New area Akonfudi July 23, 2018

Well I've been transferred up to the other far corner of our mission in a place called Akonfudi. It's in the Assin Fosu zone. My comp is Elder Kainesie from Sierra Leone. He is a stud, a super nice guy.  He has been out since March 2017. Our area is pretty crazy bush. It's like walking trough the jungle and coming up on a mud hut or bamboo house every once and a while. Our apartment is really big and nice. It's far away from everything except for our chapel. It's about a 25 minute taxi ride to go into to Fosu to get the internet cafe. We're the only two in the apartment. It's a ward here but It only has 70 active members. We started sacrament meeting at 9:35 with 7 people in the congregation yesterday, but its a sweet place. So yeah, hopfully everything will go good here!

 at the mission home for transfers...

I'm Leaving Tarkwa July 16, 2018

Well sadly I've been transferred from Tarkwa so this is my last day here. It'll be nice to go somewhere else but we have three people that will probably be baptized this transfer. Other then that I had snails for the first time. They were a lot better then I expected. The best way I can think to describe them is they taste like beef fat.

 snail soup.. 

Also on Saturday I was getting out of a taxi and my pants got caught and ripped really bad. We were really far away from the apartment so i just untucked my shirt to cover is mostly and we went and taught a lesson, luckily it was the last one of the day haha. But yeah everything is going good here.

saying goodbye to members of my branch in Brenu Akyirim

Here is a little part of Elder Browns letter home from today.

here is what is left of my pants ;0

4th of July July 8, 2018

I just have a minute!  Doing great.  Transfers are coming up next week and I'm afraid I'm going to be leaving.  We have the possibility of 3 baptisms coming up, one for sure.  Her name is Sima and she is away in Accra and will be baptized as soon as she's back.  She is a members wife and has been very stubborn but now she's not. Elder Owens and I made tin foil dinners again to celebrate the 4th of July.  They tasted so good. We can get potatoes at the market but they are tiny and not that good and kind of expensive. They're grown in Ireland.  Hope everyone is doing good and had a good 4th of July.

Back to Axim for Zone Conference July 2, 2018

On Tuesday this week we got to go to Axim for a Zone Conference. It was super cool to go back.  Elder Hess is back in the Tarkwa Zone so he was there too.  So after the meeting me, Elder Hess (who trained me in Axim), and Elder Owens (who trained Hess in Axim) got to go around and see a bunch of people we know there.  It was super cool.  Also this week me and Elder Owens decided to try to make tin foil dinners.  It worked out pretty good.  They tasted great but not quite like at home ha ha.  It's been raining tons lately so we didn't have a very productive week, but this next week should be good.  I'm still doing good and the work will go on.

Elder Owens posterity...

June 25, 2018

I don't have long.. I'm doing great!  Elder Owens is awesome and we're on fire!

Tight Tro Tro June 18, 2018

Hey, it's been a busy week. On Tuesday, Elder Owens had to go to what is called finish strong, which is a meeting for the group of missionaries going home in 3 months. He didn't get back until Wednesday evening. Then on Thursday morning I got a call saying I needed to be in Takoradi as soon as possible to renew my not citizen card. So it was three and a half hours there in a tightly packed tro tro, then 30 min of getting my card renewed, then another three and a half hours in a hot dusty tightly packed tro tro. Friday we got a full day but Saturday we had chapel cleaning late so only a half day proselyting so we got one and a half days in our area. So hopefully this week we will get more time in our area, everything is still going good and I'm doing great!

Elder Brown and I on exchanges

New Comp Elder Owens June 11, 2018

Hey mom, it's sweet my new comp is Elder Owens. This will be his last area, he'll be heading home in 10 weeks. He was my trainer, Elder Hess' trainer so he's kind of like my grandpa ha!  Our days consist of walking around all day and a few lessons a week because the area is dead. There is one lady named Celestina but she has a hard time coming to church so we're having a hard time getting anyone serious. This area has always been pretty slow, they're very business minded here and travel a lot so it's hard to get them to commit to coming to church. It's the same stuff everyday and every week so I really don't have anything new to write, but don't worry I'm still doing good, I love my mission. It's crazy I'm at 9 months..it feels like maybe 4 months.

Me, Elder Owens and Elder Brown