Elder Mease Week 38

Hey guys! Sweet week it was this week! Sorry for emailing all of you on a Wednesday, monday was a holiday here so our pday got moved to a Tuesday instead of Monday! and yesterday all the network was down in the area so no one was able to email home! But this week was one of those weeks that went by way fast but at the same time felt really slow! 

Last Monday after we finished emailing and shopping for the week! Some of the elders in our apartment found a place to play volleyball! So we got a bunch of Ghanaian guys and got together and played! It was super fun and all of the elders in the apartment had a good time! Then me and elder palaiti went over to sister selinas house and she fed us some FUFU and we shared with them from the book of Mormon:) the next day we had district meeting and it went super well! I asked elder Petersen to instruct the meeting and he did a pretty good job. 

On Wednesday me and elder palaiti woke up very early in the morning and traveled to our zone leaders area for exchange! I went on exchange with elder kinzanza while my companion went with elder andreasen! Checking out their area was sweet and I enjoyed teaching some of their investigators and getting to know some of the people they have been teaching! I noticed that a ton of them were progressing and it made me way happy for them! Elder kinzanza and I picked up a member named Julia who helped us translate 90 percent of the lessons and she did a great job and helped out a ton! I wish I had a translator that I could take around in my area so I was super grateful for that! 

Brother arihin had his interview this Thursday with the first counselor in the mission presidency named president nelson! And we told arhin that he would be coming and that he should prepare! So when we got to his house he wasn’t home and president nelson was on his way coming! So when president nelson got here all the way from cape coast we waited at arhins house for him to return but he never did but his neighbor told us that he was at the farm so we jumped in president nelsons car and started driving on the road to see if we could see him.. but we saw some members in the branch on the roadside and asked them if they had any idea where he was and they sent their kids out looking for him! After waiting for about an hour or so, they found arhin and we gave him and all of his friends and family a ride back into town! And after his interview president nelson gave it the okay for him to be baptized and he was so excited. 

We were able to go to brother yaws farm this Friday to help him out and we walked about 4 to 5 miles out in the bush to farm with him and his children! Before we got to his house we woke up around 5:00 in the morning and went over to his place! Then took off around 5:45ish to his farm! When we got there we started weeding some grass and we weeded for probably about an hour or 2 then yaws kids brought us some plantain and garden egg stew which was way good! We enjoyed that very much.. then we just waited for yaw to finish planting his crops and we went back to the house and got all dressed and ready for proselyting! After we then taught brother Isaac and also got a meal from sister selena:) 

General conference this week was sooo cool! Even though I only got to see 2 sessions of conference I still enjoyed hearing from the prophet and apostles! The sessions that we were able to see was the Saturday afternoon and the priesthood session! I learned so much from the talks that I heard.. one of my favorite talks given was probably the one from elder Bednar about the attribute of meekness and how we should develop such a great attribute in our lives by becoming humble that we may become meek and made strong in our testimony of the gospel! I wish I could have heard the rest of the talks but its okay! I know that one day I will be able to hear the rest of them very soon!

That’s pretty much all that happened with me this week and it was a great week to say the least! I love you all and hope everything is well back at home! I will continue to keep you all in my prayers each day and night!:) have a killer week this week everyone much love