10/25

Wow, it sounds like like a lot has happened this last week. Jen, good
luck with the shoot-out, and no I don't know the Johnson, they might
have been in the Accra mission. That is crazy that since I have been
gone, not only has the ward changed, but also the stake has been split
too. I guess that when I come back there will be a lot of new faces.
Nate and Megan, when is Owen being blessed? Any pictures that anyone
wants to send would be welcome here. Happy Birthday to Nate and Carli.
I hope that I haven't forgotten anything else. Sorry that you didn't
see anything while you were out hunting dad, but I guess that that
means that some things will just never change. I hope that the house
is looking really good. It sounds like you guys have put a lot of work
into it. Jon and Nat, I hope that all is going well with you guys and
that you are happy. Ry hope you guys are having fun over there in
Korea. Shelly, I wish that I could have gotten high on fumes with all
of your kids, that sounds like it would be a blast. They should start
to do that in Seattle. They could take the smokers and give them a lot
of drugs and have them all get high together. If the kids are anything
like Chris and Cam were a few years ago, that would do one of two
things, either it would make them stop right away and would clean up
the area for good, or else it would take them on a trip so extreme
that they would become even more addicted. Derek, how is football
going? Have you gotten to play anymore since you last wrote? I'm also
curious as to what all of the Kids are going to be for Halloween and
if you could all e-mail pictures, that would be great.
Well, this last week has been really good here in Sunyani. We are
having our first baptism here and so this last week Elder Ayim and
myself have just spent a lot of time trying to visit ans get ready all
of the candidates. We are baptizing 3 people who are named Wilson,
Mary and Douglas. I'm hoping that I didn't write about this last week,
or it will be really boring to you all. Wilson is the guy that came to
Asuyeboah when he started to talk to the woman on face-book about the
church. She stays in Australia and he just started to talk to here,
because they share the same name. She bore here testimony and told him
to do whatever it takes to come to church, and so now he is being
baptized. Mary is the mother of one of the members in the area. She
has a son on a mission and a sister that works in the area office.
When we met her she told us that the day before we came some of her
friends at her old church came over and she bore her testimony about
our church and told her friends that because the true church was now
there that she was leaving her old church and being baptized by us.
The next day we contacted her and now she is ready to be baptized and
in two weeks we are hoping to baptize her daughter, who is named
Earnistina and is about 20 years old. Both are preparing to go to the
temple to do baptisms for the dead. The last person that we are
baptizing is Douglas. He has been taught before by missionaries, but
moved just right before he was baptized. When we got here he told us
he was a member and started to bring friends to church. later we found
he had not been baptized himself, and so now we are fixing that
problem this Sat. Other than visiting with all of these people, it has
been a normal week.
We had 31 people at church this last week, including children, and
missionaries, which is a new record for Sunyani. I taught Sunday
School, which I'm not really sure how it went. I had been planing on
talking about how our body is a temple and had some things prepared
for it, when Sunday morning I woke up and felt like that was not what
I was supposed to talk about. I changed it to obedience and I hope
that the people understood what I was talking about. I was trying to
let them know that God has promised us blessings when we obey his
commandments. I used the "For the Strength of the Youth" pamphlets to
go over some of the commandments that we believe in. I talked about
how we can use if, then statements to figure out the blessings that we
get from keeping the commandments. For example, if you dress good,
then you will have a better chance of having the Spirit to be with you
and you will be an example to others. I hope that they got what I was
trying to say. There was a lot of participation so I guess that it
went OK.
Well, I guess that Im out of time. I hope that you all have a good week
Love Ty