Hey mom,
Wow sweet Brandon will do a great job at Home Depot and with the schooling.
Nicky sent me an email about what he's up to. It was good to hear from him, sounds like he's doing well.
Yes it's nice to be District Leader again, it gives me a chance to learn how to teach better.
Sister Evelyn hasn't come back from her vacation for the school break. But we'll see next week I guess.
Bro Eric is still doing
well, this week he had a family member who named their baby so he wasn't
able to make it to church, but we are hoping for this coming week. He
likes the teachings though and he keeps telling us that it is true. I'm
not sure that he has quite understood that we mean that it is the only
true church though. A lot will depend on if his member friend Sis
Millicient will be serious as well.
Sister Vida likes the
teachings but she's not really willing to sacrifice her time to learn. I
think eventually in the future she will join the church, just because
her daughter is very converted.
This week we went to farm
with Elder Collins and Elder Loader to help their recent convert. So we
some weeding with their macheties or cutlasses. Just for a couple hours
though so it wasn't hard really. Then they made us some Plantain
"Brahdi" with Kotumbre Froyeh - Green Leaf Stew. Apparently Sis Sarah
was cooking the stew and just stook the oil and the plastic bag in
together and just let the plastic bag melt in it. Elder Loader saw it
but didn't tell us until afterwards. Haha and now he's sick. He's been
running to the toilet a lot.
We did a lot of talking to
people on the streets this week, A few lessons with members trying to
strengthen their understanding of the gospel and helping them to do
missionary work.
This week a lot of the
members came to church for the new year. It was nice to see everyone to
come. It gives you a bit of courage :). Brother Ivie came as well and he
instructed the branch a bit about how they should sit together as
families during sacrament meeting, as well he talking in Sunday School
about them teaching the lessons in English. He explained that speaking
Fante is fine if they are just planning on living in the village
forever, but if they want to help themselves and go on to University and
further their education they need to know how to speak English. He
explained that by speaking in Fante they aren't doing themselves a
favor. He also explained the importance of coming to church on time, and
using the correct books for teaching and such.
Sister Georgina and Sister
Ester started coming to church again so we've started reviewing Lesson
1, Lesson 2 and Lesson 3. Haha I'm giving you homework, do you know what
those three lessons are? Those 3 Lessons are what we should be sharing
with our friends. It helps them focus on the big picture of things.
They are both younger
15 and 14 so if they do continue to learn and keep their commitments
then it will be probably a couple months or so before they will be
baptized. We actually found out that their mother is actually a
different person than we supposed her to be as well. So apparently Them
and Sister Mavis (A member) are cousins rather than Step Sisters.
Ghanains make it so confusing when they tell you who is their brother,
sister, or father. Really they could just be meaning they are close to
each other.
During study I was reviewing about teaching skills, kind of just gliding through them
for example teaching in Unity. How you should be switching off
with your companion every few minutes, how you should bear testimony of
what your companion has shared, and when you aren't talking you should
be paying attention to how the investigator is responding by his
actions.
or teaching with a member. It strengthens the members testimony as
well as giving support to those you are teaching by giving them a
friend. Especially bringing recent converts, and if they are from the
same old church it is even better.
teaching for understanding
- If you just teach but in the end they don't understand you've wasted
your time. So it's important to ask them what questions they have about
what you've taught or to restate what they understood from what you
taught them.
teaching from the
scriptures - the prophets have asked us to teach from the scriptures. To
do so we introduce the scripture's background info a little bit, read
the verse together and explain words they might not understand, and then
apply it to them for example if you read about baptism you would relate
it to them and then promise them of the blessings that will come as
they do so and then bear your own testimony about the blessings you've
received as you've done so.
asking questions - Jesus
Christ asked a lot of questions which made the people think and helped
them apply what he taught. I'd written down how Sister Shulz talked
about using What, How, and Why questions which help the investigators to
apply what you're teaching them.
Soo yup there's a little bit about my week.
Love you
Elder Adair
