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

  This week was mostly awesome!! I've got some stories but sadly this whole Ivory Coast things is pretty normal now the crazy africa stories are going downhill, ill try to bump em up.  After District council the sisters brought food and fed us all, it was awesome!! It was mal doux, they made foufou congolese and it was good with some sauce.  Let's start with exchanges, exchanges are awesome and i had TWO!! EXCHANGE 1) Elder Badoo: This was great, this guy's a ghanian and he's hilarious. He's improved a lot since the last exchange, I hope my french has noticably gotten better too haha i dont think mines improving as visually though. Anyways, It was great, last time we didnt have much rendez-vous(appointments) this time we had a day full of them, It was awesome. And it was motivating too. I could speak to every single person in every rendez-vous without any problems really. It was great. I was confident they could understand me. We bought food, got a taxi, had lessons...

Ok 28 weeks thats a lot of weeks, that's 7 weeks 4 times(shoutout elder rowland, we're pretty much veterans by now) time goes by so so fast but so slow. I feel like i just got here, but also, everything before the mission feels like years ago. It's still summer but somehow i've been here as long as i can remember. Wild. Anyways, my week, lets talk about that! (que the good mythical morning music) So at the beginning of the week we had interviews with president, i love president, we also have transfers in 2 weeks, will i stay will i go, i dont know, probably go but never say never.  The next day we went to the stake center to do baptisimal interviews for a couple kids, but before the elders got there we played soccer with like 20 kids. it was awesome, then the elders show up, you'd think we'd go do the interview, but nope. The kid getting interviewed came and started playing then the other two started. Finally after the tie 1-1 we had penalties and penalties here...

Welcome everyone to this weeks email, love you all so much, i'll start with the good news then we'll get a little into some of the dirty stuff, dont skip to the end that's pretty crappy.  Ok i had an Exchange with elder Bingham it was fun haha, i learned a lot, to be honest i've been here in niangon 3 for a while so that means i do exchanges in the same old area, i'm starting to get a little sick of it. I think i could make it another transfer if necessary but i see myself getting shipped out at the end of this month. But during the exchange I convinced people i lived on the moon, and that i was neighbors with messi. This was a group of kids from the age of 3-18 and there was about 15 of them and they all start flipping out when i said i had a potato garden on the moon. That was epic. Also i met up with Elder Kankondé, i think thats how you spell it. That guys funny haha every time we see each other he says ahhh le blanc!(the white) and i say ahhh le noir!(the black...

Whats up everyone, i can only think of two things that happened this week so im gonna start writing and hope everything comes to my mind. Happy New Years everyone! So, first, it was new years this week so that was a little hectic. Everyone goes to church until 12pm and gets lit then after they go party until dawn, we as missionaries sadly cant stay up till midnight and party but we got up at midnight to watch the fireworks and it was pretty wild. There were so many fireworks, just in every direction, never ending. BUT anyways. We were watching them go off and there were these two churches in front of us sending out a ton of em and we saw a couple of them go off but then we were a little confused because they didnt get out of the building, all the sudden we saw big explosions of light in the tiny church that they were in ahhah. I hope everyone is okay ahah it was so funny though.  We were contacting this week and we met this guy in a corner of our area named Moise Kouame which is Mo...