Tuesday we were told that Elder Cooley and I were to stay together for
another transfer where I will complete his training. Elder Cooley also
hit his second month mark as well as time is flying! With Wednesday
Elder Cooley and I went to the ward's institute where I wrote down a
few things that I liked. One thing I liked was how I came to a more
complete understanding on how to achieve goals and such. I need to liken
all scriptures for myself. They don't do any good if I just read them
and then not internalize them. I also learned how the spirit won't
prompt our investigators for baptism if we are not living worthy to
teach with the spirit.
Thursday was the first day of March!
Friday Elder Cooley and I went for a training where we were
instructed to use the Book of Mormon more effectively. Elder Cooley and
I have been much better at using the Book of Mormon in our teaching
and it is clearly helping. We are working for three persons to be
baptized by the end of the month and just like last, we are going to
have to utilize the Book of Mormon and utilize our faith to accomplish
this goal. We were able to have all our lessons have members present, and
it is one factor for success here.
Saturday we had our highest quality lesson of the week with a man
named Stanley. When we went to his house we walked to teach him with a
member, but as it didn't work we introduced him to her and then taught
him under a tree. Trees are great places here; the people use a good
tree to socialize and relax under where it always seems like there is a
breeze too. For the lesson Stanley had many quality questions like how
he can know he is under the influence of the Holy Spirit with a
prompting and not Satan. For all of the questions we were able to
answer them with the Book of Mormon and we could feel the spirit
strongly in the lesson. Later in the day Elder Cooley and I found this
crazy short cut to a newly baptized family. We rode by this huge
Muslim university. I'm enjoying finding new areas and roads to travel
on with Elder Cooley. It makes things fun. I also wanted to also
include another cultural thing from Ghana; this time being the bread.
All of the bread is fantastic. It's all produced how our home-made
bread is. It's great.
Sunday we were able to get Stanley to church where we found out that
one of the adults in the ward also plays on the football team that he
coaches. We were also able to have two part member families come to
church and a guy named Michael that is related to a member in the
ward. With Michael he has several family members who attend the church
and decided to visit one Sunday when he was late for the church he was
attending. He loves it and we are working for him to be baptized this
month. Michael used to be in the Ghana Army. He currently works for the
National Security Service and literally takes up an entire doorway
with his head at the top and his shoulders just shy of taking up the
whole width.
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