Hello Family and Friends! It is
great to be writing to you all once again, and now we are in the great month of
February! I hope you are all still enjoying the weather (Snow) and are all
doing well!
Okay so as for this past week it was
good! Monday night we were able to see A-Boss (A security guard for the mission
home) and we read some of the Book of
Mormon with him and that was good, and then we saw Christiana and we talked
about the temple and she is doing well.
On Tuesday I was nervous,
really nervous. I instructed for the first time at District Meeting and it was
a combined District Meeting, so it was in front of the whole zone and that was
kind of scary. But it seemed okay, and the Elders and Sisters seemed to enjoy
it. I talked about truly being converted to the gospel and used the
Anti-Nephi-Lehis for examples (They are just really great, and are one of my favorite
people in the Book of Mormon) and it was nice. I definitely am not the most
adequate speaker but I felt good afterword. After that Elder Hodson and I did supplies
and then I got to do my first Baptismal Interview for a young girl named Riah
(Green Hill Sisters) and it was so sweet! She really was prepared for the gospel
and I was so excited for her to make that covenant with our heavenly father. It
was a good day!
Wednesday was a nice day of proselyting.
We met this new guy named Evans and we taught him small, and he seemed really
excited about the gospel. That night I got to go on my first exchange, and I
went with Elder Stucle! (He is a cool guy) and is our Finance Secretary and I
can only go for 3 hours at night (due to their duties and all) but it was
sweet. We saw Abigail, and a guy named Albert (he was a very serious investigator
but one or two things came up and he really stopped with the church) (Oh and I
used one of the public toilets (For peeing; they have different ones for pooing,
but we don't go in those; we use the nice toilets at the mission home or the
church, or are apartment.
Thursday was Weekly Planning! I was
feeling a little down so I was like let's make POPCORN! And we did and we sat
on a mattress and did our Weekly Planning and it was great! The popcorn made me
really happy :) but after that we had a slower day but we did teach Victor and Christiana
and that was very sweet, and they are doing really well. We also saw our less
active young man named Francis and he is a cool guy; he just doesn't like
coming to church, but small small he will get there!
Friday- Elder Hodson and I just did
supplies and got them ready for the apartments: we separated the packages by
zone and we have all the supplies into two piles in different rooms, Central
Region and Western Region and then we organized it by zone and apartment and it
was fun!
Saturday was a nice day, and I got
to walk up some crazy hills. Nkanfoa is so hilly. It's like you are hiking one
minute, walking the next minute, up and down and its fun! Definitely different
from Swedru where it was just flat, but I got some nice pictures of the view so
hopefully you will all get to see them! Elder Hodson and I got the chance to go
out with Elder Kalanga (Elder Adams my MT's companion. Elder Adams had to get
his appendix out so they are just resting here for a little bit until he gets
better) and that was nice! Elder Hodson and I also got to see how Ghanaians
fetch their water and they all wait at this pump and they all take turns for
this water and they get buckets and buckets of water for cooking and bathing
and sometimes they have to fetch water every day and that is crazy! Plumbing
truly is a blessing.
Sunday- Was good! Victor and Christiana
showed up and we got to watch a video from the Africa West Presidency on their
goals for 2016, and apparently the Second Counselor in the primary and the
First Counselor in the Relief Society for the church came and stopped by but
Elder Hodson and I were with Victor reviewing baptismal questions and President
got to interview him and he passed!!!!! So his baptism is this Saturday at 4:00
p.m. so hopefully it will go well! We also saw Hannah and Agnes (Two other investigators
who haven't come to church yet) and we saw Francis again, and I gave him a pen
to motivate him for church. So we shall see ha-ha!
But the work here is great. We are
just trying to look for referrals and use the members as much as possible! I
hope everything is going well for you guys at home. And don't be afraid to call
the missionaries in your home ward: they totally need you. I just saw that the
4th ward has some, and I know they could use all the help they can get. It doesn’t
have to be big, but I am sure they would appreciate it :) I love you guys so
much and I hope the best for you all. Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Harward
Hello
Family and Friends! How are you all doing? I hope you are all doing well, and
that you are enjoying life, and having lots of fun adventures!!
Okay so as for this week it was a great week!
Monday of course was P- Day.
Tuesday was District Meeting, and my second time at instructing.
This time I chose Charity. I don't know why but I just felt like that west the
right one to choose and personally I learned a lot about it, and what I need to
do to have charity more in my life. At the end of my instruction I gave the
district the Christ like Attribute Activity so they personally can find out
what they should work one. Then Elder Hodson and I did supplies: Pick up the
mail/packages, organize the mail/packages/ pamphlets shop for more supplies fun
stuff like that. :) That night I went on my second exchange with Elder Day, and
I wanted to see what the other Elder's proselyting night was like and it was
interesting. They visit members and less active, and it was a good night!
Wednesday was a good day! Elder Kalanga and I went on an exchange
because he wanted to proselyte, but Elder Adams can't go out until the next
transfer so my companion stayed with him. We actually went past the mission
home small (The place is called New Cite) and we saw a potential investigator
named Emmanuel. He attends the Methodist church, and works in Cape Coast, and
seems like a nice guy. It was a pretty good first lesson and he invited us back,
so hopefully all will go well for him. While Elder Kalanga and I were out we
saw a pipe broken and all the people were going for free water from the pipe,
so I took some pictures. It really is interesting how people here in Ghana
collect their water. (Did I ever tell you how interesting Nkanfoa is? During
the day Nkanfoa is pretty quiet, because a lot of people just travel 10 or so
minutes to Cape Coast and work there) and then at night it's pretty busy
because people usually come back from Cape Coast and it gets very interesting ha-ha.)
Anyways Elder Kalanga and I saw Abigail that night. She is a member of the Pentecost
church and she is very active there. She has a date in Swedru who she is dating
who is a member, so she is interested in the church, but has lots of questions
on life after death, which are very deep and doctrinal. We saw here and we gave
her a lesson from the Doctrine and Covenants to help her with the three
kingdoms of glory and we read small passages from section 76 and it was pretty
good! It's very interesting because most people we teach this, it's very simple
but for her it's very complex and doctrinal, so it's quite a challenge ha-ha,
but it was good!
Thursday was a good day but a little bit slower. Elder Hodson and
I were able to see Cecilia/Phillip (Both Recent Converts Mother and son) and we
reviewed Lesson 2 with them and it was nice, and then we saw Christiana and we
just talked about Missionary Work and Service and that was good!
Okay so Friday was interesting! We normally see Victor on Thursday,
but he asked us for Friday right before we do supplies so we said it was cool.
The other Elders had to leave early for a service project in Mankessim so they
took the van, and left us the truck but they locked us in. Ha-ha so Elder
Hodson and I are stuck in our compound and we can't see Victor, but luckily he
calls us and shows up to our compound and opens it for us ha-ha! We had a good
lesson with him! He asked if he could choose some hymns for his baptism and we
told him of course! We then just reviewed small the end of Lesson 5 and then we
asked him who he would like to baptize him, and he said he didn't care who did
it. So Elder Hodson and I decided we would talk about it later. So then we just
did supplies for the rest of the day which was fun! I think I am doing better
at driving but I am not sure ha-ha! That night Elder Hodson said that I should
do it (because I told him I never baptized someone) and that it would be neat
for me to have my first one.
Saturday rolled around and it was a great day! We saw Francis and
encouraged he to come to the service and to church tomorrow and it was sweet!
Then we had Victor's Baptism at 4:00 P.M. We sang Joseph Smith's First Prayer,
Love at Home, Oh My Father and a couple others but it was really neat to see
how much he loved the gospel and the hymns. Then we had the service, and I was
really nervous to baptize him, but everything went well, and I was happy for
Victor and the step he was taking to follow Jesus Christ. Even some of his friends
came to support him and that was very nice of them. After the baptism we were
supposed to have a movie night, but it got changed to Sunday evening so Elder
Hodson and I decided to go and see Abigail. We got there and we started talking
small, and we got on to the subject of Food, and my Companion said "Palm
Nut Soup is my favorite" and she said "oh really, I just made some,
so you have to stay and have some" so of course we said yes. Then we got
to go in and have Delicious FuFu with Palm Nut soup aka Abenkyen. I included a
picture :) She put beans in the soup and it was SO SO good!! The fish, and
chicken were also nice! Afterwards we had a nice discussion about service and
trying to resolve any of her concerns. But She told us flat out that she would
come to church (we didn't remind her) and that was so sweet! SO it was a great
lesson!
On Sunday a miracle happened- Abigail came to church! Man it was
so sweet!! That was a big step for her, and I am SO excited for her, so hopefully
it will go well for her. And it was fast Sunday and Victor got confirmed and he
bore his testimony! He also got the Aaronic Priesthood and it was a nice day.
Afterwards we just talked to Victor small and then we saw Christiana at her
place which is up a hill.... So it’s pretty tiring but it’s keeping me in
shape. We just reviewed the baptismal questions and she is doing well! We then
walked up around Nkanfoa up some more hill’s (its very hilly) and we got to see
Edward our Youth Member and that was cool. We then met up with the other
missionaries at the Quartsons (Sweet Members) to learn how to make Cabbage
Stew/ Bean Stew. It looked very nice although I am not sure if I remembered all
the steps ha-ha! After that we had movie night and we watched Free Town! Hey it
was so good! I really enjoyed. Okay the last part of the movie when they are
about to go on the freighter and you see a bus called Metro Mass and they go
and they start talking to people with stuff on their head? That bus is just a Ghana
thing. Metro Mas is a bus company in Ghana and the other elders decided that
they probably filmed that part in Ghana, and it wouldn't surprise me because
people sell stuff on their head all the time, so it's very common. Anyways I
loved the missionaries desire to preach the gospel even when their lives were
in danger. It was a great movie!
Well that's all for this week! I am excited to see how the work
goes, and Christiana’s Baptism is this Saturday so it should go well!!! I hope
you are all doing well and that you all keep having lots of fun adventures!
Have a great week :)
Love,
Elder Harward
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