January 31, 2011

Morning, morning, morning. We're going to play basketball at the beach after this, always excited to ball it up.

Anyway, this week was pretty good. A hundred times different than last week, but it was another great week. Monday we had a French toast party with CC, Abura, and Assin Fosu zones. There was like 40 missionaries there, so it was sweet. We also played volleyball, Elder Katoa is an ANIMAL. If that guy came to America, he would be like the best outside linebacker ever. He is such an athlete. He is so giant, but he is so fast it's crazy. Anyway, with transfers, there were no changes to our whole zone! The only thing is that there was an area that didn't have elders last transfer, but now they do again. But no on left the zone...really weird! 9 months in one area is really long, I just feel like a citizen of Moree haha. Elder Bahme and Elder Keller (two guys in my district from my first two transfers) are coming down from Kumasi/Sunyani to be companions in the coastal town of Winneba (Swedru zone), so that means I will get to see them at some point in this transfer.

So with last week being so busy and cram-packed, this week being a normal proselyting week was kind of weird haha. On Tuesday our first three appointments failed and we didn't really know what to do, but it ended up ok. We taught some good people that are serious, Kofi, Godfred- who is Phillip's best friend- we taught Phillip, and then at the end of the day we taught Solomon.

Wednesday was tough...in the morning, our first appointment failed, but then we had an appointment to go to Belinda's house and help her mom make Kenkey (its like a really thick corn dough, you eat with stew). We did clean Nana's house for him, though. He's 90....it was really cool, he was so thankful.

On Thursday, we went to Belinda to teach her. Phillip came with us to translate for some lessons on Thursday. He did so well! Honestly some of the best translating anyone has ever done for us. We also had a young men's activity on Thursday night. The auxiliary leaders here don't really know what an "activity" is, so we have started to help out trying to teach them. There has never been a Young Men's or Young Women's activity since I have been here. So we bought some stuff to play table tennis and played on a table at the chapel. It was sweet. People LOVE table tennis here-and they are reallyyyyy good-but it costs ten pesewas to play one game. So bc it was free, a lot of the YM came, and a lot brought friends. It was fun. We have been playing table tennis for exercise in the apartment for our exercise haha. Its gotten pretty intense. Elder Katoa is amazing, and Elder Mortensen is a little better than me, so it's always fun.

Friday was pretty good. It was sweet because we ran into one of our former investigators (an English speaker!) named Augustine. He had progressed really well, came to church, was praying about the church and about Joseph Smith and stuff, but then he just fell off the face of the planet. We would call him, go to his house, he was never around. He was a referral from Andrew, and Andrew didn't even know where he was. But we ran into him, and he had been in Sekondi for about 3 months. He was excited to see us, and we taught him on Friday. It was good, hopefully he starts progressing again. He even gave us a referral, his friend named Richard.

Saturday we worked at the chapel, I love doing that. Just sort of lets you get your mind off things, but it is like the best thing we can do for the missionary work in Moree. The members see us working and they introduce us to their friends. The members who work on the chapel show us all of the non-members that are working there, and they all want to learn more about the church that they are building for. It's hard work, but it's fun!

So then everything else was cool. Not as crazy as last week, which was good in some ways, not good in others, but it was just another solid week. Can't complain. I am working harder at Fante, I actually somehow taught a lesson in Fante yesterday to a recent convert, but it's still hard. I'll just keep plugging along at that. So the work is still going great in Moree, nothing to complain about, thanks for everything. Hopefully I get some packages when I see the zone leaders today! I love you guys, thanks for everything you do. Just keep being awesome and sending sweet emails! I'll try to do the same :)

Love you!

-Elder Brown