Another week

Just say Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

,there is a tabacco company here called  "just say yes" so, when i teach the word of wisdom I tell them to "Just say no". It takes them a tew seconds to understand the joke, but they get it eventually.

It was so great to talk to you yesterday Mother and Father! sounds like everything is going well.

so, the week went well. I love my new companion he is the motivation i need. seriously. He is ready to work hard and i love it. He's a great guy.

this week we fixed a lot of baptismal dates, and have planned to fix a ton more. we've also found a two new families, and one of them came to church this week! so, that is always a great sign. 

Thursday morning i went and did a split with elder miller. He came to show me where some of the members live in my area. No wonder i dont know where any of them live... they live far. wow. but, its not that bad.  I got to meet a new inactive family here in our area. They love the church, the wife just has some problems with the former primary president... and former branch president... and a lot of the leaders. but now that we are a ward, and they have all been realesed, she says that she will come. so, we will be working with her and her husband a lot. 

My companion had his birthday last week, we went out and ate some rabbit! it was really good, then we had a birthday cake.

so, we went and taught one of my converts floride. we asked her if she had started to read the book of mormon. she said no... but as we looked at the pages we saw that she had marked a lot of verses. well turns out, she read a lot of the book of mormon, more, than we had left her to read! and she understood everything!

so, everything is going well here!

love you all!

Elder Magré

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My week without a companion

my week without a companion... it was so, refreshing!           now I wasnt left a lone during this last week, but it was transfer week. Elder Kadima left tuesday, and my companion Elder Mukendi wasnt coming till saturday afternooon. so, i was stuck with two of my favorite people. Elder Arek and Elder Miller, my good apartment mates. It was actually a lot of fun. I worked with them in the mornings, and then i had a Fr. Joseph, a member who is preparing to serve a mission come work with me in the afternoon. It was a lot of fun. Fr. Joseph is Elder millers convert. (Elder miller has served here in menontin for almost 14 months now. he started his mission here, then was transfered, then came back. so hes a lucky guy. Anyways, during one of morning splits we found this new restaurant opening in my area, so we wanted to go see it. only to realize that there is a full on arcade built in! so that was fun, but we just played some billiards and ate some pretty fantastic chawarmas. We actually just had a zone activity there. Ive became pretty good at playing billiards. But, elder Mukendi finally came on saturday. I was happy to have my companion, but i was sad to finally have a companion again... I was really enjoying this tripanionship that we had for a couple of days. Elder Mukendi my new companion is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Just my last two companions. I actually really like him. HE isnt like most congolese people who are loud, but he keeps to himself for the most part.  I actually knew him back when I was in togo. We had done a few splits with each other back when i was in the togo office. Dieu-donné got confirmed yesterday. that was fantastic, and our branch became a ward yesterday. They called the new bishop. so, its been a pretty great week. I love you all so much, and hope you have a fantastic week! Love you, Elder magré

Voodoo!!!

my run in with voodoo. its actually pretty cool

 

 

 

 

and more revenants pictures

they actually came twice to haunt people. the second time though they came with friends

Audrey, you are going to love this email just  because i watched some revenants chase after a guy. 

Benin is known for voodoo. and saturday at our baptism (before it started) we heard a bunch of drums playing, and we look out and see revenants! a revenants is an evil spirit believed to have come back to haunt people and ask people for money (because evil spirits need money). and so we took pictures and watched these evil spirits chase people and watched beninois people run away. its a lot of fun. luckly, i was on a roof, and they were not able to see me. but, they only go after people who provoke them, if you just ignore them, and talk back to them they leave you alone.

so, that was exciting. but yes, we had 2 baptisms again this week. Yannick, and Mama Houndjo both got baptized. My comp Elder Kadima did the baptizing. It was a great service. the spirit was there (that could also be why the revenants didnt bother us at all) 

After the baptisms they got up and bore powerful testimonies. They where both so prepared by the lord! They were both so happy to be baptized and join their families. next step though is the temple.

So, its been a really great week.

We had a mission council with president this last week. He talked about some problems that the mission is facing. President morin talked about how a lot of missionaries have Cell phones... and nice ones too. It was really good.

I went to immigration... That was interesting. here in benin they give out three month visas unlike togo which gives out 1 year visas. so, that was fun. I have to go back tomorrow to pick up my visa. 

so, it was fun. We taught some great lessons, made some new amis. so, im happy.

I love you all,

Elder Magre

this is a picture of a revenants. 

and Armande's baptism from a while ago (from when i had malaria)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenants and Voodoo!!!!

Photos Benin Voodoo and Baptism

Transfer

Transfered to the Nigeria Calabar mission

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Lol, Jamais. Nope im still in the Benin cotonou mission. and thats still cool.... 

So, its been a pretty good week. Today was a lot of fun. We woke up and did everything we had too, then our comp asked if we wanted to go to Tokpa (the huge market here in Cotonou). So, as an apartment we went and had a fun time. The market really is pointless, but its a great place to buy shoes, white shirts, watches, belts, pants... and super nice dirt cheap suits. plus its nice to get out of the apartment and see something else.

so, We had another baptism. It was unexpected but Floride (one of the houndjo daughters) was totally ready. we had nothing else to teach her, and she hasnt missed church once. So, we asked her if she was ready and she said yes. so saturday we had her baptism and a confirmation on sunday. 

We are planning on baptizing her mom the 16th. The struggle is that the mom doesnt speak french, so teaching is harder since we need to bring members to translate... and members start going off on other subjects. example: a simple lesson on the restoration can quickly lead to a lesson about chastity. how? its intresting what a conversation about the apostasy can lead to. haha.

but, everything is going well though. We are still teaching yannick. he is progressing really well. It seems like everywhere we go, we see him. today at the market we saw him on his moto.

so, life is going well. Im happy here. I do miss togo. ITs been two months since ive left, but I do miss Togo. But I do like benin a lot. Its two different missions. How the mission works in togo, is so much different than how it works in benin. its weird. but, I like it, and the work is the same.

I love you all, stay safe!

Avec beaucoup d'amour, 

Elder Magré