Carson's Mission July 2022-July 2024 Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan West Mission

Nothing happened this week. This will be short, for my emails, itll probably still be decent length I had an exchange, we were able to do service which was really awesome, I stirred some girls peanuts for like 45 minutes cause she was gonna make peanut sauce. I have pictures ill attach. We got to play with kids . Some kids also wanted me to write my name and elder jardines name on their hands and arms cause they liked me so much, idk if thats against rules or anything but hey they asked me im just signing their arms. Shoutout to Elder Nuttall because he ruined that area because he kept showing little kids magic tricks and now every kid runs up to me with a rock or pebble demanding that i do magic. Luckily i picked up a couple little tricks, enough to get myself by without severe disappointment We got Maman Ake on baptism date! I'm super excited for her she's the best and she's ready. She loves learning and she's gonna be an amazing member. She's on for November 12th...

  What's up everyone,  Week 15 on the mission. It's going well! We had a lot happen this week so i'll get into it. Ok, first this tuesday prince carter from the last email took us to lunch again, that was awesome, he kept telling us to teach people all around us so props to him he's a solid missionary.  Second one day marcellin asked me if i was feeling homesick at all and i said i mean a little but it's not bad i just miss america haha. Then he told me to sit down so i did. he said and i quote him: Close your eyes me: OK him: Imagine you're in the United States, USA and there's a Beautiful Woman in front of you. me: uhhh ok him: Eating a burrito Everyone started laughing haha then he told me to open my eyes and i did and he asked me if it worked, i said of course haha One important thing to go along with the last story, is simply, he's almost graduated college and he majors in psychology. and that is how he told me to fix it haha Sad news, someone ate M...

  So, This week was great, lots happened. Lets get into it First it was our friend amandines birthday this week, that's the one that hates me because im elder cavé's replacement. Miller made her cake for her birthday, and he told me that she expected something from me. Girl i dont have anything for you, you dont even talk to me. So i looked around the house anyways cause i decided to try and be christlike, and i found colored pencils that I dont use because they suck, and my companion didnt like them either, dunno if she liked that but hey at least i tried.  This week I started a new unhealthy habit of every time someone tries to give me a fistbump i put my two fingers under their fist and say "Escargot!" which if you didnt know is "Snail" in french. yeah to be honest it's not that funny and most the people just look confused but occasionally people really think its funny so maybe itll keep going idk.  We met with the legendary "Prince Carter" ...

  This Email is going to be shorter cause I don't remember a lot that happened So we have a goal to teach 7 new people a week and this week I wanted to make sure that we for sure hit it. We were studying how we can do that and we had some appointments with new people set, the first one was with a girl named ella who moved from koumassi. She was cool and as we started teaching her. two of her friends came and said they wanted to hear too, so we got her and two other girls all involved and started the day off with 3 new people, nice! The same day right after that we tried to meet with a guy named Prince Carter. He's a rapper, i'll leave it at that. We went to his house to teach him and just like the last 5 times we tried, he wasn't there, however, his mom was, and she wanted to hear from us. She brought us in and she seemed really interested, her son joined, not prince carter, and we had a really good lesson going! They kept asking questions and seemed interested, then af...

Ok i dont know where to start and i need to be quick so im sorry.  Um, i had two exchanges this week, that was cool, first was with elder Ngalamulume who is a french speaker, that was really cool because we've really been never close but that day i was able to speak to him in french the entire day, now obviously not very good french but good enough french that he could understand my broken french and bare with me. It was really awesome and for the first time since getting here i can genuinely start to see my progression.  Next was my Exchange with Elder Nuttal, from UT! Gotta represent, he's a zone leader too and a really good example. I was really excited for this exchange because he's super awesome and really fun so i was ready to learn a lot. In that day we had tons of spiritual experiences but theres a few i want to focus on 1) Contacting 2) Try, try, try 3) Baptism 1) after a really slow start to a morning, (ill explain why in #2) we were out of straws, we decided to g...