Adenta Weekly

Dear Fam,

It sounds like everyone is doing well and enjoyed conference! Its crazy that this is the last one I'll miss.. I don't know where the time has gone. I'm excited to hear it and have enjoyed reading some conference talks this past week. I am happy about the Wild Cats making it to the Championship! Bryan I'm still the proud owner of the do you believe in miracles shirt from when they beat LSU. A fun part of my week was the visit from Bishop Bench yesterday, he came and dropped off the package, thank you, thank you! The cookies were amazing and I think I know that I more than enough treats to last me the rest of my mission. We were able to talk for a good hour or so before church started, he had a lot of questions about Ghana, the work in Ghana and we were able to talk to him about his mission a little. He came to Investigators class and then we sat with him in Priesthood. By the way church was a little interesting yesterday, there were three baby blessing and many non members came to support their families. We had people shouting amen, hallelujah! During sacrament meeting and in investigators class some of the people got very upset about the message of the restoration and said that this is not the only true church, after that meeting they just left right after huffing a puffing all the way home. We get that all the time like I'm sure everywhere else in the world but usually not during church so it made church a little more interesting yesterday.

On Saturday we had the baptism of Abraham and then he was confirmed on yesterday. Prince was not baptized, he has had some second thoughts but we'll continue to work with him and see what we can do to help him. Abraham was very excited for his baptism and it was a wonderful service, we joined with the West Adenta ward and a few children of Record were also baptized. While we were preparing for the baptism I observed the bishops daughter playing with a baby named Kofi. I noticed that as Kofi was sitting on her lap she was playing with a toy and with her friend but everything seemed to be fine. Thinking back on it I should have just told her to put the baby down or that she should be more careful but I didn't, but I had the impression that I should go right in front of her immediately. I didn't want to pick him up because we are not supposed to as missionaries but right after I got in front of her, Kofi lost his balance and I was so grateful I was there to catch him or he probably would have hit his head on the tile. I'm grateful for the promptings of the Holy Spirit to teach us of truth and protect us from spiritual and physical danger. I am so grateful for all of your encouragement and prayers, I know that the prayers of the righteous bring about much good. As I thought back on this experience from Saturday I thought of several experiences from my mission where I didn't know why I did what I did but it always proved to help me avoid a situation that could have been dangerous.
The last thing I wanted to mention was Michelle talked about how President Monson blessed all the people in the conference center or all the membership of the whole church? Elder Holland did the same thing for all that attended the fireside a few months ago and it was one of the most powerful experiences from my mission! President Judd also taught us that as missionaries we can also bless those who receive us. I can't remember the scripture in D&C but he taught us that instead of praying for them to receive an answer we can bless them to receive that answer. As we did this we could fill the spirit come into some of our investigators homes and I know it had a powerful impact on them. I know that the Church is true and that the Priesthood is the Power of God given to man. I'll let you know the scripture next week but I just thought I would share that with you guys. Thanks for all the love and prayers! Love you tons

-Elder L.