Week 84 Email: Been a Second...again

From: Christian.garcia@missionary.org
Date: Monday, January 23, 2023
Subject: Been a Second...again

Bonjour tout le monde!! Wow, I have been getting really slacking off lately with the weekly. So sorry about that but hopefully this'll make up for it. 

So for the last little bit I think that the biggest highlight was when Presodent and Sister Proudfoot came and visited us up in Dassa! It was really cool because we were able to go out to sector with them and visit some of our amis and the families and new converts. We also had the cool opportunity to drive down to Cotonou with them, in thier nice air-conditioned car. We got to have a really nice conversation with them on the way down as well as eat some "real food." I loved it haha. And because we were in Cotonou last week I didn't have the time to properly wrote an email. 

This week was an interesting week. We spent Monday night at Bohicon and I played soccer for the first time in probably a solid 6 maybe 7 months... I still can't play but it was nice to run. Buuuuut we also got a manger-vous so I was very content :) 

Tuesday we did our normal District Council with food afterwards. Elder Meister and Elder Temenaha came up to Dassa with us so that we could do our exchanges with them. I worked with Elder Meister, he's from Canada and has been on the mission for about 6 months but is only on his 1st transfer here in Afrcia bc he decided that je wanted to start rather than getting released and waiting for visa and stuff. We went and talked to some of the amis I had found with Elder Meline the week before on our exchange and that went alright. There's a lot of children there so it was hard to get then to focus and because of that the Spirirt kinda up and left. We continued with the exchange for half of Wednesday snd then they headed back down to Bohicon to finish out their day.

The other half of Wednesday Elder Kyungu and I went and visited Sister Florence and fixed her baptismal date for the 11th of February! Then we went to a family home evening with the members and some amis. 

Thursday was a day of a lot of contacting and making phone calls with a special visit from the Assistants to the President as they were headed up to Parakou. Elder Morgan and Elder Bakajika are some pretty cool dudes.

Friday and Saturday were days of death for me haha. I got sick and got told to stay home for the first time in I do not remember how long haha. Thankfully I am feeling a lot better now but it is really weird that I got as sick as I did. 

Sunday was a good day at church with a good assistance and we got to see a new convert bless the sacrament for the first time. And then we got a ride from the Assistants to Bohicon last night as they were headed back down to Cotonou. 

It's crazy to me how much time is going by but I am loving my time here! I will try my best to keep the weeklys coming but I can't promise anything hahah. 

I love you all! Have a great week 

~ Elder Garcia