"Happy Week" 12/6

Hey guys I hope that all went well this week.Here everything went
splendidly. Elder Dixon and two other area Authorities came and saw
Sunyani. They spent about an hour talking to all of us and telling us
how happy they were with the work that we are doing and encouraging us
the way that general authorities usually do. They told us because of
the organization and the work that we are doing here that this could
be one of the fastest stakes organized in the area. Usually you start
a stake by starting with one unit and then expanding it and growing it
into different wards and splitting them and doing stuff like that, but
in Sunyani we have planned where we think that likely places for wards
would be and we set the boundaries and started them functioning as
small groups, so that there will be very little splitting for a long
time. They told us that they have never even heard of this happening
anywhere in the church and that they were very pleased at how well it
has been going. One of the area authorities was from Togo and Benin,
and they told us that because it has been going so well here that they
will start to use it in those countries too. It was really cool to
hear all of these things and got all of us really fired up to be even
better missionaries. The baptism this week was a big success also. All
three of the candidates are happily new converts, and two of the three
already have church callings. We gave the priesthood to David Mills,
the 15 year old boy that we baptized and spent about an hour Sunday
afternoon teaching him how to tie a tie and about how to go home
teaching to the family that we assigned to him and his dad. This last
week we have given about ten different callings to our members trying
to make sure that everyone is involved. Its been a really cool
process, and I feel as though Ive learned a lot about working in a
bishopric. Even though we have no branch Pres., Elder Bennett has been
given the authority to give callings to all of the members in every
unit in Sunyani, but because he doesnt know all of them, he has asked
to sit down with all of the missionaries and together we have worked
out all of the callings. Everything has been going really well, and
for the most part everyone seems to be nervously excited about all of
their new callings. They have all started to function, and act like a
branch now and its really cool to see how fast everything is
progressing here. This week we also contacted into a really cool girl.
I say girl, but I guess that she should be classified as a young
woman, because she is about 25. The cool thing about her is that she
can barely hear at all and the only way that she can understand anyone
at all is by reading their lips. Because of this problem, she has a
funny voice, and is really really shy. She pretty much acts like a
mentally-handicapped person when you first start to talk to her. She
is some-how really smart though and is able to read really well. She
happens to have one of the sweetest spirits that I have ever met in my
life. The first lesson we started to talk about God, and she got
really happy and emotional  and started to list all of the things that
God has done for her and about how she is so grateful to him for all
that he has done, and about how she wants to dedicate her life to him
in every way possible. It was really cool that she could have that
kind of attitude when she has been placed in such a hard position in
this life. I don't know if she will be able to progress as a member
because she is really strong in her church, but I feel that with her
faith and love for the gospel she will really influence a lot of
people in her life for good.Other than that this week has been
some-how normal. We went to Kumasi today to play football with the
rest of the missionaries there, and had a terribly long tro-tro ride
back that reminded me of all the times dad used to tell me that long
car rides with the twins would prepare me for my mission. I love you
all and cant wait to talk to you next week.
Love Ty