Hello Everyone!
So, this was a
pretty monumental week for me. First of all, last Tuesday, the 2nd, I
officially hit 6 months on my mission. Only 18 left. Also, yesterday was
my birthday! I turned 19, but I'm sure you could have guessed, it was
like any normal day. My parents said that they'll bake me two cakes when I get back, for the two birthdays I'll have on my mission, so I've got
that to look forward to haha!
It's
been two weeks since I've updated you guys, but not too much has
happened. A couple of weeks ago, I went on an exchange with one our zone
leaders, who is American. It was awesome. He told me before the
exchange that we were going to try to speak only in French, but that definitely didn't happen haha. We spoke in English the whole time, and
that was nice. It was also nice to learn from someone that has been in
the same situation that I'm in, and he was able to give me some great
advice, in terms of learning French, and everything else.
Also,
last week we had zone conference again. For zone conference, we had two
elders staying with us, just for one night, because they're too far
away to make the trip in the morning. They are the same Elders who
stayed with us for last zone conference, so it was nice catching up with
them. Zone conference was pretty good too. I didn't understand a ton of
it, but I actually understood a lot more this time than I did last
time! It was also nice to catch up with all the Elders that came in the
same time as me, and see how they are doing. Also, they fed us lunch,
and that was pretty good too haha.
As
far as the people we are teaching, they are doing ok. We have a lot of
people we are teaching, but not a lot that are progressing. Nobody wants
to come to church for some reason. We did have a couple at church
yesterday, so that was good. One of them is a younger girl, and she
asked me yesterday ''When is your birthday?'' and I said ''umm, today''
and she didn't believe me because usually when you ask someone when
their birthday is, they don't say today haha.
Other
than that, things are pretty normal. Sorry, I don't have any crazy
stories from Africa this time, maybe next time. I hope everyone has a
great day and a great week!
Elder Orchard
Here is a picture of our apartment, from the front. Its pretty big haha
This was my birthday present this year. I'm starting to stock up the African style ties.
Here is a screenshot of me getting to talk to my family on my birthday!
When the other elders stayed at our apartment, we visited Sr. Aimee, and she wanted to arm wrestle lol
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