August 29, 2011

Alright, so on to the week at Kwamo. Week started well last week, district meeting in Asokwa on Tuesday, was in a threesome with Elder McFarland all day Tuesday and Wednesday most of the day. Elder Nathan and Elder McFarland had fun together, an Aussie and a New Zealander have a lot of nice banter when they are together. Had a sweet lesson with Oppong on Tuesday night. Finished out The Restoration lesson, gave him a Book of Mormon, and he is still getting ready for the baptism on 17 September.
Anarfi proselyted with us on Wednesday. It was pretty sweet. He was really able to help us out in teaching. Him and Mensah are sweet, they said last week - "we want to come walk with you so we can get more members" - no problem!!! And of course, Anarfi was looking as fresh as ever. Nice crisp plaid yellow shirt, with slim cut brown trousers and Sperry topsiders - Mensah was wearing a purple shirt with a purple and black sweater and a black bowtie when he was confirmed. How fresh is that? Let me answer.... ummmmm.... so fresh?!!?!?!? We went out to Ejisu in the morning on Wednesday, tried to find some people we hadn't seen in a while out there, because we haven't had time to go there in like 3 weeks. Got some new contacts, met some old people, and played some ping pong at an investigators house. A big thing is that people buy a ping pong table, set it up outside of their house, and make kids pay 10 pesewas to play on it. But he let us play for free... man that guy was so good! His name is Alexander, a cool guy for sure. Anarfi won the Kumasi Stake YSA ping pong tournament, and Alexander still beat him like 21-8.

Wednesday night we went to town to pick up Elder McFarland's new companion. His name is Elder Larsen, from Loa, Utah. It’s like 45 minutes outside Richfield, said he knows Koosharem. He is loving Kwamo! It’s cool having a new guy in the apartment.
The week continued well, we have a lot of people to teach, it’s just that most cannot meet all that often. The day times are usually pretty slow, and then we have a lot of appointments at night. But we are still finding some success. Have a baptism planned 17 September.
Friday was loooooooooooong. I had red-red (beans, gari, and LOTS of palm oil) for lunch and it killed me! The day dragged so much. But luckily we had some good appointments at night that pulled it all through. Taught Blatta, he is really starting to get a testimony.
Mensah and Daniel were confirmed yesterday, now we just have to REALLY focus on making sure these converts stay strong. I love you guys so much and thank you so much for everything you do! Like I said, thank you for every little thing you ever did!!! I am trying to reciprocate it the best I can out here :) My regards to everybody back home. Oh yeah, you said there are 5 missionaries from our ward. I can only think of like 3. Who are the rest? Love you guys!!!

-Elder Brown