October 11, 2010

There was no email from Griffin last week because the power went out as they were checking email! Here is his letter from last week:

Wow it has been quite the adventure finally getting to email again. The power went out while we were emailing last week, so I got to read most of the emails, but didn't send any. Then today we went to a cafe, and while I was reading the emails, the network went out. So we went to another cafe where it was working, and it honestly took 30 minutes for the computer to load and everything to actually get to the inbox. Geez louise. Anyway so let's just hope the power stays on for a little bit. Everything is going well here.

So anyway on to the important stuff! I can't remember all that happened two weeks ago, but I'll go through the biggies real quick. First thing is that I got sick for the first time. Threw up on the job in Moree, luckily it was on the outside of town so nobody really saw it. It was my own fault though, earlier in the day we passed a family who had a giant pile of fish they were cleaning. We stopped to talk and help and we saw that they had some sweet sea creatures in there! Barracudas, sting rays, baby sharks, all that sweet stuff. So....I picked a few up and started playing with them and taking pictures with them haha. And then I ate some bowlfruit right after...bad idea! But oh well, I got sick and had the oll "runny tummy" but it only took me out of commission for one day. Other than that I can't remember anything sweet that happened. We had interviews with President and those went really well.

We had a special "temple training" meeting on Friday, it was super sweet. It really stinks we won't be able to go to the temple for 2 years....especially because our temple training got me all excited! Plus we got the new Liahona that is the temple issue, and it made want to go even worse!!!!!!! But oh well, President just talked a lot about the significance of the temple, and a lot more about marriage. Basically it was a marriage training, not a temple training haha. But I guess the two go hand in hand. We also learned a little bit about how to do family history, since that is part of our new goal. I also got three packages on Friday, 2 from you guys and one from Grandma H. Super sweet, thanks a bunch!

Today we played football against Abura zone (the other zone in Cape Coast, the western part of Cape Coast). One of their zone leaders played on the soccer team at BYU. We won 2-1 or something, the field was soaked through because it poured last night, so it wasn't even that fun. The funniest was just that President Sabey came and reffed, so that was fun. He has yellow and red cards he used and everything, pretty sweet haha.

We didn't have a baptism on Saturday, it's this coming Saturday. Andrew is going to be baptized is well as: Isaac- the best friend of Stephen, a recent convert; Isaac-also the best friend of a recent convert, Enoch; Dennis- a really tight fisherman thats about 18, actually speaks English a little; and four kids, Faustina, Esther, Comfort and Albert. It'll be a really sweet baptism. Other than that, there is nothing big planned for the week, we'll just be busyyyyy getting ready for the baptism. Oh yeah, we had 19 investigators at church yesterday, it was so tight! A lot of them were fisherman who had traveled or will be traveling soon, but it was still so sweet! We got a picture with all the guys that came, because every single one of them came in a white shirt! It was so sweet.

The work is still sweet in GCCM, things are really moving along in Moree. The chapel is going great and the members are giving us lots of referrals, so there is nothing to complain about! I even started throwing down some Fante with the people and they understand me! Now I've just got to be able to understand them...haha

Thanks for everything, I love you guys! The pictures you sent are sweet, just keep sending more and more!

Love,
Elder Brown