Week 10 in Libreville: Chicken and rice and chicken and rice and chicken and rice and chic

Bonjour amis et familles!

My worst fear came true this week. When I got my call to go to Africa, anyone who knew anything about Africa told me that I was going to have nothing but chicken and rice. Every day. And that came to pass this week. Every night we had chicken and rice. But I got the stuff to make pizza this week so that's good.

MISSIONARY MOMENTS OF THE WEEK

So Elder Zoller and I walked into 2 people with a baptismal date when we got transferred into this new area. Score. We've only gotten to meet with one of them, but we've met with her 3 times, as well as her sister, who doesn't have a date yet but is progressing rapidly. I'll call them Margueritte and Claire, respectively. Margueritte is super ready to be baptized - we've been giving her reading assignments out of the Book of Mormon and then she'll teach the principle in the chapter to us the next lesson. Her faith is 'très inspirant' (very inspiring). The aforementioned date is June 12th and everyone is super excited.

Our efforts to find more people to teach have been interesting. We live within walking distance of a mosque so when we're out tracting, we've been meeting a lot of Muslims. We've also been yelled at by more than one person who claimed that the Second Coming of Christ already happened, so that was interesting. We still gave them a Restoration brochure. 

FUNNY QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Why don't you know German?"

The branch president's son asked Elder Zoller this on Sunday and we had a good laugh. 

SCRIPTURE/SPIRITUAL THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

1 Nephi 15:11

"Do ye not remember the things which the Lord hath said?—If ye will not harden your hearts, and ask me in faith, believing that ye shall receive, with diligence in keeping my commandments, surely these things shall be made known unto you."

Faith is so important to the Gospel. Like, monumentally so. Once we have faith, everything falls into place. I love what Nephi says here when talking about faith - in order to receive an answer to a prayer, we have to believe we will receive one, no matter what the answer ends up being. 

I hope everyone has a great week! Je vous aime tous!

Elder May

Pictures include view from the apartment balcony, me after getting caught in a thunderstorm, and more...




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