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| Me and Deborah our ward missionary, my Ghanain little sis. She is afraid of the camera like most 14 year old girls... |
Dear
Family and Friends,
Merry Christmas everyone! "Afishyia pa"!
We
are gonna chop this Sunday papa! It's gonna be nice! One thing that is cool is
that the stake president live in our ward and his family lived in Utah for 6
years while he went to school. They have 4 kids Franny, Eliza, Aaron and Levi.
They are all really funny and they love talking to missionaries about stuff in
Utah. I was talking to Eliza about Seven Peaks after primary last Sunday.
Ghana
Christmas is about being with your family, relaxing from work, and eating food.
A lot of people go to the village for Christmas because that’s where their
families will meet. They will prepare a lot of food and roll out speakers the
size of refrigerators, pump the tunes, dance, do fireworks (they call them
knockouts) and have a really good time. In the city, it can get kinda hard
because sometimes it feels like everyone has gone to the village, but we will
have fun too.
This
week we had zone training and I gave an instruction on working with members,
something our zone is struggling with right now. I focused on 3 stories from
the book of Mormon they come from Alma 20:26, Alma 15:16, 18, and
Alma 8:26-27(linked to Alma 10:10). I’m running out time and I still need
to download some Christmas songs because we are singing at the mall for Christmas,
and I have a lot of other Christmas stuff to get ready for the zone. We talked
about how in Alma 20 the father of king Lamoni wants to kill Ammon, he's so
angry with him and his son Lamoni and they get in a fight (not the best way to
start a relationship with an investigator) but the king becomes interested in
what Ammon’s purpose is when "he saw that Ammon was not desirous to destroy
him, and also the great love that he had for his son" or the investigator
saw the great love that the missionary had for his member friend that it fills
the investigator with such a sense of awe and wonder that he invites him to his
house to learn his message. I won't go into the other examples cuz I don't have
time but we talked about how when our members say they are busy, they aren't
saying I don't want to help you, they are just being honest. It is then your
job to love them, to help them make time to help you and the Lord. Anyway, I
thought it was ok.
Florence
gave me a really awesome strip of kente because we were helping her dig this
big pit so they could burn logs into charcoal. That was pretty cool.
I
also got to watch some farmers unload a semi-truck full of pigs. It’s the kind
of the thing that would make josh laugh and laugh and laugh. There’s so many
things that happen that I think about how josh would just laugh like crazy at. I
have a video of it, I will show it to you guys I’m just running out of time.
Deborah
(our 14 year old ward missionary buddy) got me a Santa hat for Christmas. She
and her family help us with the work a lot.
I
love you guys a ton! Love,
Elder Peters
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| Our living room/ping pong table |
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