Week 13

He was out and about with members when he called. Elder Christensen was with him and we got to talk to him a little bit too! It is no coincidence that they got put in the same district I’m so grateful they get to hang out every once in a while it’s so healthy for both of them! 

Ice cream! 🎉

Fruit he can eat without bleaching first!

Caleb, Elder Christensen, Elder Nsilulu, Elder Doho

Monday night Family home evening. 

Snake, at least it’s dead! 

Cambri was awesome and made Caleb this little decoration and she has each holiday on a different piece of material for him to hang up. Just something to celebrate a little. Makes me happy he put it out❤️! 

Zone conference. This is where he stayed overnight. 

Zone conference it was all the West missionaries and didn’t include those in Senegal or Gambia.

Halloween traveling back to N’Douci.

We sent a picture of our Cote d’Iviore flag 🇨🇮 pumpkins to Caleb! Happy Halloween buddy! ❤️

Bus ride back to N’douci. 

This was the people’s dog that he was visiting and he just sat underneath him, so cute. 

He got our package we sent with the mission presidents over the north mission! I am so beyond grateful for their kindness taking it for us.❤️ It was so nice to send him some extra love! I also got to send my little note I had made for him before he left but I forgot to put in his pocket when he left, now he has it, “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

A soccer game. 

Egg sandwich. 

His email from this week:

Bonjour!

This week went pretty well and as usual flew by. Last P-Day Elder Christensen and Elder Nsilulu came to N'Douci to hang out. We went to a member's house and had some food. Then we went to the nice supermarket for Elder Christensen because he doesn't have something like that in N'Zianouan. We also got some ice cream which was really good. 

That night we had family home evening with the members. My companion told me that I was going to lead about 2 seconds before we started. I thought it was going to be really hard and short because I didn't have much to talk about. Yeah both of those were wrong. I barely said anything and we went for a long time. The people here love to talk which made my job easy lol. 

Tuesday we had district council at our apartment. The Elders from Tiassalé came for it. After the district council the white guys gave each other haircuts. It was just Elder Christensen and Elder Reed but it was fun. After my companion and I had an exchange with Elder Christensen and Elder Nsilulu. I went with Elder Nsilulu. We taught two people and it went really well. It was cool seeing how each missionary teaches differently, but no way is better than the other. We also found out Tuesday that we had Zone Conference in two days and that we were leaving the next day.

So Wednesday we left for Abidjan. We had a problem getting a taxi and stuff, but it all worked out. Once in Abidjan we met up with the Elders from Tiasselé and found the apartment we were staying at that night. We got dinner and hung out with the other Elders. 

The next day was zone conference. It wasn't a normal zone conference. It was a mini zone conference that went for only two hours, but the whole mission was there except for the Elders in Senegal. It still was really good. We learned the importance of honesty and integrity. As usual it was fun seeing all of my MT's and other missionaries that I know. 

Once it finished we headed to the bus station and waited for our bus. We bought our tickets and then got lunch while we waited. One of the workers briefly talked to us and asked where we were going. That turned out to be a miracle because we got told our bus was loading people so we went over there. The guy at the bus said it wasn't for us so we went back. That worker saw that, and then did something. He then told us it was actually for us and that there were exactly four seats left for us Elders. It was awesome. 

The rest of the week was pretty smooth. We still spend a lot of time teaching which is nice. We still haven't done any contacting because we don't have enough time to teach the people that would accept the lessons. Sunday the Senior Couple from our mission came up to N'Douci for sacrament meeting. It was fun having them there. They also gave me a package that somehow my mom got to the mission office. It wasn't anything crazy but had some stuff that I needed which was awesome. 

The French is still coming which I'm grateful for, but I'm just excited for the day when I can understand basically everything. Right now I understand a lot of the words they are saying, but don't know what it'll mean in the context. It'll come though. 

Spiritual Thought:

This week I was reading 3 Nephi 18 and verse 20 stuck out to me:

And whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, which is right, believing that ye shall receive, behold it shall be given unto you.

The whole chapter was really good but I specifically saw this scripture in action this week. We had a hard time finding this one person's house because there is no such thing as addresses here. It's all just dropped pins in the Preach my gospel app. This person didn't have a dropped pin and we had already tried a couple times to find them. We tried one more time to find them and as we were walking we just saw them walking down the street. Later we found out both me and my companion both said a prayer in our head and then seconds later we found them. Prayer works. Not always like that, but it works. As you have faith and trust in the Lord, your prayers will be answered. 

Thanks for your emails and prayers! Love you guys and I hope you have a great week!

Elder Robinson