Week 11 new companion

 We love this handsome Elder so stinking much! 

Missionary tan! This is what happens when you ride a bike every day, your arms get fried! 

Just a little squishy, but he’s grateful for the ride! It took 3 taxis and a bus ride to get Abidjan for transfers. 

The office Elders were awesome and got him a pizza while in Abidjan! They got one WHOLE pizza for each elder to eat😆! 

He stayed in Yopougon overnight where his old companion Elder Kahn is going to serve now. 

I was able to send a very small package with the mission president from the north mission in Abidjan. They came home for a baby being born I believe and then headed back on the 21st. 

It’s fun watching his travels! 

This was an institute class he attended while in Abidjan. 

A soccer field! 

A cat! 

 

Headed back to N’douci.

Noodles! 

A bat flew in their door! He has a video of his companion smacking at the bat to get it out but he said the video is really big and will take a while to upload, but he said it was pretty funny! 

Yeah it was still alive here! 😳 They got it outside and it flew off! So grateful we chose to get him the rabies shot! 

His new companion Elder Doho. 

He saw this for only like a few seconds it was on when they stopped by someone’s house. 

He said these are actually kinda good! 

His email this week:

Allo!

Today was a crazy but awesome week. Last P-Day ended with my companion packing up because he got transferred. Tuesday morning we got up early and headed to Abidjan. To get to the church we took 3 taxis and a bus. Luckily we get reimbursed for transfer travel expenses. We went to a stake center in Abidjan for the transfers. Elder Kanh got moved to Yopougan. 

My new companion is Elder Doho. The thing was he wasn't at the stake center because he was coming back from the Senegal. If you didn't know, yes, Senegal and the Gambia are in my mission. So me and Elder Mayele who is in my district became a companionship for a bit. We hung out at the Stake Center with the office Elders for a while until they told us where to go. It was nice because I was able to talk with other Elders and have a nice big pizza all to myself. It was so nice. 

They finally told us where we were going and got a taxi for us. We went to a nearby zone leaders apartment and stayed with them. We went out to sector with them for that day, slepted at their apartment, and then went out to sector again with them the next day. It was cool seeing what a sector in Abidjan is like compared to a village. 

Wednesday night my companion flew in, so me and Elder Mayele got in a taxi and headed to the office Elders apartment. The taxi went to the wrong place like 10 minutes away. He got upset and took the rockiest road to the apartment. He had a sedan and it wrecked the bottom of his car. I felt bad but we got there safely. 

There was about 7 other Elders also staying at this apartment for the night. It was nice talking to a bunch of them. I finally met my companion. Oh and I got a hot shower. It was awesome. In the morning we headed to the mission office. Luckily they had a mission driver take us and a couple other Elders to their sectors. If we didn't it would have been expensive, and I had already spent so much on the travel. 

We finally got back Thursday at the middle of the day. The rest of Thursday and then Friday we mostly contacted members or friends. Saturday and Sunday we taught a couple people, and contacted some more members or friends. While we were contacting members, with a member, two different people stopped us at different times and starting asking questions. We handed each of them a brochure and exchanged numbers. It was really cool, but we kind of have too many people we’re teaching. My companion told me before we exchanged not go contact new people because we would have way too many people for the two of us to handle. It's a good problem to have though. 

Other than that it was a really good week. The French is actually coming along quickly which has been awesome. I have been able to answer questions during a lesson, handle phone calls a little, direct the taxis, etc. I know I'm not good and still have a long way to go, but there's progress which is all thanks to the gift of tongues. My companion speaks really good English, but is also an Ivorian. There are two Ivorians in our entire mission, and I got both of them as my trainers. It was and is awesome. 

Spiritual Thought:

Every week at church I give a talk because we are still in a group, not a branch, but I enjoy it. I talked about the Holy Ghost and shared this quote from President Nelson, “In coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, directing, comforting, and constant influence of the Holy Ghost.” 

I'm sure you’ve heard this quote, but I love how straight forward he is in this quote. It's not like it will be hard without the Holy Ghost, it's just straight up not possible. If we want the constant influence of the Holy Ghost, we need to constantly doing this that invite the Holy Ghost. When we do something that does not invite the Holy Ghost, we need to repent immediately. Like President Nelson said in this last General Conference, Christ is coming and we cannot procrastinate the day of our repentance.

Je vous aime et j’espère que vous passes une bonne journée!! À bientôt!

Elder Robinson