Thursday, July 5, 2018

Week 1

Taking three long flights was a long start to a long week. Each day is a long grind of ten or more hours of french and a few hours of gospel study and time to eat. It is a little brutal but I am sure it'll be worth it when we get to Benin.

I room with Elder Nsamumpya (Uganda), Elder Daniel (Nigeria), and Elder Sorensen (Texas). It is extremely humbling to hear the lifestyles that the members here have. It amazes me how much joy they can have; everywhere I go we all play games with each other, have elaborate handshakes, or make jokes- they always have a smile on their face.

We were not able to celebrate the 4th of July here but for our half hour time for sports we all played football using a half deflated soccer ball and that turned out to be a lot of fun. Also, every African here seems to be terrible at basketball.

The food is always a mystery even at the mtc; I found a full uncooked fish in my "mystery meat" (kinda pictured?) looking forward to cooking for myself when I am there. Very little time to talk but I hope you are all doing well.