Gunnar Ghana On A Mission: 1 month packed into 1 week... Big 20!

This man is Bro Amankwa or King Kong.

January 18, 2016 (Birthday Boy!)

Dear family and friends,

This has been the longest and craziest week of my mission/life. There is not room nor time to type everything that has happened, but I will do my very best to share:)

First of all today is my Birthday! Whoooo! That's pretty sweet?! They do something here in Ghana where they 'baptize' you / dump buckets or anything of water on you on your birthday. And so missionaries have adopted that culture... lol. So while washing my clothes this morning I had two buckets of water dumped on me and then I had 30 missionaries at our zone activity soak me with water sachets and buckets and everything they could find. haha. It was really fun because it just started a water fight amongst all the missionaries:) I am just glad they didn't do it on my bed at 6 in the morning because there have been many a poor soul whom that has happened to:) Overall today has been really fun and will continue to get better as the day/night goes on!

The next bit of craziness is Transfer News! And yes sadly, but wonderfully, my time in Akrofuom has come to an end:( :) !!! I new it was my time to go because I started to get a a lot of wonderful gifts from people and everything just started falling into place so in my heart I knew I'm going.

To get to the point though I'm being transferred to open a new area called Commander hahaha I'm even laughing right now because I just asked a Ghanaian sister how to spell it and it spells Commander! I didn't know that until just now, but it is not pronounced that way at all. It is pronounced Ko-men-da. That just made my day a little bit better though finding that out:) So it's a new area that I will be opening with Elder Egwu, he's a Nigerian and that's about all I know! Someone told me they call him the Apostle though so I'm sure that's a good thing? I'll become the District Leader in that District as well. It's a lot of responsibility, but it's really exciting though and I'm grateful President and the Lord have trusted me/us to do this!

The rest of the week has been really fantastic. Unfortunately the light was off on Sunday so we couldn't pump any water into the font. Sweet young boy Felix was unable to be baptized, but has been postponed to next week. It's ok though because I know Elder Peterson will make it happen and even Brother Frank might be baptized on that day as well!

I had the chance to bear my testimony in Twi for the last time at sacrament meeting this last Sunday. It was one of the most spiritual and loving and hardest things I have experience so far on mission. I love them will all my heart... So much. I am grateful, so grateful. I have been able to spend part of my life in the work of God, in the Grand Scheme of the Plan of Salvation. In the village of Akrofuom. In the lives of my investigators, members, recent converts, less-actives. It has been the best 7 months of my life. It's hard to explain how I feel towards everything and I'm sure most can't understand unless you do it, but Ill leave you with the testimony I bore to them.

(Some words are spelled according to the way they are pronounced do to different alphabet letters)

Mada Munina Ase paaaa

Meh beh ky munina nkwaaaa

Na meh d-oor munina papapap

Meh Peh say me di adanse

Menumsay asari no aya na kwari

Menum say Ye-gya w-oor orso o d-oor ye paaa

Na odoba Yesu Christo o yeh yee ginkwa

Menum say Joseph Smith O yee Nkoormhyienyi ampaa

Menum say Book of Mormon no aya Nameasume ampa

Me Ka ninyena eewoe Yesu Christo Din mu nte, Amen.

Short and Sweet:) Mainly because my speech is limited:)