Take Time To Realize

October 12, 2015

Sister Mary got baptized this week! 

That quote has nothing to do with this email, maybe it will, I'm not sure. The song just popped into my head.

It's true though, we need to take time to realize how great life is! I was just telling my dad how great mission is because I don't have any worldly distractions to keep me from seeing the truth of the moment. Now there are stressful things on mission that do, but for the most part there is a lot of time to realize how beautiful life really is:) I think that's just a little piece of my heart to you this week is that Heavenly Father has created us, given us families, and a world full of opportunity and adventure. Take heart in the small things. For who is really to say what is small and what is big. For me I would rather stop and spend a short moment with my family then worry about something that may seem 'big' at the time. I don't know:) Just some of my thoughts!

We have met some really great new investigators this week! This one man, Simon (who we are going to teach today), just spoke with us for about an hour straight. Throughout the conversation I could see where the Gospel would fill in some of his doubts or confusion. It was wonderful:) He was talking about how he feels like there is another book of scripture out there besides the Bible, but he doesn't know what it is... Just things like that let us know God has prepared this man to hear our message:)

Sis Mary got baptized this week! WHoo whoooo! I love her so much! Holy cow! haha She's very, very shy and we had the hardest time getting her to pray with us at first. She was a Muslim as a small girl and was never taught really how to pray. Throughout the months that we have taught her though I have seen her countenance change. A literal light has begun to shine forth through her smile and her life. I'm just really grateful she has been able to make that first covenant with her Heavenly Father.

Elder Griffin and I went to farm coco with our 2nd counselor Bro Kraunkye (ky is pronounced ch) and before we went in the morning he fed us milo (chocolate milk mix) and bread and put on what sounded like Johnny Cash... It was the strangest feeling haha. We thought we had time traveled back to the 50's:) It was great:)

Family and Friends, I am so grateful for the Gospel of Jesus Christ in my life. This life is not easy, but I can't imagine a life without it. Let us all rejoice in the Gospel. That is something the Ghanaian people have mastered. They have a very real love and respect for one another because they realize they can't get by without one another! And because of that they create deep long lasting relationships. I love you all. I bear my solemn testimony that the answer your looking for, that the little piece of happiness you feel you might lack, can be found through the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His Eternal and Endless love for us. and I say that in the name of Jesus Christ Amen:)

*Stop! Gunnar, WHY are you holding it?! You are to come home right now! I literally want to throw up every time I see this.
I hate it! I hate it! I die.  -love momma

Yes, that is a dove in a frying pan... literally flew in our apartment, let us pick it up, put it in a frying pan, and cook it. haha! JUST KIDDING, but it did let us take some funny pictures. I think it's still sitting outside our apartment. Ghanaian doves, who knows!