Holy moly another week!!!!!!!! Time is flying like a newborn
grasscutter in bolga!!!! But all’s is well. Life is good in Sunny town.
For my last transfer.... I will be in Sunyani with Elder McFarland!!
Glad to be staying put, finishing in a place I know and love with a
companion who works like crazy and has fun. I've really never
been happier on my mission, even though we're not having gobs of people
to teach. That is changing though - yesterday we went on splits with
members again and taught ten lessons and got a lot of new people. Doing
this every week will accelerate the work so fast. It’s exciting to
still be here and be a part of it.
This week was sweet; first let me tell a story from last week that I
forgot to tell. So, to introduce, you have to remember that EVERY
member in Sunyani has been a member for less than a year and a half,
so they all still have pretty tender testimonies. So
anyway, one day we were walking around trying to find somebody, and
for some reason we decided to go to visit a guy we contacted like a
month ago who seemed interested, but we never saw him again. As we
rounded the corner, we saw a member sitting at a little
provision store right across the street. She lives far away, so we
were pretty surpirised to see her, and she had a look of shock on her
face when she saw us. She was just in the area for something and was
stopping to buy her nephew a juice box. We chatted for a bit, then
chatted with the man who was working there. He wasn't very friendly,
not even talking to us until we bought something from him. We talked
for a few minutes, he said he knew a little about the church, but said
he was not interested, so we went on our way. The next day we were in
the town where she lives, and passed by to say hi. As we were
sitting down, she told us that the man that worked there did not like
the church at all, and that just before we came, he had launched into
an attack on the church that she didn't know how to deal with. I can
imagine what he felt like when he saw me and Elder McFarland, two - ok
one - big strong dude and his American companion round the corner in
white shirts and ties carrying scriptures and wearing name tags that
said "Jesus Christ" in big bold letters on it. Elder McFarland is an
intimidating dude, and me, well, you know :) Haha. Anyway, the guy
didn't say a word from there, and hasn't given her trouble since.
The funny thing is, we had absolutely no plan to go to that place, it
honestly randomly (well I guess not-so-randomly!) popped into our
heads as we passed that area, and after we talked with her and the man, we
turned right back around to go where we had been before. The Lord puts
us where He needs us!!!!
We did some good ol’ fashioned door knocking this week in a place we
had never gone too - airport residential. We met a university
professor who teaches courses on Religion and
Development. We had an hour long discussion about the Restoration, he
had known a little about Joseph Smith. He found it very interesting
and accepted to read from the Book of Mormon, and then we saw him
driving through Nkwabeng the next day. Hopefully the spirit works
within him to get something going!!
grasscutter in bolga!!!! But all’s is well. Life is good in Sunny town.
For my last transfer.... I will be in Sunyani with Elder McFarland!!
Glad to be staying put, finishing in a place I know and love with a
companion who works like crazy and has fun. I've really never
been happier on my mission, even though we're not having gobs of people
to teach. That is changing though - yesterday we went on splits with
members again and taught ten lessons and got a lot of new people. Doing
this every week will accelerate the work so fast. It’s exciting to
still be here and be a part of it.
This week was sweet; first let me tell a story from last week that I
forgot to tell. So, to introduce, you have to remember that EVERY
member in Sunyani has been a member for less than a year and a half,
so they all still have pretty tender testimonies. So
anyway, one day we were walking around trying to find somebody, and
for some reason we decided to go to visit a guy we contacted like a
month ago who seemed interested, but we never saw him again. As we
rounded the corner, we saw a member sitting at a little
provision store right across the street. She lives far away, so we
were pretty surpirised to see her, and she had a look of shock on her
face when she saw us. She was just in the area for something and was
stopping to buy her nephew a juice box. We chatted for a bit, then
chatted with the man who was working there. He wasn't very friendly,
not even talking to us until we bought something from him. We talked
for a few minutes, he said he knew a little about the church, but said
he was not interested, so we went on our way. The next day we were in
the town where she lives, and passed by to say hi. As we were
sitting down, she told us that the man that worked there did not like
the church at all, and that just before we came, he had launched into
an attack on the church that she didn't know how to deal with. I can
imagine what he felt like when he saw me and Elder McFarland, two - ok
one - big strong dude and his American companion round the corner in
white shirts and ties carrying scriptures and wearing name tags that
said "Jesus Christ" in big bold letters on it. Elder McFarland is an
intimidating dude, and me, well, you know :) Haha. Anyway, the guy
didn't say a word from there, and hasn't given her trouble since.
The funny thing is, we had absolutely no plan to go to that place, it
honestly randomly (well I guess not-so-randomly!) popped into our
heads as we passed that area, and after we talked with her and the man, we
turned right back around to go where we had been before. The Lord puts
us where He needs us!!!!
We did some good ol’ fashioned door knocking this week in a place we
had never gone too - airport residential. We met a university
professor who teaches courses on Religion and
Development. We had an hour long discussion about the Restoration, he
had known a little about Joseph Smith. He found it very interesting
and accepted to read from the Book of Mormon, and then we saw him
driving through Nkwabeng the next day. Hopefully the spirit works
within him to get something going!!
Oh yeah, guess who is the new Assistant!!!! Elder Nzuki!!! Pretty
tight huh?! I love that guy, he is so awesome. One of the hardest
workers and most faithful people I know.
Anyway, things continue to move on here. Trying to just keep my shoulder
to the wheel and not get in the way of the work going forth!!! Hope
all goes well with these last few weeks of school!!! Finish strong
H!!! I love all of you guys, thank you so much for everything. Life is
great :)
-Elder Brown
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