Reply to Mom's Email: Monday, November 1, 2021

From: Christian.garcia@missionary.org
Reply to Mom's email

Lome is so freaking hot all the time. It's fine though because you get used to it pretty quickly. My new area is actually 2 areas combined but even combined Kpalime is still the bigger one. I get to walk too so it's safe to say that I like this area haha. The sectores are called Anfame and Adakpame (I can help with how to say them when we call). They are both wards and we visit both wards every Sunday so it's a bit of a runaround. As for my companion, he's awesome. He technically started around the same time as I did but since he already spoke French it was 3 weeks in MTC for him. His name is Elder Kikwati (Keek-watch-e) and he's from Congo kingsasha (I don't know how to spell it). When it comes to missionary work he is 100% awesome. He told me that I am going to start of the lessons and go through them completely so I can learn more French and then he will answer questions. I have learned a lot this past week haha. He likes to cook too so we bought groceries and he has been cooking for us. He like foufou congolais (it's basically the dough stuff in tamales). It's pretty good but so dense too that you don't feel hungry for days. And you have to drink constipation stuff at night so it works through your body. 

Now with amis. So Lome is very different than Kpalime. It's a lot of street contacting and begging the members to give us amis because there aren't very many. We do have 2 set up for a baptism for the 20 and then if we can get through the lessons we will hopefully have 2 more for the 4 of December right before transfer change. Other than that though it's not very much. Which is okay, we found 10 people this last week so we are hoping they can progress. 

Not gonna lie I am pretty jealous you go to go the the series. I want to do that one of these days. Sorry that it was cold, I hope you had a good time though. It sounds like you would have been pretty warn

I thought she wouldn't do the candy grab this year but I guess not. Maybe next year? Didn't you say she was having friends over or something last week? I obviously forgot. 

I think that's all for this week. If you have any more questions just met me know and I will try to answer them. Love ya mom!