I love reading my friends' missionary
emails and seeing my #hashtags catch on all over the place. In case
anyone was wondering, between my friends and me we cover every continent
in the world except Australia. #
We had powerful zone conference this week and our major focus was on chapter 10 of Preach My Gospel, "Teaching Skills." So to all my soon-to-be missionary friends, I would highly recommend studying that chapter thoroughly and diligently because developing those skills is what separates the good missionaries from the great ones.
The missionary work in Offinso is almost overwhelming. This may be one of the only areas in the world where our biggest issue may be having too many people to teach. #africamissionprobs So I'll just try to focus on the investigators that are showing the most promise.
Vida is on a strong track toward baptism. Samuel was out of town this week and couldn't attend church so we'll have to postpone his prospective baptismal date. We are teaching two Junior High School teachers named Theo and Eric. Both have shown express interest in investigating the church and Eric especially seems particularly fond of the Book of Mormon. A fondness that started after we read 2 Nephi 33 with him. Both have been coming to church.
In other news we had a service project hauling wood #ghanaianstyle at a member's farm last week! That was fun. The kids are all members but the mother and father are not. #dontworryweareworkingonthat The mother is particularly fond of the church and has even been giving us referrals. But my understanding is that the husband doesn't want them to leave the Baptist church they attend. I'll attach some pictures from the farm.
Elder Otieno and I are trying to make it a thing to make sure that we share at least one scripture from the Book of Mormon at every visit we make to someone. A lot of Ghana missionaries get into the bad habit of trying to prove everything we believe in using only the Bible but what we have learned as we have used the Book of Mormon more is that it truly is the most powerful tool of conversion. Whether you are a member of the church or not, diligent study of the Book of Mormon is what will most cause your conversion to Christ.
Love you all! I'm doing great out here and I love hearing from all of you!
We had powerful zone conference this week and our major focus was on chapter 10 of Preach My Gospel, "Teaching Skills." So to all my soon-to-be missionary friends, I would highly recommend studying that chapter thoroughly and diligently because developing those skills is what separates the good missionaries from the great ones.
The missionary work in Offinso is almost overwhelming. This may be one of the only areas in the world where our biggest issue may be having too many people to teach. #africamissionprobs So I'll just try to focus on the investigators that are showing the most promise.
Vida is on a strong track toward baptism. Samuel was out of town this week and couldn't attend church so we'll have to postpone his prospective baptismal date. We are teaching two Junior High School teachers named Theo and Eric. Both have shown express interest in investigating the church and Eric especially seems particularly fond of the Book of Mormon. A fondness that started after we read 2 Nephi 33 with him. Both have been coming to church.
In other news we had a service project hauling wood #ghanaianstyle at a member's farm last week! That was fun. The kids are all members but the mother and father are not. #dontworryweareworkingonthat The mother is particularly fond of the church and has even been giving us referrals. But my understanding is that the husband doesn't want them to leave the Baptist church they attend. I'll attach some pictures from the farm.
Elder Otieno and I are trying to make it a thing to make sure that we share at least one scripture from the Book of Mormon at every visit we make to someone. A lot of Ghana missionaries get into the bad habit of trying to prove everything we believe in using only the Bible but what we have learned as we have used the Book of Mormon more is that it truly is the most powerful tool of conversion. Whether you are a member of the church or not, diligent study of the Book of Mormon is what will most cause your conversion to Christ.
Love you all! I'm doing great out here and I love hearing from all of you!
No comments:
Post a Comment