What even is punctuality? No one in Ghana knows.

Well, leave it to a Ghanaian to show up an hour and a half late to his own baptism, but nevertheless, Osei was baptized on Saturday! I'm so happy for him. He was so excited and thrilled to be getting baptized into a church that he firmly believed was true. We learned the day before we baptized him that he has been trying to go around and share the message of the Restoration with all his friends. #Imsoproud

Unfortunately Ishmael did leave town to meet his father for the first time... He'll be in Techiman for the next three weeks. So his baptism will be postponed at least another month. #notpowerfulkraa But the good news is that one of our other investigators, Johnson, told us just before church yesterday that he had come to discover that the Book of Mormon was true and that he wanted to be baptized by the end of the month! #holyghost #FIRE #spirit! We scheduled his baptism for 13 May.

This is in strong contrast with another one of our investigators, Lucinda, who instead of reading and praying to know if the Book of Mormon was true, decided to talk to her old pastor about it who was able to convince her that the Book (which she hasn't even read) must be false. Unfortunately, she has started avoiding us and we have canceled her baptism, which was scheduled for this up coming Saturday. #don'ttrustinthearmofflesh But it just shows the importance of prayer and scripture study in the conversion process. Conversion cannot happen without it.

This was sad because it's throwing a wrench in our mission-wide goal of each companionship averaging one baptism per week. Obviously right now that is impossible for the mission to accomplish, but since President Consgrave set that goal for us in January, the general stats for baptisms have increased in the mission and it's now within the realm of possibility to have us be accomplishing that goal by the end of the year. #holyfreakthechurchmustbetrue #thatsalotofbaptisms

Now that we have two Kenyans in the apartment (Elder Otieno and Elder Mbithi) we hear a lot of Swahili, so Elder Christiansen and I have tried to combat it by speaking extremely broken Spanish to each other. It hasn't worked so well. So instead we reverted back to our extremely American accents, which the Africans can't understand. #ha #got'em One benefit to having two Kenyans in the apartment however is that we get lots of japotti which is like a Kenyan flat bread. It's really nice, they taught us how to make it. I've got pictures.

That's about it for this week kids! Things out here in Ghana are pretty great! Shout out to Kellett Cook and Colton Condie who I heard got their mission calls recently! Congrats guys! Also I heard the Blast was a massive success. Good work Show Choir! I love you all! #hashtag