3/13/17

This week we had rain!.  I should have taken a picture of my shirt after the rain but there is a reason Elders don’t proselyte when it rains.  But since I’m leading and my companion is good and it was the second day wearing the shirts we decided to go all the way to the farthest part of our area in the hardest rain ever--Best experience of my life!!.... also the most painful.  Since every road here is just dirt you're just throwing mud on your shirt if you bike in the rain and it’s really hard to clean and nobody wants to see you because (just like back home) people are scared of the rain.  Luckily when we got to our scheduled appointment the man let us in and we had a really good lesson.  He will be baptized 2 Saturdays from now.  His name is Edmond and he is a really good friend.

I’m gaining a ton of weight here in Kasoa and it’s really sad and not motivating, but it’s good because I need to know how to stop eating. 

On Friday we saw the Bishop in the morning.  While travelling there the phone we use (we call it a yam here-- and it’s a bad phone but it does have snake, but don’t worry I haven't played it and wont). Anyway, the phone fell out of my pocket on our way there and I was like “awwwww dang (awdang in twi means why?) I’m sad!”  But, my district leader had his one year celebration that day so we were going to see them.  Well in the mean time, one of our investigators called us and immediately knew it wasn't us on the phone and then called our zone leaders (she is an eternal investigator who loves to feed the missionaries in the district) so she called them and they went and picked up the phone.  You can really see that God loves his children even if it’s a little thing like losing a yam and he does answer prayers.

The work is good here and we’re trying to be better in all we do and hopefully we succeed continually.

Love you all,

Elder Ellsworth

A few pictures to enjoy: