Great to hear from all of you and that you are all doing well. Happy May day yesterday as well! This week we had the baptisms of Dorah and Cathrine. It was a great baptism and they will both be solid in the church. Dorah is 9 and super smart, we baptized he father and brother last month and we are hoping to working with the mother this month, than the whole family will all be members. Cathrine is very shy, we contacted her about three or four months ago and she didn't seem interested. She called us about 6 weeks ago and told us she wanted to hear more about the Book of Mormon, this built my testimony that every little thing furthers the work! Dad, you were asking me about finding. We usually only plan to do it a few hours in the week and if our appointments fail we will find. We get very few referrals from members, that is something we are working on, to get the members excited about missionary work. Most member referrals come from our recent converts, because their excitement to share it with their friends and family is great.
As you could see from the pictures I sent, It snowed for the first time in Ghana. Ok, not really but it rained super, super hard on Thursday. The church compound turned into one of those collecting ponds we have back home. After we finished our numbers for the day we went and to some pics and played some football. The picture of me next to the whiteboard is how we keep tract of our numbers. It was President Smiths Idea and I love it, we put all the names of our people on the board. Our amount of lessons, contacts, baptisms, member present lessons... everything is on the board! When we finish numbers in our planers and area books we will go to the planner and update it every day. This allows us to see how we are doing in the current week and also our trends over the last 6 weeks as well. I'm interested to hear about what you guys did on your missions, did you use area books planners any thing else? Yesterday I finally had the chance to watch conference. I really enjoyed it and Mom, I was able to see you a few times! I don't have my notes with me so I can't remember many things right now but I enjoyed President Monsen talk on Temples and Elder Oaks talk on Desire. We watched two sessions and we will barrow the DVD's from Bishop and watch the rest later. I am grateful that every six months we have the opportunity to hear from Prophets and Apostles who receive revelation to lead and guide this church. Mom and Dad I will call around 8 or 9 Accra time so that will be around one or two your time. Dad if that won't work i'll call back later but I hope it all works out.
Love, Elder L.
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