23 August 2010

Hey everybody. I guess your summer is about over. Hope you enjoyed. It seems like time is really flying by. This last week was pretty packed, but not with so much teaching. More like hours of riding in trotros and days of rain and mud. On Wednesday when we went to Kade we met the ZLs from Abomosu to go on exchanges. I went to Abomosu with Elder Asiedu and Elder Nielsen went back to Asamankese with Elder Hicks. It was my first time to go to Abomosu. It's a tiny little village. It would be a cool place to visit, but I would never want to go there to serve as a missionary. First of all you would be a zone leader which at least in this mission is no fun. And second of all, you are over 5 different branches with each branch being 45-90 minutes away by car, all in little villages. With no car to drive from place to place. You totally depend on branch missionaries. Who're, in general, totally undependable. Too much stress, too little joy in the missionary work. Not to mention no internet for emailing. Anyway, on thursday I went with Elder Asiedu to Konongo so he could do some baptismal interviews there. We left at like 7:30 and got there by 10:30. It took us 4 different cars to get there. Then left for Kade by 1:00pm to meet back with our companions It took me 5 cars to get back to Asamankese by 8:30pm. Well now I've been everywhere in the North Zone and everywhere in Accra is all the same. The only place left in the mission to see is Ho in the Volta region. Also I can say I've been in 9 different cars in one day. Which I don't think many people can say. Friday was spent proselyting in Asamankese. We had a pretty sweet morning of teaching appointments, but the afternoon we were troubled small by the rain. In the evening though, we had more success. We are trying our best to follow the teaching process we've been taught: 1. ask inspired questions 2. listen to the investigator and the spirit 3. discern the spiritual direction 4. Teach the doctrine (in small segments) 5. Check for understanding. When we were practicing our teaching this week we decided that the easiest step is by far #4, and that we do way too much of it. Then on Saturday we left by about 5:30 to get to Koforidua to have zone interviews with Pres. Smith. Interviews went normal. Pres. Smith kept it short and from Kof town we stopped by in Suhum for baptismal interviews to be done. Then we went to Oda to do some more baptismal interviews. Then finally we made it back to Asamankese by 8:30pm. In the next week we have a trip to Accra to look forward to as we are having a mission tour. Update on Francisca: she was in Accra and couldn't be interviewed so she was a little bummed that she'll have to wait to be baptized in Accra. It's probably for the best though, that way her new ward will get to know her better. Well I love you guys a ton, Elder Chambers