Tired, Hungry, and chilling at the ocean at 5:00 A.M.🤙🏼

This week blew by so quick that I can’t really remember all of what happened. Since I can’t remember what happened each day this week's email is going to be different and just have random events that may or may not be in order.

Elder Wood and I started to teach a man named Francisco and his friends Angele and Roza (could be Rosa). They’re all immigrants from Angola and they currently don’t have jobs or places to live. We’re teaching them about the gospel and the Book of Mormon and trying to help them find resources to start learning English so they can find jobs. Francisco was a pastor back in his home country and it’s amazing to see his faith and belief. At our second lesson with him he told us that he’d already read until half way through Alma, despite us not even extending the invitation to read the Book of Mormon yet, and that he believes it to be true. 

Two of our Friends, Sylvain and Clarisse, are on date to be baptized this next Saturday. They’re very faithful and it’s going to be amazing to participate in helping them to be baptized.

We had zone council which was a good spiritual experience. We got new Tiwi’s which are a little quieter so now it’s not just blaring NO DRIVER VIOLATION!!! PLEASE LOG IN!!! Elder Wood and I got Reese’s as a reward for being one of four cars in the entire zone with a clean car.

We had Chick-Fil-A with the district which was fun.

We went on exchanges so Elder Taylor and I were together in the Portland, Maine English area for the day. I don’t know Portland well and neither does Elder Taylor but since I technically had more experience, I was leading us out, so we ended up doing our best to slap some activities together. The only reason it was hard was because the English area here in Portland just barely opened meaning they have no friends or contacts to set up lessons with. Also, because we’re both Greenies one of us needed to drive so we got permission and I drove again. It was a ton of fun and this time I got 0 check your speeds. We went back at 9:00 to our apartment but Elder Wiltbank was joking around with us saying we could be in and safe at 9:30 so Elder Taylor and I dropped off a Book of Mormon in one of those free library boxes, gave a guy a pamphlet, and got drinks at a gas station and I taught the cashier the first principle in our lessons which is that God is our Heavenly Father who loves us. 

The four of us Elders woke up at 5…something…I don’t remember I just woke up and got moving. But anyway, we ended up at the beach by the Headlight Lighthouse (which, fun fact, is the oldest lighthouse in the country) and watched the sunrise. It was awesome. We then went and helped a member rake up the leaves in his yard and that took 2+ hours but was a ton of fun. As a thank you he bought us some sub sandwiches. I ate the whole thing even though it had lettuce and tomatoes on it. It was really good but made my stomach really upset. I think I might be intolerant to tomatoes the same way as I’m intolerant to eggs. I think that’s also why I was having stomach aches when I was eating California Burrito in Nashua with Elder Dewey, it had tomatoes in it as well.

Yesterday Elder Wood and I got a video call from Paul and he said, “Allô my brothers, I have something I need to tell you. I’m really sorry, but that bed you guys helped me build, it’s, it’s too big.” The frame was a queen size but his mattress was a full size. “My friend has queen bed, so I gave the, the metal frame to my friend.” Then he turns the camera around to a new bed frame in the corner of his room.”My friend got me new bed frame that fits. Brothers I need your help, I don’t know how to make bed, can you please help me?” Elder Wood and I were just grinning because we love Paul and his English is so much fun to listen to because he puts all his effort into each word. I don’t remember if I said this or not but we’re teaching Paul English so he does his best to use English when talking with us to help him learn better.

That about sums up my week. It was a ton of fun and pretty busy. I love the people I'm teaching here. They're all so kind and patient even though I speak terrible French. I love you all for your continued support. I'll talk to you all next week but until then have a good one!!!