Putting The "Remer" In Thanks

In talking with so many people I'm obligated to introduce myself at least a million times every single day. The people here usually have a hard time with my last name either saying "Remy" (Like a frenchy way) or "Reemar" (The broken english way) and in explaining how to say it; my go to way is to say it's like the remer in "je vous REMERcie". The verb remercier in french means to thank so in the spirit of Thanksgiving and my last name here are a couple things I'm thankful for (if you don't really care just scroll down for some cool pictures):

I'm thankful for the opportunity I've had to live here for the past year and a half

For the occasion to learn another language

For the people here that I love

For the people back home that I love

For the people who have helped me grow and better understand the world

For the guy that invented air conditioning

That we can talk from the other side of the world so easily

For my crocs

For sliced bread

For the gospel of Jesus Christ

Anyway hope everybody has a great thanksgiving- here are some pictures of my dope nativity set, us baptizing Donatien, and another random kid wearing the legendary Remer hat.

More Shananigans

The sun is starting to get buff as the natives like to say. Broke a hundred everyday with crazy humidity so we got to wring out our shirts of sweat every night when we got back which is oddly satisfying.

I'm convinced the heat is starting to boil my brain because I have started to do everything I possibly can to stay sane and that mostly consists of me messing around with the locals. The first picture is of Jojo wearing my legendary outdoor hat; that I wear everyday because sunscreen is lame but so is skin cancer. Second picture is of me playing cards with some kids during lunch and taking them for all of their money (I gave it back tho- so we're all good). I picked up a hard hat that was on the ground at a construction site so here's me being a construction manager. Last but not least we got locked out of our apartment because the other guys took the keys but my food was up there so we found a sketch ladder and broke into our apartment like professionals.

That's all for this week, hope you guys have a good one.

Lake Day, Now We're 4

This week we got some contacts that live out on the lake. The village of Ganvie was constructed on the lake when local people were afraid of being captured by the dahomey empire and being sold into slavery. With this danger the village of primarily fishermen fled onto the lake and constructed houses on stilts so that they could not be easily captured by their neighboring enemies. We haven't gone out there yet but our bishop is planning on going out there with us and teaching and with any luck we'll go do a little fishing too.

Also this week we got to whoop some kids in foozball or baby foot as they like to call it, might try to get a video of me next week scoring and yelling "goooooooaaaal" in their ears.

Today we got 2 more guys added to our apartment because of the grind me and E. Shuldberg have been putting in the last couple weeks and niether of them really speak french and my guy is new so I get to try and teach people french in 5 weeks haha rip.

But here are some cool pics of what the docks of the on land market look like also a candid picture of me and Elder Shuldberg teaching some university students. Hope you all have a great week.

Pineapple Jack-O-Lanterns

Spent most of the week just laying on the ground battling malaria for round 2 so no exciting pictures or stories. However, here is a pineapple jack-o-lantern that Elder Shuldberg carved for his first holiday away from home in his boredom.