Elder Brady Adair
Monday, March 17, 2014
March 17 2014
I'm coming home, I'm coming home. Tell the world I'm coming home. See you Wednesday. Love you :)
Monday, March 10, 2014
March 10 2014
Hey mom sorry I think my time is coming to a close.
But yes I've been keeping focused for this last week. I am getting excited to come back home though. Monday, March 3, 2014
March 3 2013
Hey that's a cool idea with the flat stanley thing. Ya hopefully it will get here fast enough.
Haha he finally was feeling well and then on Saturday he got sick again, but now he seems to be doing fine haha.
And cool so I'll get to see Brandon on the weekend? sweet!
This week for Ghana
Bro Ahin (a just
recently returned missionary) has been trying to help us out a lot. He
took us to his friends Bro Richard, Bro Sagoe, and Bro Yeboah. He's a
really sweet guy and has a strong testimony of the gospel. He also had
his mom prepare the 4 missionaries in our area Fufu with Light Soup.
When we taught
Bro Sagoe he seemed very sincere though. I loved it when we taught him
the Restoration and about Joseph Smith at the end he said he didn't know
how to pray so we taught him how to pray and he gave just a super
sincere prayer about whether our message was true. I hope that he will
progress. He seems like he will be sincere in coming to know if our
message is true though.
Sis Abigail was
progressing really well and feeling that our message was true and she
promised to come to church, but ended up not coming. So we'll just have
to keep trying.
Well my times up sorry just short :P Love you.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Feburary 24 2014
Hey
yes I'm sorry I did get those M&M's! Thank you so much dad I
definitely enjoyed the Mnm's the most. Sorry I thought I had sent a
letter.
Oh wow what color is dad painting the house?
Elder Collette's had a stomach ache the past couple days. I guess I've just been getting lucky that I don't get sick.
Well I love you
Elder Adair
Monday, February 17, 2014
February 17 2014
Hey mom,
Sorry mom Just don't worry everything is always fine in Ghana.
This week for us.
Well
first Elder Collette came for his first time to our chapel in Odoben.
And I was joking to the 2nd counselor that he should give him a 20
minute talk and added that I was just joking. But apparently he liked
the idea anyways and had Elder Collette give a talk. Elder Collette gave
a talk on Faith. But I guess now that we've been missionaries it's not
to difficult to think of a quick talk to give to the members. Especially
in Ghana.
Elder Collette
loves to chase the little kids. And the little kids have been even more
scared of us recently. The other day a lady was holding her two kids and
they just started screaming at the top of their lungs. The lady called
us over and she was getting a good laugh at the two kids screaming at us
because we were white.
As well Elder Collette scared a little kid who was drinking his porridge and the little kid freaked out and threw the porridge at him.
One night Elder Collette chased a little kid down the street and the kid left his sandals behind and took off.
As well Elder Collette scared a little kid who was drinking his porridge and the little kid freaked out and threw the porridge at him.
One night Elder Collette chased a little kid down the street and the kid left his sandals behind and took off.
At night I've been enjoying Kili Wili. The fried bananas. Elder Collette loves Fufu so we've been enjoying that too.
With
Contacting we've been trying to get members to help us find people to
teach and then just doing a lot of street contacting.
On Sunday we
went to pick our one sort of serious investigator Sis Alberta but she
had slept over at her church's mission house haha.. So yup.. Haha this
past week during our Weekly Planning I just had a burst of laughter just
to let out the stress as we saw that we wouldn't even be able to give a
solid baptismal date until around the time I leave Ghana. Elder
Collette has a good attitude so that's nice and he's a hard worker as
well so it's nice when he gives suggestions of things we can do as well
throughout the day.
The power has
been going out every day this past week. I guess they're working on the
power lines. I don't mind it at all though. I sleep fine without a fan. I
haven't been making any stews so nothing's been getting spoiled in the
fridge. I've been getting lucky by getting to iron my shirt before the
power turns off. And there's been just enough pressure for our water to
fill up a bucket for showering when the power is out.
I did a
Instruction on Working with Members during District Meeting on Tuesday.
And just compared an investigator who had a member friend helping them
as they were converted compared to someone who didn't have a friend as
they were converted. I think it was a good thing to instruct on as 3 of
them were brand new missionaries and one of the biggest challenges on
mission is just finding someone who is solid and will remain converted.
Let's see last Monday we did a service project as a Zone and painted a childrens schoolhouse.
The
mosquito's seem to be out lately because I've been getting bitten a lot
recently I might start putting on Mosquito Repellant.
Elder
Mafundityala from South Africa is the other new missionary in our
apartment. He's had some funny stories to tell us. Including a story
about going to the bush to become a man. It's an interesting story but I
guess I'll leave to tell it to you in person haha.
At night we're
still playing games. Elder Loader doesn't really like games but he'll
play every now and then. Elder Mafundityala loves the Monopoly Deal
though.
He
also likes to switch off the pump when we're showering. So Elder
Collette made a plan to turn off the pump and lights at the same time
and tell him the power went out. It worked pretty well.
Last night we
taught a solid referal named Brother Capture. I'm not sure of his real
name yet, but I think he will be a solid investigator from what we saw
so we're praying. He's 17 and turning 18 in a couple months soo we will
see.
Love you Mom talk to you soon
Elder Adair
Monday, February 3, 2014
February 2 2014
Sorry for the last couple of weeks. I will still get to
email. We just had a couple weeks with computer problems. The internet
isn't the best in Ghana so sometimes you just don't get lucky. So yes
I'm still in Odoben I'll be with a guy named.. I forgot. But I'll meet
him on Wednesday haha. So it's funny I've only served in 3 areas my
whole mission. I kind of followed in Bro James Jackson's footsteps.
That's sweet.
Dad doesn't really need to work as much now that all the kids are moved
out anyways right? I imagine since you have 4 less mouths to feed.
How often does Cherish come to visit you guys nowadays? Has she been enjoying her job?
This week was
Elder Harris's last week on Mission so for District Meeting he made us
all brownies which were delicious. I gave an instruction of Recognizing
the Spirit, and the Importance of having the spirit with you during the
work. It went well I thought.
This week I was
just studying for my next instruction on "Finding People to Teach". Haha
I actually kind of did it for myself but I figure it was a good one for
the whole district as well. It usually takes me a full week to prepare
for instructions. Haha they make me nervous still even though I've been a
district leader before. I just have a hard time thinking up topics to
instruct on, and then making them interesting and long enough to fill
the 1 hr 30 min to 2 hour instruction. Turns out that they're actually
doing a combined district meeting this week anyways and so Elder Wade
will instruct instead of me.
So with Transfer
News Elder Adams (My current companion from Utah) is going to Takoradi
which is in the West of the Mission While I'm on the East side. He's
going to be with one of his Missionary Training Center people he came
with. Elder Collins (same apartment as me from California) is moving to
Assin Fosu to train a new missionary, He'll be a great trainer. He's a
very sweet guy. Elder Loader (from California) is training a new
missionary in the same apartment as me. So it'll be fun. Elder Loader's a
sweet guy haha.
On Saturday
Elder Collins, Elder Loader, and Elder Brown went to the training
meeting so Elder Harris came with Elder Adams and I. It was a slow day
but we did teach a nice Less active lesson about the 10 virgins which
was a nice lesson and she committed to coming to the church. It didn't
end up happening, but I still thought it was a good lesson. We also got a
nice referal from a member that will hopefully progress into something.
It was funeral
day so when we went to get Fufu from our usual Chop Bar it was rented
for making food specially for the funeral. But we went to the chop bar
that usually isn't open and it was and I love the fufu there the best so
I was happy.
We all met up
when they got back, but it started raining so Elder Harris and Elder
Brown slept over the night. They were telling scary stories most of the
night haha it was kind of fun. Then we put our 4 mattresses together so
we could have 6 of us together. Elder Brown made me laugh when he
started rolling across everybody saying "steam roller!" haha that guy's
funny.
On Sunday we
went to pick up our investigator to come to church but her daughter was
very sick so she said she wasn't able to come. Haha our church hasn't
been starting until like 8:45 instead of 8:30 because everyone has been
coming so late. Brother Thomas taught Elder's Quorum which he is a good
teacher I like it when he teaches. I was asking the boy next to me
questions to see if he understood and I felt like I was able to help him
understand a bit better which was nice.
After church we went out for a bit and tried to find people to teach but not much success.
Well there's a bit of my week.
Love you guys.
Elder Adair
Thursday, January 23, 2014
January 13 2014
Wow Texas again? Soo if
you can get to Texas for that much. How much would it cost me to go to
places like England, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya?
The
District has been good. I've actually only done 1 instruction so far
because the Asikuma Elders apartment wasn't finished so we combined with
another district the past 2 weeks.
Umm
the emails have been jumbled around. Today I'm emailing on Monday late
at night because we went to Cape Coast as a Zone Activity and visited
Elmina castle. Last week we emailed in Swedru on Monday for P-day. The
week before that it was combined districts in Swedru so we just emailed
in Swedru on Tuesday. My area in Odoben always seems to have random
emailing since we tend to have to travel a lot.
The
water has been working great. We now have enough water for our
apartment to supply a whole town for hundreds of years. Soo we now have
working showers, toilets, etc. We'll probably never have problems with
water ever again.
I
don't know how much they carry on their head. They can carry really
heavy stuff though if they want to. They usually send the kids to fetch
water and I swear it's like fifty pounds of water that an 8 year old
carrys. I do not understand how it is possible. From my understanding
the water should crush them. As well if they go to farm they'll walk
home a couple miles with a big bucket of oranges, Cassava, Plantain,
Firewood, etc. I don't know they do it.
This
week we were working hard with Bro Eric, he seemed to be gaining a
testimony of the message we had to share. But when it came to visiting
the church he made up excuses of why he didn't come.
As
well we were teaching Bro. Shaibu, he's a muslim but was really
interested in the message we had to share. But he had to help them
build a house or something on Sunday so he wasn't able to visit the
church either. But ya with his religion and everything it will probably
be a very hard switch.
Love you
Elder Adair
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