tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41263001491820261212024-03-13T15:35:03.804-07:00Elder Kyle Hackmeister's African AdventureAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677239277611730476noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4126300149182026121.post-39954429375671437182015-08-05T00:29:00.000-07:002015-08-05T00:37:45.730-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">a SWEET journey!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I think it really shows the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">pure love of a missionary! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Kia Kaha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Forever Strong!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">August 3, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Well, for the last time,
Hello! Oh what a strange thought it is indeed...It’s a very odd thing to think
about, that I will be leaving. I feel like it’s a dream and I'm gonna wake up
and still have like a year left. But it will come nonetheless. Yeah definitely
mixed feelings, it’s a sad time but also a very exciting and happy time! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Well as for our week
here it’s been pretty good! We did get chastised in behalf of all the
missionaries at Stake PEC on Thursday, that was a good time. Oh my...there are a few wards that don’t get along with the missionaries and are
giving them a hard time so they nit picked at us for like 45 minutes and when
we tried to explain from the missionaries perspective they didn’t care. So that
was frustrating. But other than that it’s all been good! We did some baptismal
interviews the next day in Winneba and they all went well so it was good! It’s
been a nice experience to get to do baptismal interviews.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> Oh church
was nice, got to say goodbye and take pics with people! So it was fun. Some of
our investigators thankfully did come as well so it was a good day! We got fed
by one of the cool members here who is the assistant ward mission leader. His
mom made some of the best fufu and palm nut soup I have had! So it was sweet. I
got most everything packed last night as well. One bag is really full; the
other is basically empty haha</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.3333330154419px;"><span style="font-family: Segoe UI, sans-serif;">!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">I encourage you to keep
a journal by the way. I have sadly been a little less than perfect here in Swedru,
I have sadly not been writing each and every day...but I have done my best to
keep a good record at least every other day. I will get back on track haha! But
it’s true, writing things down is a very important thing so get on it! Thank
you for that quote by President Packer, it describe exactly how I
feel! <i>[</i></span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #6c4d0a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">“I’m not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I’ve
found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this
intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I
committed my agency. I went before Him and said, ‘I’m not neutral, and you can
do with me what you want. If you need my vote—it’s there. I don’t care what you
do with me and you don’t have to take anything from me because I give it to
you—everything. All I own. All I am.’ And THAT has made all the difference.”</span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #6c4d0a; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #6c4d0a; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438755959507_18031">Elder Boyd K. Packer</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">. I don’t know why people act like it’s
bad to try and be a good person, but people do. Pretty dumb to be honest.
I just want to do what is right. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hahaha! No food necessary or animals hahaha! Well, what time do I get home?! I don’t
even know. But that sounds nice, a home cooked meal! El Matador can wait.
Thanks!!!! Is that on Friday then? As for the rest of the week, well tomorrow
IDK, but Wednesday we are going to Cape and we will spend the day in the
mission home then on Thursday we leave early for Accra. We go to the mall, KFC
and then the temple. After that we go to the airport. Pretty sweet! We made our
own fufu as a district today and it was awesome! We watched the Saratov
Approach too. Hope I don’t get kidnapped!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> But yeah, not too much being requested. I will
just be happy to see everyone. I would say buy a 24 pack of Dr. Pepper, haha that’s
a good thing to have on hand. Hmm well, I can’t really think of many specifics,
anything will be good from the smorgasbord of America haha! I will look forward
to watching some movies and eating some good food. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Honestly I don’t have
too much to say haha, I will see you guys in a few days. Just know that I have
served for the last two years with all I have. I don’t regret it. How grateful
I am for all that has transpired. I have learned so much. I have not been
perfect, nor will I ever be in this life, but I have done what I could and have
loved the people I have served, the people I served with, and most importantly
the Lord. I will always. That is a promise I make to Him and to myself. Well, I
feel peace about what I have done and calm with where I am going. My life is in
His hands, I go where He directs. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Thank you so
much for everything. I cannot wait to see you! You are the best!!!!! :) Love
you more than anything! See ya later (Literally)!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Hey there! I am doing
good on this fine day! It was a subsistence p day so we were able to get our $
today, always a plus! It has been increased to 350 cedis now, but since my time
is about up, I was only to pull 120 cedis, pretty crazy! That’s a lot of money
for a week haha! We had a zone activity at the beach today, it was sweet! We
went and played football and stuff then after we ate fried rice, so it was a
success! Haha I just took my fabric to a tailor to have him make some shirts
and a pair of pants, so I will be styling soon haha! I am trying to take pics,
this week I will just take pics of random things I guess haha! Anything and
everything! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Cool to hear that Adam
has just killed it in ball this year, they earned their victory it sounds like!
And thanks for the idea about the shirt, I will do it! That is just an awesome
idea, never would have thought of that! Well for me over here we have had a
pretty good week. I have indeed been feeling better; it is just odd to think
that I will be gone next week. It really doesn’t seem real so it has not been
too big of a challenge. I just feel like I will still be here doing the same
old thing forever! But yeah, it is a very bittersweet thought. Anyways, we had
some good experiences this week. One of which happened Tuesday. Our
investigator David has a friend who is a fisherman in the river and catches
tilapia, which are very popular and expensive in Ghana. Usually 1 is like 8
cedis. Well, he got us like 20 for 15 cedis! So that is pretty awesome. Tuesday
we went to his house and he grilled them all for us. He worked at that crazy
hotel so he knows how to do it properly! He baked them first with a nice ginger
sauce and then smoked them! The other elders in our apartment joined us and we
each ate 5! Oh they were AWESOME! We ate it with a food called kenke and
basically salsa. It was a good time for sure, but he took a while to do
it....he told us it would only take like 45 mins but took a lot longer than
that. So that was the downside. But it was a good experience and hopefully
helped him feel closer to us. Elder Tu Akoi is from Tonga and there raw fish is
a delicacy so he ate one raw with some sauce only. I was challenged to do the
same by the others and did, and it was actually really good! Haha that is
something Kartchner should be proud of ;) I could taste it in my mouth all the
rest of the day though hahaha, but it tasted something like shrimp so that’s
not all a bad thing right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">On Wednesday we had to
go to Odoben to do a baptismal interview for them out there. We took the 45
minute tro tro ride and got there and we did a small exchange. I went with
Elder Ubani and my companion went with Elder Larsen. We went to do the
interview. It was in a village rather far from the main town, so we rode bikes
to it. What? Yeah I have not ridden a bike in FOREVER! And the mission doesn’t
have bikes. We rented them from a guy haha. I was on some tiny mountain
bike, E. Ubani was on a 10 year old girls bike and a member going with us was
on a little BMX bike. The ride took 30 minutes and was going up and down some
serious hills. The best part was that my bikes gears didn’t work and it was
stuck in the lowest gear so I was peddling a million miles per hour and not
going anywhere. Then came the hills...oh man it was difficult haha! And it’s
all on dirt roads. Yeah when we got to the village I was dead haha! The place
was really small though, kind of cool. I did the interview and it went well,
she passed. So then we rode back and it was not as bad the second time but it
still was not fun. That night we came home and my legs just hurt. I got up at
12 to go to the bathroom and felt like my legs were going to fall off haha!
When I got back in bed I felt like my legs did fall off haha! Oh but it was all
for the Lords work! So it’s no problem. Gotta love those memories though eh?
Haha man I was just glad she passed the interview so it wasn’t all for naught!
Oh and also, the previous day the Odoben elders cooked a dog and they had some
extra so I might have eaten some....I hope Tiki doesn’t detect it! It was
delicious by the way....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Another fun experience
in the zone was on Saturday. The 3rd ward elders had a woman in their ward that
needed to be rebaptized because after 20 years of membership they discovered
they had lost her record...oops! So they talked to President about it and
everything was worked out for us to do an interview for her after they reviewed
the missionary lessons. Well they did and the bishop there insisted that the
baptism be that Saturday. They were concerned because they had not emptied the
water in the baptismal font for over a month...the water was literally black
and yet the bishop still wanted to do the interview. I guess the drain was
broken or something. Haha baptism is supposed to be a cleansing experience not
a typhoid extracting experience. But after they voiced their concerns he called
us on the phone and told us that the missionaries were not serious and how they
were doing a terrible job...so that is awkward for them! All they did was voice
a legit concern. But nonetheless we did the interview and luckily they did end
up draining and refilling the font with clean water, so she is still alive as
we speak. And now a legit member of the church! After that the Swedru wards had
a big sports day at the Aboso branch. They invited the local Presbyterian
church over for some volleyball and soccer. It was pretty cool! Nothing builds
relationships like church vs church sporting events I guess! Haha but it went
really well, we went and watched for a bit and it was cool. They even fed us
kenke as well. We have a fake rubber snake, which if anyone ever comes as a missionary
to Ghana I highly suggest they bring one because Ghanaians are just terrified
of snakes haha. We have had some serious fun scaring people with it. People
just lose their minds and then laugh about it after they find out its fake. In
the tro tro to Winneba today I scared Elder Tyson with it. We were sitting
there and I put my hand behind the seat with it then slid it across his
shoulder and he freaked out in front of the whole car hahaha! Oh good times!
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Oh and I have done a bit
more of item purchasing. I bought a bunch of traditional bead bracelets and a
few necklaces, they are really cool! So I hope that you and a lot of other
people will like them! The chiefs and kings usually wear them, but they are
also just something people like to wear. They look nice, so that is sweet! I
will try and find some more things in the week, IDK though haha! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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yeah, this should be a good week, we have a number of interviews to do, and I
am also instructing at district meeting tomorrow so it should be sweet! As I
wind down here, I am so incredibly grateful to the Lord for all that has
transpired over the last two years. He knows I have given all I am to this
work. I have, in the words of Paul, fought a good fight. I have done all I can
to do the Lords work in the way He would do it, though I have not been perfect.
I have tried. I have improved and what more can I do? I know that it is also
not the end, the work is eternal. Oh how important is this work! It is a
lifelong duty and the blessings are eternal. I will forever remember these
people and I pray that I will get to meet them again in mortality. Today I met
at the station a member from Cape Coast and it was just awesome! So random and
so cool to talk to people that I have not seen in so long. I look forward to
the day when we will ALL stand together with the Lord. That is our purpose in this
life, to prepare for that day so we might stand worthy. Well, I love you more
than anything, I hope you are all well and continue to be. I love you!!! See
you later!!!!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Happy Monday to you all!
Well thanks for all those awesome pics! Everyone looks great haha especially
Grizzly Adams!!! Haha oh man that killed me! But yes his girlfriend is very
attractive so good for him ;) You know, I am planning on getting me some
"Ghanaian PJs"made myself. They are just the traditional clothes!
Pretty sweet eh? I bought some nice fabric last Monday so I want to make a
shirt and some pants at least. But yeah it was fun being with the
assistants last week. They got a flat tire on the way so they had to do a wheel
swap at 8 pm on a two lane road in Ghana, sounded fun! But they got it all
taken care of! The interviews were good, pretty short really! I just asked
President if I could take a p day to go to Cape and buy some things and he said
no (understandably so as he doesn’t really allow that ever), so I will wait
until I am going home to do some last minute Christmas shopping haha! But after
the interviews Elder Larson proselyted with us for a few hours and it was fun!
He is a good guy, I like him a lot. Nope, did not get the wifi fixed although
they have sent people to look at it like twice now! But again, glad you enjoyed
seeing the Julander’s homecoming, they are just awesome people indeed! Always
fun to see them. And all the other people you saw!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">You know it’s been a
very nice week for us here. We have been finding a lot of promising people
lately! I do believe that next month there will be a lot of baptisms here! So
that is pretty awesome! I was able to go on exchanges with Elder Baldwin from
Idaho Falls and we had a good day. We taught some really good lessons. We had a
3 hour lesson with this guy who is super prepared. He was taught by
missionaries 3 years ago but was not baptized because he got a job at a hotel. Well,
we have been reviewing and he has pretty plainly told us before that he has
struggled with the law of chastity, so we reviewed it with him. He opened
up to us A LOT about his life. Turns out he has 2 kids in Accra which is not
too unusual, but more unusual was that he told us about how he was a big time
scammer. Swedru is notorious in the mission for this. A lot of young men do
online scamming. They go on dating websites and pretend to be girls and get
creepy old men to send them money. Well, he was one of the big boys of that and
was telling us all about how he actually owned an internet cafe and was getting
serious money from people. When the missionaries started teaching him he
decided he needed to change, so that’s why he took that job at the hotel, to
get away from his bad friends and make an honest living. But he was just
telling us all about how most of the guys who do the scamming also do
"sakawa" which is juju to get the old men to send you money. It
involves worse things by the way, so yeah he was just telling us how he knows
all the guys who have entered into satanic covenants with juju. Pretty crazy
stuff ! Luckily he never did any of that, if he did that would be a problem!
But he just talked for 2 hours straight; we couldn’t even attempt to get back
on course. It was probably good for him to talk about it though, confession
eases burdens a lot! And the moral of the story is don’t do online dating haha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Saturday we had a nice
ward missionary activity. About 10 people showed up and we divided into three
groups and went to different parts of our area to contact less actives and
visit recent converts. The bishop and I went to a village in our area called
Brofoyedur, which is twi for "english is heavy" haha. We were able to
teach two less active members and also met a young man and taught him about the
restoration. So it was very successful for us! We got a few referrals as well!
After a few hours of that we all met back up at the chapel and ate banku! So we
had a good time! It was fun for everyone, so now they want to do it every Saturday
which would be awesome and help SO much! Glad they are feeling the zeal of
missionary work!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Thanks for the quotes,
to be honest this week I have just felt a bit on the depressed side for some
reason, IDK why really. But it is so very true that only you can determine your
own happiness. That is something I guess I have kind of just forgotten. So
thanks :) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">And you and dad should serve a
mission one day! It all begins now with simple diligence in doing small things
such as daily prayer and scripture study. Those things are so amazing. A man
moves a mountain by chiseling at it one day at a time until it is gone. The
blessings are eternal and amazing. I am so glad that one day I will be able to
literally be with all of my loved ones, with a perfect recollection of all the
good memories. Oh how encompassing and deep the gospel is. I can’t even write
words to describe how wonderful it is! Jesus Christ is life, He is salvation.
Nothing, no nothing, can ever be of more importance than living and sharing His
Gospel. It is not just words, it is life. Oh how great is my joy that I have
the opportunity to know AND share it. I don’t ever want to stop doing either. I
love you so very much, you are the greatest and we can all be together forever
because of the Savior of the world. What great cause we have to rejoice! Love
you so much!</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">Heeeelllllloooooo(said
in a George Costanza voice...I can’t remember Mrs. Doubtfire!) I am doing just
fantastic, all is well here in Swedru! That is pretty cool you saw a pic of me
on Facebook, good old E. Moleme haha! You gotta steal people’s pics! I am banking
on that when I get home for a lot of pictures haha....probably fine! You know it’s
true that you do have to take a walk down memory lane every now and then! It
just makes life good! I am indeed planning on leaving most of my things
here. The sad thing about finishing in Swedru is I can’t buy like anything
around! Oh how I wish I finished in Cape! But E. Assibey being a good guy did
order me like 5 kente ties and they should be getting my way soon. I am also
getting a kente scripture bag pretty soon. Sadly when we went to Cape we got
there late so I was not able to buy anything. I wanted to so bad! But I know
for sure on my last day they let us walk around Cape for a few hours so I plan
on buying some things that day. I will try and get as much as I can! But it’s
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the world, not too much really transpired this week. It’s been a nice week
though, we have been able to work hard and things are getting better in our
area. It’s been a bit slow so far this transfer but the Lord is blessing us to
find some really cool and prepared people. But first let me just go through the
week chronologically or I will get confused haha. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">So we tried to go and
visit one of our recent converts this week. I think I have told you how she was
avoiding us in the past? Well we thought she got over it but when we went to
see her this week she did the same thing! Oh we couldn’t even get her to look
us in the eye. We asked her why she was hiding and she wouldn’t say anything.
We finally asked if she wanted us to stop coming and she finally answered that
she did. It’s a long story, but she has no reason that we know for doing this.
She said she is gonna stop coming to church and yeah she didn’t come on Sunday...so
we will have to have the ward help us. Maybe she did something and feels
guilty, IDK? It’s just sad though. We have begun teaching an older man, he has
been coming to church off and on for about a month now. We have come to find
that something is not quite right upstairs for him. We teach him and then ask
him what he has learned and he doesn’t remember, so teaching him requires a lot
of patience. He does remember the general message usually, but it’s still
pretty fuzzy even then. He doesn’t speak English either. But we are doing our
best with him! As we were teaching him the first vision he kept telling us that
God went to pray and saw two angels. So you can see he kind of vaguely is
getting the message. Oh it’s a patience game! </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">I was able to do a
baptism interview this week in Odoben and it went well! It was for a 16 year
old kid and he was really powerful! He really understood the gospel very well;
it was cool being able to interview him. I also did go on exchanges this week
with an elder named E. Tyson. He is a Ghanaian and he is a really awesome guy.
We had a good time. He served close to E. Assibey for a long time and they are
good friends so we had fun getting to know each other as well. He is a funny
guy, kept the day fun. We went to institute in the evening and the power went out
for like 20 minutes as it rained. Then after the rain the power came back and
we were leaving the chapel. There is a power line that goes right across the
main gate and it was sparking like crazy! Man we were afraid to leave. Elder
Tyson kept saying it wasn’t in his patriarchal blessing to be electrocuted, but
finally we did get out ok haha. The bishop called the power company and they
came to fix it later. But it was pretty intense haha. Oh and earlier in the day
we were walking down the street and a guy walked up to us and asked, "When
is your next baptism?" I thought it was somebody from E. Tyson’s ward and
he thought it was somebody from mine. We told him and he looked at his phone
for a little, asked when the next was and then we asked if he wanted to be
among haha. He said yeah, he was being taught by former missionaries and then
he went to Accra and when he came back they had been transferred. His name is
David and we started teaching him this week and man he is powerful! He knows
everything already, just has to be converted! So that was a pretty powerful
experience. He was telling us he worked at some super awesome
"secret" hotel called Blue Diamond. He showed us a pic or two and it
looks really really awesome. He said they only advertise online. He also said
the lowest price for a room is $204 a night, yeah USD> So sounds pretty
interesting. You should google it and tell me if it looks cool for real. He
kept telling us stories about all the rich people that were there so my
interest was piqued haha. I can’t imagine such a place here! But yeah we did have a really boring day
after that because we got called to go unlock the chapel because there were
some people trying to do some work there. So we went and let them in and had to
wait 2 hours for them to finish...meanwhile I had to talk to tech support
because the wifi in the chapel is broken and the bishop gave the tech people
our phone number so I was on the phone with Kweku in Accra and he was talking
me through how to fix the modem. It didn’t work btw so they sent a squad to fix
it....I guess me and Kweku didn’t make a very good team haha. So that was
awesome. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">We have been getting
more referrals this week though which is always SO appreciated! I think things
will pick up a bit for us now.</span></div>
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have FHE with the Acheampong family and then the Assistants are coming to spend
the night so I guess we will party. I am broke from the pig roast, so I will be
pulling some cash from the bank today as well haha! Tomorrow we have interviews
with President Stevenson, so that should be good! Always a good time. I
am glad to hear everyone is doing good back home though, good luck with the
camp planning, you can do it! You will look back and enjoy the memories!!! OH
and my favorite dinner items? Well I do love chicken roll ups, chicken
enchiladas, London broil and mashed potatoes, tomato soup, chicken and
broccoli, etc. Most anything homemade is good! To be honest I have forgotten a
lot of home foods, but those are the ones that are just delicious and come to
mind! You are a great cook! Well, have a great week, keep being awesome! Love
you sooo much, talk to you later!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sounds like it’s been a fun and busy week for you guys! Hitting up all these
cool places I have never been to! I don’t think I have ever been to Reno,
though I am probably not missing much! But Lake Tahoe sounds really cool, looks
beautiful too! Too bad I have never been there haha! Glad that Pres had some
pics of me on there. Sorry, I have been trying to send pics home, but the
church Wifi is not working at the moment so it is kind of impossible...but no
fear, one day you will see the pics haha! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Swedru, we have had a pretty good week. You already know about the pig roast,
but on Tuesday we went for a bit of a road trip. The assistants gave us
permission to go spend the night in Cape Coast so we didn’t have to travel in
the morning for MLC. So yeah on Tuesday we left for Cape to stay in good old 54
step!!!! Also, we went to one member in Cape and got fed awesome jollof rice!
Oh it was awesome! But to tell you the truth, going there made me really a
little homesick. Not for Kaysville (sorry) but for Cape Coast. Climbing those
steps, looking out over the city at night, sleeping in the exact same bed I
slept in for 6 good months, even our board was exactly the same! They use a
different one now so it still had my handwriting on it! Creepy! It was like I
never left! Oh I loved that place so so so much! So yeah, that is my experience
of returning to old 54 step. Sweet, but sad. I don’t recommend doing that to
anyone haha. But yeah, anyways MLC was awesome as well! One of the best parts is
now Elder Assibey is a zone leader so I got to see him again!!! Oh man I miss
that guy! We talked like the whole time before MLC and the whole time after. He
has by far been one of my favorite companions. I have a few who tie for 1st and
he is one of them. We had fun together and worked our butts off. One other guy
named Elder Tyson, also a Ghanaian was in his last district. Elder Assibey
would apparently always tell everyone during district meetings that we were the
most obedient and hardworking missionaries in the mission. So I am glad that in
his mind we were powerful like that. We truly were. It was such a great time.
So yeah, it was fun to catch up with him and get to talk. It’s funny because he
is the zone leader in Takoradi and his mom and sister live in Takoradi! He
could totally go and visit them, but he won’t because he is a good guy. MLC
was special because Elder Von G. Keetch of the Seventy was there! Pretty cool!
Their son just finished his mission and they came to pick him up. I have served
around him a bit and know he is an awesome guy, so it was cool to get to meet
his parents. But for MLC we talked a lot on teaching methods. It was interesting;
we had a long long council on how we should all teach. After that Elder Keetch
talked to us about the importance of following the Spirit in the work and it
was great, I really enjoyed it! On Thursday we had exchanges and I went with
Elder Larsen again! Elder Iwuchukwu went with E. Larsen’s companion, who he
happened to train so it was a reunion! Pretty cool! We had a good day though,
last time we went on exchanges we didn’t teach a single person sadly. But we
had a good day. It was pretty cool teaching with E. Larsen because he is such a
good missionary. It’s cool to see how we
have both become better. This week has just been a bit slow as well; we really
are now trying to just find new people to teach. It’s not easy haha! But that’s
what we need to do! So we have been trying our best. One thing I have learned
in the past from situations like this is that when you go out and work your
hardest and do your best, the Lord will provide people for you. 9/10 times it’s
not in the way you thought. The Lord will bring people out of nowhere to give
to you. So we are doing our best!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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yeah, that is how our week has been. This week will be odd because Elder
Collete, who has been in our apartment is getting transferred this Wednesday to
go to the office. All due to some french missionaries coming and the timing is
weird, so yeah Elder Tu'Akoi will be getting an elder named Elder Biney who is
a Ghanaian. So we will have a Ghanaian in the apartment now! Always fun, I love
Ghanaians.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> This week will be
pretty normal I believe. Not too much going on, we will have a combined
district meeting tomorrow with the zone, so that will be fun! Then also on
Tuesday I believe we will have Stake PEC, so we will see how that goes! But
yeah, I am healthy and happy. Just trying to do all I can! I hope you guys have
a safe drive home though and that they get the kitchen put back in one piece
haha! Should look really nice though! But I love you soooo much! You are the
best! Have a great week!!</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yeah good evening-o! I
am doing great today, it’s been a really good day, albeit a stressful day haha!
I will explain, but first everything is good here in Swedru! Yeah so transfers
went really well. On Wednesday we were able to ship our people off safely and
we welcomed the new ones on time and everything! My companion has been a zone
leader for like 6 months now in Takoradi so it is no big deal for him to be a
zone leader! We are having a great time though, he is a super cool guy, I am
really enjoying having him around. He has been out for 18 months now. But
some of the other cool people are an elder named Elder Treadway who is a really
funny guy and a good missionary. I have known him for a while now. And also the
new sister trainer leader in the zone is named Sister Nakafeero. She was in my
zone and district in Cape and she is cool. We also have two people being
trained in the zone so that’s always kind of fun to have some fresh people. But
oh heavens when I talk to them I dread the thought that I was probably just
like them. Just so young haha! One graduated on the 5th and now is
here! Holy Cow! I guess I was kind of the same. But yeah we do indeed have a
sweet zone, I really love it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well this week has been
incredibly slow for us haha...I think we taught like 4 lessons...ouch! Not a
good feeling. But it’s not really our fault, so I don’t feel too bad about it.
Mine and Elder Iwuchukwu's first full day together we went and did baptismal
interviews in Winneba followed by Stake PEC in the evening, so that day was
just gone. Then the next day we planned out a nice long day and literally
EVERYONE fell through. Our backups fell through, our backups to our backups and
all the members fell through! We walked A LOT that day haha! Just one of those
days I guess! There have been a lot of funerals this week and when there are
funerals you can kiss lessons goodbye. Saturday morning I was just exhausted
from all the walking we did. The other elders were using our chapel for a
baptism in the morning and we went. As we were singing the opening hymn the
bishop called us and told us we needed to join them for a funeral for an
endowed member that I didn’t even know was going on. So we left the baptism,
went to the funeral and carried the casket. Yeah that was a first for me. We
carried it from the viewing place into a car and then into the chapel. So then
we attended the funeral, which was all in Twi. I might have fallen asleep for a
minute or two haha! But yeah, it was interesting to watch and participate in.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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trying to figure out what we could do for a zone activity for today. Came to
the conclusion that since we have 3 Tongans in the zone it would be a crime if
we didn’t roast more pigs. So on Saturday after the funeral we went to buy
some. The guy wanted waaaay too much, 200 cedis for one. So we said forget
about that and asked around to see if anyone knew where else we could buy one.
We found a place in a town about 30 minutes away and we went there. It was a
big farm and they had a lot of pigs! After a bit of sweet talking, we got 2
pigs, bigger than the ones the other guy was selling, for 200 cedis! So that’s
awesome! I feel like such a master bargainer now! We got those bad boys in a
taxi and took them home and tied them up behind the house. When we came back in
the evening we found one had gotten loose, so we retied them both. The next
morning before we went to church we checked on them and they were doing good.
Then we went to church. Came home and looked and woah!!!! They were gone!!!!
They weren’t in our compound! We found a hole in the wall of our compound and
their tracks, Wilbur and Hamilton made a prison break! So we asked if our
neighbor saw them and he had not, but he spent the next 2 hours looking for
them. We went and tried to help find them and finally we did find them! We
dragged two unhappy pigs back and TIED them very well!! Oh but they were not
happy to be tied up...they put up a good fight haha. But this morning we killed
them so that’s the end of those unpleasant house guests. The other missionaries
got one of their investigators to cook a stew, we got some of the others to get
us yam, cassava and plantain and we prepared a nice spread. We got a coke for
everyone in the zone and went to our church and had a good time. We played
soccer and feasted like kings! It was awesome! A good time for sure! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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interesting day at church. We asked President Stevenson to come speak in our
ward as a close of our missionary month and he came. He got there and there
were only like 10 people when church started so I was a bit stressed haha. But
you know what, by the end of sacrament meeting the place was PACKED! They
brought chairs in. The reason? The funeral. People came! We had 60
investigators at church, what the heck!!! We had investigators class in the
sacrament hall to fit them all haha. Our clerk taught on the post mortal
existence and lots of discussion was had and President was asked some odd
questions haha. But it went well, we tried to contact as many of those people
as we possibly could. Sadly most of them live out of town. But we were
successful in sharing the gospel, so mission accomplished! Pretty exciting
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so that will come on Wednesday. I think we are going to spend Tuesday night in
Cape Coast so we don’t have to wake up so early on Wednesday. So we are going
to have more proselyting time killed sadly...but hopefully the rest of the week
we can work hard. After baptizing all those people our area has been a bit slow!
But we have lots of recent converts we need to work with so that is good! <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">All the things you learn as a missionary are amazing,
I cannot imagine going through life without it. It is like steroids for your
Spirit and just life in general. But I am glad dad has had a good bday week!
Thanks so much for all you do for me here, IDK what I would do without you! You
are the greatest parents in the world. I hope you enjoy Reno, hahahahaha! Sorry
had to laugh. But seriously, have a great week! Love you sooo very much, you
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All is well indeed on this rainy day! Yes transfer news did come! And the news
is that E. Kaiser is leaving and I am staying! My new companion will be Elder Iwuchukwu(E-woo-choo-koo) from Nigeria. I have met him once or twice and
everyone says he is a really great guy, so I am excited. I am pretty excited
for this coming transfer because we have a lot of cool people coming into the
zone, so it will be nice! The other elders in the apartment are staying the
same, so just a small change there. But it will be nice to have a bit of a
change. I look forward to this transfer, just want to work hard and have fun
with my new companion. So we will see! As for E. LeBaron IDK when his
homecoming is, sorry! This has been a crazy week though. So on Monday in the
evening we went to the church because we needed to use the computer to make a
chart on excel and when we got there we found the door open and the gate
unlocked. We walked inside and both Elder Kaiser and I had a bad feeling, but
we didn’t really take it too seriously. So we unlocked the Family History door
to use the computer and found the keys to the church doors inside on the table.
They are usually in the bishop’s desk so we picked them up intending to give
them back later. After about 10 mins, we heard somebody come into the chapel.
It was the family history consultant and 3 of his nonmember friends. We were
kind of confused about why they were there, but he tidied up the room, then he
and his friends sat in front of the library door on their phones until we
finished. Then we all left and locked the doors behind us. Kind of weird. Well,
the next day we had a meeting with the zone, reporting on MLC. After the meeting
the facilities guy from Accra showed up saying they were coming to change the
locks because somebody stole the tv from the library. Woah! So we went to the
hallway and found somebody had indeed stolen the tv. The keys to the library
are only on the keys that are regularly in the Bishops office desk! The ones we
found! So what happened we found was that somebody went into the ceiling from
the room next to the bishops office, went into his office and took the keys
from the desk, then went back and into the library, stole the tv, then went
into the family history room to probably try and steal the computers, saw they couldn’t
and left the keys. It must have happened right before we got there! The funny
thing is that whoever did it cut themselves and left blood in the bishops
office and fingerprints everywhere! The sad thing? In Ghana they don’t use that
in police work...they just cleaned it up...soooo yeah haha! Pretty crazy
though! They made us fill out a police report, so that’s what we did all day
Tuesday...ah that was fun. It may remain a mystery forever who took it. But
somebody broke into the stake center Saturday and did the exact same thing, so
it must be an insider! They are pretty sick to steal from the church...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In brighter news we did a lot of baptism interviews and had our open house
festivities this week!!! On Thursday we interviewed 4 people in Winneba
for baptism and they all passed! One lady had an abortion when she was 14 and
told the missionaries. Sadly for me, the missionaries did not tell President
Stevenson or myself, so I had to call him after to tell him what happened. The
situation was not really her fault, so it was ok. She was a really cool lady
though, really humble and kind. Then Friday we went back and had another interview for a man named Steven and he passed as well and I enjoyed
interviewing him. After, we hurried back to Swedru because we had our parade to
do! All 3 wards met up in Swedru town along with a brass band and we paraded
around town for literally 3-4 hours telling everyone about the open house the
next day. Ghanaians love dancing, so the whole time everyone danced. Even I got
so into it that I danced the whole time. I have never, and probably won’t ever
again, danced that much! Haha just walking and dancing. People really liked it
though. And yeah, it was a lot of fun. By the time we finished all us
missionaries were dead. We ended at our chapel and had a drink made from ginger
and pepper and a fruit. It’s called beesap. It’s a spicy drink, so weird but is
one of my favorites now. The next day was the open house! It started around 11
and was a HUGE success! 400 people came! It was great, we did a tour of the
chapel and in all the rooms were different members explaining different points,
like family and the first vision. The Accra people gave us some really cool 6
foot tall pictures that we had in the different rooms and they all had
different things on them such as family and the first vision. We had a time in
the chapel where all the people were gathered and allowed to ask questions and
it was awesome. We handed out a ton of pamphlets and 20 Books of Mormon. They went
like hot pockets at a weight watchers meeting! One cool thing was a guy walked
in and told me that he was in town for a wedding and walked past the chapel. As
he passed he felt prompted he needed to go in, but he did not. As he walked
past later he felt prompted still so he entered. He told me and said, "so
yeah I am here." I invited him to join one of the tour groups but he was
on his way back to Accra and didn’t have time. So I gave him some pamphlets,
quickly explained the Restoration and took his number and sent it to the Accra
missionaries. It was really cool! I hope the missionaries there meet him, he is
going to be a Seventy someday haha! But after that we ate! The ward prepared a
TON of food, so everybody got to eat! There was a lot of fufu, banku, rice and
all sorts of things! It was awesome. We will be working to get in contact with
all those people now! A lot of good was done, probably more than we can ever
measure. But overall understanding was achieved. A lot of people in Ghana think
we are a cult as well and we steal hearts and worship other gods and stuff, so
it was good that people could come and see the church and ask questions. A lot
of good will come from it. Sunday we had “Missionary Sunday" where we
spoke in sacrament meeting. A whopping 50 people were in sacrament meeting due
to the rain, so it wasn’t quite what we wanted, but no problem haha! I spoke on
the Plan of Salvation and the importance of making the right choices now so we
can receive all of God’s blessings one day. After church though we had the
baptism for Joe and it went well! Lots of people stayed to watch and so he was
well supported. He was baptized by our assistant ward mission leader and it did
take 3 tries, but he was baptized! So it was a success! Glad to see another member
put into the church. Especially him as we just baptized his mom and siblings!
Good stuff! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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week will be just full of changes as transfers always are. But it will be good.
I want a nice good last transfer, don’t want to think about going home too much,
just want to do good. But that is the plan always I guess! Thanks for
everything! As for souvenirs, I got another nativity set and I asked E. Assibey
to buy me some more kente ties. Not a lot to buy here in Swedru. I wish I was
still in Cape for souvenirs! But one day I will be in Cape before I go I guess
so I will buy some stuff. But yeah I don’t think I really need anything sent, I
am doing good! Thanks though! Love you soooo much!!!!</span><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there! I am doing great! It’s been a pretty good week here, just moving
forward! I am doing great today, we have had a nice p-day thus far, it involved
2 hour nap so that is always a plus! Glad to hear you are all doing well. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wow I didn’t know you didn’t even bring the
boat out of storage last year! That prisoner needs to get out on the lake and
fulfill its purpose! That’s a fine machine to be sitting captive! It really is
so crazy that we are already halfway through June...oh how time flies by eh?
Sounds like you have had a good week going to Park City and stuff. The new
Jurassic Park sounds like a good movie too, I will have to watch it when I get
back! Good old Jurassic Park! It’s a timeless classic eh? Oh for your info I
was able to hand out a whole bag of those bracelets this week! There is a stake
youth gospel quiz coming up and so the youth practiced this week and the YW won
so I gave them the bracelets as a prize. The only problem was that we had PEC
when they won so I actually didn’t get to take any pictures of them with the
bracelets...I have been trying to track them down one by one and take pics haha
so I will send them to you as I get them! Kind of funny. But this week we had
our zone conference and it was great! President instructed us on being a
"full purpose missionary" and working with recent converts, less
actives and members just as we do with nonmembers. So it was really good. It
reminded me of a lot of things I have previously done with other companions
that for one reason or another I have kind of stopped doing, like really
teaching them how to do family history. So we have started doing that again and
it’s awesome to see how people react to family history. We taught our recent
convert Selina on it the other day and right after we finished she went to her grandpa’s
house to start. So cool! It’s not easy here in Ghana to get that info, but
people try! But yeah we instructed in using the Book of Mormon to teach
everyone and how it is so critical in building a firm testimony of the Gospel.
The Book of Mormon was written to guide us in this day and it is priceless! The
instruction went well, it was an uplifting meeting. Afterwards we had Stake PEC
and President joined us for that. It went well. We went on exchanges this week
with the Winneba elders. I was with E. Obia from Uganda. I went with him to his
area last transfer and this time he came with me. He was not feeling well so I
did most of the teaching that day. We ended up having a pretty good day, but
one sad thing happened. We have a recent convert named F. that we baptized when
I first got here. She has been doing good, but for the past few weeks she has
been avoiding us we felt like. Whenever we went to the house we would not find
her. We tried to see her another day that week and found her in the outside
kitchen hiding from us. We asked her what was wrong and she said nothing and we
should come back another day. So when we did come back she was in the house and
refused to come out to see us. Her family had no idea what was wrong with her
either so we are confused. I wonder if she did something bad and is now afraid
to see us. A lot of times that is what happens when people break a commandment.
So we will have to see what we can do to sit with her. But it was pretty sad
because she was always so friendly to us. Saturday there was a wedding at the
church for the clerk and we were asked to come at 11 for some food, which we
gladly agreed to do. When we got there at 11 though, the wedding had just
started so we joined the audience in the sacrament hall. Ghanaians like
clapping and yelling at events so that is what accompanied most of the
ceremony. Kind of a bit irreverent for the sacrament hall, but most of the
people were not members so they didn’t know any better I guess. They did the
wedding and moved outside for a reception type thing. The happy new couple
awkwardly danced without smiling or looking each other in the eye while people
came and put money under their feet for them to dance on. I got some pics of
the attendees and we even got to take pics with the two newlyweds so I will
send those to you! It was a good time, lots of dancing. I just sat and filmed
it all haha. Man Ghanaians love dancing a lot and are actually really good at
it. If you can’t dance to a song there is no point in listening to it. But
finally we got fed some rice and drinks. My companion got bubble gum flavored
soda served to him...delicious! Afterwards though Bishop Fossou took us to go
meet some less active people who live around his soon to be finished house. So
that was nice. We have been preparing our investigator Joe for his baptism this
coming Sunday and he is ready! He is related to Ruth and her family who just
got baptized. Oh and Sunday we were finally able to sit down and teach her
husband and he was really interested and asked good questions. So hopefully
soon the whole family will be baptized! They are all doing very good though.</span></div>
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lot this week. Yesterday it just poured during church then in the evening we
got stuck in our member’s house for like 2 hours before we just decided to
brave the rain and run home. It is rainy season indeed. Ah and for the
eating competition. Yeah we blindfolded one and had all the assorted
ingredients in bags in front of them all spread around. It is a competition to
see which companionship can prepare and eat the food in the shortest period of
time. So the person not blindfolded has to tell the person where everything is
and direct them in preparing it and then the blindfolded person has to feed the
not blindfolded person. We didn’t do this but it would probably be more fun
this way: Make it so the ingredients have to be put in the bowl in a specific
order. There was no real lesson we taught, just for fun but I am sure you could
come up with one. It’s a funny game to play and everyone enjoyed watching the
videos we took after. IDK what you would have them prepare back
home...Lunchables pizza would be delicious haha! JK I will leave that up to
you. And no, mosquitoes have not been bad my whole mission really. Some people
have problems with them, but I have not. I never have used spray. I came with 4
big bottles of repellent and we used it as ant killer in Axim because the ants
were really bad there, always getting into our food! As for the bush, no there isn’t
too much in our area. Even in the more village parts it’s not too terribly
remote. I have not seen a snake since Akonfudi, so I count myself lucky haha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week we find out transfer news. I don’t expect to be going
anywhere but will more than likely get a new companion so we will see what
happens! I am happy, healthy and doing great! I love this work. I was just
thinking this morning how fortunate the Burningham kid is that he gets to come
to this mission. He will have an awesome experience! I kind of wish I was him
haha! GCCM is the best mission there is, that is not a lie. I love this place! I
have indeed found that quote by Elder Richards to be true. [I sent him this
quote this week, <span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">"There is no greater work than that of missionary work. There
is nothing so wonderful, nothing as tasting the joy and success of missionary
labors." -LeGrand Richards] </span>I
will always be a part of this work. It is the only work that has meaning. I
love how the Gospel is about bringing families together. It is about strengthening
the family and the individual so all can receive the glorious joy of being with
our Father in Heaven eternally. I love you all so much. I am so blessed to have
such a great family. I think of my great grandparents, my grandparents, my
parents, my siblings and realize that I am so fortunate. I have a name to honor
and to strive to represent. I will do my best to especially always represent
the Savior’s name. Love you sooo much, you are the BEST! Have a great week!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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If you don’t come home with gold don’t come home at all!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Happy Summer to you!!!!! So odd to think that school is out back
home and everyone is getting ready to go boating and swimming and whatnot :) I
am also especially glad you got the pics I sent! We did indeed have plenty of
fun this week, I will explain! First of all we had a YSA [Young Single Adult] movie night on
Tuesday. We told everyone to bring their nonmember friends and we would watch
Meet the Mormons and have snacks. So we did it in the evening around 6:30 and a
good number of people came! Not as many as we were planning for, but just about
what I was expecting would realistically come. It went well though. Usually
people don’t really pay much attention to movies when we watch them but
everyone was very interested in Meet the Mormons. Just goes to show what an
awesome movie it is! We had popcorn and a drink called sobollo, which looks
like grape juice but is made from ginger, pepper and some flower. It’s an
acquired taste, but is one of my favorites now haha! It was cool though because
the different YSA's all prepared it which was helpful. Also, a treat I
learned here in Swedru is popcorn with milk powder instead of salt...who woulda
thought. Then Wednesday we did indeed go to Cape. Yeah MLC is always in Cape.
We left a bit earlier than we usually do because I needed to buy some more
shaving cream and Old Spice body wash, gotta love Cape! We got there around
8:30 only to find that none of the stores were open! So sad! So we had a lot of
spare time and so I took the opportunity to go visit a few members in Cape that
I have missed. It was so nice to be able to see them again. Cape Coast has
definitely been my favorite area for sure; the people there were just awesome.
So that is the nice thing about having the meetings there is I am able to go
back every now and then and it seems I always see somebody I know. But at MLC we talked a lot about what the mission needs to be better instructed on as a
whole. The big thing we talked about was actually teaching from Preach My
Gospel. There is not really a set way in the mission to teach the lessons,
everyone kind of has their own unique way to teach and President wants it a
little more standardized. Not to the point everyone is reciting, but so
everyone can teach in unity. It’s hard to have people taking two weeks after
transfers to become used to their new companions style of teaching. PMG clearly
talks about what needs to be taught and expresses how you don’t have to teach
every little gritty detail. I liked E. Mckeon because when I was with him we got really good at
teaching as PMG tells us to teach. Very effective. We also talked about the
importance of the garment and how the garment is sacred but not secret. Thursday
we had a zone council meeting with the district leaders and sister leaders and
just talked about what’s going on in the zone and then after I went on
exchanges with E. Larsen, the one I trained! It was pretty cool, except it
rained all day and so we were not able to teach a single lesson! Everyone,
literally everyone, was sleeping! We just walked all day Thursday and Friday!
Pretty annoying haha! We did have a sweet Ward Council meeting to plan for the
open house though and the stake public affairs guy was there giving us pointers
and info. It was cool. No we have not gone on the radio, IDK if that will
actually happen haha. It doesn’t look like it. But on Saturday we did have the
big YSA activity. We kind of modeled it off the one we did in Cape for the
stake back in November. We played games as you can see. The food one was a gari
eating competition. Gari is made of ground cassava. It is used for a variety of
things, but if added to milk, sugar and peanuts it makes a breakfast food
called "soakings." They are pretty gross, but people like them haha.
So one side of the table was blindfolded and had all the ingredients in front
of them and had to prepare and feed the people on the other side. The kid with
the pile did not vomit haha, just couldn’t do it all hahaha. It was pretty
funny, I took a video of it so you got that to look forward to one day. It was
pretty stressful regulating the whole thing, but it turned out to be a lot of
fun. Sadly, the YSA's did a terrible job of bringing people...so it was just
them and no investigators. But also on that same day, just before the activity
we had the baptism for Ruth, Vera and Precious! They were 40 mins late, and
then bishop was another 2 mins after them, but we did indeed baptize them! I
baptized Ruth and E. Kaiser baptized the other two. It went well and was great!
Sadly due to the time, we were not able to take pics of them before the
baptism...so that’s too bad!!! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some big things happened on Sunday, namely
Bishop Acheampong got released! We found out earlier from him in the week. He
has been called to be the 2nd counselor in the Stake Presidency. So that’s
pretty cool but also pretty sad. The new bishop is Bishop Fossou who was
previously a High Counselor. We were pretty happy, he is a great guy, he was
the branch president here for 7 years so this isn’t his first rodeo. It will be
good with him and so I am excited to see what happens. But that’s been the
week! I am doing good, just had kind of a bitter night last night. One of the
missionaries is hard on Ghanaians a lot of the time, which is sad to me. I
really love the people here, a lot. Sometimes he will say things to them or do things and it just feels personal to me because I
really do love them. So I had to talk to him about it. He took it fine, but it
was just kind of stressful for me. But yeah, today we had a zone activity at
our chapel. We did a potluck and it went well! We made no bake cookies for
everyone and lots of good things were brought! Tomorrow we have zone conference
and it will be sweet! You asked about the beach; it’s about a 40 minute drive
away from us, so not too close, but it’s in Winneba which is part of the zone.
We are kind of inland a bit. I will be sure to take a pic with some kids for
you as well! I took over 100 pics at the activity haha! Thanks for all you do,
you do so much!! I love you! Have a great week!!!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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you all! Sorry, yesterday myldsmail was down for</span> some odd reason so
virtually none of us could email...odd! But today it is up and runnin so
that is good! Happy to hear all is well and everyone is doing good!
Sounds like you have some fun stuff coming up with the camp that should
be awesome! Gotta love it when Kartchner does some demos with the
kids! And sounds like Brady will have a good time in Cali, should
be pretty cool! All is well here in sleepy Swedru. Rainy season has
officially started I think. It’s been raining all day today and started
last night. Pretty nice not to be dying in the sun, but still kind of
too bad since it makes everything all muddy! Guess I just can’t be
pleased haha. But this week has been a good week, we have found more
success this week than last, the work is moving forward and we just set
a new baptism goal for June and set a goal of 5! We are pretty sure we
will be able to accomplish it; we have a lot of well prepared people we
are working with. It is true; we did indeed have a wonderful baptism on
Sunday. The baptism was at 7:30 am, so the night before we had to sit at
the church until 10 to wait for the font to fill...Pretty fun! But all
went well and Bishop was able to baptize his mom. There were a good number
of people who came for it and everyone was very supportive and happy! I
will send some pics, maybe tonight when we will be at the church. I will
have my face in these ones ;) But
yeah, it went well and this week we are having 3 more for the woman Ruth
and her daughter Vera and son Precious. So that is exciting! This
week I had the opportunity to do a baptismal interview for a girl named
Angela who is like 10 for the other elders and it was a really cool experience.
Usually when you interview children they are pretty nervous and don’t
really know what to say, but this girl was so ready and knew everything
so well! It was a cool spiritual experience and she was baptized on
Saturday. We were able to go watch it and it was awesome! She will be a
powerful little member. Oh also, we did indeed have a very wonderful
seminar on Friday! It was awesome! There were so many missionaries there
and it was awesome to get to visit with people I have not seen in so
long and talk to good friends. I spent a long time talking to Elder
Mckeon. He is definitely one of <span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">my
favorite companions I have had, it is kind of a shame we were only together
for 6 weeks, but it was nice to talk to him. He gave me</span> updates on how
all those awesome people in Cape are doing and everyone</span> is doing good!
That woman named Selina who had the debt issue that ended up getting
baptized, her 10 year old son got baptized on Friday so that was really
exciting to hear! I was pretty happy about that! But yeah, President did
a great job instructing on the importance of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">serving
the Lord out of love. Love for Him and love for the people we are
teaching. It was awesome. He taught using D&C 88:83-85 and we went</span> through
it one by one. I encourage you to go read it, it has a lot more meaning
as a missionary I guess, but still pretty cool! But we talked about how
much better everything is when you are serving out of love for the Lord
as opposed to selfish desires or out of fear. It was awesome and I loved
it. Signing the shirt was pretty awesome too I must say. But
yeah, we had a great meeting, we got to the station to get a car back
and oh no! There were no more cars going to Swedru! Honestly I was not
too upset, I was fine to spend a night in Cape, but we did have 4 other
missionaries and so we couldn’t sleep there. The Assistants went to get
the van because they were going to drive us <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">back to
Swedru themselves. After about 30 mins of waiting for them a tro tro
pulled up that was going to Swedru so we got in and sailed</span> off. We got
home late, but we did get home! So that was a fun little adventure I
guess. But yeah, that’s what’s been going on for the most part. We have
continued our planning for the activities and Elder Dube is coming,
along with the Church News from Accra. Oh and Bishop wants to stick E. Kaiser
and I on the radio to do some advertising because he knows a guy or two
who will allow us to do that....so yeah we are going on the air
apparently haha. This is a pretty intense activity I must say! We are
doing a parade around Swedru on the 19th with all the wards to promote
it and we are going to hand out flyers to the onlookers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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good p-day other than the lack of emailing. We</span> went to Winneba and went
to the beach where everyone played games and hung out. It was pretty
fun. Then we went for a FHE with the other elders in our apt to one of
their members and got fed fufu and so that was a bonus. So it’s been
nice! Tonight we have an activity with the YSA's and we are watching
Meet the Mormons and then tomorrow is MLC. Thursday we are going on
exchanges and we have a YM/YW soccer game/ward council and then Saturday
we have the baptisms! So there are a lot of cool things going on this week,
should be sweet! You asked about the things I like getting in packages,
well kitkats and twix is a personal favorite. I like the socks and ties.
One elder in our apt gets Velveeta and that is AWESOME because every
morning now we eat omelets with cheese. I mean, there really isn’t
anything I have not liked that you have sent. It’s all great, but those
are some of the favorites. And the CTR rings everyone loves! My pants
are doing good, they are holding on. I have not bought any clothes in
Ghana I don’t think, it’s kind of slim pickins. I needed shoe laces once and
looked everywhere and couldn’t find any. I had to ask a member in Cape
to get me some and she couldn’t find them either. I asked her to try
again and finally she got some and they were pretty terrible. So maybe
that is another good word of advice to other missionary moms haha, send
shoe laces! I am ok with them now BTW haha. Thanks for everything
though, you are the BEST! Talk to you later!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Haha I forgot that was today,</span> pretty cool though! I am happy to report
that both packages made it safe and sound into my hands this week, so
THANK YOU!!! You are the absolute best! The shirts are perfect, a little
baggy for West Africa fashion, but they look fine for back home fashion
so I am gonna wear them with some American Pride rather than tailoring
them like most would. Thank you so much for them and for the shoes,
which are <span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">awesome,
and for everything else! We made the no bake peanut butter thing last
night and it is gone now...so it was delicious! Oh and</span> thanks for
sending the pics, Adam is getting big indeed, pretty crazy!</span> I totally
spaced on emailing him last week, so I will attempt to do that today. We
were at another internet cafe and I was about to start typing up my
email to you and the power went out...so we have moved to a better location.
But yeah, the week has been a lot better than last week! We have found,
we are teaching, we are continuing to find! Oh and we have 1 baptism for
this Sunday! It will be the easiest baptism I have ever had out here! It’s
the Bishops mom and he has taught her everything! All the lessons, so we
have reviewed with her a bit and that’s it! She is prepared though and
has a strong support system in her awesome Bishop son so we are pretty
excited for her. Oh and her other family members are members as well so
that is a plus. So she is going to be on for the weekend! The family of
3 we were hoping for had to be pushed back to the 6th because we have
not been able to see them very much this week and we still have a bit
more to teach them. Although they are ready, we still need to teach them
before baptism. That’s a good thing though in my opinion, it strengthens
people so they will remain strong forever. So we are workin on them!
I went on exchanges with a great missionary named Elder Day this week. He
is from Delta and has been out for 9 months now. We had a good day, he
is a nice guy and we get along well. He is a big hunter and promised to
take me hunting when he gets back, so I got that to look forward to! But
we had a good day, we taught a Muslim woman who came to church a few
months ago, but I don’t think she will really go anywhere right now, she
said she wants to be a Muslim but wants to visit our church sometimes.
So we will keep working on her to see what happens, but her husband
banned her from coming so...but you never know what could happen! We did
have a nice day though, and all week we have had nice days. I have
enjoyed the week; it has really sped on by! I couldn’t believe it was Monday
again! We have been planning some activities for June with the ward as well;
they want to make June a<br />
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month. So we have made plans for 2 activities a week during the month
with the grand activity an open house on the 20th and then a</span> big
sacrament meeting on the 28th with President Stevenson and Elder Dube of
the Seventy. Yeah so as you can see it’s gonna be pretty serious! We are
poppin out general authorities and mission presidents for cryin' out
loud! Haha pretty sweet, we will see how it all comes together! The bishop is
really taking the lead on most everything which is so cool! He is
getting everything coordinated and is doing a fantastic job! We are
going to watch Meet the Mormons on the 2nd. Elder Kaiser got it sent to
him so we are going to take advantage of it! Then on the 6th we are
going to have a day of outdoor games at the church. They have repainted
the interior and exterior of the chapel recently so it looks brand new.
I hope it all works out and we are able to do a lot of good missionary
work from it all. It will be a community event! Fun for all! <span style="background: white;">Oh did I
mention that this Friday we are going to Cape? President has started
doing devotionals for the missionaries who are preparing to go</span> home to
keep them motivated so ours is this Friday. It will be sweet! I am
pretty excited about that! It will be cool and also nice to see some
people again I have not seen in a long time.<br />
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love the crazy</span> things that happen because they make for good stories
later right? ;) Sadly I did not get any meal pics of the pig roast,
sorry! But we ate it with boiled casava, tomato stew and coke! So it was a feast! It was really tasty I must
say! Thanks for all you do and say though, you truly are the BEST! I love
you so much! I feel bad because my emails I fear are getting a bit shorter,
but know that I know this work is the Lord's very work. Nothing is more
important than having and living the Gospel. That is what this life is
about! How blessed we are to have it in our possession. It is Life.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677239277611730476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4126300149182026121.post-81633349506782303152015-05-19T23:21:00.000-07:002015-05-19T23:21:28.673-07:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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am doing good. Yeah things are going on good here. It’s been a bit of a hectic
week, but it’s been good. <span style="background: white;">We finally</span> were
able to watch conference yesterday, it was awesome </span>and we saw it in English too so that’s
always a plus! <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Elder Holland gave such an</span> awesome talk
on the atonement, I loved it so much! The Lord is there to make all
things right. We do live in a fallen world, but through the Savior there
will be order and peace in the world to come. All things will be made
right and all will stand to feel His loving arms around them. How
wonderful it will be! On the note of Elder Larsen being the new
Assistant, yeah isn't that awesome! I have gotten to know him a bit out
here and yeah he is a great missionary. He will do a great job and it
will be nice to see him more. I was pretty excited to hear it was him!
And man that is so crazy that those people are getting married and
serving missions and stuff, life is moving forward eh? So strange but
cool! I am doing good though, the week has been crazy but good. A little
long but still nice! We gave our report from MLC and one thing we talked
about was budgeting our money. Well when we told the zone that Pres wants
people to budget better, there were a few who didn't like that. And I guess
they thought it was my idea or something. People got kind of angry at me haha. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">On Wednesday almost all day we did transfers. A lot
easier than in</span> Cape but took more time. We just had to send one person
off ourselves and then let the district leaders deal with their own
districts so that was nice. We then went to Winneba to pick up the new
people since the District leader in Winneba got transferred out. Got
them on their way and went back to Swedru! It was funny because there
were some new sisters and we put them in a taxi to go to their apartment
and the taxi driver’s battery died. So, bare handed he undid the battery
from the car, used another cars live battery to jumpstart it only using
the wires and then reconnected the battery bare handed. We saw that
and tried to switch cars, but he wouldn't let us. Well, 10 seconds later
it died again so we switched cars and got a lower price because they
wasted our time. Gotta love the crazy things you see! But yeah, the last
few weeks we have been so busy with other things that teaching
investigators has been kind of 2nd priority...but this week we FINALLY
had time to proselyte most of the week and we found out that we have
lost a lot of investigators! So we spent a lot of the days finding and
working with members to find people. It was kind of stressful, but we
found a lot of promising people to work with! So that is great! This
week we will be seeing most of them! We have 3 baptisms planned for the
30th, a mom and 2 of her kids! So that is exciting! The rest of the
family will hopefully be baptized later! But the three of them are ready
now so we will move forward! She fed us fufu yesterday after church and
it was great! On that subject, the worst food I have had is probably
some fufu. We had some this week and it was just terrible, the soup was
just garbage! There is a lot of fufu that is just nasty, usually made by
people and not chop bars. Most of the time fufu is good, but sadly sometimes
it is just horrible! It’s my favorite food in Ghana and my least
favorite ;) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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week. We spent some time visiting members,</span> making them smile and want to
help us, seeking out new people and all that good stuff! It’s nice! And no, the packages have not made it
into my hands yet...though one is just sitting at the mission home! The
AP's forgot to bring it, so I will probably have to wait until the 29th
when we go to Cape. But thanks in advance! ;) As for school, maybe you
should switch that class for me; I am thinking the Communications/public speaking
class sounds a bit better and more useful. That’s what education is about
right? Using what you learn? I don’t want to waste my time going to plays
haha... Hmmm. [Mom and Brady are trying to plan his college schedule for
him, hopefully he’ll be happy with it and won’t hate us for the choices we make
haha!] Well I think that’s about it from Ghana! I am doing good, happy, healthy,
working hard! So all is well! Thanks for everything, you are de
BEST!!!!!! Medo wo! (Love you!)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Hello again! Its been soooo long! Haha but yeah it was awesome to get </span><span style="background-color: white;">to see and talk to you guys. Indeed it was a bit frustrating, but all </span><span style="background-color: white;">in all it was successful! I am glad that after the difficult Skype I just called </span><span style="background-color: white;">though haha! </span><span style="background-color: white;">I am happy you were able to have a happy Mother's Day and that </span><span style="background-color: white;">everyone took good care of ya! Sounds like it was a fun day and that </span><span style="background-color: white;">you had lots of fun stuff going on. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">We had a fun time with the pig </span><span style="background-color: white;">roast! We killed the little guy at 4 am and fired him up. We had a </span><span style="background-color: white;">member prepare us boiled cassava and stew to eat it with and we bought </span><span style="background-color: white;">a bunch of cokes and sprites to enjoy with Wilbur. So it was </span><span style="background-color: white;">successful! </span><span style="background-color: white;">Yeah I guess I really don't have too much to say, but again I do love </span><span style="background-color: white;">you so much! Thanks for the encouragement and all the support. I will </span><span style="background-color: white;">definitely continue to work hard, this is the best work! Its kind of </span><span style="background-color: white;">hard to talk about over Skype I guess, but really I do love this work </span><span style="background-color: white;">and the people. I cherish it all. I will be sad to leave...Ghana is </span><span style="background-color: white;">such a peaceful and wonderful place with such wonderful people. I will </span><span style="background-color: white;">work hard to do the work! </span><span style="background-color: white;">But yeah It's a new transfer here so we will be working hard to do all </span><span style="background-color: white;">we can to help others! I love you and am grateful for you! You're the </span><span style="background-color: white;">best! [He is staying put in Swedru this transfer and so is his companion as well as the other companionship in his apartment. He was very happy about that since they all get along really well and he is LOVING Swedru!]</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677239277611730476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4126300149182026121.post-16457826845996173942015-05-05T23:58:00.000-07:002015-05-05T23:58:37.762-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Hey good morning! Glad
you got the pictures, the </span><span style="line-height: 27.6000003814697px;">WiFi</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 27.6000003814697px;">wasn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> working</span></span> very well yesterday so I
am glad that it worked! Yes most of them are from Swedru, I can’t
remember sending any from Cape, but maybe there were some! As for
the Skyping, yep it should work and should be no problem! We are going
to borrow some of the members’ tablets and go use the church's WiFi so
it will be both free and fast! The only fear is that Ghana will decide
to be a 3rd world country that day and turn off the power...hopefully it
will work out though! If not then I will call you guys! Sounds like you
guys had fun at the Farmers Bonanza though, Farmers always does quality
celebrations right? And baseball is going well by all indications so
that is cool! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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filled with ups and downs I guess you could say haha!</span> Monday the
Assistants spent the night and we had fun eating ice cream and playing a
game called Phase 10. IDK if you have played it, but it’s a card game kind of
like Uno. It’s really fun though, I had never played it before! The next
day we had Presidents interviews for the other two districts in the
zone. So we instructed again and watched Meet the Mormons again! They
are painting our church and we told them not to touch the Relief Society
room so we could use it only to show up in the morning to see they had
painted it...so we had to use the chapel. But it was fine! Also, we were
gonna use the TV and DVD player at the church but when we went into the
library to grab the DVD player somebody had cut the power cord off...so
that is interesting hahaha! But we were able to borrow one from a member
so it all worked out! Such a good movie! We ended the meeting pretty
late and right after we went and had Stake PEC in Winneba. It went well;
it is really different than in Cape. The ones here are more casual and
not very direct, so I liked the ones in Cape a lot better but it’s cool
to see different ways to do it. I guess as long as everything gets
accomplished it’s ok! But yeah, interesting to watch how different people
do different things. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;">We have been trying all
week to buy a pig! We were hoping that today</span> we would be having a pig
roast with the zone, but it has been pushed back to next week due to
problems obtaining Wilbur. The pig party will be for the 28 of us in the
zone! Yep we have some poly's in the zone so we are doing it the right
way! We are also getting a goat hopefully too, so that will be cool!
We went out and found a pig farm in no other place than the jail yard.
The inmates actually do a pretty good job of raising a bunch of little
hams, so we went and pulled a "Red Lobster." AKA we picked out
the animal we wanted to dine upon. The guy told us we could come back on
Saturday and take our little porky friend. So we went on Saturday and
the guy wasn't there...so we will be pushing that back to this Saturday
haha. But yeah, the inmates do a good job of raising meat products. We
walked about 6 miles that day because we saw a signboard for a pig farm
and we called the number and the lady assured us they were only like 200
meters down the road. I think she meant 2000 because it really was like
2 miles. And we got there and all the pigs were pregnant so they couldn't sell us any...so we walked back...good workout haha! This week has
actually been really slow for teaching, partly because of the pig hunt.
But not entirely actually. People have been in Winneba at a festival all
week so it’s been hard to find people in the house. We did get to
go on exchanges though. I went with E. Collins who is a great
missionary. I have known him since I was in Akonfudi. He is a really
powerful missionary and we went to his area. In the afternoon we ate
some fufu and it was quite delicious and then we went to work! Their
area is really good, it’s in Swedru town and we had fun. But around 5 my
stomach really began to bother me. I just felt like somebody had punched
me in the stomach. But we moved forward. A few hours later it felt worse
and we were walking to go back to the apartment at the end of the day
when my stomach decided it was gonna throw in the towel. We were just on
a darkened street, but there were people around and I knew I was going
to vomit. So I meandered over to a dark corner near a shack and
proceeded to purge the fufu from my system. There were some old Twi
women in the hut who came out and asked what I was doing whilst in the
act of vomiting. I calmly looked up at them and asked, "Et te
sein?" Then I continued. E. Collins bought me some water though so
that was nice of him. I felt about a million times better after that
though haha! We took a taxi back to the apt, I picked up my stuff, and
then we went back to my apt. I got in bed and slept! I slept until like
9:30 the next morning. I felt a lot better after that so we went and
cleaned our chapel, came back and showered and taught a couple lessons.
I feel 100% now though! So that is a fun story I have to tell forever. I
threw up in Ghana in the street! Luckily nobody saw except 2 old women!
Oh and no I have not received a package yet, but I think I will get
it Wednesday at MLC. So we will see! I have not gotten the rings out yet but
those are easy to hand out. I feel kind of weird handing out bracelets
to be perfectly honest. Probably because they are so dang nice and it
just feels kind of weird to give bracelets to the young women here....IDK
haha. But CTR rings I will hand out like candy. They are also very easy
to carry around! [I send him the little brightly colored rubber CTR
rings to give out. The kids love them!] As for the Liberia and SL rumors, I can
say they are true! But from what I understand, yes a Mission President
will be called and sent out but for now that is it. He will go and
organize everything again with the aid of local leaders and missionaries
and slowly foreign missionaries will be brought back. That’s what I have
heard though. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On a more spiritual side, during sacrament I was
pondering upon the atonement and how wonderful it is and I read through
the words of hymn 169, a hymn I have never sung in Ghana yet is just
beautiful and so great. It is definitely one of my favorite sacrament
hymns. I love all 3 verses so much but I just love the 3rd verse:
As now we praise thy name with song; The blessings of this day; Will linger
in our thankful hearts; And silently we pray; For courage to accept thy
will; To listen and obey: We love thee Lord; Our hearts are full; We'll
walk thy chosen way. That is just soooo great to me! I love it. How
great is the Lord, how wonderful is His love and how endless is His
mercy! Truly my heart is full when I think of how much He has done for
me. I will walk His chosen way. It is my chosen way. The way to eternal
life is only through Him and it is by following Him that we are able to
attain it. It is to keep His commandments
and to love all around us. It is to lift those in need and love the
Father. That is His chosen way. How can it not be our chosen way? We
must have the courage to accept His will, to listen and obey. Those
words in addition to the reverence in which they are sung express
emotions that cannot be expressed in any other way. I love the Lord. He
is there. He is always with us. He wants us to be happy always. That is
why He does everything He does. Some ask why terrible things then happen
in this life and the answer is the same as why you let a child fall when
learning to ride a bike. Because they are learning! They are becoming
more by falling and being hurt than they could by sitting in a cozy
chair. This life is not the end. The eternities are before us all and as
we courageously submit our will to that of the Father's we are preparing
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<span style="background: white;">And that
is what is going on with me! I am now healthy ;), I am happy, and doing
well! We are working hard, though we are always busy haha!</span> But I
love this work, it is the Lords work and it is the greatest</span> honor to be
a part of it. I love you, you are the BEST! HAPPY ALMOST MOTHERS DAY!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677239277611730476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4126300149182026121.post-67978641384218931252015-04-29T21:07:00.000-07:002015-04-29T21:13:07.747-07:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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Please, good morning</span> Madame. Everything is going great!" There is
the translation for you haha! Take that Google! But that same greeting
works for this week as well so there ya go! I am indeed doing great! Things
here in Swedru are on fire! We had 5 baptisms on Saturday and it was
great! We were able to help some families be united and so that was
awesome! 3 of the 5 were referrals from members and two were part member
families so it was great! We baptized a girl named Faustina Donkor,
Selina Korankye, Mabel Korankye, George Williams, and George Williams.
No seriously, they both have the same name. They are brothers, 4 months separate.
They have the same father but different moms and they live with their
grandma who is a member and their sister who is a member. We call them by
their Fante names which are Kojo and Kweku, so that makes it a lot easier
haha. Oh and FYI my Fante name is Kwame Mensah. Names in Fante are
determined by your birth. Kwame is for those born on Saturday and Mensah
means the 3rd born of boys. So there ya go! But yeah the baptism was
awesome. They all were there on time and it was a great experience. The
next day they were all at church early which is rather remarkable and
they were confirmed! So what a successful week! We are hoping to have 4
baptisms at least in May, we have lots of promising people we need to
work with, the only problem is we have been SO BUSY!!!!!! I swear we don’t
ever have a regular day to proselyte. It would be so nice to just have a
week of regular proselyting. But that’s ok; we are doing other things that are
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<span style="background: white;">We had to
go do baptismal interviews on Wednesday all over the zone. First we went
to Winneba to do some and well, I made a 10 year old boy</span> cry...yeah I
interviewed him and he literally did not know anything at</span> all that the missionaries
taught him. So as much as I wanted to say it’s ok and he will learn
later, I just couldn’t pass him. I very tenderly told him that the
missionaries were gonna come back and teach him some things and then in
a few weeks he would get baptized, but after we closed he started crying
a bit. So I felt like a bad man for that...Then we rode the 30 mins back
to Swedru to get in a car to go 1 hr to Odoben to do an interview. I
interviewed another 10 year old which made me nervous haha, but this
girl actually knew everything dang well! So that was nice! When we
finished it was dark and we were scared we wouldn’t be able to get a car
back to Swedru but we were blessed to get the last chopper out of Nam.
I went on exchanges this week to the town of Winneba. Fun fact for you,
Winneba was originally called Windy Bay by the British but the Ghanaians
back then couldn’t pronounce that so it just became Winneba. But it’s a
nice place. I went with an elder named E. Obia who is actually from the
same branch as E. Odongo oddly enough. But it was a rather interesting
day haha. Firstly, I had to do another interview for ANOTHER kid and we
went to his house and he was not there. Then we walked to his friend’s
house and he was not there. So we walked back to his house and found
him! But there was a pastor there who tried to argue with us for 20 minutes
so we had to get away from him and then I was able to sit down and
interview him. E. Obia assured me he spoke English. But I started the
interview and quickly discovered he in fact did not haha....So then we
had to walk BACK to his friend’s house where an RM also lives and have
him translate. The boy did good though and passed the interview. As you
can see, I walked the same path about 10 times that day hahaha. Also,
we started teaching this really awesome lady from Nigeria this week. She
came to Ghana to live with a friend, but when she got to Accra she lost
all contact with the friend and had nowhere to go. She was found by one
of the High Councilors who lives in our ward and he brought her to his
house so now she is living with his family. She has a 3 year old boy and
a 1 year old daughter. Her name is Grace and it would appear the Lord
has brought her here to learn the Gospel. She has been prepared. We
taught her L.1 about the Apostasy and Restoration yesterday and it went
GREAT! She came to church yesterday too and really enjoyed it and she
committed to be baptized. So that is exciting! Always so interesting to
see how the Lord does His work! Happy to be here in Swedru! </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Yesterday Bishop Acheampong proselyted</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> with
us and we visited some less active members and he helped sort out some
disagreements between some of the members. He is such an awesome guy
though. He is finishing his PhD right now; he is a really smart guy! We
had fun going with him because he is just a cool guy. He was comparing
the village we were in to Price and Kumasi to Provo because one of the
guys we visited moved from Kumasi to that village. He was like, “Why
would he do that? That’s like leaving Provo to go to Price! That place
is a joke! If you are not a miner or a janitor your life is gonna be
terrible!" It was pretty funny. Did I mention he graduated from USU
and Weber?</span></div>
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any</span> lately from the pen drive because others in the apt. usually have
something playing so there has been no need really. Sounds like your
girls camp thing is coming along nicely! Sounds like a good idea and it
will go great I am sure! As for the snail video, [I told him I was
watching a video I had taken of him at girls camp before he left on his mission, when he ate a snail as a dare. He was there as a Priesthood leader] yes I have eaten a
lot of worse things such as giant snail, goat ear, goat eye, cat liver, cat
intestine, cat heart, dog intestine etc...Sooooo...yeah haha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">That is
just nuts that Hadyn went to prom...what the heck. And what’s up with Adam
driving?! He is 13! That is just wrong! Well, just wait til dad gives
him a little bit of fire for something and he won’t want</span> to drive for a
while hahaha!</span> [Hadyn is his cousin who is a sophomore, time flies! I
told him we let Adam drive around the church parking lot :) <span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;">] Tomorrow is when we will watch Meet
the Mormons again, I am excited it</span> will be cool! This week should be
pretty good though, probably busy as usual! But I am trying to take more
pics, I will try and send them tomorrow maybe if I get a chance! Thanks
for everything you do for me and thanks for breaking through UVU
security to get me registered! Make sure I get a sweet schedule k? If
not I will just not come back home. Haha but seriously... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it is to know where</span> His truth lies. He has a prophet, He has apostles.
He has given us the way that leads to Eternal Life. The simplicity of
the road depends on our willingness to follow. Thanks again, LOVE
YOU!!!!!!!!!!!</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Me pa wo kyo, maayke Madame. Be biaa boko! Haha
yep so good luck with that one ;) I am doing great! Sounds like you are doing
great as well! That is cool you got to go to E. Larsen’s homecoming and that
you were able to meet those guys! They are great guys for sure, miss them! That’s
awesome Lelea and Cavvy did that song, I remember they sang it once for a
mission meeting and it was awesome! Those two can really sing. Wow you are
pretty far in the BoM now! You have passed me actually haha! I am in Helaman 4
right now I do believe. That is awesome though that you have noticed the
blessings that have come! Good job!</span><br />
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Man this has been a pretty busy week to be perfectly honest haha! Where to
start!? Well I guess on Tuesday we had a combined district meeting. That was
the first time I have seen the whole zone together actually so that was nice.
There really are not too many elders from Utah actually but there are a number
from the US. But yeah we instructed and reported on our MLC visit from the
previous week. It was good! I really enjoyed the meeting and getting to chat
with everyone a bit. It was nice! And the rainy season is on its way for sure
because afterwards we went and got food at a chop bar and got stuck in there
because of the rain for like 30 minutes! But no problem! We were actually
supposed to go on exchanges that day but the elder we were gonna exchange with
had a fever so that had to get axed. So hopefully in the coming weeks we will.
Wednesday was the day we put on our family counselor hats (or socks or whatever
article of clothing it may be) and took care of problems. There is a recent
convert who promised two girls he would marry them and obviously that is
causing some problems haha. Who would have thought! So we went to visit him and
one of those girls was at his house and took that opportunity to complain to
us. So we had to tell her not everyone is perfect, that what he did wasn't right, but we can’t force him to do anything and he needs to take care of it.
We also met a less active woman who hasn't come to church since she was
baptized. She wouldn't open up to us but after a few minutes of talking she
opened up and told us exactly her problem. Apparently she is offended by a girl
who is a member who is not keeping the commandments but still goes to church.
So I guess in her mind that is a good reason for her not to keep the commandments.
That one I don’t understand. Somebody else has a problem so you’re gonna let
that create a problem for you? Ok! But Thursday we had to travel to deliver
some supplies to the elders who we couldn't go on exchanges with and it is FAR.
We took an hour and a half tro tro ride to their area. It was a lot like the Indiana
Jones ride! Good old roads in the bush! Yeah it’s a place called Odoben and it’s
pretty remote. But we made it there alive! They took us to a chop bar then we came
back and met POURING rain again. We got there just as it finished actually and
all the 5 foot deep 3 foot wide gutters were just full. The streets were
flooded in some places. Further evidence that rainy season is knocking on the
door. Or here haha. And then we have Friday! Friday we had about 5 different
things going on. We of course had Presidents interviews, we had to give an
instruction, we had to have our people interviewed for baptism and we had to
teach institute. So that was a fun day to prepare for haha. But the interviews
were just awesome. The assistants gave a great instruction on working with members
then we gave a nice instruction on working with recent converts and less active
members. It went well! We were able to tie it in nicely to the AP's instruction
so it was interesting for people. Sis. Stevenson instructed on adjusting to the
challenges of missionary life and then we ate lunch and watched Meet the
Mormons! It was awesome! I missed the beginning because I was being
interviewed, but I came in during the US Naval coaches part and saw the rest!
Man that is a POWERFUL movie! I really enjoyed it! We get to see it again next week
because, as you pointed out, our zone was not complete! Only one district got
interviewed then, the other two are next Tuesday. So that will be good! I am
excited to see the whole thing! I had a nice interview with President though.
We were supposed to share with him things we learned from personal study so it was nice to
talk to him about what I have been studying. I am of course studying in Helaman
right now but also I have been going through Preach My Gospel as well. I just
went through all the commitments we are to extend to people and thought of the
blessings that come from keeping those commitments and now I am finding those
blessings in the scriptures. So that is nice! This weekend has been stake
conference as well so the past two days that’s what we have been doing. The
power was out Friday night and our battery died as well! The apartment is not
in a breezy place so it was about 500000000000000000000 degrees during the
night. I woke up just sweating like crazy. I ended up using a Plan of Salvation
pamphlet to fan myself. Oh man everyone slept for a cumulative of 1.5 hours
that night. So Saturday stake conference was a bit hard to pay attention to haha.
But it was actually really good. President was there and spoke and he did
awesome. I always like listening to him speak. So on the agenda for today is we
are going to Takoradi actually....E. Kaiser needs Sis. Julander to cut his hair
as he is balding and only she can cut it well. So we are going from one corner
of the mission to the other! Haha that will be sweet though! Oh and as for
Mothers Day which is quickly approaching
I am 90% sure Skyping will happen! The church has WiFi and a computer then
Bishop has a laptop so we will more than likely do that! So prepare! Prepare accordingly
for the day is not far removed! As for the pic of me in the suit, when I was
packing for transfers in Cape I put it on. The whole story about it sitting in
the mission home is the biggest hoax in the world. I have had it at the bottom
of my bag for the past 20 months. So I took it out, ironed it, and decided to
put it on haha. I do look good don’t I! Um no I have not yet handed any of the
bracelets out yet. I will get on that one....sorry. I have not yet videoed myself
either to be perfectly honest. I moved around more than Obama this past week so
hopefully this week will be less hectic and I will be able to! The work moves
forward. 5 baptisms this week, referrals are coming in steadily, Swedru is awesome. This is God’s work to save His children. He is in
control of everything. I am so thankful to be able to witness His hand in all
things here at this time. I know He lives. I know it is true. Nobody is exempt
from being able to know that. He invites all to "come and see." If we
seek we shall truly find. That I know is true. You are the BEST mom in the whole world! Thank you for everything you do for
me! I love you so much! Talk to you soon!</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the name of the zone FYI haha! We did not get the chance to watch Meet the
Mormons yet, but this Friday we will! I am pretty excited about that! I am glad
you enjoyed the pics! A lot of them are old pics, I have not yet been able to
take too many pictures here sadly...I will work on that though haha! Glad you
enjoyed the one with the African shirt! Man there is a shop called Woodin which
is just super classy and there was one in Cape. Usually all their stuff is
crazy expensive but they were doing a buy one get one free so I got two shirts
for 80 cedis! So I have two! They are really comfortable though. But glad to
hear about the week, sounds like good things are going on back home! Sorry you
missed E. Lelea's homecoming, he was a zone leader close by so I got to know
him. He is a good guy! But that is cool about the kid from Kaysville coming
here! He will LOVE IT!!! Ghana is such a wonderful place! Oh and the district
leaders are 3 here. There is E. Collins from Northern California, E. Richards
from I think Arizona and E. Andrews and I can’t remember where he is from...but
they are all good guys. I received the package with the kitkats in it! Thanks a
million for that deliciousness! I can’t even remember what else was in there
haha! But I will keep my eye out for the other! My shirts are getting worse and
worse each day so it’s a good thing they are coming haha! Oh and the shoes!
Some dress shoes are the ones in need at the moment. I am wearing the
Rockports, they are nice! I will work on handing out the bracelets as well. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Well the week was good, kind of weird haha but
not really. On Tuesday we had district meeting and it went very well, then we
went and taught a nice lesson. After that we packed some things and headed for
CAPE! Because the AP's invited us to spend the night with them since MLC was the
next morning. Usually the ride to Cape is about 2 hours, but we were in the
space shuttle [crazy tro tro] and got there in like less than an hour and a
half. So we had some time to kill in Cape. We went and bought some nice things
like pens and food from the European store Cape has. It was nice! Man I only
had been gone for like a week, but oh how I missed Cape. It was nice to walk
those streets. Haha I sound so nostalgic, but it was nice. It was hard not to
go and visit people, but that would probably have not been the best idea. But
yeah we and some of the other zone leaders from afar went to the AP's apartment.
We decided to go get pizza and so we went into town to this place, sat down and
looked at the menu then the lady told us they were out of cheese. She wasn't going to tell us, somebody asked a question and that just came up. So we left
haha. Then we went to Hayfords and it took FOREVER so we ended up taking the
pizzas back to their place and ate and played cards for a while. The next
morning we got up, took a HOT SHOWER!!!! And went to MLC. It was a good
meeting! We talked about how we can better teach investigators about tithing
because that is something the wards are having a hard time with. We talked
about that and working with recent converts and getting referrals. So it was a successful
meeting! We got back on a tro and took the voyage back to Fort Knox. We were
able to go and teach some good lessons though. We are preparing 5 people for
baptism on the 25th so we have just been kind of working with them. It’s been good!
We taught a man named K and he was unique because he is the only Ghanaian I
have taught who does not believe in God. He is the twin brother of a member. He
was really stubborn saying we can’t prove to him God exists and he wants a
sign. He is like Korihor or something. Very interesting though. But we taught
him faith is believing in things you cannot see, so we left it at that and
hopefully this week we will be able to go see him again. But lots of people are
doing great here; the members are great here and help us a lot. But Sunday was
interesting. It rained HARD in the morning so we knew what that meant-nobody
will come to church. Lo and behold when we got there it was just us and the 2nd
counselor haha! After about 20 mins or so we had about 10 people so we started and
by the end of church it doubled haha, but none of our investigators came! Oh
well, gotta kind of smile about that one hahaha! But yeah, that’s been about it
this week! Kind of slow, but it’s been fun. I am getting along great with E.
Kaiser, he is a cool guy. We have fun together so that’s good. I am happy and
healthy again! But glad everyone is doing good and all is well! You are the
BEST!!!!!! I love you so much. Thank you for working so hard and doing all you
can for me! You are a saint! Love you so much!</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Gooood Morning from Swedru! Thanks for the wonderful
email, glad to hear everyone is doing great and you had a great conference/Easter
weekend! I am doing good, it’s been a bit of a long week as transfer weeks usually
are, but I am happy and healthy! Saying goodbyes were definitely not too fun,
but as I said I am sure one day I will see those people again whether here as a
missionary or after! Basically Monday and Tuesday that’s all we did was say
goodbye to people. Oh and pack. But yeah Wednesday transfers came and they went
quite smoothly I must say! Luckily it was not a very big transfer, other than
Cape Zone which lost like everyone. But yeah it was good. I met E. Johnson at the
station and he looked good, ready to go! He is on the opposite side of the
mission from me, but it was nice to talk to him for a bit. Yep I am here now
though and have made the transition. It was pretty nice and easy I must say (minus
the goodbyes). But yeah, Swedru is a cool place! Our apartment is REALLY nice!
It has a battery that powers the house when the power goes out, we have a
really nice washing machine, we have warm water if you leave the water pump on
for a bit, nice tiled floor, it’s sweet! The area is absolutely massive because
they pulled a companionship out of here so we now have their area! Haha so it’s
pretty massive. We have a really diverse area though. There is city like Cape,
small town, and village bush so it’s pretty cool I must say. The really nice
chapel pic I sent is our chapel! It’s cool! The bishop here is just awesome; he
actually lived in Utah for 8 years. He graduated from USU and Weber, he has two
daughters who are like 12 and 9 who both were born in Utah and they can’t
speak Twi or Fante haha! But he is a cool guy and really has a handle on the
place. We are planning for 11 baptisms for the end of the month here so that is
pretty cool eh?! I am still figuring this place and all the people out, but it
shall come in time! So far it’s been just great though. E. Kaiser is a cool
guy, we are getting along great. We will have a good time together I’m sure. We
also have E. Collette from New Mexico and E. Tu Akoi from Tonga in the apt and
they are both awesome so it’s all good! Oh and our apartment is tighter than
Fort Knox. There is a 7 foot cement wall with razor wire surrounding the
apartment and bars ALL OVER the windows and doors hahaha! I feel like Obama! I
guess a while ago people kept breaking into the apartment so that is the safeguards
they made! Makes me laugh because in Akonfudi we didn't have any security
features at all. But the area is safe I promise, I just thought it was kind of
funny. That’s the wonderful thing about Ghana, I would feel perfectly safe
sleeping outside. Nobody does anything here. Well, usually I guess according to
the military grade installations. But yeah, I sold my guitar to the WML in Cape
right before I left and used the money to buy some of the souvenirs. I was only
able to buy one nativity set right then because that’s all they had, but they
are gonna make more and E. Mckeon will get one for me! No wahala (problem)! Oh
and E. Larsen told me this crazy cool washer in the apt here is mine now so E.
Assibey gets mine. So that’s what’s going on in my finances here haha! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We had a
pretty good Easter Sunday though. Sadly pretty low key, not a lot of things
talked about in church or anything, but we had a FHE with some people after
Church and talked about the power of the Atonement. Without it there would be
no resurrection, there would be no way we could ever dwell in God's presence.
We could never overcome anything. There would be no hope. But because of Christ
there is hope. He is the resurrection, He is the Life. He is everything! How
great a gift God has given us. We must now use it by following Christ and obeying
Him in all things that He has commanded us. That is where joy and peace are
found. Literally. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">After the FHE we got fed more fufu than can be healthy. Oh
man when we saw it we were scared haha. It was about 4 lbs of fufu I would say.
But we are men so we hunkered down in front of it, dug our heels into the
ground and ate. We finished. Then they put more in. So we ate. We finished.
Then another ball was placed. We cried. We ate. We finished. Then we had to eat
the fish. We did so and felt pretty accomplished. And tired. But it was
delicious so it was ok haha! Fufu is so good! Especially with palmnut soup! Oh
it is delicious! So cool that conference was awesome! I heard they announced a
temple for Ivory Coast! That is so awesome! Those people don’t mess around at all
when it comes to temple work! Man they come in their numbers and perform
soooooo many baptisms! More than any other country I have heard! And they don’t
even have a temple yet! So I am pretty dang happy for them! West Africa is just
racking up the temple count! Good job! But yeah we probably won’t get to see
conference until next month. Or read it. Maybe I can read some from </span><a href="http://lds.org/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #196ad4;">lds.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> but
that’s never as nice as reading it in a Liahona or watching it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh glad you enjoyed the pics! We went into the bishop’s
office for Ward Council and I saw a modem on the wall so I whipped out the
camera and sent some! Then I felt bad about not paying attention to the meeting
so I put it away after sending some...haha next week I will send more! That was
a really powerful Ward Council in case you were wondering (probably not). But
yeah, that is a pretty nice pic of me in a wig eh? I look like a biker or
something. That is Jennifer's wig, I have some other nice pics in it but those
will wait until next week I guess! That’s pretty cool Obama finally decided to
come to Utah. Hey it only took like 8 years eh? Man they call Cape Obama City
because he and his wife visited a while back and only went to Cape, not Accra
or anything. So they like Obama there! Fun fact I guess. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">OH did you know ELDER CAVANESS is going to be my
roommate at UVU?!? E. Larsen told me and then Cavaness emailed me! That will be
pretty sweet! I really like him. It will be fun. But one perk of being in
Swedru is that it’s on the way to Accra and so the ZLs here (yes, I am still a
zone leader) always see the missionaries leaving off since they land at the
stake center for a bathroom break. So we went to see them all off and I got to
see E. Cardon one last time! That was pretty cool. They were all really nervous
about going home! So weird to see those guys leaving! Crazy crazy! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in! We don’t even wear shoes in our room because it’s so nice! The church is
nice but it’s actually pretty old. Still cool though! The internet café here is
good actually, quite fast. We cleaned a new church building today for the other
elders in our apt, so that was fun. I got a haircut from E. Kaiser and it looks
good! I really don’t know yet how the shopping is here as we are a bit out of
Swedru itself. But we will see today! Right after emailing we will go shopping.
I think it’s probably pretty good, not as good as Cape I’m sure though. But that’s
what’s going on here! This week we will have MLC and so that will be cool! I
will be working to get to know the area and people this week so it will be
good! Thanks for everything you do, you are the absolute BEST! LOVE YOU!!!</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What’s up U.S.? Well let me just get the
transfer news out of the way first thing. I am leaving the 54 step perch! I am
being transferred to a city called Swedru (sway-droo). It’s towards Accra more,
never been there before except passing through when coming from the MTC. It’s a
great area from what I have heard, lots of work happening! Oh and the apartment
has a generator and water apparently never goes off sooo YES! But I am really
quite sad to be leaving Cape Coast. I have not been this sad to leave an area
before. I really have loved Cape Coast. I have met some awesome people and made
many great friends here and it’s gonna be hard to say goodbye to them! Not really
looking forward to that at all...But I have worked hard here and seen a lot of
great changes come into people’s lives so for that I am happy and at peace to go!
Kind of sad to leave E. Mckeon after just one transfer. We got along great and
really had fun together so that’s too bad, but my new companion is E. Kaiser
from the US. I don’t really know him, he was in Liberia until Ebola came. But
he seems like a good guy. Today has been a day of washing and packing, after
this I’m going to buy some things from the castle and whatnot so that can be
taken care of for good haha! We have two FHE's for tonight, so it will be time
to say goodbye to people...oh not fun! But I guess one day I will come back to
Cape. For sure when I am going home and hopefully we can come back to Ghana next
year right? But I am excited to see what the future holds in Swedru. Should be
a great time with great blessings! And I will keep my eyes open for E. Johnson
this week! Maybe he will get trained in Swedru, IDK! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well this week has been pretty busy here! The
elders in one area found out last week they were getting replaced by sisters so
we spent all day Wednesday exploring their area so we could show the sisters
around when they come. It rained all morning so when we went to their area it was
all cool and muddy! Have not had to walk through mud since Akonfudi since
everything is paved in Cape! But their area is more remote, it’s called Green
Hill. It’s a cool place though; we hiked up like 4 muddy hillsides which is
always a blast! It was cool to go there though because I saw a lot of their
area I had not seen previously. The next day I went to do some baptismal
interviews in another area I have not gotten to see called Nkanfoa. It’s a
village and I really enjoyed going there and seeing it. I kind of miss being in
villages, they just have character! Swedru is a city like Cape I guess so IDK
if I will see village the rest of my mission. But Nkanfoa is where the mission
home is. Kind of funny, half of Nkanfoa is like really nice big houses for rich
people and the rest is just regular village. Odd contrast haha. Oh and yes we
had our zone conference on Tuesday! It was great, President instructed on
developing "attributes of astonishment" as he talked about how when
you read about monumental successes in the scriptures like Enoch and Zion or
Alma baptizing in the waters of Mormon, all the people shared common attributes
such as faithful leaders, consecration, repentance, obedience and so forth.
We must develop those attributes as well so we can have similar results
in our work! It was awesome! The AP's talked about the need to open our mouths
when talking with everyone and how important it is to be bold. We instructed
about teaching people well about things such as chastity and word of wisdom and
finding out if they have had any problems like abortion or addiction early so
it can be taken care of and addressed as soon as possible. It went well, I really enjoyed the conference! I love being
able to learn from them! We were involved in more marriage counseling a bit
this week. This couple has been fighting a lot I guess. But we took Bishop over
there and he set them straight in Fante for an hour as I daydreamed haha. But
they seemed a lot better after. I might just become a marriage counselor when I
go home haha...not really. OH and guess what I ate this week...some CAT! Oh it
was soooo good! Some of the members made us delicious fufu and cat and OH MAN I
enjoyed it a lot! Such a tender, juicy, flavorful meat! I highly recommend it!
Go catch some poor cat and throw it on the fire! That was on Saturday; also we
had a missionary fireside on Saturday at the chapel as well that we have been
planning for a while. We did a tour of the chapel and took people to the
baptism font, family history center and sacrament hall. President Stevenson came and spoke which was
nice! We had a few new people come and a whole lot of members haha. I kind of
missed most of it because we went to do transfer news about halfway through,
but it sounds like it went well. I will be sure to film some Ghana
documentaries haha! That’s a good idea for sure. Oh and yeah those shirts
should be fine, send em here! Medasi! I am happy to hear you are half way
through the BoM, that is awesome! I am almost done with Alma now, just reading
about lots of wars and so forth, but lots of great spiritual insights come from
it nonetheless. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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am going onward to see what the future holds. I pray it will be fruitful and
wonderful! Can’t wait, I will work hard and serve my best! I know this is God’s
work! I am so privileged to get to serve in such an amazing and wonderful place
with so many amazing people! I get to share the most important message ever! So
great! I love you so much, you are the best! Have a great week!</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Greetings to you from Cape Coast Ghana! I am doing good here, life is pretty
sweet! I got an air shipment this week! The parachute got caught in a tree so I
had to shimmy up there and cut it down with a BIC razor, but it’s in my hands
now. Thank you SO much! [That’s his way of saying he got the box of goodies we
sent him haha!] I got the package on Wednesday! I have been enjoying the BACON!
Thanks</span> haha! Oh on the subject (and sorry to be burdensome) but could
you send a couple white shirts? If you could I would be SO appreciative! You da
best! Maybe like 5? Just short sleeve! Mine are getting a bit seasoned; it’s probably
time to retire a couple of them. I was stirring a cauldron of banku last Monday
and I ripped a big hole in the armpit of one of my shirts...soo that’s too bad!
Probably gonna stir some more tonight seeing as we are going for FHE to eat
banku and we will no doubt help prepare it! So that will be fun! I will try not
to ruin this one though haha! And maybe you could send some more of those rubber CTR rings,
everyone LOVED those! </span></div>
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one but it’s been sweet! We gave a good instruction during our combined
district meeting on Tuesday. We did it on teaching and based it on what E. Dube
taught us last week. We talked about the 5 steps in teaching and it went really
well! Everyone enjoyed it and learned a lot. We had good discussion and did
sweet role plays! I got to go on exchanges twice this week! Yay!...The
first one was on Wednesday with Elder Cooper from Atlanta GA. We came to Ghana
at the same time but he was in Liberia until the Ebola hit. Now he is here! He
is a funny guy, we had fun! Then on Friday I went with Elder Lagaiti from
Samoa. He is pretty new, but it was sweet. He didn't really speak English when
he came but now he can speak pretty well so it’s kind of cool to see how he improved.
We had good times though on both days. Nothing too exciting, just some good
missionary work haha! Here is kind of a cool story from the week though. So we
have a member who is awesome at helping us and she is our friend, her name is J.
She is like 22 and has been a member for like 4 years. Well, she showed us a
photo album of hers and inside were some pics of her dressed not the most
modestly. Nothing too terrible, but still. Soo we decided it would probably be
a pretty good idea to teach her about modesty. Well, we did so. We were kind of
afraid she would get offended or angry at us, especially because she just kind
of stared at the wall the whole time we talked about it. But she ended up being
really interested and asking great questions about movies, music, clothes etc.
She said she was going to go through all her clothes and get rid of everything
not modest which we were pretty dang impressed with! She went and changed right
after the lesson too! She wasn't even dressed bad, but she dressed into a more
modest shirt. She said she was going to stop watching Spanish soap operas (which
are insanely popular here for some reason)! So we were pretty happy at how well
she handled it! She saw it as an opportunity to become better instead of just
getting angry. I guess she knew we were just trying to give her good advice and everything. Then we committed her to teach her friend, a less active recent
convert who just had an abortion, about it as well. She came to church on Sunday
and talked to Bishop and felt great afterwards so we were really happy about that!
So these two have been powerful examples of people willing to change this week!<br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">We did not end up having a baptism this week. We
were hoping to baptize Special K (Maame Kakraba) but due to some Ghana probs (lack
of water) we </span><span style="line-height: 27.6000003814697px;">didn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> do it and we are gonna push it back to the 4th. But yeah it’s
all cool! We have extended some more baptism dates this week so we have 6 up
comings for the next few weeks! Should be pretty sweet! Oh and yeah, this
Saturday transfer news will come! I really want to </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 115%;">stay, but we will see what happens. I have
really enjoyed being with E. Mckeon and yeah we have a sweet apartment. So we
will see what happens. The Lord knows best! I will be sad if I have to leave
Cape, I really enjoy this place. There are some great people here and the work has
been nice! I will be sad! But it’s all good either way! Glad Brady got that job!
That is awesome! And as for the housing,
yeah I feel pretty good about UVU! I am
pretty excited, it will be fun. </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Yeah the water has been
back which has</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> been nice. We have been CLEANING all day today haha! So
we have had a blast! The apartments we visited during exchanges were a
MESS so we decided to make this Monday a zone wide deep cleaning day!</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Well, tomorrow we have a zone conference and
we will be instructing for 30 mins after President, soooo that’s what we will
be up to after our sweet FHE tonight! But yep we
will see what a new week brings! Thanks for everything! You da best! LOVE
YOU!!!</span></div>
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am indeed doing just great, glad to hear you are happy and all is well also!
Thank you so much for handling the accommodation situations! It does indeed
sound like for some reason that is where I need to go. It sounds like a good
place, good location, good ward etc. So thank you very much for being a champion
lodging organizer. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Ah I don’t really like thinking about all this
home stuff...So let’s get down to what’s up here eh? Haha yes so it’s really
been another interesting week and we have had the joy of handling some missionary
problems again. On Tuesday I was expecting to have a really nice day of
proselyting, we had great plans and everything. But around 10 we </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">got a text from the elders in another apartment
saying, "come to our apartment asap." We gave them a call and the
issue was one companionship nearly got in a big fight. So, we rushed over to take
care of business. Yeah this companionship has had problems in the past; they
just don’t get along at all. They don’t see eye to eye. Anyway, when we got
there everyone was quiet. Luckily the other elders in that apartment kept them
separated, so it </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333339691162px; line-height: 24.5333347320557px;">didn't</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> actually turn to blows. Ah they don’t talk to each
other! EVER!! They proselyte but don’t talk, whenever there are other
missionaries around they won’t stay together. It’s like no duh you are not
getting along, you are not even trying! But later that day we went with the
assistants to Hayfords and got pizza so that was fun! And the big fun point is
of course the mission tour with Elder Dube! We had a great time with him! I was
expecting him to be this tall big guy but he is like 5'5, very friendly though.
He gave us some really great instruction about being a focused missionary and
not thinking of yourself and also a lot of help on how to teach. We did a role
play and he picked on me and E. Mckeon to do it. We had to teach a senior couple
about the importance of coming to church in 3 minutes and had to teach,
testify, invite, promise blessings, and follow up with them in that 3 minutes
in front of everyone haha. It went pretty well. So now I can say I did a role
play with a General Authority haha. But we have been doing that in our teaching
(minus the 3 minute time limit haha) and it is soooo powerful! Our lessons are
so much better now; people really are changing as we do it this way and feel
the Spirit! So I have been pretty happy about that! But yeah, it was a great meeting
for sure! Learned a lot, Elder Dube is a great teacher and person!</span></span></span><br />
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Stevenson came and interviewed him and it went well. We were also supposed to
have a baptism for the 8 year old girl named M. K, but we got her into the font
and she was just terrified. She was crying, holding the wall and yeah the
baptist was just a 19 year old recent convert who didn't really know what he
was doing, so we took her out of the water. Sadly, instead of telling her it
was ok, everyone just yelled at her. We were like, "no no its ok!"
but they didn't think so. So she left apparently scarred. But B. got baptized
so boko (sweet)! Luckily for us, one of our awesome members who helps us named
Jennifer was walking by M. K.'s house that night and went over to see them and
the mom told her what happened then Jennifer told the mom to not be angry. She
explained that when she was baptized there was an 8 year old girl there too and
the same thing happened. The mom calmed down and everything is ok now. So Jennifer
saved us there! Hopefully this Saturday we will try again and I will have to be
the one to baptize her as she loves me, so hopefully that will help. Those are
the highlights of the week I would say! We have been really working hard to
find some new investigators because lately things have kind of slowed down
here. We have found a lot of success in finding this week too! So it’s been a
rather productive week I must say. This week we are going on exchanges 2 times,
so that will be fun! You know, I have to tell you because it will probably
motivate me to be better, but for the past few weeks I have been pretty bad at updating
my journal, which is really annoying because my whole mission I have just been
a boss at updating it I must say. But lately I have been forgetting for a day
or two then I have to mass update it. So this is me saying I will be better I
guess haha. As for pictures, I think I am doing ok! Sad thing about Cape is
there are not as many cool things to take pictures with. But I will try and
take more pics of me with people we are teaching and working with. So there is
my little St. Patrick's day resolution. Good job on reading the BoM! How is
everyone else doing? Anybody sinking down in their chair as they read this
part? Let your guilt work repentance and start now! Well, let me know any
details on the living situation as they come, and school in general I guess.
UVU sounds pretty cool so we will see what happens! Thanks again for
everything! You are the best! LOVE</span><br />
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you!!! Happy Monday, glad to hear that you</span> have had such a wonderful
week and that everyone is doing great! First of all, sorry to see that
the big tree at the office has been absolutely mauled hahaha! Sorry, doesn’t
look too good or promising, but I guess you gotta just have faith that the lumberjack knew what he was doing. He is a credentialed professional
though right? Don’t worry about sending me any running shoes, if I want
I can pretty much buy them anywhere. They sell them on carts around town
haha. I am doing great here though; it’s been a pretty uneventful week
here actually. Kind of a contrast to last week isn’t it? So it’s been
kind of nice in a way and kind of annoying in a way. The work has been a
bit slow in our neck of the woods for a little bit, but we are hoping for
two baptisms this week! Talking about B, M's boyfriend, we were able to
pretty well resolve the situation. They are back to normal and all is
well. That’s the thing, here beating your girlfriend or wife isn’t a
very big deal. Women are kind of second class here still so it’s not as
frowned upon. I mean, you could still go to jail, but it wouldn’t be for
very long. So we taught him about why it is not right to do that and how
he really shouldn’t ever do that again. He feels bad and Mary feels fine
about everything. So yeah, he is preparing for baptism this week! He is
very excited and it will be a great experience. The other person we are
planning for is an 8 year old girl named Maame(mommy)
Kakraba(ka-crah-bah). Her English name is Cadimel Aquah. But she is the
granddaughter of a member and has been coming to church forever, so her
mom who isn’t a member said she should be baptized. Hopefully we will
start teaching the mom this week! That would be so great if we could
convert her as well! She is a really cute little girl and always gives
me a big hug whenever we come. We were hoping that our good friend Randy
would get baptized this week too but he didn’t come to church...again. It’s
too bad because whenever we go and teach him we have great lessons and
he talks about how much he wants to be baptized and everything. The
issue is he is working at this bank and his boss always calls him to
come in on Sundays. So that is too bad, hopefully we can work through
that. We had a great MLC as you saw on Pres. Stevenson's blog, they are indeed always fun! It’s
always edifying and informative. And great food so no complaints at all!
After we had stake PEC and it was pretty routine as well, nothing too out
of the ordinary haha. But yeah, we are just trying to find new people to
teach. The area is good, but it has its challenges because it’s a really
small area. We are just trying to get referrals and contact people! It’s
fun though, we have some nice members who help us a lot and everything.
Oh and one nice experience is I had the opportunity to go on exchanges this
week with our fellow 54-stepper, Elder Joseph from South Africa. We had
a good time, a slow day because it was on 6 March AKA Ghana's Independence
Day. The town was just kind of empty haha. But it was fun. That is cool
dad hired a South African though. Is she white or black? South Africans
are just awesome. I really enjoy being around them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pretty laid back day. Church was good, we</span> had a good service and our two
investigators getting baptized came. We went and visited an old blind
member named Bro. Ayensu(Eye-in-sue) who always tells us crazy stories,
and went and got fed dinner from one of our members named Jennifer. So
it was a good day. Today we had a great zone activity. We all brought
food to the church and had a potluck type thing. After we played games
and we chugged a crate of 24 Pepsi’s. So it was fun hahaha! Good
to hear that there are some things coming in the mail; I will<span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">distribute
the bracelets accordingly. It will probably be easier here than Akonfudi!
Yeah the ring you sent me actually is a perfect fit, I was</span> really
impressed you pulled that off so well without me being there</span> haha! But
yep Elder Dube is coming this Thursday! It will be really cool I’m sure!
I am looking forward to it. I also hope this week we will be able to find some
new investigators and get the work moving forward more! But things are
really going well here, we are working hard, having fun! We made a big
country stew this morning loaded with potatoes, carrots, chicken, green
onions, the whole Thanksgiving spread! It tastes SOOOOOOO good hahaha!
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;">Well, as I have considered and prayed about schooling, UVU is sounding</span>
pretty good to me. If you could apply for me and everything that would be
awesome. IDK where I will stay, guess
you will worry about that hahaha!
Well, that is about it from me here in good old Cape Coast! Life is
good, the work is divine. How thankful I am to get to serve the Lord here
at this time. It is such an AMAZING work! Never forget that! We are all
enlisted! Thank you so much, you are the best! Love you!!!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677239277611730476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4126300149182026121.post-1047145807707370302015-03-03T23:28:00.001-08:002015-04-07T23:15:54.953-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The baby born on my bday is named David sadly...everyone loves naming their kids after Biblical people but not E. Hackmeister eh? Ok that's cool I guess...Haha. I don't have a picture, they forced me to hold him and I was kind of freaked out a bit. They told me to be careful with his back so I was being super careful, then he started crying and they just snatched him away like they were picking up a piece of laundry so I was kind of confused why they were so concerned about ME holding him carefully haha. But yes, the week has been pretty full of weird things hahahaha. I am glad I am with E. Mckeon though because he is a pretty awesome guy, we are having fun and definitely working hard. It's more work as zone leaders than as missionaries this week though. As far as our investigators go, well they are doing ok, but not great haha. I will explain in due time in this email hahaha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well let's move onto Saturday. We had a "fit walk" at 5 am for the ward. We woke up at 4:30 and went to the church for the walk! It was an early rise, but we felt ok. We got there and waited for people to show up. About 20 of us were there so it was alright attendance I guess. But we walked around ALL of Cape Coast. It was good, but I didn't have running shoes, just flip-flops. [puppies stole his running shoes] And it rained on us, so my feet were all muddy. But it was a lot of fun! We came back and had a nice breakfast of rice porridge, which is basically like rice pudding, and bread. E. Seaman and E. Joseph wussed out on us and didn't come until the breakfast was served haha! We earned ours however haha! But after we went back, got dressed and showered, and went out to do some shopping because it was one of the sister missionary's birthday today and we thought it would be kind of nice if we bought some small thing. We went to this place called the "Cedi Store" which basically sells everything that was rejected from Rite Aid. They had all these incredibly stupid birthday/greeting cards that we were dying reading. Anyway we bought a plastic cup and a card for her haha. African sisters are not as picky as American sisters by the way. But after that we got a nice call from the AP's that we needed to go on exchanges again. So, we got in a taxi and went to the missionary's apartment. E. Mckeon is best friends with one of them and was his companion before so it was a great blessing to have him transferred to this zone at this time! So I was with E. Brown again haha! We had a good day, and we got pizza again haha! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today has been a good p-day though. We had a district activity at the beach where we played games. We poured water all over the sister who was having the birthday and gave her the gift so it was nice. But we really have had fun today! Not too much is going on tonight, we don't really have a plan haha! We have been out of water for 2 weeks and they brought a water truck today to fill it up so maybe we will go and wash our clothes or something? IDK really haha! [I asked him how he showers if there's been no water for two weeks, and how the electrical situation has been. This is his answer: We bathe with and drink from water sachets. Soooo fun! haha not. You bite off a corner and spray yourself down. Usually about 5 will get the job done. Good times! Yep power is usually on for 24 hrs then off for 12. That's the usual schedule. Yes the head light is just AWESOME. I really use it a lot haha!]</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Helllllllllloooooooooooooo
to you as well! Thank you for the b-day wishes! </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The b-day was pretty sweet! I am glad to hear that a cake was enjoyed in my honor!
I was hoping you would all go to that fufu place in Salt Lake or something, but
cake is good too I guess haha! You know what? Not only was it my b-day, it was
also Elder McKeon’s birthday as well! He hit the big 2 1, so that was pretty
cool! We went to a restaurant to celebrate the occasion, had some nice Hawaiian
style chicken so it was sweet! Sister Stevenson called and sung happy birthday
to us as well, so that happened! Yep it is 50% USA up the steps, so that is
kinda cool. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">It
was a pretty good b-day! I mean, I got to run around a tro tro station for 5
hours ;) to answer the question you asked,
we begin at 9 and go until usually 12, but we ended about 2 this time because
it was a nice big transfer! It went well though, just kind of stressful
haha! We gather all the missionaries being transferred, put their bags in
piles according to where they are going, then we have to go and find cars or
tros to take them to wherever they are going. We have to pay for them, we have
to coordinate because there are two stations and some arrive at one station but
need to go to the other, so we are just coordinating everything basically.
Kinda interesting haha. I don’t think this is probably how transfers work in
other places hahaha! But nothing went wrong luckily; I was pretty worried about
that as I had made a few errors when I typed up our transfer plan. But luckily
it all worked out well! Elder McKeon and I shared a good b-day! We went
to the restaurant and then we made the cheesecake you sent, lit the trick
candles and enjoyed it! Yes E. McKeon is from Oregon, not sure the exact place.
He has been out 6 weeks longer than me though. We are getting along just fine.
We went and taught a lesson to an investigator that night and found out it was
his son’s b-day as well! So we were feeling pretty proud about what a great day
the 18th is! The next day we went to go and teach a couple who we just met.
Their names are Ebenezer and Bernice. Bernice was pregnant, but it didn’t look
like she was way pregnant. Well, when we showed up she was sitting on her bed
and we greeted her only to see a baby on the bed next to her...she had
literally just come back from the hospital after giving birth haha! ... but yep
another Feb 18ther. A little baby boy, I told them to name him Hackmeister. We
taught her and she took some pain killers about halfway through the lesson,
then about 10 mins later she was falling asleep haha, those drugs worked! Kinda
awkward... Transfers are always just kind of an awkward week though when you
get a new companion, but it’s all good! E. Odongo went home to Uganda. Not Liberia luckily. Those from Liberia are just
having their missions extended since they cannot go home. That would be
interesting I am sure. We do have a sweet apartment now though, we are having
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Glad
you got the camera card safely! That is so great he was able to take it and
deliver it! Sorry to scar everyone with the dog ones, but come on that had to
be documented! Haha, sorry....Old Yellers time was up! But I will be sure to
take lots of pics and videos as much as I can! That would be so cool to go with
Dr. Meier next year or something! I am sure he had a great time! This is a
great place for sure! IDK what you would be eating when you come here, I guess
fufu is probably gluten free, but IDK if you could eat it with your fingernails
hahaha! Oh well, I’m sure you could figure something out! He stayed at a place
called Coconut Grove; I have heard it is a really nice hotel. You'll have to
look it up! This has been a good week, but it’s really been pretty stressful. I
am not a big fan of transfers, just an ordeal haha. I also am not a fan of
drama, but its creeping back up again so that is fun...Ah well, it’s all part
of life I suppose. We are working to find some new investigators though;
hopefully we can work with the members and make it happen. We visited some less
actives and we were happy to see one come to church on Sunday, and after church
we visited another who left because he was an employee of the church and got laid
off. It sounded like he just needed someone to come and show him some love,
because he said he and his family will be coming back to church on Sunday so
that is exciting! It is so rewarding to see people respond positively to the
gospel!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As
for the school situation, well I talked to Brayden and he is good with it. So
if you could talk to him that would be awesome! I will have to see who else
will be going to USU. I am pretty set on aviation. Sometimes I wonder if I
should do something else, but then I see a plane flying and remember how great
it is. As of now I suppose aviation is still the path! Good luck on the camp
planning, sounds like it will be fun, you will think of something awesome I am
sure!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Well, it’s pretty much
what’s going on. It’s been a pretty stressful week, not too much to report on
though haha! I hope this week will be more easy going, but we have to prepare
for Elder Dube who is coming on the 12th and then we have zone conference on
the 25th so sounds like it will be busy busy busy! But that is good!! </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I am doing good though, just
trying to get into the swing of things with the changes! Life is pretty sweet
though! </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Love
you soooo much! Thank you for everything you do for me! You are the BEST!!!!</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;">Happy sunshine week!
Looks like you guys are living the high life</span> there in Vegas! I am doing
pretty good here in Cape Coast though. I am excited for you guys to get
the camera card! You will have fun looking at the pics and watching the
videos I hope! Glad it is in a safe place now though, I always hear
stories of missionaries getting their card wiped out with all pics, so
YAY! Take good care of it! Sooo weird that it is my b-day yet again. I am
indeed leaving the teen years, kinda weird. Yep it should be a great
birthday of moving people all over the place! And getting a new
companion. I will be with Elder McKeon, he is from the US. It will be my
1st American companion in a year so that will be interesting. But it
should be sweet! Also Elder Seaman will get a new companion, Elder
Joseph from South Africa. We should have a good time in the apartment!
Will have to go have a happy birthday pizza after the transfers are done.
That sounds fun that you went to the women’s lunch with all the Ghana
mammas though. Glad some GCCM mommies were there to represent! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well
this has been an ok week here! The highlights of the week were Selina's baptism
interview with President Stevenson and the baptism itself. She needed to
be interviewed by him because of the situation. We did it in the church
in Cape and we were just hanging out outside and after about 30 mins she
came running out clapping and smiling and jumping up and down! It was
like after someone wins the golden ticket on American Idol! She was
going to Hollywood!!! Actually she was good to go for baptism! We were
soo happy! President said that was the happiest person he has ever seen
to be baptized. So cool! Yes the baptism went pretty well. We were
planning for 8 between all the Cape Elders but ended up having 4. It was
great though. A missionary named Elder Chukwu (Choo Kwoo) baptized her.
She was really really excited and happy; it was her dream come true. Oh
and a really cool thing is that her son who is Brady's age got baptized
in Accra the same day!!! <span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">He had
been going to church for 2 years but was too afraid to tell his mom.
Well, she told him she was getting baptized and he said, guess</span> what me
too! So cool! The Lord works in a mysterious way! She has gone</span> through a
lot, and it is a big testimony to me to see her baptized! Sooo cool!
Yes so that was the big highlight of the week! Ah and transfers, but I told
you about that! We had a nice South African soup for dinner with the APs
and Pres and Sister Stevenson. It tasted a lot like your beef stew, only
it had chicken. We ate it with homemade bread too! Can’t <span style="background: white;">complain
about that at all! It was fun! Well, the transfer has come, the transfer
has gone! It’s been a bit of</span> a stressful week as I have been killing my
companion [his companion is going home, they say they “kill” their companion
when they are the last one who serves with them before they go home]. It gets
to the point where you kind of have to carry around a dead body and take
the responsibility of two. So next week should be a lot more stressless
haha! But it’s all cool! I am happy, I am healthy! Pepsi decided to start
selling in Ghana again so now a bottle of Pepsi is 1 cedi as a bottle of
coke is 2! So I am happy hahahahaha! But really, the Lord is so
wonderful! This is His work! I am happy to be a part of it here in good
old Ghana! I hope that you enjoy your little getaway in Vegas and you don’t
come back to snow! I love you more than anything! I am so thankful I was
able to be born to such a remarkable woman! You are the very best in the
whole world! I love you sooo much! Take care!!!!! LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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