Not a whole lot of crazy things happened this last week. Just the typical missionary work things: teaching and talking to people. The highlight of the week was that it was also my last first week of the transfer as well as the last transfer day I will ever be a part of!! A little sad that is for sure but also so sweet because it means that the end is in sight.
As we were closing our week last Sunday I was talking with my companion about the upcoming week and about our investigators. We talked about how we had such a huge teaching pool but only a small portion of them was actually progressing by keeping all of their commitments. And one of the big things that we talked about was how we didn't have anyone that we haven't taught before which meant we would do a whole lot of finding during the week. But, as the week started going on the miracles started to happen all around us. We would walk down the street and people would just come up to us and we received a lot of referrals from members as well. Every morning during companionship prayer right before we went out we prayed to find new people to teach and of course, we were blessed by the Lord to find people each and every day.
At the beginning of the week, we met with one such person named Sosu. He is a project manager from Kumasi that just recently moved to Konongo for work. He contacted us at one of our member's houses and said that he is super interested in joining the church. He is currently super busy with his work right now. He is building a three-story classroom building for the Konongo Odumasi Senior High School. He gave us a one hour window to come and to teach him real quick. So we did the best to make the best of it. When we got to the school we went inside the main gate and got instantly stopped by the security guard. I guess two white guys walking into a Ghana SHS is pretty suspicious. We just called up Sosu and the security guard let us through no problem. We had a super spiritual lesson with Sosu. He is such a smart guy and knows a lot about the Bible. So we were definitely on our toes the whole lesson to see what he would say to us next. He is a super level minded guy and doesn't believe in any of the random miracles and other crap the one man churches do here in Ghana. He truly wants to know the truth. We bore our testimony to him and gave him a Book of Mormon and helped him to understand that it was the key to him knowing for himself the truth.
We made some no bake cookies for one of our members and her kids this week. They are by far our favorite family in the area. The mother is Joanna and just the funniest lady you will ever meet. And her kids are even more so. They are a fantastic family that is for sure. We wanted to do something super nice for them so we decided to make some sweet cookies for them. They were super curious to try some. But, the best part is that Ghanaians hate sugar. They don't have any sweet food here so they are all not used to super sweet foods. The mother Joanna ate a small little peck of one and spit it out. She said it had TOO much sugar. On the other hand, the kids basically ate the whole box. We made twelve and by the time we left they were basically gone. The next day at church the kids complained to us that their mom threw the rest of the cookies away because they had too much sugar! Haha!!
We are still preparing a lot of our people for baptism. We have one sister named Jennifer that is planned for baptism this week. She was being taught by the previous missionaries before but was totally unserious. Even when we began teaching her she wasn't even paying attention would laugh at anything we said. We basically gave up on her. We were so close to dropping her and then she shocked us by coming to Stake Conference. The next time we went to visit her after that she was a completely different person. She remembered everything we shared with her. She read the Book of Mormon and constantly asked us when her baptism was. She had a change of heart! We asked her what happened and she said that she felt so much joy and happiness at Stake Conference she knew the church was true. We are now preparing her for her baptism this Saturday. We have a saying in our mission that is so true: Missionaries don't give up they follow up. People change!! We just have to give them time and invite them to do things and you never know when they receive their answer and know everything is true. It has been so great to see how the spirit can change someone's heart for the better. The gospel of Jesus Christ can do so much good for every single one of us only if we let it!!! I invite each of you to do all that you can to always be in the right place and doing the right thing so the spirit can be with you!! The gospel changes lives!
Love,
Elder Ordyna
Konongo Scenery
Me and Kwame (member's son) on the back of a motobike
Konongo District
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