Leaving Axim Jan. 29, 2018

Well, another good week but sadly the time has come for me to leave Axim. We had a pretty successful week and even though it’s soo blazing hot that even the ghanians are starting to complain I am truly enjoying it. We had a missionary fireside to help promote members helping the missionaries and we were expecting about 150-200 people so we made 200 takeaways of rice.  It was looking really good but when the time came we had about 26 total. So we had about 174 extra packs so we the missionaries have been eating alot of reheated rice lately. Our district and the neighboring district, Esiama, roasted a pig today to celebrate me and one of their members, Elder Hamilton, leaving. There’s a Tongan in their district and he slow roasted it over a fire. It was sooo good. I’m sad to leave Axim tomorrow but I’m ready to go to a new area and meet some new people. 

This is a hat that my 3 year old brother, Cooper sent to me from home!  He's very proud that he thinks he sent me something that I definitely need here! ;)

 this is Sister Beatrice that has fed us so well all the months I have been in Axim.
 I will miss her good food!

All the Elders in my apartment

Beautiful scenery in Axim

Plantain Farm Jan. 22, 2018

 Another good week here in Ghana. It's been pretty cool but the last few days is been so hot that I have to wring my shirt out when we finish the day. We're going into February which is the hottest month of the year. Everything's been going great and we've been staying busy. We got to go to one of our member's farms on Saturday and we weeded and prepared a pretty big area for planting plantain trees. Other than that it's been pretty normal.   

 Me and Elder Phiri on the plantain farm

 Elder Lenge and Elder Tambia

Our Church building

Elder Lenge

President Monson will be missed Jan. 8, 2018

Well, this week went pretty good. Me and Elder Phiri are getting along great and doing lots of work. I was very sad to hear that President Monson passed on but I know he's doing lots of work in the Spirit World. He's been an amazing prophet, a great man, and an inspiration to many including me. He will be missed. 
We've had a kid named Mosiah from our branch proselyting with us all week. He has just recived his mission call to Nigeria and is super exited. He's a super cool guy and loves to do missionary work and it's great to work with him. We're so close to splitting our branch but we can't get enough of the less actives to come so that's been a hard battle.  Other than that it's been about the same.

 Elder Tambia, Elder Lenge, and me. Elder Phiri (my comp.) is the one taking the picture.  Some things about Elder Phiri- He's from Zimbabwe, he's 21 years old, he and his mom have been members their whole life, he plays cricket, plans to go to college when he gets off his mission, and he's a super cool guy.

This is our little friend Courage wearing Elder Phiri's sunglasses.

Happy New Year! Jan 2, 2018

Well I almost forgot it was Christmas and New Years this week because they don't celebrate them at all. They were just like any other days. The only thing they celebrate here is what they call the Kundum festival in June. Its been getting even hotter but homaton ( when the sands from the Sahara Desert blow down here) is starting so it will start cooling down. I got a new comp, Elder Phiri, He's a super cool guy from Zimbabwe and an amazing missionary. We’ve been given about 4 meals a day from investigators and members this week and have had a few new interesting things. Other than that it’s been pretty ordinary.