June 14th

Hey everyone, I guess that I should just write to Shelly, because she
is the only one that has written to me in the last 2 weeks. I don't
mean to be critical, because I know that there was a funeral going on
and all of that, but it just seems to me that if Shelly could get the
time to e-mail me 4 times in 2 weeks that everyone else could at least
write to me once. Its OK though because I really like you guys and
sometimes you send me letters and packages. From what she said, it
sounds like the funeral went really well, and that it was a lot of fun
to see all of the family. I really wish that I could have been there.
It sounds like everyone has changed a lot since Ive been gone.
Things here are going really well. Elder Bond and I baptized four
more people yesterday, and it went really well. One of them is an
older man whose name is Bro. Ageyman. Its kinda funny, because when he
was younger he practiced polygamy and he now has around 24 children.
It took a little bit longer to make that baptismal record than the
others. Another of the candidates was a young man from Nigeria who
came to Ghana to go to a university here. He is really cool, but has
some weird tendencies like walking down the street in only his
boxers.We then had a 14 year old boy and a 10 year old girl who are
about the brightest kids Ive ever met outside of our family. J.K. All
in all it was really good and it was a lot of fun to finally see all
of the hard work that we have done in the last couple of months pay
off. I feel really blest that we have had so much success since we
have been here. The Lord really loves the African people, and it makes
it really easy for the missionaries here to be successful. That is
even one of the things that Elder Holland talked about when the came
in Feb., He said that the problem with being a missionary in Africa
was that it was to easy to be disobedient and still have success. That
is definitely true, but I have also found that if you seek to be
obedient, that he will make you even more successful.
Another thing that has been going on the last couple of days is that
the world cup started. Ghana is playing in it and on top of that its
in south Africa. that means that the number of lessons that we teach
has significantly dropped. U.S. did really well though and surprised a
lot of people here by keeping neck in neck with England. That's really
good, because England has a lot of the big clubs and has some of the
key players in the world. For Jon's info. as I'm sure he already
knows, Paraguay is plying right now and it sounds like they are doing
some how well with Italy. Also, for Ry, South Korea gave it to Greece
the other day. The only way that I know that is because every night we
get a daily update texed to us by the A.P.'s. That is part of our new
mission goal. The goal is this. Every missionary had to make a
covenant to not watch a single game of the world cup, and then we
have to baptize someone that we contacted during one of the wold cup
matches. Kinda funny, but really hard. The people go crazy over here
with the games and if you ask them to turn it off, its like asking
them to give you there first born child. Things have been going well
though and Im happy to say that everyone has kept to the covenant so
far. We need your prayers though, because when they heard that Pes.
was going to make them do this to keep them from watching the game the
just about started to cry.
Well Im happy and everything is going well with me here. I hope that
you all are ding as well as I am. I love you all and hope to here from
you this next week.
Love Ty