WEEK 14: Changes Coming

















Hey Everyone!! 

Fair warning this week will be a short email, but I just wanted to say I'm doing great!! (His trainer was leaving to go home so Tanner will be with two other missionaries until he gets his new companion.). I hope you all can picture what Africa is like now! I'im getting a new companion on Wednesday so I will surely tell you all about him! 

As for my area, it's doing great and this week we had another person tell us they are ready for baptism! Her name is Akoto and she is stubborn. Whenever we asked about baptism she would say she just isn't ready yet, then out of nowhere she told us she wants to be baptized. Sooo yeah!!! 

Anyways all is well! Love yah all

He doesn't send explanations about his pictures but it looks like these pictures are: of him making Fufu, with a group he was playing football (i.e. soccer) with on p-day I'm thinking--notice the boy has one sock on and one barefoot, some concoction he made with his beef purchase?, some other type of food, not sure what is up with the watches? and with a couple more adorable children, a dragonfly?, with takeaway boxes??, his departing companion, Elder Johnson, gave him an African shirt, apparently for work-outs he curls buckets of water (shown in one of his selfie poses) and does P90X or T25 every morning and evening

His trainer is ready to go home and he has been "dead" for the whole time Tanner has been with him.  They are supposed to proselyte 43 hours a week but this week they only proselyted 23 hours so he is excited and hopeful for his new companion.  

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