8/27/18

This week was great. WE went out and did work so I can’t complain.

I’ll share what I learned in my studies.  In Ether 12 Moroni is basically telling us a prayer he prayed to the Lord and I love what he said because it shows that Moroni wasn’t completely confident, even as a prophet who was called by the Lord, yet that’s not a sin and the lord comforted him in verse 24-25.  In Ether 12 we see that he was really sad and the Lord answered in verse 26, with fools mock but they shall mourn.  It is true in all things that fools mock.  Even nowadays fools mock and they shall mourn for denying the Book of Mormon.  When people mock the Book of Mormon my heart tears because they don’t understand all they are throwing away by not studying it.  There is so much. 

I would not have a testimony of Jesus Christ without the Book of Mormon.

I love it!  There is so much especially about his atoning sacrifice that we learn from it. It is a great book. 

We did good this week going out and serving and helping.  We painted a house this week and that was fun.  I’m no good at it but it was still fun. 

Overall, I’m happy and I love Ghana.

I will say as another testimony of the truth that Jesus is the very Christ. HE IS REAL. It’s not fake it is true He is real

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"Scott said "I'm so excited" in a very excited voice." -Dad

-Elder Ellsworth

8/20/18

This week was good we were able to have a baptism for some friends here and they are great kids.  Their father should be baptized soon.

But I want to focus on scriptures this week 

D&C 59:9 I thought it was interesting that the point of us coming and offering up our sacraments was just for us to be unspotted from the world. That is the PLAN! That is the GOAL! That we are being commanded to cleanse ourselves.  Every spot from the world. Some people think I’m weird and when I was small I used to like to be called weird, but now I know to be a peculiar person is exactly what we are commanded to be and so when I am considered peculiar I know that’s what the Lord wants and I want to do what the Lord wants. 

Africa is great.

-Elder Ellsworth

biking in Ghana is hard

8/13/18

I took a hammer and I used it on some big rocks and then the big rocks became small rocks and the small rocks became smaller. It was fun. I got blisters.  I also bled quite a bit but it was great.  Ii loved it.

 Other than that, I got a new companion and we did stuff.  Sorry my time is small but the Book of Mormon is true and you learn new things every time you read.  Like this week I learned that Jared the wicked king in the Book of Ether lost his kingdom because his brothers attacked at night. I didn’t know that.  What do we learn from it to help us?  I don’t know yet, but I learned it :)

All is well.  I love you all.  Have a great week

8/6/18

We had a good week.  We had a confirmation for the man Rodrigue and I was asked to do the confirmation so that was different. They didn't ask me to do it again so I’d say I passed? It was great he is a wonderful man.  (there is no z on the end, it’s how I spelled it)

That was the week pretty much.  Oh yea, we had the Russian lady and her daughter come to the Sacrament meeting (they came after the sacrament) but they came so it was fun.  Actually, when they walked in my heart dropped because I was like “Oh shoot, white people!”  but then I remembered who they were.  I don’t like white people.

Transfer came they are taking my companion away so that’s no fun but it’s okay.  The work is the work and we can’t stop it. 

What did I learn this week?

A recent Convert gave an answer in out Gospel principle class. he said "Prayer is the greatest gift of God given to us on this Earth" Pretty powerful statement especially when I am slacking in my own prayers.

Also, it may seem funny that I learned this this week but, the sealing power is different than a prayer. The reason I was confused was D&C 50:28-30. I was like okay, to receive the sealing power you need to be clean completely so that makes sense.  Then I went to Nephi in the book of Helaman 10: 7-10 when he received the sealing power and nowhere there does it say ask.  The sealing power is not a power that you can ask, but that you can do.  You can seal you don’t need to ask. 

So, that’s what my week was like.  Pretty fun.

Also, if anyone has experience teaching Russians or white people in general I’d like some tips :)

Sometimes I forget I’m white.

-Elder Ellsworth