Ghana Cape Coast Mission

  Good morning my friends! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. We sure did. I got to see so many of my friends, attend an awesome sacrament meeting, and PARTY.  One big highlight of the week was church this Sunday. In our ward we have a lot of youth, which is awesome. President Prince, our branch president, assigned 5 youth to give talks and asked us to help them prepare. We weren't in our area a whole ton this week because we had a mission-wide Christmas party that we had to travel to, but we were still able to work with them to get their talks put together and it went so well. One thing I love about Elubo is the unique ways there are to build the kingdom. This was my first time helping recent converts prepare sacrament talks, but I absolutely loved it. It was so fun to help them put together their simple talks and so rewarding to hear the talks after they finished writing them. Elubo has a bright future if all these kids stay active.  It was small stressful to get all the t

  Good morning my friends. We recently received a directive from our mission president that we need to spend less time on the phone on Mondays. So hopefully this email will be less rambly and more focused than some of my past ones.  This week was fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed it. We had fun times, spiritual times, and revelation/inspired direction from priesthood leader times. It was great.  First, the fun times. Last Monday was quite possibly the funnest pday of my mission. We got up, cleaned, washed our clothes, did our 3 hours of proselyting, and then went to Esiama, a neighbouring town like 1.5 hours away, and joined the other Elders in our district there. We went to the most beautiful beach I have ever seen in my life and played soccer. This beach was insane. I'm telling you. Like absolutely gorgeous, flat, beautiful, and as far as you can see. And there was no one there! It was so fun. We did have to run into the ocean a few times to save the soccer ball but no one did any

  This week was wonderful and challenging all at the same time. I've eaten more banku this week then any other week of my life by far. Banku is like the corn part of a tamale except it's in a big ball and you dip it in soup and eat it. It's nice. We paid a member to make us a bunch of it so now we make a big pot of soup and eat it with the banku. When I say we I mean Elder Momoh makes the soup and I chop the onions and microwave the banku. We all have our role in this great work lol.  We had some big miracles this week in our area and companionship this week though. One thing we've struggled with this week is getting people to help us translate what we teach for those who don't speak English. Our branch is pretty small already and the members are all really busy, but our branch president and his wife worked with us twice this week, and we were able to get help from Evelyn as well, a stellar young woman in our branch. It was such a blessing. We took President Prince

  Good morning everybody! As the title suggests, it's been a week of wild changes and big miracles for me. Two weeks ago I was confidently walking the streets of Takoradi, a place I know really well, crying repentance and enjoying KFC. I was comfortable and content.  However, God knew it was time for a change and one definitely came. Monday I got released as a zone leader and Wednesday I found out over zoom that I was going to Elubo, a town right on the border of Ghana and Ivory Coast that is 6 hours from the mission home. It's a new but really powerful branch with lots of young members. I'm also the clerk which is kinda fun. I don't really know how to do that but the general handbook of instruction does so it'll be OK.  We had some big miracles and exciting experiences this week as well. One of them was getting to Elubo in the first place. We had a hard time getting our travel lined up to get here so me and Elder Momoh were out pretty late. We took a tro (or bus) t