Jenson, Hadley PT

Wha whaa?! Crazy week out here yet again! Have not gotten malaria yet, so life is still kicking! This week has been so rewarding, so hard, and so exciting. This week God has been dropping people into our hands. If any of you were losing faith about whether your prayers are really being heard, let me be your testament because God DOES. Won't lie—contacting all day is brutal out here, so I've been praying we will be led to the people who are really ready. We have to move on from people pretty fast because there is so much work to do, and there are so many other people who are ready and will accept our message that we need to find them first. Anyway, we were teaching one of our amis, frère Laurant, and this guy just walks up, asks to join, and plops down next to us. The next day, we followed up, and he took three pages of notes on the Book of Mormon and what he learned... it was so precious! We ended up putting both of them on date for baptism that day! We are seriously just God...

Bonjour!! Been a full week over here in Benin! Only like 70 more, Mom! Lol! This week consisted of a lot of sweat, power outages, bug bites, heat rash, and getting called yovo a lot (White person). BUT on the bright side, this week also consisted of cold Cokes, SO MUCH yummy fresh fruit, cold showers, and new amis at church!!! Seriously so cool—it's only my second Sunday, and we have been blessed to see some of our new friends at church! We met one of them last week and then his friends on Tuesday, and seven of them made it to church!!!! Literally a miracle in front of my face! Honestly, never would've thought I'd see things happen so fast! Hopefully, next week we get this place turned into a splash zone. This week I've been soooo flustered with the language! Sometimes I can speak super well, and other times it feels like I've never done a Duolingo lesson in French. Private cheffing out here for exchanges. Invested in my first meters of pagne this week and am so sto...

WOWZA I think I've started this email three times and don't even know what to say! I MADE IT! This place is amazing! I don't think I've ever felt this many emotions in a day, every day, all day before. Let me recap this week a little. SO pumped to leave MTC and finally be in the field. That was a whole culture in itself LOL. We woke up at 3:30 to get bags weighed and everyone off to the airport, caught a flight to Lomé (Togo), and then right to Benin. We didn't get to Benin till 4 p.m., so it was a long day. After, we met Presi at the airport and went to the mission home, and Y'ALL, they fed us BBQ PIZZA!! You already know how pumped I was to see normal food, let alone my favorite—some BBQ PIZZA! Have to throw this in here—so random—but President's wife is Aunt Janice, Cong, Dog, and Kim in one person! She is such a solid woman! Got my trainer, Sœur Bird, and she's so kind! There are four of us white girls out here in Calavi! Sounds like it's the fur...