Ca ya bien!!! Alright, first things, Elder Mortensen got Bacon n' Cheddar easy cheese in a package last week and you HAVE to send it to me!!!!! OK?!?!?! It's amazing!!!!!! So now that that's out of the way, on to the good stuff :)
So this week was so sweet. Probably the sweetest week so far on my mission. It just flew by, and even though it wasn't really anything special finding or teaching wise, it was just awesome. I never really felt worn out during the day (Except for Sunday, which was Fast Sunday...not nice not eating or drinking when its 103!!!!!!!) and the days were all productive. Tuesday I went on splits with Elder Mortensen and Elder Katoa, because Elder Adams went to a special training meeting for DLs and ZLs in Cape Coast. It was really good. The work in Yamoransa is kind of slow right now, but they are working really hard to speed it back up. We contacted for a little while, taught a first lesson to a member referral, and met with a couple of recent converts. They have a sweet recent convert who we taught right before he left for the mission prep class in Ola. He's definitely mission bound next year. Then we taught a recent convert who I had actually taught several times with Elder Chesa, Timothy. He's a really cool guy too, he was the first guy I taught 5+ times who got baptized, so that was especially cool. Wednesday was basically the perfect day of missionary work haha. Absolutely nothing fell through, we taught 12 lessons. It was crazy! We met will all the people we wanted to, contacted a couple guys who seem really cool and are friends with some members, and taught 4 recent converts. It was just awesome! Never had a day like that, hopefully there are some more coming as we work hard though :) Thursday and Friday were normal, met with Belinda a couple times, she committed to baptism! I'm really excited for her.
Saturday was the sweetest. We taught some great lessons in the morning (Belinda), and then we went out with the Young Men's president, Bro. Hawkson. and visited all of our YM-aged recent converts. We met with Isaac and Steven, the two best friends who were baptized a little while ago. It went really well. Bro. Hawkson just taught them about how they need to be reading the scriptures plenty, about how important the Book of Mormon is. That is exactly what we wanted to talk about, so it worked out well! We also met with David, talked about the same stuff.
Saturday night, we roasted a pig for a dinner!!!! It was Elder Mortensen's year mark, and since Elder Katoa knows how to roast a pig, we did it! We bought the pig from bishop and it was huuuuuge. Elder Katoa said it was the biggest pig he has ever killed and cooked. He actually had some trouble killing it, but he eventually got the best of it. Seein him kill the pig was pretty crazy. Then we went back to the apartment, built a fire outside, cleaned the pig, stuck it on a stick and roasted for two hours! I was a little skeptical about how it would taste, just because didn't put any spice, seasoning sauce or anything on it. But oh my word....it was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good. I probably ate more meat Saturday night than I had my whole mission. It was ridiculous, tasted like something straight from Fogo de Chao. No joke. Goodness gracious, that thing was better than just about anything. And the experience of cooking the whole thing, from life to meal was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We'll have to do it as a family on our next family campout....haha :)
Sunday, it rained superrrrrr hard in the morning. I heard the LOUDEST clap of thunder I have EVER heard, hands down. I was asleep, and it literally made me jump out of bed. Elder Mortensen thought a bomb had gone off and we were under attack for about 5 minutes. It was insane. It shook the house. And then since people think rain will kill them here, no one came to church! I counted at the start of sacrament...there was 19 people there. 19!!!!!! Not to say how awesome we are or anything, but about 8 of those were recent converts or investigators :) Andrew blessed the sacrament again (by memory) and we confirmed Jacob (since last week we watched conference, we didn't do it then). Elder Adams and I bore our testimonies in testimony meeting. Elder Adams threw down some Fante (Minyim de asor no ye nokwar- I know the church is true) and everybody liked that. It was a cool testimony meeting, just because there were so few people there. Andrew bore his testimony, that was sweet. We walked all the way to Abakamoru before church to pick an investigator up to take to church, Edward. We walked in the rain all the way out there, and he came with us. He had a pretty good time. One of his best friends, Enoch, is a member, so hopefully something comes from that. He's a really cool kid.
Something kind of cool-there is an Ethiopian in our zone, Elder Mekonen. I remembered that Pres. and Sis. Andrus are serving there right now, and I asked him if he knew them, and he said he did! He couldn't stop talking about how awesome they are and about how much he loved them. He said he would meet and talk with him all the time, he helped him get out on mission. He even said that last year he went to Thanksgiving dinner at their house! Pretty Sweet! Small world, eh?
So anyway, I can't think of anything else awesome right now. I got your package today, the one with the Christmas tree and stuff in it! Can't wait to set it up and decorate it :D You and Sister Adams must be talking, you guys send me and Elder Adams the same stuff :) He just got a package of the same Tyson's chicken last week, and the same mashed potatoes! Its cool though, bc that stuff is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just keep sending any cool stuff you can find! Especially easy cheese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad the Wildcats won, hope they crush Cedar Hill this week! The Cougs might have a shot in SLC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!! Thanks for being sooo awesome! Yebehyia!
Love, from Cape Coast, Ghana,
Elder G. Hebertson Brown
So this week was so sweet. Probably the sweetest week so far on my mission. It just flew by, and even though it wasn't really anything special finding or teaching wise, it was just awesome. I never really felt worn out during the day (Except for Sunday, which was Fast Sunday...not nice not eating or drinking when its 103!!!!!!!) and the days were all productive. Tuesday I went on splits with Elder Mortensen and Elder Katoa, because Elder Adams went to a special training meeting for DLs and ZLs in Cape Coast. It was really good. The work in Yamoransa is kind of slow right now, but they are working really hard to speed it back up. We contacted for a little while, taught a first lesson to a member referral, and met with a couple of recent converts. They have a sweet recent convert who we taught right before he left for the mission prep class in Ola. He's definitely mission bound next year. Then we taught a recent convert who I had actually taught several times with Elder Chesa, Timothy. He's a really cool guy too, he was the first guy I taught 5+ times who got baptized, so that was especially cool. Wednesday was basically the perfect day of missionary work haha. Absolutely nothing fell through, we taught 12 lessons. It was crazy! We met will all the people we wanted to, contacted a couple guys who seem really cool and are friends with some members, and taught 4 recent converts. It was just awesome! Never had a day like that, hopefully there are some more coming as we work hard though :) Thursday and Friday were normal, met with Belinda a couple times, she committed to baptism! I'm really excited for her.
Saturday was the sweetest. We taught some great lessons in the morning (Belinda), and then we went out with the Young Men's president, Bro. Hawkson. and visited all of our YM-aged recent converts. We met with Isaac and Steven, the two best friends who were baptized a little while ago. It went really well. Bro. Hawkson just taught them about how they need to be reading the scriptures plenty, about how important the Book of Mormon is. That is exactly what we wanted to talk about, so it worked out well! We also met with David, talked about the same stuff.
Saturday night, we roasted a pig for a dinner!!!! It was Elder Mortensen's year mark, and since Elder Katoa knows how to roast a pig, we did it! We bought the pig from bishop and it was huuuuuge. Elder Katoa said it was the biggest pig he has ever killed and cooked. He actually had some trouble killing it, but he eventually got the best of it. Seein him kill the pig was pretty crazy. Then we went back to the apartment, built a fire outside, cleaned the pig, stuck it on a stick and roasted for two hours! I was a little skeptical about how it would taste, just because didn't put any spice, seasoning sauce or anything on it. But oh my word....it was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good. I probably ate more meat Saturday night than I had my whole mission. It was ridiculous, tasted like something straight from Fogo de Chao. No joke. Goodness gracious, that thing was better than just about anything. And the experience of cooking the whole thing, from life to meal was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We'll have to do it as a family on our next family campout....haha :)
Sunday, it rained superrrrrr hard in the morning. I heard the LOUDEST clap of thunder I have EVER heard, hands down. I was asleep, and it literally made me jump out of bed. Elder Mortensen thought a bomb had gone off and we were under attack for about 5 minutes. It was insane. It shook the house. And then since people think rain will kill them here, no one came to church! I counted at the start of sacrament...there was 19 people there. 19!!!!!! Not to say how awesome we are or anything, but about 8 of those were recent converts or investigators :) Andrew blessed the sacrament again (by memory) and we confirmed Jacob (since last week we watched conference, we didn't do it then). Elder Adams and I bore our testimonies in testimony meeting. Elder Adams threw down some Fante (Minyim de asor no ye nokwar- I know the church is true) and everybody liked that. It was a cool testimony meeting, just because there were so few people there. Andrew bore his testimony, that was sweet. We walked all the way to Abakamoru before church to pick an investigator up to take to church, Edward. We walked in the rain all the way out there, and he came with us. He had a pretty good time. One of his best friends, Enoch, is a member, so hopefully something comes from that. He's a really cool kid.
Something kind of cool-there is an Ethiopian in our zone, Elder Mekonen. I remembered that Pres. and Sis. Andrus are serving there right now, and I asked him if he knew them, and he said he did! He couldn't stop talking about how awesome they are and about how much he loved them. He said he would meet and talk with him all the time, he helped him get out on mission. He even said that last year he went to Thanksgiving dinner at their house! Pretty Sweet! Small world, eh?
So anyway, I can't think of anything else awesome right now. I got your package today, the one with the Christmas tree and stuff in it! Can't wait to set it up and decorate it :D You and Sister Adams must be talking, you guys send me and Elder Adams the same stuff :) He just got a package of the same Tyson's chicken last week, and the same mashed potatoes! Its cool though, bc that stuff is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just keep sending any cool stuff you can find! Especially easy cheese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad the Wildcats won, hope they crush Cedar Hill this week! The Cougs might have a shot in SLC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!! Thanks for being sooo awesome! Yebehyia!
Love, from Cape Coast, Ghana,
Elder G. Hebertson Brown
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