Week 24 in Yaoundé: The Avian Attacks!

Bonjour amis et familles!

Had a very interesting last week in Yaoundé (spoiler alert). A lot of lessons were cancelled, I had 2 really fun exchanges, and a bird flew into our apartment and refused to leave (hence the subject line). We eventually got him out by catching him in a mosquito net. Anyway,

MISSIONARY MOMENTS OF THE WEEK 

I had some fun lessons with Elder Harward down in his area on Wednesday. One of them turned into a pretty funny object lesson. I had bought a soda that I hadn't closed tightly enough, so it had soaked all my papers and scriptures in my bag (everything's adequately dry now, ne vous inquiétez pas). Elder Harward compared the spill with sin, and letting everything dry with repentance. Even when something seems like it's too wet to be able to dry, it never is! The 2 ladies we were teaching really liked that quick thinking! 

FUNNY QUOTE OF THE WEEK 

"I would bathe in your hand sanitizer but someone beat me to it."
- Elder Caldwell. I swear I heard him correctly. No idea what this means and was too afraid to ask.

SCRIPTURE/SPIRITUAL THOUGHT OF THE WEEK 

D&C 79:1:

"Verily I say unto you, that it is my will that my servant [Elder May] should go...from place to place, and from city to city, in the power of the ordination wherewith he has been ordained, proclaiming glad tidings of great joy, even the everlasting gospel."

First thing: notice I cut and pasted my own name into this scripture, because it applies to me, especially as a full-time missionary. I am going from place to place, I'm about to go to yet another city on Wednesday. 
Second thing: I didn't realize when I first read this verse in French that it was the same phrase given to the shepherds that visited Christ at his birth - the tidings themselves are the great joy. I read it this way: that I must bring and proclaim the glad tidings of the Restored Gospel with great joy. I have to want to share the message with a great attitude. I have to emanate the joy of the Gospel when I teach. And that is something I've been striving to do, and that I can be even better at. 

Je vous aime tous! Passez une excellente semaine! 

Elder May

PICS: check out this frozen pizza I massacred. And me and Elder Caldwell in the rain. And the bird. And my American flag tie that a member made for me. 

Aight 'til next week!








 

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