Gunnar Ghana On A Mission: Ekow Boko

February 29, 2016

*Just a visit? :)

Dear family and friends,

What an absolutely strange and wonderful week! I will do my best to describe both the strange and the wonderful.

I'll start with the wonderful. The wonderful was meeting two new sister investigators. Sis Ama and Sis Portia (Porsche) With sister Ama we had just met her in a tro tro (bus) going to a neighboring city and she was so friendly to us talking, getting to know us, and eventually told us that we should come by some time and visit. We stopped by on Sunday and had a really good conversation about her life, our life and family, and set up a time that we can come back and share the gospel. That is my favorite part about a new area is just building relationships with the people and preparing them for when the church building actually comes here.

Sis Portia was wonderful as well because of the spirit that was in the lesson. It was a time that strengthened my purpose as a missionary. I don't know how else to explain it, but when we were talking with her you could see on her face she was feeling the spirit and that is the best feeling in the world as a missionary.

The absolutely strange happened when we went to support the Kissi Elders in my district's baptism. The baptism was wonderful. Two sisters, Sis Joyce and Regina, who I got to interview, were baptized:)

The strange occurred after when a girl who was sitting in the the room during the baptism(we thought she was a member wanting to watch) came to us and told us that she had been sent by God to meet us here and that we were supposed to take her to Britain... Well of course we didn't think she was crazy at first. She dressed normal, was educated, even a university student. After asking her some questions about this revelation and letting her know we couldn't take her, we found out "God" was a man named Dexter who lived in Britain now and was a former teacher of hers at the university. Not only that, but God or Dexter also lived in her head... Well we were able to get her mom's phone number who was so grateful to hear from us and had been looking for her all day. She told us her daughter had suffered from some type of psychosis and that Dexter was a real teacher she liked who moved away to Britain.

It didn't end there though because she thought her mom was evil and wouldn't go with her unless we came... She kept jumping out of her chair and flipping the light switch on and off, yelling, "You're not taking me! I'm going with them!" Well after the mother's pleading we helped escort her to the mental hospital. We agreed and spent some time there with a whole page worth of details that happened there. haha.

We got everything figured out though and the mother was sooo grateful to us and that her daughter came to our chapel looking for missionaries instead of wandering off somewhere where she would be harmed. I believe God's hand really was in all of this and we as missionaries were just grateful to be around and help.

It's funny how God works sometimes because we were able to share about our purpose a little bit with the mother and that small interaction with the Gospel could one day lead to her conversion... you just never know. I am grateful to be a missionary, an instrument in the Lord's hand, for this truly is his work and we are all doing our best to play the best part we can in it all. This is my testimony and strange wonderful week. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen:)

I forgot to mention and wanted to give a shout out to doTERRA and their essential oils because when we were in the hospital with the girl, she started panicking and for some reason I had brought an oil blend with me that day that my mom sent with me on my mission. It helps with stress and anxiety and things like that. I gave it to her and she calmed down super fast! I was super happy haha and thought in my head "They really work! Even if your crazy!" Anyways just a cool part of the story I wanted to add:)