....which I will later enumerate

November 20 2017

Well, I don't have much time to write today, I'll try to sum up. Fr Archange has a date fixed for his baptism but he has a hard time coming to Church, other than that he is doing great. We had a multi stake conference for all of the area of south-east africa and it was filled with spiritual messages which I will later enumerate. We have a family home evening tonight (first one in Brazzaville!) and we will have zone conference this week. I did not know Joseph got his mission call (or I forgot) but that is awesome! Church meetings follow exactly the same format (before the sacrement was at the end but they changed that a while ago).

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Elder Russell

This week I budgeted really bad (my companion too)

November 13 2017

Yeah, you definitely learn a lot when you trust in the Lord, especially on a mission! Fr Archange is now firm in his desicion to be baptized, which is awesome. Unfortunately he was sick so I think that is why we didn't see him at church. One new investigator, Fr Stavel, is going on a trip so we left him the Book of Mormon. We continue to meet new amis, the only problem we have is seeing them all, like I said. Lots of work is better than none. The week was interesting because we had lots of meetings and had to go to the mission office so that took a chunk out of our proselyting hours. 

This week I budgeted really bad (my companion too) so we challenged each other to do better. Seeing the new missionaries adapt does remind me of training. I was fortunate because Elder Izere already spoke English pretty well, lots of these new American missionaries (most of whom don't know French) are with companions that only speak French. Luckily I can interpret when cultural differences and language barriers pop up. Fr Max and Sr Josia were baptized this Sunday! I'll send pictures (I brought my SD Card and Elder Kisimba has an adapter). So many things will have changed when I'll be home! So many people are getting married. Elder Kisimba is also encouraging me to work out more, so that is good too. In fact, Elder Kisimba is awesome, If we leave each other this transfer I'll miss him. C'est la vie.

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Elder Kisimba is a hard worker and also a jokester

November 6 2017

Yep, things are busy here. Not all of the 20 amis are progressing but a good amount are. Fr Archange is awesome. He just needs to recognize that a confirmation that the Book of Mormon is true means that the Church is the Church of God. The recent converts are just going at it too. The Young Single Men here are so excited and motivated to share the Gospel. SR Shekina is starting to progress too, I think it's because she started working on "My Personal Progress" We'll have Zone Conference the 23rd so that should be interesting. As for my companion, he's great! Elder Kisimba is a hard worker and also a jokester. The new missionaries are having an interesting time adapting to a new language and culture, it is especially hard for some of them because their companion doesn't know English. ça va aller.

I remember reading about the seagull miracle in the history of the church someone had left at Yaounde, it was a good book, and an amazing miracle.

I didnt take any pictures this week, sorry!

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Elder Russell

SO MUCH TO DO

October 30 2017

So, to start off, we got 20 new amis thanks to the Stake Conference. SO MUCH TO DO. Fr Ebibas, SR Phaelle and Sr Princilla were confirmed this week and SR Fegie and Fr Enock were baptized. But yeah, things are going well. I'm glad Aaron has work again, that is a good thing. I'm also glad that we are all still learning many things that will help us all (I know I am) I keep finding things on how to become more like Jesus and also about studying the scriptures. We have an ami named Fr Archange who is pretty much already ready he just needs to realize that if he knows the book of Mormon is true then that means it is all true. Once he understands that he will be totally ready. We have several amis who seem like they are not really interested and a couple who seem on the fence. I guess as we progress we will know. Aside from that the week was just like any other.

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Elder Russell

Fr Ebibis,Sr Phaelle, Sr Princilla

Sr Fegie, Fr Enock

Brother Jacques Van-something....(he's not French by the way, despite the name)

October 23 2017

Cool! what a fun little week. For us this week was okay. We had interesting time trying to juggle rendez-vous in the morning and studying at night. We just have to adapt. Our amis are progressing well. We contacted Fr Gabriel again. His phone finally works. Fr Van had some troubles with the Book of Mormon because he didn't understand how it was laid out, but we read with him and he is starting to understand. 

We had stake conference this week  which was good. Brother Jacques Van-something (I forgot my notes) spoke (he's not French by the way, despite the name) and it was cool. He talked about how Satan lies to us. O.N.E.

O-Only do it once (It's never only once)

N-Nobody will know (you will know, Heavenly Father will know, Jesus Christ will know, The Holy Ghost will know)

E-Everyone is doing it (no)

So yeah. That was great. I forgot my camera AGAIN. I reallyl need to bring that to the cyber café. Sr Fegie wil be baptized this week. That's all I have for now.

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Elder Russell

(small mountain)...forty minutes to get to the top, give or take ten

October 16 2017

Yep, this week was good. Fr Ebibas, SR Phaelle and Sr Princillia were baptized! (I left my camera at the apartement, sorry.) The mountain (small mountain) is in our sector and it takes about forty minutes to get to the top, give or take ten minutes. My legs are getting so much excersize. With the transfers almost everyone is training. Some sectors are empty due to a lack of missionaries. Elder ZoBell will be by himself with a missionary from Benin. Elder Muyala is training and Elder Robin is going to Pointe Noire in a new sector. Literally all the missionaries in Cameroon are training. Only the missionairies in Gabon, Elder Robin, Elder Bilolo, the zone leaders in Pointe Noire and some sister missionaries aren't training. Kind of crazy. We haven't be able to see fr Hervald yet. Like you said, kind of hard to see people.

So, that was our week! Elder Robin will be gone by Thursday and we will recieve elder Cottom from Utah, I think. Next transfer we are getting a missionary from England!

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up the mountain almost everyday

October 9 2017

Well, this week was slower in comparison. School has started up again and that makes it very, very hard to see people, as most study in the afternoon and we are the busiest in the morning with study. We'll see what we can do. But conference was awesome. What I got from it the most is that I need to make my study of the Book of Mormon more sincere. We got to see Fr Hervald again and we gave him the Book of Mormon and I promised him that if he studied in addition to studying his school material he would get good grades. Fr Ebibas, SR Phaelle and Sr Princillia will be baptized this week because it was this weekend that we watched conference. Yeah, it was a slow week. We did go up the mountain almost everyday because we had stuff to do there. It was crazy and my legs hurt, but it was worth it.

So that is pretty much it! Next week tons of people are going home and we are receiving tons of new missionaries.

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Elder Russell