4/18

Well, once again, I had a great e-mail in the process, and the power
went out. Thankfully it just came back on, but unfortunatly my time is
now up. My thoughts this week go as follows. Liam is way cute. I hope
all is going well for everyone. Im nervouse about getting transfered
and I find out any second if I am or not. I hope that that does not
happen, because I love Sunyani and hope that I can finish my mission
here. We were able to call a unit leader and now are in the process of
training him so that he knows what to do. He is a way cool guy, is
humble and a good leader, which is exactly what we need right now. We
also had a baptism yesterday which went really well. We baptized two
children who either have family members that are members, or family
that whants to be members, but for family reasons has to wait for a
little longer. There is also a man who was baptized who lives in our
area on the weekends with is family, but on the weekdays goes to
school in the area next to ours. We contacted him on the christmas
vacation and didnt even know that he was a student and taught him a
lot until school started. He left and teaching became really hard so
we refered him over to the other elders. He was baptized this sat.
with the rest of them, and he is now in our unit also, because on the
weekends he comes back to see his family. Other good news is that
since the temple trip a lot of the members have been getting really
excited about missionary work. We have gotten 5 refferals this last
week that all seem to be somehow serious and have been able to teach
them almost every day of the week. Please pray that they will all
progress, because if they do that means that we would have enough
people to have a branch here and they all would have friends in the
church which would help them to stay. We are still working really hard
to find families to finish the family goal, but it seems that in
Sunyani either they cant speak english, which means that they are
immposible to teach because neither Elder Mapanje or myself can speak
Twi, or else the parents do not live together. Either way it makes it
really hard to find them here. Please continue to pray that all will
go well for us so that we can accomplish the goal in time. Im greatful
to be here and am so happy that I have been able to help so many
people in this area. Thanks for all that you do and remember that you
are in my prayers. Love ELder Russell