Gunnar Ghana On A Mission: The Week of the Sick

February 22, 2016

Poor Elder Simpson :(

Dear family and friends!

This week wasn't too exciting to be honest, not for me at least! Elder Simpson was having strange fevers and chest pains starting last Sunday that weren't going away and keeping us from proselyting. Well we headed to a clinic and they told him he needs to get a scope put down his throat to check out his stomach. haha. It was very surprising and felt like a shot in the dark because the doctors only asked him questions about the symptoms, but it turns out they found something! He has a common bacteria growing inside him that was giving him all these troubles. They got him the drugs he needs and he seems to be doing fine now! It was really cool because the doctor let me be in the room and watch the live feed of the tube going into his stomach. It looked very uncomfortable, but fascinating!:)

That is about all that happened on our end this week. We did get to go proselyte yesterday and find a new potential investigator named Johnathan. He and his family are Jehovah witnesses, but besides what you might think he was very welcoming and let us sharing our message with him. It was nice and what is even better is he's our next door neighbor!

Last night we were invited by Aneli and Raju and Monu, our Indian friends, to eat Indian food for the second time. It was great! It's like I get to serve in India and Ghana:)

One thing that you might find funny, but that is terribly annoying for us is our other neighbor Sis Rose has 8 dogs that go crazy all throughout the night! Elder Simpson and I both woke up one night and couldn't take anymore so we ran out and through some rocks to scare them off. haha. I hope she isn't surprised if some of those dogs go missing... Only joking:)

Well family and friends, I know the Church is true, I know that God is our Heavenly Father, that he has a perspective on our lives we cannot understand, and that He loves us. He works in mysterious ways so never think his hand isn't at work in your life. I know His son, Jesus Christ, is the Savior and Redeemer of the world. That he loves us and His arm is stretched out to us always. I love you all. This is my humble testimony I bear in the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Just some pictures from the week...