11/27/17

We did not get a weekly update this week. Just a couple pictures of Brandon, his companion and a recent convert, Godwin, at the Ghana Temple.

 We will take what we can get, especially if it's pictures of our Missionary.

11/20/17

on Friday... Well I got a call at like 6:40 in the morning from the Sisters saying their companion is sick and she needs to go to the hospital. So, I was like, did she have a blessing? She said no, so we went over there and gave them a blessing and that was cool. Then they said they needed a malaria test kit and I was like “Well shoot they’re going to ask us to get them one”, but then I humbled myself and said “okay I can serve her, that’s good”. So, we went to the first drug store (side of the road--not an actual store--don’t be fooled) and it was closed. So then we were like “Flip we don’t want to bike all the way to the market and back--that would be a lot of work!”. But we did and we found the kit and payed for it and went back to the Sisters because we are nice. (So, when my wife wants a fish fillet sandwich at 3 in the morning when she’s pregnant, like my own father, I know I’ll go) We got that to them and that was pretty much it. There was more to Friday-- just not as exciting.

This week was good (other than that, and even that was good) I was a bit sick on-- I forgot what day, but my companion really wanted to go out so we did and I was basically a dead body while he taught the people but we still went out and had a pretty okay day, I think :)

In my reading I’m in Mormon. It’s so cool just to see how he changes and you can just tell it’s because he was reading Captain Moroni and other amazing leaders and how they truly influenced his life and leadership and even though his own army lost he was righteous because he read and likened the book of Mormon to himself :)

 -Elder Ellsworth

 and that’s from me washing my own clothes because my washing machine broke!

11/13/17

So, last week I kind of realized that I didn’t know what a stupor of thought really felt like, so like my naive self, I prayed to know (sadly it wasn’t answered immediately). So, instead I forgot I prayed for that and went on about my week. This week I had the opportunity to interview someone for baptism and during the interview, during a very important part, guess what happened? My prayer was answered! I was really stressed at that point but I knew that it was just an answer to my prayer and discussing more with the candidate I was able to make the decision that he was worthy to enter into the waters of baptism. Be careful what you pray for!

 This week was good. We were expecting to have 1 baptism this week but ended up having 2! Next week will be a wedding so we won’t get time to baptize and the week after is the temple trip so we wanted them to come with us.

This week I killed a snake! Yeah, when I say I, I mean I! I threw the killing rock that crushed its face in. It was sweet! Kind of, but still!

 This week was full of studying and the zone activity. It sounds like we will be doing a pine wood derby so if anyone has an idea of how to do it, I would love some insight (remember I’m in Ghana) 

My washing machine broke today. R.I.P. to my hands.

 Love you all. Be happy and healthy....get Glad

The snake I killed

Laser pointer through mosquito netting

Baptism

Baptism

More from the baptism

Ever see a pink chicken?  

 -Elder Ellsworth

11/6/17

This week was really good! We testified and we taught a lot of new people! Not too many super funny stories but we have the card game bang in the apartment so some nights we play that after the day is over so we have some pretty funny things that happen during that.

 So, this week we were able to teach a very prepared man named Godwin. We meet him 3 times a week and he stays like 10 long steps away from the chapel so it’s pretty sweet. He and his wife will be baptized very soon. Just to show, we gave him the assignment on Tuesday to read from 3rd Nephi ch9-ch30 and he finished it by Saturday and he truly believed that the same Jesus that was in the Bible appeared to the Nephites. He started quoting stuff. I actually thought he was a member messing with us but HE’S NOT! It’s sweet. He has wonderful questions and just makes missionary work exciting for us. We even had a kneeling prayer with him on Saturday (first one on mission because we only teach outside on dirt floors and whatnot but this was in his house so it was worth it!

 We have some cool branch missionaries who are really helping us out in the work! We have started to challenge members we see to read a chapter of the Book of Mormon daily and we will follow up with them and ask what they learned from it. We have had some really, really cool things happen when we do that. A recent convert who was struggling, and I was able to share a scripture that was what he was thinking at that moment. A really cool experience with following the spirit. That morning I felt to read from the Bible and in the meeting, we were talking about the Book of Mormon but I just wanted to share what I learned from the Bible and it just made sense in his head that there is nowhere else to go but The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because there is no one else who has the fullness of the gospel. Just a sweet week :)

 Love you all!

-Elder Ellsworth

this is Brain—that’s how he spells it so it’s what I call him. He is 10 and has the best English I know 

a recent convert drew this--he is really good!

Gone fishing (I didn’t catch any fish)

it looked cooler in person

father and son