Hey All!!! Thanks so much for all of your wonderful emails and
especially for your birthday wishes! It means so much to me and I can't believe
I'll be nineteen tomorrow! :O This week was flipping awesome though and there
was some pretty great adventures we had.
During the week was pretty average, eating banku, jay walking
(Don't worry it's legal here!), and teaching the gospel. It was the end of the
week that was most eventful. We managed to get good numbers and everything
which was great. All we needed to get the mission standard is five
investigators at church. I frankly didn't think we'd get our goal this week
because the people we called said they traveled and all that yak. But at
sacrament, we met a lady named Jackie who said she would honestly never come to
church, and then she did! There was another guy named Abraham (there's a ton of
people named that here...) who was awesome! The theme of sacrament was
basically the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith so we taught it in the second
class where we gave him a Book of Mormon. Then in priesthood we talked about
tithing and at the end he said "Where can I pay my tithes? I want to pay
them now." These people just amaze me with their faith. So in the end, we
achieved mission standard for the first time! We were so happy and satisfied!
We didn't even think we would get it! What a blessing. What also made this
Sunday fun was that a huge rain storm was coming so we tried to close a little
early. But some of the members stayed and so I was able to play the keyboard
and sing hymns with them which is super fun. Piano is helping me so much. I can
probably play like 20 more hymns than I could at home. It's such a blessing to
have God help me that way. Anyways the weather is getting way more wet and
rainy which is good and bad. It'll be cooler, but it will also be dang muddy.
Also, when it rains in Ghana, it RAINS! It's so loud and fast! I put a big 4
gallon bucket outside of our apartment and it was overflowing in like 10
minutes! Such an adventure!
As for my birthday this week, we went to the Accra Mall today
and bought cake mix and some frosting stuff because we found out that one of
our members has an actual oven so we'll see how that goes! I'll make sure to
take pictures and stuff. I'll also probably eat Mac and Cheese!!! I'm so
excited! Also I'll open up those presents my family sent me. So it should be a
great birthday!
Thank you all for all of your support and love. I just want you
all to know that I know this gospel is true. I know that God loves us and that
he wants us to be happy. All we have to do is be obedient to his commandment
and precepts. I love this work so much and I am so grateful for this past year
of being 18. I know that we are all in the right place and that this is God
's work. I love you so much!
-Elder Ballard
Picture: ME eating chicken sandwiches at the mall! My shirt
isn't usually that big. All of mine were drying, so I borrowed another Elder's
shirt. :D
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