11/1

Hey guys, I hope that you all had an amazing week and an even better
Halloween. On Sat. we had our first baptism in Sunyani, and it was the
most peaceful and spiritual baptism that I have ever been to. We had a
member do the ordinance who did a really good job and didn't mess up
at all, and all of the children that were there were very reverent. I
think that it was a perfect baptism. Because of the baptism there was
a lot of paperwork and stuff, and because we are a new unit we have no
ward clerk to help with it. I was thinking about that on Sat night and
decided that I needed to find out for sure that we were doing all of
the necessary paperwork, so I decided to do some basic research to
find out. When I did the research I found that there were quite a few
other papers that we needed to fill out that we have not even thought
about, because they are usually already done for us, such as request
for membership forms. Now I get to go back and take care of all of
those things and try to make them all work out all right. It will be
really nice as soon as we can call someone to be a clerk, but we have
no authority to do that and need to work on a Branch Pres. before we
can do that. Until then, I guess that I just get to learn how to be
both a ward clerk and a missionary at the same time. We have really
had a lot of fun this last week though. I feel really tired because of
all of the things that have been going on in our area. It seems that
whenever you have a lot of time to do things, that you wish that there
were things to do, and that when you feel like everything is going on,
there are more and more things that just keep piling up. For instance,
we will start the day and have one or two appointments, and then an
hour of free time to contact or something, and as soon as you hit that
hour everything goes wrong and you have nothing to do or you just dont
feel like you are doing what is the most effective thing to be doing.
As soon as that time ends though, you have appointment after
appointment and everything just seems to blow up in your face and
youre going all over trying to make everything work out. I hope that
what I just said makes sense. I guess that that is the way that life
is most of the time, besides that not having time with nothing
productive to do. This last week, we started to go through our
investigators and drop all of the ones that were not serious. Now we
have relatively few people to teach and are probably going to have to
start contacting a lot more again. I guess that this week I may need a
few more prayers than usual. I hope that I have not sounded
discouraged or down in this e-mail. Im still loving it here. This week
has been really a growing week for me, because we will go from one
appointment and the spirit will be really strong there and then the
next will be just a dud and we will have to drop them. I have really
started to understand a lot more about discerning peoples feelings
towards the church this last week. This last week, I also got to bear
another 20 min testimony to fill in time at sacrament meeting. I
talked about the restoration and feel that it went really well. There
spirit was really strong there. I am thankful for all that Heavenly
Father has done for me and for the great outpouring of the Spirit that
he has given us. I know that this Church is true and am grateful to be
a part of it. Thanks for all that you guys do. I love you and cant
wait to hear form you again next week.
Love Ty