1/15/18

Emergency transfers are really fun!!! Kind of :) I still feel lost but I’ve been transferred to Winneba. We are covering 2 units the Ansaful 1st ward and the Ansaful 2nd Branch. They are nice comfy wards with a small number of active members but I’m excited to be here and serving here. The area in the past hasn’t been the most fruitful area but I’m still excited to serve here and try and establish the church here in this area :)

 My new companions are Elder Keith (he is from Centerville, Utah and 100% Navajo or (Lamanite)) and also Elder Belley (he is from Ghana but 100% Ghanaian). They are really just great.

This week we got the call on Monday at 8 in the evening that we needed to pack our bags and be at the mission home in 12 hours. So, on Tuesday at 5 in the morning Elder Alston and I headed to the main road to get a tro to Accra. That was fun and the tro was funny and he only took us to Nswam. Then made us get in a different tro that broke down after 2 minutes. I had all my stuff in 2 heavy suitcases so we had to wait on the side of the road for another tro to pick us. That took a while but it’s okay because I’m still alive so the lord does bless his children:). My shirt was super dirty though :)

 I made in time for breakfast so I got toast with real butter! Call me a happy teenager (I’m still 19)! We got our stuff and headed out in a taxi to get to our apartment (that cost me 110 cedi (sorry Dad. I was tired and weak-- forgive me) That was all fun and we got home safe so that’s all that really matters :)

 love ya

 -Elder Ellsworth

1/8/18

I’m still alive and kicking and doing the mission stuff. I still can’t spell but I’m doing my best with spelling.

I don’t remember the last time I wrote, but Asamankese now has a super market so a bunch of rich people go there and it’s kind of uncomfortable to be in there but I’m surviving :)

This week we did stuff--actually it was pretty normal. Not much funny stuff happened, but we did find this oasis out in BUSH! It is pretty cool. We were proselyting and teaching these people out there and they were like come look at this cool beach and I was like, what? We are like as far inland as you can go! But, turns out it was like Etiwanda falls, but cooler because it’s in Africa and the pool is bigger.

Other than that, we are just trying to get our baptismal candidates ready for baptism and trying to work well with the ward.

 I love Ghana and I love the people and I love being on a mission.

 I’ll make sure to remember what I did this week for next week :)

I played Pokemon Snap this week

The hidden Oasis

this anointing oil is for robbing!!! Don't buy it-it's for breaking the law!

 -Elder Ellsworth

1/1/18

Internet connection was spotty at best this week. No update. =(

12/25/17

We had a wonderful chance to see Elder Ellsworth for the first time since he left for Ghana. All the Christmas and Mother's Day calls have been just that, calls. We actually got to see his awesome face thanks to a kind senior couple serving in his area that let him borrow their iPad. We were so excited, and apparently he thought that counted as his weekly update, because we did not get any emails this week. We will take it!

12/18/17

This week was good. I didn’t get to my area till Sunday because every day I did interviews for baptisms. We had 13 in the district and I interviewed 10! That’s a lot of work! haha

 I gave a talk in front of a general authority, so that was scary. I think I did well :)

 MERRY EARLY CHRISTMAS!

-Elder Ellsworth

1. Last Elder Evans haircut (That white thing is just a piece of wood) 

2. Pinewood Derby 

3. The cars. Ours is the third one. 

4. Poster for a big church night. With Ghanaian spelling.

12/11/17

IM NOW IN A STAKE WOOWHOO! The church is growing my friends because it’s true and now we have another stake for the tent of ZION.

 This week was okay. We made it pretty effective and after Saturday we have now come into Harmattan. Meaning DRY SEASON and the sky is covered with dust and your nose is full of unwanted gross things because of it!

 Honestly, Ghana is The Best!

 On Saturday the AP’s came and slept at our apartment for the becoming a stake conference and then they wanted something to do so they went on splits with us. But it rained so the companionship with a car had an effective day, while the other did not. Plus, I didn’t have the key to our bikes so we had to use the other companionship’s bikes and THOSE ARE TERRIBLE! I almost crashed and I’ve been getting pretty good-sometimes I can even ride with no hands, but knock on wood I don’t want to crash now! haha. So, our day was more of talking to each other :)

 Now we are in a 6-man apartment, but today the other companionship is moving out to their area (a 7 cedi tro ride away=really far) so we will be left a 4-man apartment and it will be lonely and they will be missed! All in all the work is progressing :)

 love you all!

 -Elder Ellsworth

12/4/17

This week was good. It actually went by fast so I don’t remember a bunch except today! Today we cleaned our poly tank (water tank). Pretty much that means Elder Stein jumped inside a tiny hole and scrubbed away till it was clean. But wait there is more! Because I JUMPED IN, too! WHAT? Yea I did! But my hips are too wide and my shoulders are too broad so I got scraped on the way down but, I made it! Then I got to help Elder Stein out, which was great. It was really, really, really humid in there and we could barely breath so I’m very grateful for the fresh air that is out of the tank. :) It was hard work and getting out was difficult! haha! There were two Elders and they grabbed my hands and then pulled but because I’m a big boy and I’m wide they couldn’t get me out! I slid back down and honestly, I was scared! I prayed a little prayer and then Elder Stein jumped back down and I used him like a ladder to get up and out and then we pulled him up with ease. But it was fun and a good story to tell :)

 Also, this week we had a parade! That was fun! We had it to let the whole town know that WE ARE BECOMING A STAKE! It was pretty fun but I got really, really, really sweaty :)

Also I went on an exchange with Elder Stein and we went to the BUSH! I GOT REKT by bug bites. It was a great day and I had a wonderful time with Elder Stein even with all the bites.

On the 16th of December the missionary district is planning on having 30 baptisms! That would be a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Christmas present :) Of course, I will have to do the interviews, so bye-bye proselyting time. haha It’s worth it. 30 is the Goal but 19 might be the actual number. But Still! That’s awesome! I hope and pray it can come off.

Also, on Sunday we will BECOME A STAKE WOOWHOO ASAMANKESE! The church is true. In Twi=Me nim say Jesu Christo asori whaha an me nim say Ayea nou cray ;)

This week was a good week!

 Bug bites from a day in the Bush!

 Poly Tank (Water tank)

Thought I'd be stuck in here a while...

-Elder Ellsworth