Marry Christmas!!

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.