Country count +2 (aka I'm in Cameroon now)

 Bonjour amis et familles!


Do any of you remember how I put 'secret reasons' somewhere in last weekend's email? Well, that reason was I was signing a document to go to Cameroon. And that ended up actually happening. I am now in Yaoundé, the namesake of the mission. 
I am sad that my time in Libreville has come to an end. I hope I can return sometime within the next 16 months. I actually had a really good, productive last week. Let me tell you all about it.

MISSIONARY MOMENTS OF THE WEEK

I found out I was going to Cameroon last Saturday, but I wasn't going to let that hinder the work in Libreville this last week. Elder Zoller and I made the most of it by finding 2 new people! One of them was this guy from Nigeria who works at a messy auto shop. We had a first and second lesson with him on Tuesday and then on Friday. We were able to teach in English, which was nice because I was able to find some cool ways to teach some points that I could translate over to French. And we left him with an English Book of Mormon that we miraculously had at the apartment.
The second new person was another sister of Margueritte. We had a great lesson about the Restoration where she basically taught herself the Great Apostasy as a response to our question of 'why are there so many different churches?' It was super great and I'm sad I have to leave these amazing children of God halfway through their respective journeys.

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be."
 - John Lennon, All You Need Is Love

On our flight to Lomé for our layover (hence country count +2) props to whoever looks up the country we were in and tells me), Elder Vines and I shared a pair of headphones and listened to some uplifting music. This line from the beloved Beatles  hit struck me more than it had ever before. I'm so lucky to be in the central city of the mission of my original assignment. I know there's some people reading this who currently are not in that situation. But what John Lennon is saying here is true. Whatever situation we find ourselves in, we kind find hope and peace that there is something there personally prepared for us that we can learn from and grow from.

Je vous aime tous et j'espère que tout soit bien avec vous tous!

 Elder May











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