Greetings from Ghana - Do You Believe in Miracles?

 Big email, my apologies, friends and family.

Monday:

It was preparation day so that Elder C and I could get ready for the week. We did laundry, cleaned the apartment, and travelled to a city called Ho[e] (in later emails, I am just going to call it the garden tool city). We had to stay at four other missionaries' apartment because Tuesday morning was our zone council. That is what our was.

Tuesday:

We came back to Mafi-Kumase in the afternoon, and we met with two of our friends to teach them. After we taught them, we went to our New Years party that we helped set up. We had to wait for people to show up after we finished setting it up, and they showed up around 7:15 pm. So we celebrated with our branch and then we had dinner during the party it was called jollof which was a rice cooked similarly to Spanish rice and had a vegetable powder they call banku mixed in with it. It was really good. We had to leave at 8:30 pm so that we could keep obedience and be getting ready for bed that night.

Wednesday:

That was the busiest day we had to teach. We had to teach seven people, but then two were not available. During those times, we contacted nine different people to schedule their next lesson and to confirm if they were around if we were teaching them today. There was a point during our day when we had sat under a tree together and ate lunch so that we could get ready for our next lesson. It was a great and humbling experience for the both of us, but it was definitely the Lord's hand softening the hearts of the people around us. We then had to head back home for a repairman to come and fix our propane tank line. The line is being held in a position where the calve will not cause leakage from the valve. It is a temporary solution because the propane canister was manufactured off center.

Thursday:

We had interviews with mission President Beeson. I noticed some of the missionaries who left the missionary training center the same day as me had mentioned that their meeting was one on one. Our interview was in the garden tool city and involved both of us, which was really cool. We  gave us encouragement by telling us about his departure from one city on a mountain to another city below and the road had a lot of potholes but he looked up and saw the town below the mountain and told us, "it was a great way of showing me the vision of God is bigger than our own." He then encouraged us to invite those had slowing progression to be baptized. After our interview, we went back to Mafi-Kumase and invited two more people to be baptized, and they said yes! We were really excited to have more people in the font on January 21st.

Friday:

We had ten contacts on Friday, which means it was a lot of work going on from the Lord. We also had three lessons, which was also great.

Saturday:

We had thirteen contacts and five lessons it was a great day. We did extend an invitation to be baptized to two of interested people. One said no, and the other said they would think about it. We decided that we won't pressure either of them, and we will teach them more principles and see from there.

Sunday:

It was the second busiest day out of the week because we had six lessons and four contacts. We eventually got home around 6:45, and the power went out due to a really bad storm, so we ate dinner in the dark and went to bed without the fans on. Though at some point, the power came back, and now we have everything working properly while I was writing this.

One thing is for sure don't take anything for granted because at any point you could lose it. I don't have a link to a talk, but I will just mention it. 

"They saw our day" by Lance Richardson.

Scripture of the week:  Helaman 6:3-7

"3 Nevertheless, the people of the church did have great joy because of the conversion of the Lamanites, yea, because of the church of God, which had been established among them. And they did fellowship one with another, and did rejoice one with another, and did have great joy. 

4 And it came to pass that many of the Lamanites did come down into the land of Zarahemla, and did declare unto the people of the Nephites the manner of their conversion, and did exhort them to faith and repentance. 

5 Yea, and many did preach with exceedingly great power and authority, unto the bringing down many of them into the depths of humility, to be the humble followers of God and the Lamb. 

6 And it came to pass that many of the Lamanites did go into the land northward; and also Nephi and Lehi went into the land northward, to preach unto the people. And thus ended the sixty and third year. 

7 And behold, there was peace in all the land, insomuch that the Nephites did go into whatsoever part of the land they would, whether among the Nephites or the Lamanites."