From May 14, 2012: No Shaved Legs in Ghana; Elder Olumatete, the Value of Education; Mother's Day Calls

For Monday I decided I was excited to go to North Dakota.
 Tuesday Elder Lindsay and I went to visit the Achimota district meeting. We are working to strengthen all of the districts to improve the zone. I was able to see my former companion, Elder Macaulay who is training an Elder from California. On the way to Achimota we sat next to two girls who were here for a study abroad program from a school in New York. They were clearly embracing the Ghana culture as they clearly stopped shaving their legs. For lessons we taught an elderly man named La Tetteh who is very well educated as well as a family who is receptive. We are working to help the progress, but at the very least we feel good about the area. 
  On Thursday I had a good conversation with Elder Olumatete (24) from Kenya. We were talking about his life and how he had only finished junior high school. I figured that it may have been from a lack of money, but I was able to see how education here is so valuable. He was working in manual construction before he came and said if he would want to pursue his old desire of being a mechanical engineer, the schooling would take him ten years to finish. He said that window was closed. I told him about BYU-Idaho's program online through the church here to obtain a degree. That day we also met with a woman named Mary who previously told us that even though she knew the gospel was true, she wanted more time, but after just sitting down she told us that she would be ready for baptism on the 26th of this month. I am grateful to see how Elder Lindsay and I are working hard and how the Lord is blessing us.
  Sunday we were blessed to have six investigators at sacrament meeting. As it was Sunday and Mothers' Day, we missionaries got to call home. I called my dad, the rest of my family, and my brother, Ben, who is working in Tennessee. I really enjoyed talking to him and it was by far the best call home.