It's Ghana Be a Great Two Years!: Kpong Zone Conference

Hey everyone!!!

Thanks for all of your wonderful emails and love! This week was really cool! It went by like a blur as usual so I'll try and remember what happened. :)

So first off all of our baptisms were postponed to this week because we want the recent convert David to baptize Samuel along with his twins and his own daughter so hopefully it will work out! :D

Also sorry that I didn't email Yesterday, we went to a zone conference at Kpong which was really cool! There were mountains and trees everywhere! We did different skits and our district's was David and Goliath, so my companion was David and Elder Palu (The big Tongan Elder) was Goliath. Then I played the piano as Elder Winborg narrated it, I played the Skyrim theme along with some Zelda stuff so that was cool. :)

Another thing that was cool was that we got to watch Freetown with our branch! So that was really cool! Everything in that movie is exactly how Ghana is! So I'm excited to watch it again at home so I can show you specific things of how Ghana is! It was a cool movie, then again any movie is good when your a missionary since you haven't seen any for a long time :D But it was sweet to watch it while I was in Ghana. Also for the occasion I bought pretzels from the American store which was amazing! Man I miss those things so fetching bad! Also on the way to the movie we saw that the baptist church was practicing with their orchestra outside the American store. As they were attempting to play music, these two kids came up and gave us two cards that said "three truths a Jehovah Witness should know." We were like "Fetch we aren't Jay Dubs...We already know that their off." then as we were walking the kids came up again and gave us "Three truths a Mormon should know." So then we weren't too offended, until we read what was inside haha. The first "truth" was that the Trinity was apparently right. The second was that we cannot progress to Godhood. The third was that we need to believe in Jesus Christ for salvation... Wait what?? I was so offended! These people don't even know we are Christian!!! I was so mad at Satan for deceiving them! Everything in this church is centered on Christ! I even lost sleep over that stupid card. I was just so sad that people think we aren't Christians. They also gave the classic view that you can't add to the bible and that God stopped giving people scripture... Silly Ducklings bless their hearts. But Elder Holland gives those two amazing talks on the God head as well as continuing revelation which are so amazing. I think they are called "My words never cease." and "And Jesus Christ Whom Thou Hast Sent." So look those up and listen to them if you want to know the truth about those things :)

I'm so grateful that the truth is back on the earth and that we have prophets and apostles today. It is such a blessing! God really leads this church! If he didn't there wouldn't be this much order, we wouldn't have the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, or anything like that! There would be no temples, no priesthood, no callings, no plan of salvation, and no way back to heaven. All we would have is the Bible. That's all other churches have. So anyways, I know that we are in the true church and that God is with us and that as members of this church, we are representing Jesus Christ, as long as we are righteous. :)

Banku and Peppe

Anyways about food. I ate Banku and Peppe (Pepper/Salsa) this week and really enjoyed it for the first time! So they give you banku, then they fry fish in oil which is how I ate it at home every time Teag caught one. Then they grind peppers with tomatoes into a pasty substance like salsa into a bowl. Then they chop tomatoes and onions and set them there. Then you take your banku and take a piece off it and dip it in the salsa and swallow it whole! Since I'm so used to the spiciness of the food now it doesn't even phase me! At home I would have died! An Elder shared some Flaming hot Cheetos with me and they taste sweet to me now which made me laugh. But as you are eating, you just take the onions and tomatoes and eat them with it. The onions taste sweet too and make it not burn as bad so it is just and all around good meal :) You just have to have a mint afterwards though because your breath could kill somebody if you're not careful ;)

Thanks again everyone for your prayers and love this week! I hope all of you will have a great week and that the spirit can be with you! I love this work and gospel so much and I know I am in the right place!

Twi of the week!

Ma Bre (Ma Brey) "I'm Tired."