April 23, 2012

Well I hope you guys are having another good start to another good week! Things are going well out here, we had a good week in Nkwabeng, capped by a stellar day yesterday. We had a good day at church, several investigators came to church, including Kwabena, and Maxwell, a new referral from our recent convert Samuel. Then, after church, we talked to some members and got them to come out with us, so we split up and covered a lot more ground. I went with Effah, he did really well! He is so excited about the gospel, it was so good to take him out to proselyte yesterday, because it just boosted his spiritual energy even more. He referred to us 3 people just yesterday! He and I had a successful day together, taught several lessons and made several new contacts. Then Elder McFarland went with Wilson and also had a lot of success in Odumase. Ended up the day with over 10 lessons between the four of us and 23 new contacts. It was pretty sweet! And, on top of that, two other members - Alex and Douglas - found out we had gone out with Wilson and Effah, so they decided to go out and visit recent converts on their own!!!!! I found that out at night, and it just made the day even better!!!! So it was probably one of the most productive days of my mission, a lot of good things will come from it. If we can do this every Sunday, and maybe even Saturday, we will be able to get serious work done in Nkwabeng.

Outside of Sunday, the week was pretty good. I went on splits with Elder Obasi in Fiapre on Saturday. An awesome dude as always. Hmm what else.... no big news from this week. Transfers will be next week, hopefully I stay put in Sunyani for just a little while longer... but you never know I guess. Oh yeah - there are TWO more Elder Brown's coming!!! Haha - so there will be 4 Elder Browns here after I am gone. One is from Australia and the other from the US somewhere. Probably won't be able to get a pic with all three of the Elder Browns right now, unless they all came up to Kumasi for some reason!!

We did some good ol fashioned door knocking this week. We rarely do that here, we do most of our contacting on the street. But we are trying to find some more families and future leaders, so we headed to the SSNIT Flats - a pretty big apartment complex in our area. It’s the best place to find families together. Found a few solid people  - so hopefully it brings some fruit. Still trying to work with Kwaku, our Rasta man. I pray it works out!!!! Most of the recent converts are doing well, and with people like Alex and Douglas going out on their own to visit them, it should really help! Elder McFarland and I teach the Young Men at church on Sundays. There is only about 5 of them, but it’s going to be sweet to have the chance to teach them. There just aren't enough priesthood holders to have a YM prez yet, so we are the interim ones!! They take things pretty seriously, so it will be sweet to help them become powerful Priesthood holders and one day serve missions!!! The first missionaries to come from Sunyani!!!!

Well, things are going really well in Nkwabeng. Everyone is happy and working hard, members are excited about the work, and the Thaynes are helping out a ton. We aren't baptizing a ton in the zone right now, but I can feel big big things getting ready to happen in the next few months, as long as we keep having faith it will happen. I love you all, thanks for all the support!!!!

-Elder Brown