Marry Christmas! Thanks for all the great letters and pictures. I can't wait to talk to you, i'll call you around two or three(Utah time). Yesterday Elome was interviewed and will be baptized on the 24th right before the branches carols night! We are hoping to baptize Blessed and Godsway on the 31st. Its a busy time of year and we are really pushing hard to make our goal! On sunday blessed was supposed to come to church for his interview but he didn't show up, so we are praying he and Godsway will come this week to be interviewed. So please pray for these three and sister Mary! Mary is getting better but she will be in the hospital for a few more weeks so we will go and visit her in the hospital and I know it will make my Christmas wonderful! I am so excited for Christmas this week, Ghanaian's know the true meaning of Christmas and they keep it all year round! There is not a more God fearing people in the world, some time i'll have to send you some pictures of some of the signs I have seen but almost every store,taxi,trotro and building have a reference to Christ or some scripture! I know this Christmas will be wonderful and I'll never forget it!
We just got back from hiking a hill that overlooks all of Ho! It was pretty neat but not as cool as my first hike. But we did get lost and have to pull out the cuttlers to chop are way up to the top to find the path and then we took it down. The view was beautiful, I really love Ho! My favorite thing is how small it is and how quite it is at night. Some nights when we finish every thing i'll take a mat out and just look at the stars because there are very few lights in ho and so you can see the Stars really well at night! Last night as I was looking at the stars it just amazed me how small and insignificant I am as a human being and the song if you could hide to Kolob came to my mind and how impossible it is to grasp eternity and it hit me really hard what I am doing right now will affect people for eternity! Its a scary thought but I am grateful for this opportunity and I know when I think about that though out this week and for the rest of my mission it will help me anytime I am missing home!
I am grateful for this Christmas season, I am grateful to be serving the Lord and bringing people closer to him, I am so grateful to bare his name everyday and be a Representative of him and his church! I love you all so much and can't wait to talk to you! Have a very Marry Christmas!!
-Elder Andrew K. L.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Christmas Conference
Dear Fam,
Great to hear from you all and especially from Eric and Sherry! This kid looks like a keeper! Our family is growing so fast, I can't believe it! Yesterday I finished The Book of Mormon Challenge, just in time for the Christmas Conference. We have the conference tomorrow with all the missionaries. I am really looking forward to it and to see all the Elders from the MTC. I haven't really interacted with too many Elders because when your out in the Bush you miss out on a few things. But I wouldn't trade any of that for the time I have spent in Ho. I'd say 90% percent of the Elders serve in Accra and I talked to a few Elders that never left Accra for there whole mission so I have really tried to enjoy my time out here. Because this is kind of what I thought about when I would think about Africa. So because we are far out we are going to stay in the mission home and I heard the AC is FREEZING!! So tonight is going to be my white Christmas!
This week in the work Elome and Blessed continue to progress but Elizabeth and her daughter heard some bad things about the church and so we had to move Elizabeth's date back, and then as we continued to dig we found out that she is hoping to marry a pastor from another church. So I immediately started to teach her about Temple marriage and we are going to teach her more about temples in our next visit. Mary's burns are getting better and my Comp and I are going to watch the Christmas DVD and Sing some Carlos to her on Christmas day. I am really looking forward to that!
[Personal messages to family members.] Can't wait to hear from you next week!
Love - Elder L.
Great to hear from you all and especially from Eric and Sherry! This kid looks like a keeper! Our family is growing so fast, I can't believe it! Yesterday I finished The Book of Mormon Challenge, just in time for the Christmas Conference. We have the conference tomorrow with all the missionaries. I am really looking forward to it and to see all the Elders from the MTC. I haven't really interacted with too many Elders because when your out in the Bush you miss out on a few things. But I wouldn't trade any of that for the time I have spent in Ho. I'd say 90% percent of the Elders serve in Accra and I talked to a few Elders that never left Accra for there whole mission so I have really tried to enjoy my time out here. Because this is kind of what I thought about when I would think about Africa. So because we are far out we are going to stay in the mission home and I heard the AC is FREEZING!! So tonight is going to be my white Christmas!
This week in the work Elome and Blessed continue to progress but Elizabeth and her daughter heard some bad things about the church and so we had to move Elizabeth's date back, and then as we continued to dig we found out that she is hoping to marry a pastor from another church. So I immediately started to teach her about Temple marriage and we are going to teach her more about temples in our next visit. Mary's burns are getting better and my Comp and I are going to watch the Christmas DVD and Sing some Carlos to her on Christmas day. I am really looking forward to that!
[Personal messages to family members.] Can't wait to hear from you next week!
Love - Elder L.
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