Hello Friends and family,
Ok to catch up on some stories. A couple of days ago Sister
Brubaker (The MTC Presidents wife)comes in and asks our district to come help her so we finish class and
then we go and help her pull a rug out from under her bed, so we did that whatever
we go down for lunch. So then we are at snack that night and some elders and
sisters complained they were constipated. So the rest of us are suffering
eating apples that are not the best... instead of bread or muffins. So Sister Brubaker
comes down like normal and she stops at our table so I said holding my apple
"Some elders complained that they are constipated and now the rest of us
are suffering eating these apples" and she said I’m sorry, Will you follow
me to my office? So we did and then she had made us Peanut butter cookies they
were so good it was real American sweets. So it made up for the Apples.
I love my Leatherman. I've taken apart blinds and rebuilt
them because the elders... I don’t even know how but they got so many knots in
the string but it wouldn’t move so I fixed that and put it back together. Then
like a week ago Alexander (ZL) comes in and says “hey can you come with me to
fix a door... ok??” His Leatherman philips didn’t fit. So we take the handle
off and then there’s a square shaft (I've never taken a door apart) so I’m like
well… I use my pliers and pull the shaft
out and then I made sure that both sides could engage. Oh yea so the door wouldn’t
work it was essentially locking the elders into their room and they needed
someone from the outside to open it, that’s why I was called in. I think the
shaft had slid out of place from it been slammed to many times.
This week has been good. I conducted the evening
devotional.... that was rough, the meeting was 15 minutes late and then president
calls me. So I go up and he’s like why is this and that basically what is
happening? Then he’s like oh yea will you conduct. You need to find two prayers
and we have two musical numbers and an opening hymn then hand it over to me and
then I need you to turn off those three switches and the green one but then I
might have you turn the green one back on...... ok president. So I go to get
paper and I ask two Frenchmen to say the prayer bad idea and their names were
really hard to pronounce. So I got the prayers. So I go back to the front to
start the meeting........ Bonjour... (Its night I should have said bonsoir) my
name is Prest.... Elder Stephens and I will be conducting so we are going to
have an opening hymn then an opening prayer by totally mess the name up.
Everyone losses it and I just kept on going a musical number and then I sat
down. So we did the song and the prayer and then president turns to me and says
go do that again I don’t think they heard you because they were laughing at
your pronunciation... ok ... we will now have a musical number we will also
then hear from the Brubakers following them we will have another musical number
and the closing prayer by elder messed that name up too and then I went to sit
by the lights. So then I turn the lights off and of course he had me turn the
green one back on... haha then I finally went to go to my seat.... fun stuff.
preston.stephens@myldsmail.net
Love,
Elder
Stephens
Republic
of Congo, Brazzaville Mission
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