August 30, 2010

Good morning! We headed into Cape early this morning so you'll probably get this right when you wake up, hope it helps ya have a good start to the week :)

Thanks for all the updates, sounds like everything is going sweet back there. Sounds like Guyer is going to be legit this year.

So this week was another sweet week in Ghana! Nothing too special or out of the ordinary happened, it was just a solid week. Our rockstar ward missionary, Daniel, went back to school in Cape last week, so we've been having trouble getting a translator to go with us, but it was still ok. When we don't have a translator...it's tough, because not many speak English! I got a Twi book to study though, so I'll be able to learn a little bit faster. Twi is just a simplified, easier form of Fante, so I'll still be able to communicate to Fante speakers in Twi. Fante speakers can understand any of the Akan languages, but the other languages, like Twi, cant understand Fante as well. I have that Twi book to learn grammar and stuff, and then I have a small Fante dictionary with some basic words and vocabulary. I'm beginning to be able to read Fante ok, but understanding it when people speak is a whole different ball game. So anyway, Daniel would go proselyte with us every day to translate, but he's gone now. His brother Enoch goes with us sometimes, but he's in high school, so he can't go during the day. There's another guy, Joseph, that goes with us sometimes, and he's really tight. Two other ward missionaries, Stephen and Mary, go into the MTC on Friday. He is going to Nigeria Port Harcourt Mission and she is going to the greatest mission in the world! Ghana Cape Coast!!! It'll be weird because she would translate for us sometimes, and now she'll be my fellow missionary in GCCM. Stephen has a twin who is on a mission in Nigeria Enugu. They converted together when they were 16 or so, and then their older brother converted, and now we are baptizing his younger brother Kwesi, on Saturday.

We spent most of the week preparing for our baptism this coming Saturday, we finished up teaching and preparing Albert, Kwesi, Comfort and Victoria, and Doris, so they'll be baptized on Saturday. We were going to do the baptisms in the ocean, but the Abakrampa sisters and the Yamoransa elders wanted to join up with our baptism, so we'll just be having one in the Yamoransa chapel. We also taught a really cool guy named Ishmael a few times last week.

The work on the chapel continues to go forward. They are doing the final leveling of the ground today, building a fence tomorrow and then they begin building the chapel itself on Wednesday. I'm sure Elder Adams and I will help plenty. Right now, kids just play football on the land because it's the only large flat area in all of Moree! They'll be sad when they start building. We stopped and played some football with them for a while the other day, the kids here are so tight!

Thanks for everything, it's so sweet to hear from you guys every week.

Love, Elder Brown

P.S. Cheer extra for me when the Cougs take down Sarkisian and the Huskies on Saturday. My guess is 37-17 Cougars.