Tanner's Mission Experiences

I didn't even ask! This week was pretty good. Okay actually it was great! First off, we had mission tour. Elder Nash (Tanner didn't realize but Elder Nash was our stake president when we lived in Washington!  Tanner wasn't born yet and Elder Nash wouldn't remember us but we remember him!) from the 70 came and talked to us for like 4 hours. Seriously incredible! I learned so much and felt the spirit so strong. For the zone tour we had to leave very early so I knew those in my apartment wouldn't have time to make breakfast. so I woke up at 4:30 and made 6 hungry boys a ton of pancakes and 24 eggs... btw I make the best pancakes; chocolate, bananas cinnamon pancakes to be exact! In fact every day this week I had pancakes for breakfast. Sometimes for lunch and dinner too haha. This week I had the opportunity to study about the Savior. I seriously enjoyed reading about his life and all he went through. It helps me...

Hey everyone! Well this week was something haha. Definitely had its ups and downs. So I started my week off very strong with some good old fashioned food poisoning! Got to love it! Then after I got better someone else in the apartment got sick. Then on Sunday my companion got sick haha. But the good news is none of us got malaria! Other than that small thing my week was spectacular! I was able to see my area more and meet more people. I was able to make pancakes like every morning, and I played chubby bunny with a guy named Elder Barnum, the dude from Cali in my apartment. Sooo yeah overall this week was seriously great. I love my area and my companion, and I will never regret this decision I made to serve. Love you all, Elder Pace  

Tanner is now serving in the Krofrum ward.  His new companion is Elder Pahulu from Tonga.  In Tanner's words he is "a fun and kind Tongan who loves making jokes".  He is loving all the people in his apartment.  Besides his companion there is another set of missionaries: a native and an elder from California.  Tanner reports they all get along so well and Tanner is especially enjoying getting to know Elder Barnum, the missionary from California.  Although Tanner really liked his last companion and was grateful he was a good missionary they didn't have as much in common personality wise.  Although happy with doing missionary work, he was starting to feel lonely so he prayed that this transfer he would be placed with someone he could connect with.  He acknowledged that his prayers were answered! He shared an experience they had together: "Yesterday we killed a mouse. We we sitting just talking like usual, and then I was li...

Hello friends!  The mission is great, and I am so happy. However, my eyes have been opened to the evils of the world and the power of satan. A  missionary who just went home had a crazy experience while on his mission. He bought a cool mask one day and loved it. He took it home and hung it up on the wall in the room. Well one night his companion got up in the middle of the night and saw a shadowy figure. He just prayed and went back to bed and thought maybe he was going crazy from being tired. The next night this guy got up to use the washroom, and saw more closely and more distinctly the same shadowy figure and he said it was scary. They figured out that it must have been the mask so they cast out the spirit from it and rededicated the room and it never came back... another less scary but crazy one is  a missionary got hit by an automobile and it broke his arm. A leader of some crazy church rushed over and gave him a blessing with the power of the devil. ...

Hey friends!   This week was AMAZING! We were blessed with another baptism. His name is Bro Buachie. He has been very powerful and consistent from the first time we met him. I was so happy to see him finally come up out of the waters of baptism. Speaking of water it rained again this week, like every day. What the heck! haha. Also it's week 6 which is the last week of the transfer, so by Saturday I should know if I'm leaving my area or staying. I suspect I will leave but anything could happen. I have been blessed with so many things especially health, and I'm so excited for the road ahead of me. I love Ghana! All is well! Elder Pace Mom notes:  He is excited for Conference but he won't be able to watch all of it.  What he can watch, they will watch at a church.  I told him of my Christmas preparations and he said "I don't think its a thing here so I'm sure I will really miss that."  He also said he loves Christmas music and listens to it al...

This week was awesome!! It just flew by. The worst part about my week was I ate snail (he said he about threw up!). Yeahhh that wasn't nice, but everything else was like amazing!!  We walked in the rain a bunch and got soaked. It's been raining a ton here and I'm confused cuz I thought the rainy season was over! haha oh well. We also had a baptism this week, such a blessing! Our area is doing better and we have lots of people to teach now. Our recent convert, Peter, keeps giving us referrals. Seriously he is such a cool guy. But yeah, my week was powerful an all is well! Elder Pace  He told me he met someone awesome but wasn't going to tell me until the following week because he thought I would know who it was by then.  It was someone who had served in his area in 2000, an Elder Taylor, he thinks from St. George, Utah.  I guess he had given him my cell phone number so he thought he would call me this week.  That would have been cool to...