Black Panther

First things first, go Colts.

This week I focused a lot on just trying to help people out in as many random situations as we possibly could. From sweeping people's houses, carrying water on our heads, we lifted a car out of a ditch with some people that were stuck, and just hitting as many random things as possible.

Also a crazy old french guy rode up to us on a bike and asked who we were going to vote for in 2020, I responded that I was not thinking about it since we were in africa and then he spit on my face and said "Jesus Deux-Mille Vignt!" so I now know who I'm going to vote for when I get back.

As teased in the subject Elder Shuldberg and I got our Black Panther-esque boombas made so feast your eyes upon our wakandian glory.

Hope you guys all have a great week.

Stuff & Stuff

Stuff #1 All our baptisms this week
Stuff #2 Me catching Pew-Pew for the family
Stuff #3 The Boys with a voodoo statue
Sorry for the short email but power keeps cutting and I've written a long one out 5 times already but the african grid isn't cooperating. Hope you guys all have a great week!

2014 Forest Hills Drive

The streets were destroyed by the rain this week but I made Elder Shuldberg power through the mud so that we could hit a ton of lessons. Nothing to much to report this week just in the grind of getting work done.

While we were waiting for a couple of missionaries at their church that was locked we decided to break into their church so we hopped the wall. We decided to take some iconic 2014 forest hills drive album art pictures done of us so if you've been looking for the coolest africa-french-missionary-J Cole related picture to make your wallpaper here ya go.

Hope you guys all have a great week!

Somebody Actually Reads These?

Shout out to Mrs. Shuldberg who started reading these a couple months ago when her son got called to the Benin Cotonou Mission. Little did she know that her son would have to be formed by me. 

This week was pretty good, started off just hanging out with Elder 'Aluesi while we were waiting for our new companions to get here. Seeing the guy I was training was pretty wack, I saw his face months ago when he found out he was coming here when I was in the office so I knew what he looked like already but it was just a headshot that I saw. All 6 foot 5 of him hopped out of a taxi and that was pretty awesome. He's a really nice guy from Texas, into baseball, science, memes, and is just a really chill guy.

It's been really fun showing him everything I've kind of forgotten how weird my life is here but in just showing him all the local food I love and teaching him the language I've really just re-realized how awesome it is here and how surreal it all is when you first get here. 

Forgot to take any pictures this week so here's a live photo of my comp talking to his family.
Hope you all have a great week.

New Adventures

Had a great time this week visiting members who showed their affection and gratitude for Elder Mugongo's going home present as giant african meals. So we ate everything from pat to atteke to inyam pele to kum to manyoke. Greatest trial this week was just walking after eating meal after meal. On Wednesday night three different families fed us and I don't know that I've ever felt that mixture of content and distaste of food before in my life.

We had stake conference this week so all the members in Benin got together. Isaac and some of the other young men from Gbegamey swarmed me and sat by us for all 4 hours and had a blast catching up and just playing games with them.

This week we got our new assignments and I'll be training a new american missionary named Elder Shuldberg who is from Texas.

Hope everybody has a great week!