Oo
Pictures. I've got one I could send, but I've lost one memory card and
the other one I gave to one of my past companions soo I don't know, do
you want me to send it? I've been terrible with taking pictures. Most of
my pictures aren't even of me.
Sister
Gifty ended up coming to church this week :) She dressed up all her
kids and even her next door neighbor sent her kids with Gifty. She said
she would come to church with us next week as well once her Mother could
baby sit the other kids.
The
kids were all falling asleep in church Haha.. I didn't get to ask how
the primary went for them. We joked with Sis Gifty in the investigators
class about "Developing Our Talents" that her talent was eating bread,
because she always asks us to buy her bread. (Here in Ghana they often
mix their "r" with "l" so we've been joking with her that she's been
saying "blade" instead of "bread", we ask her "ahh you're going to eat
blade?" and she'll say "no blead that looks like ballfloat" and we'll
say "ahh a blade that looks like a ballfloat that's even worse".
As
well we were able to have Sister Forson baptized this last Saturday. It
wasn't easy translating, but she was happy in the end and her husband
is a strong member so I'm confident she will be a convert that stays.
Her husband is one of the people in Ghana who understands the concept of
being on time :P.
Finally
we're working with Bro Barnabus. He kept saying he needed clothes to
come to church and so I just thought I had some old pants and Elder Oluk
had some old shoes so we gave them to him as well. Sadly that wasn't
the thing that was holding him back because he didn't come. He did come
witness Sister Forson's baptism though and he made a friend there.
Oh
as well there was a less active we were visiting and I ate some of her
palm nut soup (eating their food is something they really like you to do
for some reason) and then we tried to wash her dishes but she wouldn't
let us. Her kid was laughing as we tried forcing to do it and they ended
up coming to church again and said they have come to stay which was
cool.
On Monday I played Monopoly Deal with Elder Lee, and I was so happy to win him twice :).
In my studies the topic that keeps standing out to me as I've been reading is not just listening to the gospel but applying it.
For
example as I read Joseph Smiths encounter with the Savior and he said
that the people drew near to him with their lips but their heart was far
from him. It referred me to Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Luke. In Luke it
compared someone who listens to the word and applies it is someone
building their house on a solid foundation but someone who just listens
builds a house that will just wash away.
As
well on Sunday I was reading Romans chapter 2 and it's kind of the same
as the Abinadi thing where he starts asking if they are applying the
commandments.
Even
as I read about the Savior just before he gave Peter the keys of the
Kingdom of Heaven he warned them to be careful about the Sadducee's and
Pharisee's Doctrine. Which when I think about them I think one thing
Christ talked about was them being Hypocrites which reminded me of the
same thing. Learning but not applying.
Love you all
Elder Adair
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