August 18, 2014

Elder Burr, Sister & Brother Berrett, Elder Tolar & Bowring

Dear Family,

Well this week was good, it was nice to just get back to normal

missionary work again and not have to worry about anything else. I’m

settling in well here in Ghana and things are going good. I just got

back from the temple sight. We went there this morning to the stake

center and played some basketball. They have like an actual real quart

there with nets on the baskets and everything. It was a blast and I

got to see Elder Tolar again and Elder Burr so that was good to see

them this morning. Last week I didn’t really tell you much about like

my living conditions and stuff like that and some different things in

my mission. First off, we have Electricity 24/7. Its like I have

stepped into the Celestial kingdom. I don’t even think I need to go

into any more detail on any other things that basically sum up about

everything haha.  We also have microwaves in the apartment so that is

a big change to, I almost forgot how to use them haha , So that means

I expect some microwavable popcorn in my next few packages coming this

way haha, if ya feel like it. Also we have refrigerators which is

really nice also, I feel like I am living the high life over here

haha. Our apartment is actually not as nice as my last one but with

all these accessories I am getting along just fine haha. We proselyte

until 9 here now so that is a big change but it is really nice because

it gives us time to go and see more investigators. We also have bikes

and I am been loving that. They have a lot of speed bumps on the main

roads so i have been able to catch some good air on some speed bumps,

its fun. Then when we aren’t on the main road its like we are mountain

biking on all the dirt roads so that is really fun. This week we did a

good job at teaching, I am still not to where I would like to be but

we had 25 lessons so that was good. We are contacting a lot of new

people here in Nsawam so that is what we were working on a lot this

week and we actually found some pretty sweet investigators. On Tuesday

we had a zone meeting and that was good. I met a lot of guys in our

zone who were in the MTC when I was so that was really cool to see

them again. After our zone meeting we had a sweet miracle happen to

us. We were walking down this place called Media and we had just

gotten bounced a few times, we were on our way to go see somebody that

we had contacted last week when a guy asked if we were business men.

So we turned around and told him who we were and as soon as we did he

just lit up and said “ I know that church” Turns out that he has an

old friend who is a member of the church and has set a good example

for him so he was more than open to sit with us. We were just planning

on taking down his information on the road but he took us strait to

his house and introduced us to his family. It was really sweet and a

good experience. It is nice to know that god is still looking over me.

We found a lot of other good people here, now this week we are just

going to focus on getting them to church. I also went on exchange with

our DL this week, Elder Wickham. He lives in the apartment as well so

that good to just go on an exchange with him and just teach some

people. We have another Elder In the apartment who is one of the first

missionaries from the DR Congo. His name is Elder Mybia. He is

hilarious, he is still trying to learn English so its been fun having

him in our apartment.  We only had 1 person to church this week, her

name is Sister Dora. She has been coming for the past 4 weeks now and

no missionary has sat with her yet so we pulled her after sacrament

meeting and taught her. She doesn’t speak very much English though so

we had to get a member to come and translate everything into Twi. She

loved the message though and already loves the church so I am thinking

it wont take to long to get her baptized so that will be really good.

Other than that, nothing to special happened this week, just still

getting into the groove of things here. We have transfers here in 2

weeks so it will be interesting to see what happens, I heard president

like to change things up a lot so I don’t know if I will be getting

switched up or not but at this point I have had so much change this

past month its almost like I don’t care haha as long as I am where the

lord needs me and I am doing missionary work, that is all I care

about. I really do enjoy doing missionary work, its definitely hard

and not a walk in the park but looking back on my past experiences so

far, I really do love sharing the gospel. Anyways, I love you all very

much and I hope you all have a great week this week. Love

Elder Bowring