Busy Day

Busy Sunday:  We left the apartment a little after 8 am and picked up Joyce, an investigator from Sierra Leon, and took her to the College Park Ward.  With 2 African investigators in their traditional dress and a family from Napal in their traditional dress it was a very colorful meeting.  After we took Joyce home, we ate our peanut butter sandwich as we drove across town to pick up Phillippe for the French Branch.  The Elders were checking on a family and were late so I filled in on the organ.  It is challenging playing in French.  We had 7 investigiators at the French Branch.  We only had 4 children for Primary.  Randall taught the lesson and I did Sharing time and singing time.  The 9 yr old twins who can't sit in their chairs for more than 30 seconds were there so we were whipped.  We finished about 20 minutes early so had to ad lib.  After taking Phililippe home we rushed across town for dinner at a members home.  We have eaten dinner 3 times at members homes this week.  Two African dinners (chicken cooked in peanut butter, casava, fufu -corn meal mush- and fried plantains) and taco salad tonight.  We were just coming in our apt when the French Elders called wanting us to meet them at Silvie's apartment.  She is from Cameroon and loves the Book of Mormon and the Hymns.  She had been in the hospital this week and wants to be baptized but her husband who lives iin France forbids it.  We read a chapter in the B of M and sang "I Need Thee Every Hour" 3 times and "Love at Home" 2 times.  She call us Mama and Papa.  We left a blessing on her home and went to see MacLange.  The Elders taught her the 1st lesson in French and Dad and I bore testimony of the Restoration and Book of Mormon in Engliish.  We got home about 9 pm and I looked up on the web to fiind a CD of Hymns in French for Silvie.  No Luck. 

We are feeling our age but get very excited and feel needed.  I don't know how the young Elders do it.  We only assist the Elders and don't have to find or teach on our own.  Thank Goodness!