January 2, 2012

Morning morning!!!! Hope all is cool for you back in tejas! my keyboard is terrible, so i am not going to use the shift button, so sorry there is no capital letters. but oh well! anyway, another sweet week in ghana. things are crazy as usual and mission is something else, but its pretty awesome. monday night the christmas party went well. me and wilson played our songs and they were pretty sweet. it was kind of loud around so the recordings didn't come out well, but hopefully we can record them somewhere down the line so you can hear them. a few days later, wilson told me that someone’s friend had come to the party who was a ghanaian filmaker. he is having some film festival out in the jungle in western region and wanted me and wilson to come and be the music. i told wilson that’s probably not possible, but i will ask pres shulz to see if i can! that would be so tight haha... my first big music break happens in ghana. that would be something! the week continued well from there, preparing for wilson and jennifer's baptism. their baptism on saturday went off well, combined with the penkwase elders, they also baptized two people, daniel and prince. probably the funnest part about the week was that our branch mission leader, alex, came and proselyted with us all day saturday and sunday. he is soooo funny.... he is helping us out a lot and keeping us laughing along the way. went on splits with the other elder brown on friday for him to come to do our interviews, so it was funny proselyting with another elder brown. he is a way powerful missionary... he knows so much about the gospel its crazy. he is like 26 and has already graduated from university of cape coast . it was way sweet. he is ghanaian so he was able to speak twi fluently with all of the people we contacted, which they liked of course, he even taught one of our investigator's mom who doesn't speak english. so all in all it was a really good day with him. at the end of the day we went to go teach a recent convert family. the husband works as a driver for a government official so he is always gone. but he has been home for the holidays, so we took the opportunity to have a fhe with them. grandma h sent me a small book called "the story of christ'' for christmas which had taken scriptures from the bible, the book of mormon, and D&C to create a quick overview of the savior's life, so we read that with them and showed a bunch of pics from the gospel art book for the kids to stay entertained and it was a powerful lesson. they even had one of their neighbors who had just had a baby come to be a part of it. good lessons with a lot of powerful investigators this week.one is a way sweet guy. we contacted him a few weeks back, and he is progressing so fast. he came to church on sunday with his son. he was involved at church, asking and answering questions, contributing, it was sweet. he has a baptismal date for 21 january. he is up to 1 nephi 11 or so, so we had a sweet lesson with him on saturday about lehi's dream. all should go well with him! Another investigator (always wears the dwayne wade jersey) is doing well, didn't come to church, but seems to really be understanding things and is really really studying the book of mormon and thinking about it, and praying about it. wow... just remembered it is 2012. wow..... happy new year! anyway, everything else is cool. ZL council down in cape tomorrow, so another long two days of travel, but no wahala!!!! love you guys, you guys are the best and are so awesome! thanks for everything!!! -Elder Brown