August 21, 2017 Email

Hey everyone!!!!

Chai things here are pretty cool to say the least.  I'm whitewashing and at the same time I'm training as well.  Elder Memmott is pretty cool to say the least, he's very excited to get out and do the work of the Lord.

So as for this week it has been interesting.  Since last week we started on Wednesday for our missionary work we started off well.  We went to our district counsel meeting and met more of the missionaries here in Achimota district.  We also had the honor of having the Zone Leaders and the APs attend as well.  So we had a good meeting with that and it was super cool.  We went around the rest of the day meeting people that Bangura and Harrison left for us in Achimota.  We met a family named the Yeboah family, ironically we had a family like that in Anyaa, but they were less active haha!  So we sat and taught a few of them and they are so cool.  Constance, Nancy, Jerry, Julliet, Dorkus and later on in the week we had a boy named Emmanuel join us.  These kids are so cool and it makes me really happy to see them.  We taught them as a group of 4 and that was a little difficult.  We then left and contacted the rest of the day.  We met a lady named Alice and she's ok.  She was busy when we saw her so we said we would see her later.  We left and came back to the chapel to have our PEC meeting and that was cool.  We also had some institute go on after so then we finished there.  So yeah, that was Wednesday.

Thursday was good.  We traveled all the way to Taifa and met a few of the members there.  So the ride there was just beyond crazy!!!  So yeah.  We met a few of them there and tried to contact, but we didn't have the time to see a lot of people there because we had to run back to Dome (the area where the Yeboahs are).  We went and saw them and tried to contact a little more around that area and we found a few potential people.  Other than that we came home and just got to know more of the place.

Friday was cool because we did weekly planning by ourselves and we went to Dome.  So training again and whitewashing brings a new spirit of contacting.  We met with Alice again, but it wasn't the best lesson we had.  We then went to the Yeboahs and saw them.  They were doing great and it was so nice for us to go and see them.  We then left and tried to contact more people.  We did that and found a few potential investigators.  We then left and came home to work on the Area Book some more.

Saturday was just packed and strange!!!!  So, it was All African Day in Africa, so the church decided to go and do an activity for the community.  We went to the Police Station to do some concrete work and also to weed and clean up a bit.  We met a lot of members there and it was super cool!!!!  So we did a lot of work there and it was crazy hot, not easy at all!!!! 

After that we had to run and prepare ourselves for a baptism for the other missionaries here.  We left and got changed and cleaned up and came to the chapel.  Chai the two girls being baptized, Esther and Rose, were so scared of the water.  They were very happy when they came, but when they got in the water, they really freaked!!!!!  So we had to do all that and we got them baptized.  We left and contacted in Dome again and we met with the Yeboahs again.  Emmanuel is AMAZING!!!!!!  He read the Introduction to the Book of Mormon and he also read 1 Nephi 1 and it was amazing!!!!  We even got the father to be interested in the teachings as well.  So yeah,  we came back and that was that day.

Sunday was a bit of a bummer.  So the Yeboahs always come to church, they've been coming for about 4 weeks in a row now and just that day they didn't come because their father had them do work so that was a major bummer!!!  Although, we did have one man come to church, his name was Enoc.  He lives way far away and he walked all by himself to the chapel in Achimota!!!!  He just came and it was sweet.  We then went to the apartment and we ate food.  We went out and met the Yeboahs and just tried to see if we could help in any way, but it didn't work.  We left and contacted some more and didn't find a whole lot of people that we feel are too sure of the gospel.  We came back home and just ended the week in bliss.  So yeah.

This morning we went and played some basketball at the chapel here with the other missionaries in the apartment and it was super cool.  We are also having the major plus side of being next to the mall!!!!  Elder Memmott is teaching more how to solve a rubix cube so I'm very pleased with myself on how well I'm doing with that haha!!!

Hope you all have had an amazing week and are doing amazing things.  I love you all and I can't wait to hear from you all this next week!!!!!

From,
Elder Stockton Smith