A MEGA STORM.....AND DUMSO

Office Life

Dear family and friends,

I survived transfer week in the office for the second time. Transfers in the office aren't just a day like it is for the other missionaries but it extends two days before and a day after the actual transfer day. On Monday we weigh and organize everything for the departing missionaries and then the next day we wake up at 5:30 am to take them to the airport. In the afternoon of that same day we go and pick up the new missionaries from the airport. Then Wednesday is the big transfer day. We are constantly driving people back and forth and making sure that everyone gets where they need to go. And then on Thursday morning, we wake up at 5:30 am to take the missionaries headed to Tamale to the bus station for their 7-hour trip. But, I can gratefully say that we didn't lose anyone, and everyone made it safely to their new areas which is a big plus.

Metro Mass Transfers

On top of a super busy and stressful day driving everyone around and making sure everyone got to where they needed to go as we were driving back to our apartment in the evening a huge rainstorm hit. It was honestly raining so hard that even with our windshields going back and forth as fast as possible we couldn't see anything out of the windshield, so traffic just stopped for like an hour. As we were waiting all I saw out of the window of the car was a huge river rushing past us. If a hurricane could happen super far inland that was basically it. It destroyed absolutely everything. Pretty much every electrical pole in Ghana came down, so we have been without power now for almost a week.

Even this past week we were able to do a really special service project for a woman and her children in the ward. In the storm, a part of her roof blew off. So, we went over there and helped her to nail and put the metal sheets back on her house. It made me so happy to see how happy she was and even reminded me of the times that I went to Mexico to build homes for people in need. God loves all of us and wants all of us to be as happy as possible. And when we serve others, we are instruments in God's hands to help other people to be happy and have joy.

FUFU

Nighttime Fun with Investigators

Elder Moak and I with members Stella and Anita

Stirring banku at Elvis's house

This week has been another successful week in the proselyting department. Things continue to go super well for us here in Daban. The members are so motivated and pumped up to do missionary work is so great to see and also it awesome. Here in the office, we get hardly any time to proselyte, so it is so nice that the members give us referrals instead of contacts. The five-person baptism will be this Saturday which will be so cool. There will be three of our investigators (Kenneth, Mary, and Jessica) and then the assistants will have two (small Mary and Phillipa). Something that will be so awesome is that it will be the first baptism in Daban Ward this year and since November of 2017. Plus, on a super happy note this past week one of our members Francis (the new Elders Quorum President) gave us a family to teach. The family is powerful and so ready to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was my very first lesson with a family out here in Ghana. It super hard to get all of the members of a family to all have time together to sit and listen to us as a family. But, this family is so interested that they all sat and were so engaged the whole time. We gave each of them a Book of Mormon, and they said that they would have scripture study and prayer every day. Plus, they all accepted a baptismal date for the last Saturday of May. Teaching this family really made me grateful for the family that I have back home and for the gospel of Jesus Christ that blesses each of our lives.

I love you all and hope everyone has a great week! Enjoy the new month of May which means my year mark is the next month!

Love,
Elder Ordyna