm. blessings i guess. just the week before last a bird pooped on my
shirt too. what is this!
i don't
have a whole lot of time today because of the activity so that's all for this
week! have a fantastic week! i love you
all
loves, elder Rybin