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?

Mmm with College I think I'll just stick close to home. I'll start searching what career I want to go into and then figure out which school to go to.

With finding in the area we seem to get a lot of first lessons but then the follow up lessons don't seem to go anywhere soo I don't know what we need to work on in the area.

I think any area is good, it just depends on your attitude towards the area. But I've been in the area for 10 months so we just seem to be on a slower point right now. It gets hard when it feels like you're having little success though.

I've really been enjoying Elder Collette, he's a sweet missionary and works hard. He has a lot of good ideas as well. He has a positive attitude towards the work and comes up with ideas throughout the day of what we should do.

So this week we did a lot of street contacting and we tried to meet with a couple referrals from members. There is a boy named Brother Capture who was a referal and he has potential but it's kind of up to him if he decides to start visiting the church. He seems to be gaining a testimony of the Book of Mormon, but there's something that's holding him back from coming to church. 

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

February 17 2014

Hey mom,

Sorry mom Just don't worry everything is always fine in Ghana.

It started raining last week and before I was able to send my email last week the power went out. And our village being so far away from the place we email I had to wait a week to email again.

Haha I'm sure I'll just be nervous for the talk for the fact that I'll be in front of a bunch of white people again. Does dad know what my topic is or how long the talk is suppose to be?

Wow that's a cool story of our ancestor. So most of our ancestors were from Sweden and England? That's sweet that their stories are getting so easy to access. And that's cool that she was one of the people to see Brigham Young as the one chosen to continue to lead the church.

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.

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

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