A Trip to the Hospital...

Bonjour!!

How is everyone? I am good, and I'll get right into these last 2 weeks.

First of all, we have a baptismal date set for Sr Yawa. Yeah, so last time, I said we had no progressing friends, but now we do haha. We baptized Sr Justine last transfer, and Sr Yawa is her mom. She has been progressing well, but there may be some problems with her marriage, and whether or not it was legal, so we're still trying to figure that one out. We hope she can realize her date for the 23rd.

This last week we had to go to the clinic for my companion, Elder Ntumba. He has been having pain in his jaw, and I thought it wasn't a big deal, but he wanted to call President about it, so we did. I stepped out of the room for a second, and came back to find out we would be going to the clinic the next day. We decided to go in the morning, because we didn't really have any appointments, just for them to tell us to come back at 3pm, when we had stuff to do. We went back, and we were there for 3+ hours. He just got some prescriptions, and we came back, but honestly I was very impressed with the clinic. Looking at everything in Togo, you wouldn't think they would have a nice, clean clinic, but they did.

This past week, I finished the book The Infinite Atonement by Tad R. Callister. I struggled with reading it when I first got it, but then after this last couple weeks, just sitting down, and focusing on it, I finished it. Wow, it's seriously such an amazing read. It's so amazing to learn just more about this atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, something that we can never know enough about. What hit me the most was that there was no other way possible. Christ had to sacrifice himself in the way that he did, and he knew that he would from the beginning. But he did this so that we can live with our Father in heaven again. It makes me think of a scripture in 1 Nephi 9:19, which reads:

"9 And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men"

It's amazing to me the love that he showed for us, and continues to. It's something that I want to work on, charity, having the pure love of Christ.

I hope everyone has a great day.

À la prochaine, 

Elder Orchard