It is hot in Togo

It is so hot!!! but elder teaupa and i are sitting in a cyber cafe with air conditioning right now!!! haha!!! it feels so good! this is the nicest cyber i have ever seen.

so on thursday there was a weird voodoo party going on maybe like five minutes away from our apartment. haha. there was a shirtless guy where necklaces made of teeth and other.... parts playing a drum in front of an upside down bull head with its hooves on top... the bulls tongue was sticking out by the way... i laughed. not going to lie. anyways... it was pretty interesting.

all is well though here in Togo.... did i mention that its hot outside? yeah. its hot. ive gotten this good tan coming along though.

This week was really really really productive. we taught over 23 lessons!!!! and most of them were with our investigators! we have five new investigators by the way!!! and a ton of recent converts! so our days our packed!

we werent able to baptized anna because the water in the church building broke and we couldnt fill up the font. so we just pushed it back a week.... so next week. hopefully.

so. we bought milk this week. real milk. not like african milk... but like milk that we buy in france!!! we have spent so much money on milk. it is fantastic!!! there is something about the taste of real milk that brings joy to your stomach, and your mouth.

So, i learned this week that elder teaupa and i are going to burn in hell with the book of mormon. at least we will have the book of mormon with us... its a  great book. yup. we preach false doctrine. a man approached us and asked us if we were perfect. we said that we werent. and this guy just told us that we are perfect, and that we dont know christs doctrine.... its all in a days work i guess.... life is great.

we were finally able to talk to koudjo once this week... his boss is working him so super hard!! he wont let him come to church!!! ahh!

well, i hope all is well with you guys. that everything is exciting and filled with bull heads and shirtless men playing drums.... because my week has been filled with that...

i love you guys, and think of you guys all the time!!!

love you

elder magré

family, friends

fantastic week!!! really great week! it was great to see all of your faces, and hear your voices!!!

i have never had so much to eat in my life! seriously!!! this week i probably gained a ton of weight! people kept feeding us, and feeding us... rice, pate, fufu, futu, rice.... we had one mangez vous were elder teaupa and us almost threw up afterwards because we ate so much!!!!haha!!!

this morning, after doing laundry, elder teaupa and i made cheesecake. we only ate half. we are saving the other half for tonight. it was awesome.

i woke on saturday morning and was super cold!!! yeah! cold! and its not even in the low 70s!! haha!

elder teaupa and i have three baptisms this saturday!! my zone leader thought that we were joking when we told him that he is going to have to do three interviews on saturday!! haha.

on sunday, olivier came up to me and asked about his baptism date. i asked him if he was still good for this saturday, and he said that he is now ready!! he had has doubts because he hadnt yet recieved an answer on the book of mormon. but now he is ready!!! i was so happy!

yesterday we went to go and see another one of our investigators. we set a baptism date for him too. he said that he made up his mind, and that this was going to be his church!!!!

i love wuiti! this area kicks kodjoviakopés trash!!!

everything is good though. elder teaupas french is coming little by little. he has a positive attitude and isnt the language getting him down. he makes me laugh though.

anyways, hope you guys are having fun in utah, atlanta, china, thailand, and where ever else you guys are. ill just be here in togo though.

love you all,

elder magré

Pudding~!!!!!!!

family, friends! 

elder teaupa and i have a great idea. if you wish to send a package... please send otter pops!!! and pudding!  the mission address is cadjèhoun lot  1158 bloc f 01Bp 3323 Cotonou, Bénin. make sure to send it to elder magré. thanks!!

you may think im kidding... but seriously, otter pops are fantastic.

another great week here in togo! we were able to have two baptisms of paul, and geffroy the two brothers! it was awesome! olivier wanted to push his back because he wanted to invite his family to his. but his is planned two weeks from now.

Weve become good friends with the two guys with Ak47 that guard the bank we get our money from. im glad there on our side. if we ever get in trouble, im going to go see them!

ohh, africa.... words cant describe you!!! everything here in wuiti is going great though. i am exhausted however! our secteur is massive! and its just vast! we live in an area where there is a lot of businesses so we have to travel across all of that just to get to one of our rendez vous.... its not like kodjoviakope which was tiny!!!

we are preparing Emmanuel for his baptism next week! he is awesome. he doesnt ask a whole lot of questions but he has a testimony! 

we are going to be teaching english classes this week.... the only problem is that i dont know how to teach english.... we are hoping this will help us find new investigators and help strenghten the inactives in the area!!!!

anyways! hope you guys have a great week!!! DONT FORGET THE OTTER POPS!!!!!! and pudding.

love you guys!

elder magré

family! friends!!

three days till skype!!! haha!!

this week was awesome!! we had so many lessons, and we have a ton of investigators who are progressing!! i dont even know where to start!

on thursday we had to wake up at four in the morning to be at the stake center to get ready for our service project. the service project was to go and help clean up and just help out at an orphanage!!!! yes an orphanage! it was awesome! probably one of the coolest things ive ever done! seriously!

i helped clean up the library, and man, i have never breathed in so much dust and dirt!!!!! 

the orphanage itself though was pretty good. all of the children had clean clothes, and schooling paid for, even up to universities! they also had beds with malaria nets, and medicine... its sad, but people here in togo live in worst conditions...

afterwards we sang hims and played soccer with the children. it was sweet!

this week we fixed four baptism dates. but i want to talk about two of those investigators.

the first is olivier. olivier one day showed up to church all by himself. we have been working with him and he has really been liking the lessons!!! we fixed a baptism date for the third of january. he said he wants us to finish all of the lessons before he is baptized though. we were like "well, yeah!"

the next is sr. emmanuel. she is a refugee from the cote divoire. she is hiding from the government because she fought against the current government. she worked with the other missionaries, but didnt like them. then elder teaupa and i show up. she said, she is actually learning from us, and loves the way we teach her!!!

its been a great week! im super excited to speak to you guys in ewe on thursday and show off my sweet tan! haha... seriously, its awesome! elder teaupa still beats me though!

african love you guys!

elder magré

Alex is still very happy

Alex is transfered

family, and friends!

the assistants called me on saturday..... elder kognani is staying in kodjoviakope and im being transfered to tokoin, togo!!! i will also be training a new missionary from tonga!!! haha! crazy! elder kognani had started to pack his things because he thought he was leaving! but nope! instead im packing my things and getting ready for my new secteur! haha! im freaking out! im training a new missionary in a new secteur teaching him french!!! haha!!! what? its ok, i know i can do it. the first thing im doing is finding the ward mission leader!!!

anyways, im leaving kodjoviakopé tomorrow morning and taking a 15-20 miçnute drive to my new area.

elder potter left togo this morning. he left me his wash board, some study material, his malaria net, his food, and his lamp! however, his companion elder gnamnien was crying when he left. elder potter left him all of his ties, his watch and his camera with a memory card because elder gnamnien didn t have one... elder potter was a fantastic missionary. yesterday the highcouncil men incharge of the group here started to cry because elder potter was leaving. i almost cried! haha, key work.. almost...

when i first arrived here in kodjoviakopé my goal was to help my the group here, become a branch... next sunday, the group of kodjoviakopé will become a branch... i accompished my goal. although i wont be here to see it, i did want i wanted to do... i feel like i really didnt accomplish to much here, because i only have one convert here, and i was only here for three months....

im really going to miss kodjoviakopé.

but im excited to work hard in tokoin!!! haha with my tongan companion!!! we are going to get out there and learn the secteur together! im excited!

im really sad to leave expédit!!! he was progressing so well! im really going to miss him! i told elder kognani that he needs to baptize him! im also going to miss nicolas, and gentil and daniel three of my investigators who were going to be baptized!!!

man, transefers are horrible! especially when you havent been here for so long and when you are finally starting to help people!!

anyways, i love you all! next email will be from tokoin togo!!!! please pray so that i wont get lost in my secteur and that ill be a good trainer!!!

i love you guys!

acpuelo! and acou drou vi vi loo!

elder magré

I am going to become a trainer

family and friends! afon ya dea?

hows it going?

haha, its december, and yet im walking around in short sleeve shirts, and sweating like a grease monkey! it is so hot, and its getting hotter!

so the title explains the excitment of my week!!! thursdays the assistants came and slept at our apartment. they told me that after zone conference on friday i was to stay after to have a meeting for all of the people who will be training new missionaries this next transfer! what!? im training!!! i just finished my training! so, on friday we had our zone conference. president morin talked about obedience and why we need to be obedient, as always... anyways, after zone conference i went and had a meeting for all of the people who are going to be training. im one of the first missionaries to be doing that!!! its pretty freaky thinking about it... i just finfished my training, and now im going to be responsible for training a new missionary like me!

we have been working with expedit who is still awesome! we have also been working with a family, well a sister and a brother. the little boy is ten years old and is seriously the smartest kid ever! he asks us really good questions! he came to church and said he wants to be baptized because he knows this is really gods church! holy smokes! he is awesome!!!! so hopefully we can set a date for him soon!

well, its been a crazy week, elder potter is going home soon! next monday they are taking him to benin, where he will go to a voodoo temple, and see benin... poor guy has spent his entire mission here in togo!!! he says he served in the togo lomé mission!

people in benin are crazy with voodoo! that is the birthplace of voodoo!

haha, oh man...africa...

well i hope you are all having a good holiday season... maybe sipping hot chocolates, watching a christmas movie, and putting up christmas decorations! its hard to get into the christmas spirit when its hot....and humid... hahah. seriously, it just feels like another day.

anyways i love you all... and i guess i miss you guys... and stuff...

aye zandé, acpé caca caca, acbeulo

Elder magé