What a week! It has gone by
fairly slowly to be honest, but in hindsight, sure does sound like we did a
lot. Its been fun!
before I type any more, just need to shout out to my most
excellent mother, Tina, and wish her a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
well... this is just awkward...
hope you dont mind getting two emails from me yeah? my b.
anyways, Happy Birthday mother,
I love you! Youre the best. Thanks for being my mom. Im sure you were my number
one choice in the pre-mortal existence to be my mother. well done. Keep getting
older, I cant wait till next year's birthday to see you turn 35! Have a great
one!!
Lets just start out with traveling to Accra for Zone
Conference. Only took something like 3 hours to make it to the mission home. 25
some odd of us from our zone stayed the night in the mission home, that was
quite the experience. They turned the Air Conditioning on and Im pretty sure I
got sick from it. I also froze my behind off because I didn’t have anything more
than an airplane blanket to keep me from getting hypothermia. But, Zone
conference was sweet! It was held at the temple site in a nearby stake center.
It was so cool to be in town and on church property. I enjoyed all of our
instruction and uplifting messages from our leaders.
Wednesday
my companion and I didn’t actually go swimming in our baptismal font, but we
did clean it (probably for the first time in years) which took a few hours. We
literally changed the color of the tile from green/ brown to faded white. Too
easy!! Our knuckles were worn raw and in fact we got a little bit of blood in
the grout to add to all those accumulated sins stuck in there, nbd. Our next
baptism on the 27th of this month should be so much nicer!
Woot woot!
Thursday
was quite an exciting evening. My companion and I had planned a contacting
activity in which the 8 of us in our district would be singing in the market
and our branch missionaries would help contact people for us. Unfortunately, at
5:15 pm (15 minutes before we were to begin) a torrential downpour caught us on
our way coming in a small wooden shack packed with some other innocent roadside
walkers, all of us hiding from the rain. My companion and I sang at the top of
our lungs for about and hour in there, but you still couldn’t hear us due to
the pounding of the rain on the zinc roof. At least we tried! Around 6:30 the
rain let off enough that our district was able to gather and attempt a
downsized version of our activity. None of our recruited help was able to come
and it was dark and we had to hide from the rain in a corner booth and we
didn’t find much success, but we’re trying again this Thursday! Ill letcha know
how it goes!
We
were recruited as a district to sing at what we thought was a baby naming
ceremony on Saturday, located at the church. As we sat waiting for the program
to begin (it was about 1 hour after the scheduled time to start, fairly
common…) all the sudden a nicely dressed couple walk in the room and sit at the
front and we all look at eachother asking “is this a wedding or a baby naming
ceremony?”… about 20 minutes into the program we figured out that it was
actually a Wedding! Anyways, that was comical… we sang “brightly beams our
fathers mercy” in case you were wondering.
Sunday, my companion and I were asked to sing a special musical for sacrament meeting. We couldn’t decide on what song to sing until Saturday night just before going to bed at like, 10:15 when our apartment mate was asking if he is supposed to accompany us sing, and if so what song are we singing. Shoot! Almost forgot! So my companion and I agreed to sing “there is a green hill far away” and practice once and go to bed. All was well until time for the sacrament when the conductor announced that our sacrament hymn would also be “there is a green hill far away”! my companion and I kinda freaked out a little bit. He was begging that we sight read and perform another song, but I was stubborn and insisted we just stick with the song we had so “inspiredly” chosen the day before and spent so much time practicing… haha no one said anything at all afterwards about it! Anyways, long story short, we’ve been singing a lot this week. Too easy.
We
had about the best lesson ever this week with a referral from the other branch.
Not only did my companion and I teach in pretty much PERFECT unity but the
atmosphere was also quiet, peaceful and very conducive for the spirit. She
asked some amazing questions and understood the need for a restoration so well,
my companion and I were so thrilled as we taught her! At the close of our
lesson, we invited her to be baptized and she accepted! In fact, in her closing
prayer she expressed how much she believed us but wanted the Lord to tell her
THAT night that our message is true. The best part of the lesson was after I
invited and she accepted a baptismal date, I was so happy and the spirit was so
strong that a really huge awkward smile just appeared on my face that
wouldn’t leave. Like a HUGE smile, not just like a pleasant missionary smile,
but like, massive, enormous beaming smile. I did everything I could to stop or
at least hide my face so that she wouldn’t be creeped out or afraid of us
because I had this massive smile on my face like I just won the lottery or
something, but I couldn’t shake the smile. My companion was trying to bear
testimony and close the lesson, and I was sitting there just looking like a
crazy happy lunatic! It was terrific! As far as problems go, I’m pretty sure
this one is not too bad in comparison… Life is good!
Well,
I need to get going because im sure my mother is expecting me to write her a
nice fancy email in the time remaining. But have a most excellent week my
friends. Know that the work continues on and that the Lord is continuing to
richly bless us here in Asamankese. I cant begin to write all the amazing
miracles we have been seeing in our proselyting. The work is truly hastening here
since I’ve come to this branch, Elder Legg and I are so grateful. We love being
missionaries in this part of the world! Its such a treat. Love you all, keep
the prayers coming and don’t forget to do your own missionary work this week as
I do mine!
Love,
Elder Fairwell
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