JOYEUSE DECEMBRE

Bonjour Everyone!!

This was a pretty tiring week. We walked a ton! But it was fun because I learned a whole lot about my companion as we walked everywhere. He is a really awesome guy I have really learned a lot from him. Fun highlights of the week: 1) I killed the mouse that was eating all our food. 2) I went on my first split. So a split for those who don’t know is when I go out to sector with a different companion. I went with our district leader Elder Tweneboah who is from Ghana. It was so fun to mix things up and learn from somebody new, and especially from someone who is a great teacher like Elder Tweneboah. 3) We got to do a service project today as a zone. So we went with all 14 of us to a members house and we cleared out her yard. She is a farmer and she has a field to grow her corn, but there were all sorts of trees and bushes and weeds covering her field. So using shovels, machetes and rakes we cleared it out. We were out there for a long time but it was really fun using a machete. The weeds we were trying to clear out were all taller than us and did not like us very much. A lot of them were taller than we were and had these vines with huge thorns and spikes on them. Our hands and arms are so cut up today but it was such a fun project. It seemed like a moment from a cheesy missionary movie, but the older mother started singing “Called to Serve” and all of us joined in as we were hacking away the weeds, it was pretty great, I think we sang it 3 or 4 times in a row because that one of the only ones we have memorized in French.

Another awesome thing happened this week too. My companion and I were having a rough time filling our day with amis to teach, so we went through our area book and called a lot of ancienne amis or investigators who stopped taking the lessons for one reason or another. We went through the different pages and called a few but none of the numbers worked except one. Frere Alexy. We went and visited him that day and it was such an awesome visit. He had left yaounde for a while which is why he stopped the lessons, and when he came back and didn’t know how to contact the missionaries. So he had been living his life but he was sad. He had prayed for guidance and then soon after he got our call. He was so grateful and he is so ready to learn more and keep progressing.

So the joke here on the mission is that the tower of babel was here in Cameroon, because there are sooooo many different languages. Most people speak French, but it is there 3rd or 4th language. They all speak different tribal languages or pattois. It is pretty intresting to hear them talk to eachother. I am also in the process of learning one of the pattois for congo which is lingala. My companion is teaching me and it is pretty fun.

Well that is all this week! I hope you guys are having a great December! Appreciate the colder weather.

Je vous aime beaucoup!

Elder Scoffield

Photo:

Picture of all of us after the service project. the 2 new elders to our zone are Elder Lubanzila, the African in the chelsea jersey (not a new missionary but new to our zone) and Elder Dorson, the American in orange behind me (new to mission and zone)