Merry Christmas!!

Dear Fam,

I am looking forward to this week and especially to calling you for Christmas! This week is going to be a lot of fun, Christmas conference, Ahagies and Christmas! I'm really looking forward to Christmas Conference and the Ahagies it the only time of the whole year that the whole mission gets to be together! Christmas Conference was so fun last year.. tons of food, talent show and testimony meeting. Elder Ahagie is one of the Area seventies and every year they invite all the missionaries over for dinner and to play games, just to have a good time.

So I have noticed that my letters have started to get a bit boring so I am going to attempt to do better and I think give just a brief play by play or day by day. To start, last P-day was sweet, we played football and I know I am only 5 foot nothing a 100 an nothing and I don't have a speck of athletic ability but I had a lot of fun out there and we played forever! We are taking the week off but will play again next week. I don't want to go off on sports to much but I can't really explain how good it feels to be able to play sports again! (Because it was against mission rules for the first half of my mission) On Tues were taught Tatianna and Bartimious and they are both really excited for their baptism coming up on the 24th. It looks like Elder Jones and I are going to have a white Christmas. One thing I love about this area is they speak Twi and Ewe. Twi is the most common language in Ghana and that is the one all the Elders learn the most but Ewe is what people speak in the Volta region. So about half the people here are from the Volta region so sometimes I feel like I'm in Ho again. On Thursday we went on Splits with the AP's. Elder Jones went with Elder Tui and I went with Elder Afu. I still don't know Adenta so I couldn't take Elder Tui around so I went to go do an interview for the District Leader in Nsawam. Nsawam is like two hours away so I was so happy that we didn't have go on our own and catch a trotro. Elder Afu is my MTC and we got the idea that we should have our whole MTC do something in talent show. I got the idea because I didn't do anything last year and I would have felt bad if I didn't do anything again this year. So i'll let you know how it goes, we are doing a little spoof on Rudolf the Red nosed rain deer. On Friday we had a DLT, were we talked about all the Districts and how they are doing and their strengths and weaknesses. I feel like we are doing very well but their is always room to improve. Like President Hinkley said, "We should work a little hard to be a little better" and I have found that quote has always helped me. On saturday we finished preparing Tatianna and Bartimious for their interviews and then they were interviewed on sunday. Sunday morning we went to go pick up one of our investigators up for church. His name is Richard and he is living with his brothers, we just started teaching him this week, and he is just one of those golden people prepared by the Lord so we'll keep working and praying that everything works out. I think I'll call home around 8 Ghana time = 1pm Pacific time... What number should I call? I know this is the Lords work and that this greatest work on earth. President and Sister Judd sent us an email today talking about how they have tried to put the Savior before each other, and as they have done so it has made there love go for one another. The same is true for me, as I a have served the Lord and have done my best to put him first I have been amazed how much my love is grown for each one of you. I know it is only by putting the Savior first that we can have an eternal family! Kinda fun how that works, that by losing our lives we truly do find it! I love you all and am grateful for your love and prayers. Please share my love with all the family and friends!

-Elder L.