We had a wonderful phone visit with Jamin the Wednesday night before Christmas! It was 1:00am his time Thursday morning but it was the only time available on his schedule! He has never gotten the two Christmas packages we sent back in October but he says he doesn't need or miss anything from home (besides family and friends), that all of his needs are being provided. We don't have a secure physical address to send him anything anyway for now, but we did send him some pictures attached to our email this week and he loved those! Here is how he spent his first Christmas in Togo...
"Hey Family!!
This week has really been something of a test and not easy ! but also a huge gift, because I have learned a lot this week. So with all this information with how this mission could be closed because of the war and the things like that, which is normal, we don’t want that to happen to Togo and Benin so we have been fighting to show that this mission can function with a war. And we most definitely showed that this past week! We had 15 baptisms within Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; 5 of them came from my companion and I. It was a huge gift for Christmas...it was great! The 14 missionaries in Togo are working super hard, I love it!
For Christmas day we had 4 different full course meals with different member families on that day it was crazy; all 14 missionaries were together all day just going from house to house, we were all so full we all had eaten so so much on that day! And then on that Sunday we all went over to the senior missionaries house for the Christmas fireside that the first presidency gave, which was really good! And then today we went over to the seniors couples house again for a party which was pretty fun! Ha, we had a water fight in the house and we didn’t start it, they did!"
He sounded great over the phone and still going strong in his email!
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