CAMEROON MISSION LIFE

Bonjour Everyone!!

This week went by so fast! It is crazy once you get in a routine how fast it goes. Our mission is a bit different and our day starts at 530 and ends at 930. The whole day is filled with studying, eating, preparing to teach, teaching, eating, praying, and sleeping. I am enjoying it here a lot. I got to find out this week why they call it a rain forest. We had some crazy storms this week that pretty much destroyed the dirt roads in the neighborhoods, so we were trucking through a lot of mud while going about the sector it was crazy. It will also mist at random times during the day, but then switch to super sunny and hot again. Its weird but I’m getting used to it and I really enjoy it.

There are a lot of investigators here so we spend most of our day teaching them, the language has been a bit difficult but it has been coming along. I can teach bigger parts of the lesson now and answer more questions. Its hilarious how different my french is from when I am in the middle of a lesson versus in the middle of the street talking to someone. My understanding goes from 80 percent to 40 percent, I know that I have a lot of help and blessings during the lessons. The language is something that I pray to get better at every day and it has been progressing. I found if you focus on your investigators and you are doing your best to be obedient that is when it’s the easiest to understand. You also need to just open your mouth sometimes. It was fast Sunday and I felt that I needed to speak and share my testimony in church, but I was trying to plan out the french in my head. I received the thought to stop worrying and to just go up there and it would work out and that is what I did. I walked up there and started talking about things that I hadnt planned on talking about, the french wasn’t perfect, but it didn’t need to be for the branch to feel the spirit of what I was talking about. So I learned to open my mouth even when I have no clue what Im going to say and to do my best to be worthy of the help with the language. Its been a whole month now that I have been a missionary and I have learned something each and every day it has been incredible.

Love you all!

Elder Scoffield