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| Happy 20th Birthday Elder Peters!!! |
Dear family
& friends,
It looks
like it does gonna be at least 9 months for me in Larte'b. I'm happy because I
don't have to pack up all my stuff. Elder Pohlsander and I are staying
together. I'm excited because I will get to work on my 5k plan with the stake
president and the other missionaries in my zone.
The Baptisms
of Rita and Margret went really well, it was fun because I got to get into the
water and baptize Rita. There are a lot of cool feelings in this world, but
helping someone into the waters of baptisms has got to be one of the most
awesome! Both Margret’s and Rita’s families were so supportive of them and it
was really cool to see how happy they were. The scripture: 15 “And if it so be that you should labor
all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one
soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!
16 And now, if your joy
will be great with one soul that you have brought unto I into the kingdom of my
Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!”
Really
thumps through your brain during every baptism you have because there is such
incredible joy that is found in that.
Every
baptism has an element of stress to it on the missionary side of things,
especially when your acting ward mission leader is a recent convert himself and
is still learning that part of his calling is asking people to do things and
giving them assignments like saying the opening prayer and stuff like that, he
is learning and is really humble about it so I am really grateful.
Earlier in
the week we got to go to a lady in the Mataheko ward's house because she asked
the elders in her ward to paint it. They needed more help so they called me and
asked if I would come help them. So Elder Pohlsander and I went and helped
paint a house. It was a lot of fun, and it was cool to climb around on these
big makeshift ladders made of nails and 2x4s and paint with ancient
paintbrushes and things. I love mixing it up every now and again with things
like that. It's always nice too when the woman your painting the house for
decides to make you the biggest pile of rice and stew you've ever seen! It was
so big! We were leaning back in our chairs moaning after the meal, but it was
so good. She brought out a Tupperware box with more rice and stew and told us
to take it home for dinner cuz it would spoil if we didn't. So we enjoyed more
the next day.
We are
working on Esther and Isaac now, Esther is in a hard place because she
literally sleeps at work. I called her on Saturday and asked her about her kid
and she said that he was good "haven't seen him since Tuesday, but he's
doing fine...” those are her exact words. She is working on Sunday a lot and it’s
keeping her from progressing very well. Isaac has been hospitalized and we
haven't seen him for the last 2 weeks. They don't like missionaries going to
hospitals because of the recent Ebola over the past 2 years, and it’s really
easy to catch different bad diseases as well there so we can't visit him. All
we can do is pray for him. Elder Pohlsander and I are going to be re-building
our teaching pool a little; you always want to be expanding it.
Our ward
choir is learning to sing I am a child of God in Twi, and we are learning along
with them. I remember dad singing I am a child of God to me in Spanish
sometimes when I would ask him to sing a lullaby for me when I was really
little. Its gonna be cool to sing it in Twi for my kid one day.
On Friday
night we weren't sure who would get transferred and at MLC I was able to get Leslie
a printed tag from the mission office and I also got him a CTR ring at the
temple site when we were there last. I wasn't planning on giving it to him
until after transfer news but he was leaving for Kasoa over the weekend and so I
gave it to him on Friday night and he was SO HAPPY! I’ve never seen him show so
much enthusiasm for something before; he's a really mellow kid.
On Saturday
Elder Pohlsander and I finished our day with choir practice and we went to the
church, by this time it was dark and I set my bike aside and started talking to
bro. Seth (a member in our ward) as I was talking with him elder Pohlsander
came up and set his bike to the side and went over to sister grace, who was
sitting down, and plopped a big ol toad on her lap. She screamed and shot
strait up in her chair and launched the critter a good 6 feet away from her and
went and hid in the ladies room. I felt bad for her, and luckily she has a
really good sense of humor but I couldn't help but laugh. Elder Pohlsander
apologized and told her that he just wanted her to meet his friend. I guess he
found the toad in the parking lot of the church and wanted to show somebody. Funny
stuff!
I love you
guys a ton! Keep doing awesome things and working hard at home!
Love, Elder
Peters
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