5 Things That Are All Encompassed

Hello Friends in Family!

This week went by pretty fast so I will try to remember some of the good stuff that happened. Last week Monday we were able to attend a Family home evening with the McCarthy family and Elder Zohner/ Taleni. The family is in the Chapel Hill ward (I am in Takoradi ward) but she involves the whole apartment in activities. My favorite part is her food... she feeds us for lunch each Sunday and the food is so good. The normal Ghana food is just not good to me because I eat it over and over and over again.

Tuesday we gathered as Takoradi zone to watch the broadcast for missionaries from Salt Lake. Sadly we could not watch it live so it was put on a disc for us to watch it as a zone. It was a hustle to get things together plus when we got to the chapel the electricity was off (Will not miss that). Then had to get the projector and laptop set up for the whole thing. The broadcast was sweet... I plan to watch it again this week. Elder Bednar shared some awesome thoughts... The gospel of Jesus Christ is not 5 individual things but 5 things that are all encompassed. Later we were able to have our coordination meeting with our Ward mission leader. Right now we are struggling with the Bishopric since they have no interest in helping us with any work. With no help from leaders means little to no help from the members which leaves the missionaries walking in the sun all day finding people by their own means.

Wednesday we headed to Cape Coast for MLC report.

There are few that we have been working with. Figured last night we should change the way we are doing things to see if a difference will be made. The one I will share is Elizabeth.  She was referred to us by a member so we have been going to see her. The discussions always go really good and we even have given her a baptismal date. Problem is she will not come to church from what we found to be the influences from her Mother. Church is a really big thing here, that is why they have a different church on every corner and every guy and their dog is a "prophet", "Pastor", "Apostle", or a "Reverend". Once someone understands the message of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ we are good to go. Teaching for understanding is different with each person so each person we have to find how much we explain, how long, and what style.

I officially have a recent convert that is moving to being in- active. Esther was baptized on Christmas eve and was coming to church for a couple months before we started to teach and baptize. She has stopped coming because our Bishop would not help with school fees (Love was not there at all) and Esther left crying. She wants to go back to school so bad that now because we will not provide she is finding someone that will. Her grandma (who she stays with) is of no help either. Esther is dodging us now.

Everything else is going really good :)

Love you all,

Elder Johnson