Hello

Dear Family,

Thanks for all the letters, it sounds like everyone is doing well. I'm getting used to Cantonments and I'm getting to know the members and I have seen that we have some great investigators. We are working with some great people and have been blessed to find some more. Paul and Okey are two men we have been blessed to find but I'll tell you about them later. We will have the baptism of a man named Alex and maybe Nani and Micheal. Alex is good and ready to go but the others still need to be interviewed. Alex is going to a University and will graduate next year, he is very smart and he knows the gospel has been restored. I am hoping we will be able to work with the rest of the family but we'll see how it goes. For Nani and Micheal they are best friends and they are living on the Burma military camp, I don't know too much about them but they are fine men hopefully things work out for Saturday, thats what I'm praying for. Now to Paul, he is the one I wrote about last week, he lives by the mission home. Last week we left him a Book of Mormon and told him to just start from the beginning continue to read. On our return appointment he said was talking about how he Moroni visited Joseph Smith and I was really impressed because he showed us he had really been reading. Then he asked why one of the Prophets said goodbye when he finished his book and why a few men that were not righteous wrote in the Book of Mormon (Book of Omni) and he went on to ask about King Benjamin and King Mosiah! I have never had a investigator read like that. After that lesson I was just bouncing the rest of the night. Later in the week we met a man named Okey, Okey moved to our area a few weeks ago from Benin for work. He told us he had prayed and dreamed that he should come to Accra. We taught him about the Book of Mormon and left him a copy. The next visit he told us he had always wondered about infant baptism and as he was flipping through the Book of Mormon he opened to Moroni 8. What are the odds... but I believe and know that is was not by chance. I have experienced that a few times, where I turn right to where the Lord wants me to. He asked us why it doesn't talk about that in the Bible. The perfect question! He is very interested in the Church because he has already seen for himself the Power of the Book of Mormon, and now he wants to know more.

I was grateful for the opportunity to fast, since coming a mission I have learned the true importance of fasting. I know that it is an opportunity to help us put off the natural man and come closer to the Savior. It gives us spiritual strength and it is a way we can have the powers of Heaven come down and help us and help others. As I have studied the scriptures one of my favorite ways to read the scriptures is to turn to the topical guide and and to just look up a key word like faith or diligence. Yesterday I did that and as I was studying about fasting. Fasting is part of the reason the Sons of Mosiah and Alma the Younger had the spirit to teach. As I continued to read I went to Doctrine and Covenants 59:13-14. Here the Lord teaches us the fasting brings us fullness of Joy. In verse 14 the Lord refers to fasting as rejoicing. I can't say I have thought about it that way before but I know that it a true principle and I am grateful for the opportunity to fast. So next time we fast remember to rejoice while you fast. Love you all!    

-Elder L.