I received a message today that the mission President in Abidjan thinks very highly of our Elder Lewis; what a wonderful thing to be told about your son!
Here are some of his thoughts this week...we are looking forward to the Christmas phone call!
"Hey Familly
This week has been pretty great and also very sad. Well the sad part is that there are a lot of people dying in côte d’ivoire, and it is just a wreck over there.
I am very blessed to be here especially when you get to teach a family or a big group of very old people and you can feel the spirit so so strong there have been times where I feel likes its not even me speaking its just so hard to explain how that feeling is but I know that even outside in the blasting hot heat in the dirtiest places that you could ever imagine that place feels like a temple during and after the lesson and you can just see into the people and you know that holy spirit has hit them like a freight train; there was actually this one time there is a man that we are teaching and he had just lost his wife to death and he had actually just lost one of his legs before her death and he is just suffering with all of his emotions, he has shared with us all of his feelings and its amazing to see how much he loved his wife and you can tell how much he is suffering. And we taught him a lot of things, there is one time where his dad(who sits down and just listens to all of the lessons and is around 76years or older) while his son was feeling the spirit he told us that we are the medicine for those who are sick(a parable) and then he told us thank you and it was very sincere, im grateful to be able to be the person here that the people turn to in times of need and joy.
Wow this week has passed by really fast and its crazy to think that it will be Christmas really soon!! Well the missionaries here will be spending Christmas with the senior missionaries and we will be having a fireside on Sunday and then a party type thing on Monday! But the exciting part is that we will be having tons and tons of people inviting us over for meals, and we already get a lot anyways so we will be able to get nice and chubby! So we played football this morning for p-day and it was so awesome since all the missionaries here are American it was great, football is the best! So my companion elder cruz is so funny he always tells all the other missionaries that he can do whatever he wants because he has me at his back, its hilarious."
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