November 1, 2010

Hey what's up everybody. It's been a pretty crazy week, it was really sweet though.



We just got transfer news, Elder Wiah is going up to Kumasi to be the Dichemso zone leader, and Elder Adams is the new district leader here in Yamoransa. Pretty sweet because now we'll get to take the phone when we proselyte, that will help so much. Elder Mortensen's new companion is named Elder Katoa, he's Samoan. He was in Abura zone (the other CC zone) for a while so I've met him a few times and he's super tight. we'll have a lot of fun in our apartment this transfer I'm sure.



So anyway on to the week. A lot of sweet things happened. First off is that we met an Area Seventy, Elder Ahadgi, at the chapel site one night. It was really sweet. (He is actually in a picture in the gospel principles book, in the eternal marriage chapter). We talked to him for about an hour and he told us some really sweet stuff. He told us to read 1 Nephi again and compare it to Joseph Smith. Pretty cool. He also has a cool conversion story, he was a stake president 3 years after he became a memeber. A bishop 8 months after being a member....serious stuff!!! Wednesday we went to farm with Bro Buateng from the Yamoransa ward (same guy we went to FHE a couple weeks ago). We thought his farm was right by his house, but nope, it was a solid hour and a half walk outside of Yamoransa. We were supposed to help him harvest some trees he was growing to make charcoal, but the chainsaw didn't work, so we walked back to Yamoransa!



Funny story- I made some syrup about a week and a half ago to use for French toast. All I used was brown sugar, white sugar, water and a little bit of Elder Mortensen's mapeline. But about four days after I made it, that stuff turned into grade A alcohol. It WREAKED. It fermented so fast it was ridiculous. Guess I'll just have to put it in the fridge next time!



Anyway, one day we were walking to meet Jacob at his house, and we passed these kid that were all gathered in a group. We saw that they were all gathered around this one kid who was playing a home made drum set! It was so sweet, he made it out of three water jugs and tomato paste cans and lids. It was legit, and he was super good! He had made a bass with the foot pedal and everything, had made a hi hat out of two tomato can lids and had like 6 other cymbals and drums. It was so sweet. I sat down and played a little bit haha. I got a pic so you'll see it at some point, but man it was so tight. Chris would have thought it was super sweet.

We went on splits with Elder Izekor on Friday and that was really sweet, he's a really powerful guy. He helped us out with a lot of the investigators we were teaching. He said that Moree is sweet and that it looks like we're doing a great job, so we'll work to keep that up!

Our baptism this weekend went well, but not as planned at all. Friday the water stopped running in Yamoransa. We have a reserve tank that we use when the water stops, but it was empty too. So we've gone without running water for a few days. We were showering with water we fetched from a place like half a mile down the road and stuff. NOT FUN!!!!!!!!!!!! Be grateful for running water. You can't do anything without it! Anyway so made it so that the font in Yamoransa couldn't fill. So we had to change it to the beach while we were at church on Sunday. We had already rescheduled it from Saturday or a couple reasons, and so it was pretty crazy to have to change it again from Yamy to Moree beach. Mankessiem were coming to join our baptism, so we had to get a hold of them and everything, crazy crazy. And then of course baptizing in the ocean is just ridiculous. But Jacob was baptized as well as Esther, so it all worked out fine.

Today's P-Day has been pretty hectic. With the water being off and everything our apartment is a mess and we could wash any of our clothes, so it was just weird. We had a banana cake party with the zone, me and Elder Bunker made em. They were really good, and we got to watch the Priesthood session of conference too. Finally got to see some of conference! I loved Pres. Uchtdorf's talk.

Well everything is going sweet here. I'm getting more and more into it, starting to lose track of days and stuff. Is it really November? I love you guys!

-Elder Brown

Go Rangers! (Unfortunately, the Rangers lost the World Series that night---Opening Dayis April 1st! :)