Hey :)
I sent the few pictures that I
had taken and sent them to you last week soo I don't know when you will
get them, but you can expect them.
I got a new card as well and
tried to start taking pictures on it, but it's not working right for
some reason.. Hopefully I can get it to start working.
With baptisms it's usually one a month.
Soo this week I studied a bit
of Preach My Gospel on working with ward leaders to help converts stay
active in the church. Just about things like
Friendshipping - getting a
fellowshipper for the investigator and it suggested things like
introducing them to the bishop, his counselors, the relief society pres
and counselors as well as the Elders Quorum Presidency.
Service- it suggested things like inviting them to service activities, asking them for referrals, etc.
Word of God- it talked about
finishing lesson 5, teaching them FHE, reteaching the lessons, preparing
them to go to the temple for baptisms, etc.
With PEC it talked about
1- Finding, asking how the
members are doing on referals. So things like 1 referal from the Elders
Quorum for the tri. 1 referal from the Relief Society for the tri. 1
from the Young Men and Young Women Presidency.
2 - Giving info on
investigators, how they are progressing, getting a fellowshipper, what
lessons they've been taught, how we can help them.
3 - Working with Less Actives.
Any they'd like us to help teach, getting a fellowshipper for them, how
to invite them to activities and church.
4- Working with Recent Converts. How they are doing and progressing, continued fellowship, assignments/callings/priestood.
Um. Then I studied a bit on Obedience and Diligence.
Diligence is constant steady effort.
For Obedience it talked a bit about the blessings that come as we are obedient such as knowledge, freedom, wisdom.
It talked about the stripling warriors
the reason they were obedient - So god would deliver them
the results - not one of them was killed
I read about the Commander that
had leprosy and the prophet told him to go wash in the river and he
would be cleansed, and even though he didn't fully understand he obeyed
and was healed.
Things like that.
As well this Sunday at church:
The branch was split. I'm now
in Odoben 2 Branch with Elder Kirumira. We have a whole new Branch
Presidency and everything so it will be interesting these coming weeks.
Gifty is really progressing as
well, I was happy after we taught her the law of chastity she started
covering herself when she was feeding her baby (I don't know if i've
told you that they don't cover themselves when
they are nursing/feeding their babies, soo you see it almost everyday).
Anyways when she came to church she even taught one of the members to
start covering herself, I was about to jump for joy.
I bought Elder T Adair's guitar
for 30 Cedis (he went home this last week) and Pres. Shulz brought it
down when he came to split the branch. Soo I've been enjoying playing
guitar as well for the past few days.
I didn't do piano lessons this week just because of the branch splitting thing.
I've been happy about our
progress with Less Actives though - Sarah came for the first time this
Sunday, Ama has come 3 or 4 times now, Jennifer and Benedicta have been
coming the past 4 weeks or so and even 2 of their sisters joined them
and they brought their friend Ruth for the second time (Although Ruth
runs away whenever we try and see her during the week)
I feel like I'm getting to know
members better as well which is nice. Someone even gave us a referal
without us even asking and so I felt like we've gained their trust a
bit.
We ran into one of the less
active recent converts and he was playing spar (a card game) so I just
played with him for a bit and showed him a couple magic tricks with
cards and then a magic trick with my tooth haha it's kind of fun to have
a tooth I can just pop out. (In my last area in Sekondi the little kids
would always yell "Obruni where's your teeth?!") It usually scares the
little kids. He promised to come to church but didn't show soo I think
next Sunday we'll try and pick him to church.
I helped Lorene (Less Active
Sarah's friend) to peel her Cassava and Plantain for Fufu, and we've
been teaching her for a while and she's really quite smart. She promsied
to come for the conference since they were splitting the branch but she
ended up not coming, but she told Sarah that I helped her so I felt
like it was useful and still good for Lorene as well. We taught her
about christ's church and the apostasy after church, but I think she saw
where we were going with it and it looked like she lost interest, but
hopefully Sarah will help us. We also met Sarah's husband who's also
less active, but he didn't talk to us so we just decided to give it
time.
Oh as well Georgina stopped
coming for a month or so and we went and visited her. We joked with her a
bit, i pretended pouring water on her, etc. And she ended up coming
this Sunday as well.
We helped Kwesi and Yeboah by
just going over Word of Wisdom, Chastity, Tithing, and Sabbath Day and I
felt like it was a good review which helped them understand better and
grow stronger in their testimonies
Anyways time up
Love you guys!
Elder Adair
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