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Thursday, April 23, was definitely another WA WA (West Africa Wins Again) day in Cotonou. A lot of work has been going on at the old chapel to get it back into shape. In Africa, it seems that when you leave a building, it is expected that it be in top condition. The Church tries… Continue reading Landscaping

Sunday was full of visits, emailing, church and Soeur Black’s personal favorite, talking with the kids and grandkids. Monday was a busy day with taking the Elders food shopping, taking care of details at the chapel and otherwise getting ready for zone conferences and to go to Togo. On Tuesday morning we left early as… Continue reading A Stressful Zone Conference

Happy Easter everyone. We promised some photos of the new chapel this week. It has been pretty much a construction site for the last couple of weeks but now a few things are starting to get finished up so we are excited as are all the members. President Lokossou is like a kid at Christmas… Continue reading New Chapel Construction

When we left Blanding for a mission here in Africa, we thought we had a vague idea of what we might be doing to serve the Lord, but in reality we did not have the slightest idea. As our mission has progressed we find ourselves doing more things with finances, real estate and administration for… Continue reading Obama Beach; Visa Troubles

Last Saturday the Relief Societies of all three branches had a combined Birthday party celebrating 167 years of Relief Society. Each president talked and they did a little skit about Relief Society. After the skit they did an activity where they chose certain people to choose a slip of paper out of a bowl and… Continue reading A Visit to Ouida and Moving to the New Chapel

A couple of weeks ago, Soeur Black talked about our teaching a lesson on faith. The past few weeks we have had a real live lesson. Alma’s discourse on Faith tells us that as you have faith and see it rewarded it leads to more faith. Right now our faith is pretty strong. I may… Continue reading A Lesson on Faith

If you haven’t been fruit shopping at Tokpa market in Africa with Soeur Nadia then you haven’t really lived. On Wednesday, with President and Sister Ayekoue coming, a zone conference here on Thursday and another in Togo on Friday, Soeur Black finally agreed to get some help and we prevailed upon Nadia to come and… Continue reading Soeur Nadia and Zone Conferences

We promised the finish of our “Road to Lome” series this week. After the visit of President and Sister Ayekoue and the zone conferences there is much more to write about, but first things first. After our conference in Cotonou on Thursday, it was back on the “Road to Lome” on Friday. There are many… Continue reading The Road to Lome (Part II)

Life in Africa continues to be an adventure. Each day when we wake up we think that it will be just another day, but surprisingly enough there is something interesting around every corner. By now we should be accustomed to seeing anything and everything on heads, anything and everything on motos and anything and everything… Continue reading The Road to Lome (Part I)

This week we taught Helene Briga about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We talked about faith being the first principle of the gospel. Faith in our Savior Jesus Christ is a very personal matter as we believe and trust in Him, even though we have not seen Him. We need to nurture this faith as… Continue reading Faith