WEEK 36: Mostly Highlights

Hello Friends!!

So this week was pretty great actually, not to say it wasn't hard but it was awesome!

Highlights.
1. We received a lot of referrals! 2
2. I ate cake, that was great.
3. One of my friends back home is being baptized 
4. Okay this one is probably my best highlight for me. So about 7 months ago when I was under training my trainer and I contacted this group of people. Two of the three seemed very interested, and the third pretended to not know English. Well we came back to teach them another day and one of the two that seemed interested was never seen again, the other two people were present in the lesson. Then ironically over time the only one who stayed was the one who pretended to not know English, oh and btw her English is better than most Ghanaians. Well we taught her the entire 3 transfers I was there but she never was able to be baptized. I even thought about dropping her but the Spirit always told me to keep going to her. Well the day came and I was transferred. I was sad to leave her and her family because she became a close friend and I loved her kids. I kept in contact for some time but it has been about a month since I have heard anything about her until Sunday. This Sunday, about 7 months after I originally contacted her, I got the news she was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!! Her name is Akoto. Not only that but another guy I originally contacted in that area(Emmanuel) was also baptized. I was soo happy!

Okay so those are the highlights. As for the not so bright spots of my week I only have one. I received news that IHOP (international house of pancakes) is now IHOB( international house of burgers). Such a sad day. I'm really not sure what I will do when I go home. I love pancakes.  

Haha anyways so that's it for this week. love you all!
Elder Pace

P.S.  He hasn't been able to send pictures lately due to a lack of a safe place to upload them (:


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tanner's Farewell

Image
Tanners farewell was lovely.  He really did do a nice job on his talk.  It was fun to catch a glimpse of his personality sprinkled throughout yet he was respectful as well.  He has truly grown so much this past year and I'm sure he will grow even more these next two.   I'm very grateful my family were able to come.  I think he would have felt bad if nobody was able to be here.  We stay for all three meetings so we really didn't have much of a celebration after....just the family had lunch together and then we said good-bye.  I still tried to decorate a bit so he would feel special. Here is a copy of his talk.  I don't remember hearing the poem before but I really liked it. Good morning brothers and sisters. And thank you so much for all of you who showed up to support me. When I was a young boy my mom and I were in a bank. When we were sitting down with one of the workers at the bank they asked...
Read more

WEEK 7/104: Faith

Image
(I told Tanner from his pictures it looks like he was sent to a country inhabited solely by children!) Hey everyone!! So this week was very successful, well until the end but hey I will take it. We found 4 new investigators and received 1 referral. Three of the 4 investigators we found all in one place together and we have taught them twice throughout the week. And wow, they are powerful... they have really been prepared to learn about and receive the gospel.They ask so many questions and are just so ready to learn the truth. They go to a church but realize the things going on in that church are not right, so when we extended the invitation to come to our church they were not ready. They told us they have already made a poor choice once so they want to be sure before they decided again. The next time we meet Elder Johnson and I will share some scriptures with them that I came across during personal studies. It is found in Alma 32:21-33, 33:23. These s...
Read more

MERRY CHRISTMAS (12-23-19)

Hello Friends,  Afishapa!! That translates into Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I have been listening to Christmas music a lot and I especially love the song that reads, "its the most wonderful time, of the year."... This is definitely a true and accurate statement, and as I reflected on why this is my thought lead me back to my Savior.  Christmas is about Christ, and it pains me when I see His name replaced with an X. If you have fallen given into this disrespectful temptation by placing this on social media posts, or text messages, or even posters, then I would invite you to quickly repent and put Christ back into your Christmas and lives.  That is not the only way we take Christ out of Christmas however. It is so easy to get caught into the worldly aspects such as presents, decorations or even delicious food, that we might even forget the origin of this joy.  Even I almost got caught up on this recently as I was planning an activity for s...
Read more