Ghana Cape Coast Mission

  Good evening! I hope you're all doing well. This week was nice, but a little challenging. Elder Bukasa, who is really sic, got really sick. We went to the hospital, and they said he has mumps. What the heck. The diagnosis process was a little interesting, but hopefully she got it right. The doctor literally just asked him his symptoms, looked at his face, and said that it was mumps. The whole visit including medication cost less than ten dollars though so maybe it's OK.  That kinda slowed our week down though. On Tuesday we said bye to everyone going on transfer and had an ok proselyting day. Wednesday I went to Cape Coast for the transfer meeting and came back with Elder Egwatu, our new apartment mate and Elder Clemons's new companion. He's from Nigeria but lived in Ghana for a few years so he speaks twi which is awesome. He seems like a really cool guy.  Thursday we went to the hospital in the morning and then worked till closing time, but my companion was mega sick...

  Good morning everyone! I hope you're doing well. I didn't have time to send an email last week, so I'm gonna just write this one first thing in the morning so I don't run out of time like I did last week. This is a gospel of progression.  This week was great. First of all, transfer news came and WE'RE BOTH STAYING! It's a miracle. I really thought one of us would go because we've been together for two transfers, but we're still here! I'm so grateful to be spending another transfer with Elder Bukasa in the promised land of Takoradi. We have a lot of fun together and do good work. This will also be the first time I've had a companion for more than two transfers so hopefully he doesn't get tired of me.  On Wednesday, we had exchanges with the zone leaders. I was in our area with Elder Clemons, who is awesome and who is also not going on transfer. Even though we live with the zone leaders so we see them every day, I feel like I still learned a ...

  Good evening! There will be no real email tonight, due to some time consuming wahala that we had to deal with. We had to go give the church key to our first Councillor at like 9 tonight so there's no time. I had a great week though! I also have no pictures to share. I hope you all will forgive me.  Love,  Elder Johnson

Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a great week. It was a good week. We had a good lesson with Daniel, who is progressing pretty well, and we were even able to have Romeo, one of our great members, there for the lesson. We taught about baptism and priesthood and asked Daniel if he would be baptized. He said, "Why not?" Yay! However, when we tried to pick a specific date, he wasn't able to decide, and he had to travel so he couldn't make it to our next appointment so we haven't really talked to him about it since then. Hopefully he'll be back soon and we can nail down a date. I really like him a lot. He's a good guy. Pray for Daniel!  This week we also had exchanges with Elder Hadfield, our district leader. It was fun. I was in their area, called Anaji, with Elder Jenkins, who is Elder Hadfield's companion. We had a good time. Elder Jenkins is a really great elder. He started his mission in Texas because of a visa issue so he's only been here...

Good afternoon everyone! I hope you're all doing well. This week was so awesome. I feel like things are going well in our area and our ward is getting more excited about missionary work which is great.  On Thursday we had zone council and interviews with president which was really great. I love that man. I told him about how we've really struggled with overscheduling (is that one word or two?) and how I'm not always sure if we are using our time in the best way possible. He told me to always eat the heaviest elephant. Basically, just to prioritize progressing people BUT he also said that it's on a case-by-case basis and we should just follow the Spirit. That all may seem obvious but what he said next really helped me out.  He told me that we won't get it right every time. We won't optimize every second of every day perfectly. We won't always teach perfectly. Maybe we'll say or do the wrong thing. But missionary work is about faithfulness. He said that as...

  Good morning everyone! I sure love you all. This week was good. We've had some great highlights and some small lowlights but the good is greater than the not good, as it usually is.  The sad thing is that our friend Bernice, who has been in baptismal date twice, said she is done meeting with us and going to church. She said she feels like God doesn't hear her and that all we do is bug her and try to force her to learn even when she doesn't want to. That was pretty rough, but I think she will probably get over it. She's kind of streaky and sometimes really likes the gospel and sometimes doesn't, so I'm sure this will pass.  That was a little hard, and honestly even before that happened I was struggling a little bit mentally. Like I just felt a little tired and out of place for a couple days.  But God is good, and I got through it! On Wednesday we had zone conference which was cool, and that was the day Bernice broke up with the gospel. However, zone conference ...

  Good evening! This week was good. One thing my mom has told me to do out here is to "revel in the uniqueness of the experience." This week was a blast, and there was definitely a lot of unique experiences this week.  First of all, our buddy Benjamin who we kinda of stopped teaching because he likes to just preach to us for like two hours every time we see him came into some money and now buys us snacks every time we see him. Like good snacks! The other day we were passing by his cart (he sells phone accessories) and he called us over and bought us TWO sachets of ice cream (everything comes in a bag here) each plus some little pastry things that were really yummy. And today he gave us each a 2-liter coke, a can of juice, and like six biscuits each. We might need to start teaching him again.  Also, we taught a lady named Beyoncé (see the title) at her hardware store the other day. It was nice, but she didn't know All the Single Ladies, even after I sang it for her. We had...