Glad to hear the ol' Cougs got the season started off right, even if it was a little shaky. A win against in SEC on the road team is something to think about. Have fun in Austin this weekend. I can't believe its football season again. I mean wowzers... where has the time gone.
Well today has been a unique P-Day. President Shulz is changing things up a bit, now we won't be having a P-Day activity every week like we have been. Every first Monday of the month, we will deep clean our apartments. So, that’s what we did all this morning. Honestly, I enjoyed it haha. Cleaned EVERYTHING and now our apartment is as fresh as can be. Cleaning out the fridge was... gross. But all is good :) Your son might be living in the cleanest missionary apartment in the world. And it has a baptismal font in it.
We had a combined district meeting last Tuesday to get some info from the zone leaders about some stuff. Like I said, President Shulz is changing things up a bit, which is going to help us out a lot. It’s always nice to get together with everyone from the zone, and of course, the Zolls always bring FanIce (ice cream). The rest of the day proselyting after that wasn't too successful. Almost every appointment failed, and one that did didn't go as well as we would have hoped. We have been teaching a family…they are pretty cool and have liked our teachings, especially the father, he even said he wanted to be baptized. We will pray for the best.
Oh yeah, I know how to cook now. Like, really well. I can make tomato stew like nobody's bidness and cook up beans like I am from downtown Mexico City. So I guess that’s really not much, but hey, it’s ok right?
Wednesday we got to go out to a part of our area we had never been to before. There is a fairly big town called Juaben about 20 minutes out from Kwamo; there is one member that lives there, but we had never been out there. On the way to Juaben is a small village called Bonwire (pronounced Bone-wee-eh) that is the main place in Asante region where they weave Kente cloth. The Zolls needed us to show them out there and so we got to ride out there with them. It is a pretty cool little village. Kente is everything! I got a sweet Kente tie, and I am gonna go back on a P-Day sometime to buy some more. You can design them
yourself, so I am gonna draw up some sweet designs :)
Earlier in the day, we had been in Ejisu and had two sweet lessons. One was with a guy we contacted by the taxi station there named Wiradu. He is student at UST, and we had a great lesson with him. He said he was Christian, but he didn't attend any church because
he was just too confused by all of the different sects of Christianity. So we talked about the Restoration and ended up giving a Book of Mormon to him. Taught him again later in the week, and it went great again. Wasn't able to come to church yesterday, but we will meet
him this week and he said he could come next Sunday. Then after him, we went to an appointment with a guy we contacted last week named Adolf. We had a nice discussion, he had heard a lot about the church, not all good things, but he said he doesn't believe them, and even had a friend that is a member. We came back on Wednesday for our appointment and had a good discussion. He had read all of The Restoration pamphlet we had given him, had understood it well, and had good questions about it all. He ended up being concerned that we were too busy trying to teach people about the Restoration and weren't focusing enough on teaching people about Jesus. Sure he has a fair point, but we told him in our first meeting that our purpose is to help people come unto Christ through faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. And that can only effectively come when people understand the Restoration. We had a good lesson and eventually helped him realize exactly what we were there to do - teach HIM, what HE needed at that time. Obviously he already knew about Jesus Christ, so all we needed to do was fill in the gaps of how to learn the gospel of Jesus Christ to its fullest. All in all it was a good lesson, and he promised to read, ponder, and pray more.
Thursday we walked so much. Out to Tikurom, out to Fumesua, and then to the far side of Kwamo. We were pooped at night. Two great things happened though. First, we walked out to Tikurom even though we hadn't seen our investigator there for over a week, and couldn't reach him on the phone. He told us he would be in the house all week, and we knew we needed to go see him, even if we had to walk that far. So we walk all the way out there... and he's not there. It was a little discouraging, but as we started to walk back from Tikurom, we met him getting out of a taxi, and he was very happy to see us. His name is Yaw; we’d only taught him once, but he was way prepared for the message of the Restoration and so we had to make sure we didn't let him slip through our fingers. We discussed small, but the funniest part was that he asked us about The Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Haha, so we are going to bring him a CD to listen to this week. He said he was going to come to church on Sunday, but alas, it did not come to pass.
Second great thing was that we found one of our families in the house. It’s been like...over a month since we have seen them. She was so happy to see us, she made us sandwiches :) She was the one who had lived in Ohio for a couple of years. We caught up a little, and then
made another appointment for the next day. She asked us a little about tithing, and then mentioned how she had been thinking a lot about how her baptism needs to happen soon. Hopefully we don't have any month layoffs again so that can happen!
Hmmm, taught Mark the Belgian again. Don't know if I told you about him. He came to church with the Timothys a few weeks back. It is SOOOO challenging teaching him. But pretty cool. He is a way cool dude. So it’s a cool experience getting to sit down with him. He speaks French, Flemish, German, and English.
So before I run out of time, the coolest part of the week was yesterday. It was Fast and Testimony meeting (I am a pro at fasting now, I wasn't even hungry when we got back to the apartment at night) and the testimonies were awesome. All in Twi of course, but I could
understand small small. It was one of those weeks where you felt like you hadn't accomplished much, and were just trying to figure out how to do things better. So then first, Cosmos gets up to bear his testimony; perk-up number 1. Then Emmanual, our ward
missionary, gets up and bears his testimony. He talks about how during the week, when he came to teach with us, someone asked us if we are trying to win souls to the church, or to Christ. He said that when I had the investigator read 2 Nephi 25:22-26, his whole mind changed about what missionary work was, about what the church was about. Pretty sweet to hear that; perk-up number 2. Then, Anarfi, in his black suspenders and bowtie, gets up and bears his testimony, talking about the first time he met me and Elder Timothy as we were taking our garbage to the dump about 3 months ago, and how much better his life has been since then; per-up number 3. Then I bear my testimony, in Twi, and I actually did ok! Then the icing on the cake was after me, an older guy in a wrinkled blue shirt gets up to bear his testimony. It was Blatta, our investigator who has been going back and forth for so long. He talked about how for his whole life he has been trying churches, trying to find one that feels right, and that he never had. But he said that there at the church, that day, he finally felt right; THE perk-up!!!! It was so sweet, me and Elder Nathan just kept looking at each other with the biggest smiles on our faces.
So the week was sweet as usual. Just plugging along the best I can. We have zone conference tomorrow, first one in a long time, first one with President Shulz. Should be cool. Other than that... everything is eye paa! Love you guys, cheer extra hard in Austin this Saturday, and
tell me cool things!
Medomo paaaa
-Elder Brown
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