Week 43 Email: Welcome to Atlantis, the Flooded City

From: Christian.garcia@missionary.org
Date: Monday, April 11, 2022
Subject: Welcome to Atlantis, the Flooded City

Bonjour bonjour tout le monde!! J'espère que vous allez bien! This week was a week full of rain and water and puddles and so really nice weather actually haha. I will definitely never forget the last week of the transfer with my son haha. Let's get into it...

Tuesday we had a great final district council and Elder Meline and I got to teach in it. His French is seriously so much better than mine was at the end of my training. He's also really confident so that makes it better when teaching. He was definitely the best son I could ask for. 

Wednesday we tried to find and find and find. We basically jsut went and talked with everyone we knew and everyone we could find. It was a great exercise of the language. 

Thursday we did an exchange with Elder Luna and Elder Ipatutele. Elder Lunda was in Doumassesse when I was in Kpalime the first time so we know each other decently because I always went and stayed with them when it was needed to come to Lomé. And we got to work together. I got proposed to by a 33 year old woman and had to politely decline, Elder Lunda was laughing pretty hard because I kept trying to ignore she said anything and just teach her. That didn't work so I had to say no. She still came to church though so that's a plus!

Friday was pretty normal for the most part. We went and found and talked to the members and new amis. I also got a call from President Proudfoot saying that I would be leaving tomorrow (Tuesday) and going to a new sector called Sanguera (Zan-ger-a)

Because we found out that I was leaving Saturday was a day of goodbyes and promises of making sure the new missionaries know to come by and teach amis

Sunday was great but awful at the same time. If I thought saying goodbye the first time was hard then the second time was even harder. Tears were shed and hugs were given to all who were guys. And then we went and had 2 mangez-vous with Sœur Valérie and earlier family and then Sœur Herberta and Sœur Gracia. More tears were shed and when we got back to the apartment I was pretty bummed out but that's the mission. The work still goes forward no matter what. 

This week Elder Meline and I talked about Diligence and I think that something that we can forget sometimes as members of the church is that even after we are baptised and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost we aren't finished. There's still the persevering to the end part. I invite you all this week to reflect on what you can do to continue to preserver to the end. 

Je vous aime beaucoup! Merci d'avoir lu un autre e-mail!!

~Elder Garcia

Pics this week is just the flood