Bonjour! Good morning! Mboté! Nzambé a lingi bino!
This week was filled with good solid lessons! Our friends are progressing nicely! The Lord has made clear His hand in our work! Quel miracle (What a miracle)! We've been able to invite a lot of our new members à assister à nos leçons (to attend our lessons), nottément (including) Frère Dervy, Frère Evan, Sœur Erica et Frère Gérémie)! It's fun to see with each lesson they attend and with each testimony they bear how their conversion is deepening! La foi est vraiement comme une petite sémance (Faith is really like a little ?)! We are teaching a lot of families right now! It's been really fun to have group leçons (lessons). The Spirit is strong there! Le Saint Esprit est fort là! So to put it simply things are going quite well here!
Now for some funny experiences haha.
So we were going to do an exchange. We had to take a 30-45 minute taxi ride to arrive at chez zone leaders. I honestly liked that. Driving through the city at night is fun! More people come out, I feel like, at night. So it was busy, dark, and there was lots of music and dancing. We arrived at a roundabout right in front of the zone leader's apartment when the taxi man hurriedly asked us where to go. In GIGANTIC lettering; boldly surrounded by literally 100 LED lights there was a sign that said, "Laboratoire" right at the beginning of their road. Logically enough, I pointed to the sign and told him, "entrez là! Entrez à Laboratoire!" ("Enter there! Enter Laboratory!") Instantly, a look of sure comprehension was clearly seen on his once confused expression and he told us he knew where we were talking about. Since there was a divider in the road entre nous et cette rue (between us and this street) he took a right going away from the road. I reassured my companion he would "fera demi tour"("make a U-turn") and make his way there. 20 minutes later; after driving through the sandy and garbage-filled dry river beds they call roads here, we arrived in front of an empty, abandoned, and half-destroyed building. Are you confused? Because I sure was haha. "Voici! L'abatoire!" Il nous a dit en nous montrant "le batîment." ("Here! The bat!" He told us by showing us "the building.") Sure enough there was a rusty sign avec l'écriture de "abatoire" (with the writing of " abatoire ").
I hope these 5 emojis help you see this story (and my facial expressions) clearly.
So there are these things s'appellent (called) les articles. Le et la (They) are very important. They help little Elders named Elder Habel to avoid these kinds of situations.
So when I said "Laboratoire" he heard "l'a batoire" which just happened to be very widely known and often used reference. If I had said Le Laboratoire he probably would have seen the sign and been like "Oh je dois aller et les laisser se descendre là!" ("Oh I have to go and let them get down there!") But no. It wasn't like that. Instead, there we were in the middle of nowhere with a confused taxi man. But don't worry we were able to get to the zone leaders. We were just a little late haha!
Then during an exchange Elder Harris needed us to come to chez son ami so we could give an interview. He told me to simply walk out of the church and take a left and just walk towards a commonly known place s'appelle (called) "Canque Chemin."
Simple enough right? How could Elder Habel mess this one up!?
Well, I did. Let me tell you the story, haha.
So moi et Elder Harris had different perspectives and ideas of what simply walking out of the church meant. I thought of the main road in front of the church. He was thinking of the neighborhood road. So there was one difference. Frère Dervy then saved us because I was perfectly content to walk completely straight literally. He led us to "5 Chemin". And then, here is where the second difference comes into play. "5 Chemin." is a lot different than "la balance": somewhere I knew how to get to already. So already off in the wrong direction; saved from going in a worse direction, we realized this after 30 minutes or so of walking. Let's just say I'm thankful we took Frère Dervy because he led us to "La Balance" from "5 Chemin."
So yeah I spent a good amount of extra time in a taxi and walking this week! 
Well, I hope you enjoyed the stories! Je dirais que j'espère que je peux faire l'expérience davantage comme ça mais je mentirais si c'était la vérité lol. (I would say "I hope I can experience more like this" but I would be lying. lol.)
Je vous aime. (I love you.) Nalingi bino et nalingi yo!
Sincèrement (Sincerely), Elder Habel
Nouvelle coiff / New hairstyle
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