Bonjour, 08/09/2014
This past week has
been pretty good, and probably the busiest as well. Tuesday we had the arrival
of a group of new missionaries, 3 Tahitians, 2 Congolese, and a Togolese. It
was the best seeing the Togolese getting his call here as he’s one of the young
men I got to work with when I was in Be Kpota, so its pretty crazy to see him
as a full-time missionary now! There flight got here late so we spent a while
at the airport. Then helping them with the first day stuff took a while, and
then after all we took them to their apartments, which ended up being on the
opposite ends of the city. Ha-ha, so it ended up taking most of the day for us.
It was fun seeing the new missionaries and seeing how excited they are to
finally be in the field. Along with that we worked a lot of the week in doing
immigration, and as we had so many missionaries getting visas we spread it out
through 4 days. Just a few days after the arrival of all the new missionaries,
we have 4 missionaries leaving as well, so we’ve spent a lot of time in picking
them up and getting them ready to leave. On Friday was the Benin leadership
council, and as there is a new zone leader that doesn’t have a companion at the
moment, I spent a while the day before getting his report ready for him for the
meeting. The past week I’ve been trying to get the release dates set up with
President so that there will be an even transfer schedule now as well, so its
been cool to work with him on that. Something I noticed this past week that was
a good example to me, is when we finished a proposal, before going forward with
it, he told me with a smile he would have to talk to his companion (wife) about
it first. It reminds me a lot of how President Weed worked as well, in that he
doesn’t work alone, but always has his wife’s opinion and they work together on
it. People often think that it is only the mission president th leads the
mission, but they’ve both shown me that they’re not alone in how they work.
He’s an incredible man though. All in all things have all gone really smooth,
but we’ve been so busy we haven’t been able to get too much done in the
secteur, ha-ha. Luckily we were able to see a few Amis, and how they’re still
progressing. We’re still working on getting the marriage ready for Rebecca and
her husband, so that they can get baptized soon. It’s been tough for her, as
she wants to be baptized very bad, but has to wait because of this. It was nice
though as on Wednesday she was telling us about how the past few times she has
read the Book of Mormon, she has feel upon a few verses about patience which
give her a lot of comfort when she needs it. It really reminded me of the
importance of daily Book of Mormon reading, as the Lord will often use that as
a tool in helping us and guiding us day to day. Its nice as well that she has
figured out how useful the Book of Mormon is that way, so that will help her
stay close to it in the future. Things are all going pretty well with our other
Amis, and they’re coming along well also.
Also today I just found out that
Elder LeGrand Curtis will be visiting here in just a couple weeks, so I’m
looking forward to that as well. Things are going pretty well in Benin. For
some reason the month of August really cools down so it’s been nice to have
that lately. Things are going well in Benin. A lot of the news reports have
been talking about Ebola like usual, even though there aren’t yet any confirmed
cases here, so people have been talking a lot about that lately. Hopefully it
doesn’t make its way here though!
Elder Oliverson
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| Languoet & Me right before him going home, he was in my first apartment back in Gbegamey |
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