Hey so a big thing that people do here is carry things on their heads. Sometimes its just a small box so nothing crazy and other times its something crazy so I've decided that every week I'll be keeping my eye out for those crazy people that are carrying something crazy on their heads. This weeks winner is a women in Jamestown (downtown Accra) that was carrying an entire fridge on her head! A fridge! I'll make sure to upload the picture down below and hopefully next week I can see someone just as crazy!
Hey Everyone!
So this week has been really crazy! We had a lot of referrals in church this last Sunday and we were able to contact all of them by Wednesday and even give 4 of them baptism dates! The work is really progressing in Klagon and we have been super busy teaching new converts and new investigators. I think that we had a total of 8 baptism dates set with 6 of them in September. I heard that there would be a lot of baptism's here in Ghana, but holy cow I didn't know what to really expect until I started the work! Anyway, just as all these baptism were coming in I got a call on this last Thursday from my Mission President and he told me that I've been reassigned to be an Office Elder. I moved to the office the next morning, so I wasn't able to say goodbye to a lot of the members in Klagon. I was able to see a few of the ones who were very important to me though and I'll send pictures as well! I explained in my last email saying what Office Elders do so I won't go to in depth but basically the reason they moved me into the office so soon is because I can drive a manual and I know how to work with computers (That's just my guess actually). But the current Office Elder I'm with is Elder Zick and he's been in the office for about 9 months total during his mission, so he knows how to do things very well. He will be training me how to do everything before he leaves in 3 weeks. There is a ton to learn by then because after he's gone I have to train someone else who will be new to the office. There is a lot of work to be done and I'm excited. Being in the office is a lot different then being a normal proselyting missionary, so I will be learning a whole new number of skills and traits. To answer some of your questions, Elder Adyatu (my last companion) received his new companion the morning I was leaving. I believe his name is Brother Aidoo and he is a ward missionary from Ashaman. He has his mission call to Nigeria and he will be with Adyatu until the end of our transfer and when the new missionaries come in he will be a trainer in Klagon to one of them. He has a lot of work to do. I had him meet with all of the investigators and a lot of the members, so hopefully if he forgets some of the people he can rely on the members in the ward to help him out. There is one companionship in the office as Office Elders and then there are the two AP's. (Assistant to the President) We are with the AP's a lot of the day so it's cool being with Elder Effiong, so much. Elder Zick is from Southern California and he is the one training me and he is leaving in 3 weeks. He will just be training me how to be an Office Elder like how to do the different duties and such. The mission home is super nice and our bedroom has AC so it's really nice. Also we have a washing machine and a dryer and the shower has a water heater as well. It's pretty luxurious for Ghana. Elder Zick is a really smart guy and he knows how to use computers and knows the whole mission very well and how to get to places so that's one of the most important parts of my job is to know the mission really well because I'll be driving around it very often. I won't be able to go to the Temple very much because I'm super busy. The mission home is just down the road and the MTC is in Tema, not Accra but they are building the new MTC right now which should be done next year. I'll be driving a big van which is manual. The driving out here is really aggressive so I think I'll be okay, I don't think Mom would like driving here very much. Mornings are busiest time of the day for us so there is almost no time for study in the morning, we just find time to study when we don't have things to do through the day. I'm excited for this calling and it's been awesome getting to know the Mission President more while I've been here. He's a really awesome man and I'm excited to be with him more. I miss Klagon though, this Sunday was a girl named Joyceline's baptism and I'm upset that I missed it but I was able to get a picture from Elder Barnes back in Klagon so I'll send that as well. Anyway thats about it for now! I love you all and you're all in my prayers! Hey guys!
So I know that it's Friday, but I got a call yesterday afternoon from my Mission President (President Heid), and he called me to be an Office Elder and that I'll be leaving early the next day to come to the office. I was very surprised by this call because I still haven't finished my training (12 weeks or 2 transfers is a typical new missionary training period) and they're moving me to work in the Mission Office. Since the current Office Elder (Elder Zick) is leaving in 3 weeks, they wanted me to come and be trained by him so that when he leaves I can train another Elder to be an Office Elder. If you don't know what an Office elder is, they basically just drive around the whole mission and bring things to people like mail, supplies, etc, and just help out with whatever the Mission President wants. I'll be driving a lot so it's a good thing I got my IDP (International Drivers Permit) back home! Also transfers are super busy for us because we will be picking up new missionaries from the MTC and bringing missionaries going home to the Airport. Also, I won't get a lot of time to do proselyting, I think we have about 4 hours of total proselyting time total in a week, but Elder Effiong (current AP and first companion) told me he's only gone proselyting once while he's been AP, so it might be different. I'll be staying at the mission home with the Mission President, the AP's, and us, the Office Elders. So I'm once again with Elder Effiong! I'll take a picture of my companion soon so I can send it on Monday but his name is Elder Zick and I think he's from Southern California. I wasn't able to say goodbye to really anyone in Klagon, since it so sudden, but I was able to see a couple of really important members to me so next Monday i'll send pictures of them. Hey everyone!
So this week went pretty good. We have been making it a big focus to see all of our recent converts at least once a week. While we were at Prince's house (one of our recent converts) he was telling us a little about his life before he moved to Ghana and joined the church. He is a Nigerian and just recently moved to Ghana about 3 years ago. He lived a really rough life in Nigeria where him and his brother would get in a lot of very serious fights with people and he was put in many situations when he almost lost his life. One of his jobs was working on a drilling ship. The ship would go and drill for oil out in the ocean and he told us of an experience where while he was working some pirates came trying to take all that the ship had. Just think about the movie Captain Philips because he said they were a lot like that, but since the crew wasn't American no one really cared that much it's just part of the job. He told me that we just did everything that the pirates said, he saw eleven people get shot and killed that day and then one of them hit him in the face with the butt of their gun and knocked him into the ocean. He never went back to work again, and after that day he told himself that God wanted him for a reason on this earth. He was a very devoted roman catholic until he saw a couple of missionaries about a year ago. He was baptized on august 9th and just received his first calling in the ward as seminary teacher. He is an awesome guy and has one of the best conversion stories that I've ever heard. He is one of the people that really helps me throughout my mission because of where he has been and what he has become. I know that the Lord has a plan for all of us and he will make anything he asks us to do possible if we are faithful to him. So anyway that's my spiritual little thought. This Thursday we had a Zone conference in Tema MTC where there were 4 different zones in our mission. The mission president was there as well as my mission father elder Effiong. I got to see everyone that was in my district in the mtc as well and see how they are doing. Elder Whiting was the one who got really sick and went to the hospital because he ate a Snail at a members house. LOL but anyway it was really nice seeing all of them. The zone conference was nice and we watched a couple of videos about the light of Christ and revelation by Elder Bednar. Also Our Nungua zone leaders both left this week. Elder Chihoski was a missionary in Liberia before ebola and now they sent him back to Liberia so It was just Elder Hatch and then Elder Hatch got transferred that day to go back to one of his old area's for the remainder of this transfer. It's not common for someone to be transferred like this but there were a lot of reasons for it so our zone was out of zone leaders. So President heid decided to combine the Tema zone and the nungua zone to make one mega zone. It's a huge zone and Probably until the end of this next transfer It will stay this way. There are a lot of missionaries leaving this next transfer, about 22 missionaries and then there are even more coming in the same week. I think someone told me there were almost 30 missionaries coming in. My district leader told me that he told my zone leaders that i'll be ready to train when they come in as well so who knows! There are a lot of young missionaries with leadership positions so I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up training. I feel like I kind of am already with my companion now so this might have been a pre-training for training set up by mission president! Anyway that was about it for this week! Also I thought i should mention that when I came out for my mission I weighed 240 lbs and I weighed myself last Tuesday and I was 210 lbs, in just two months!! Wow! Love Elder Smith Q&A from Dad: Tanner: I heard that I can get a really nice camera for 300 cedis (about 77 dollars) One of the elders in my apartment (Elder Lafo) will buy my camera for 100 cedis since he doesn't have a camera. I can get things really cheap here. I'm planning on buying some shoes at the market and my companion said that he can get them for 50 cedis and they are very nice leather shoes, so I would like to get those as well. The subsistence we get from the mission is 360 cedis for every 4 weeks and its really low especially for white people. We buy everything for a lot more money because at the market they won't lower prices for us even if we know how much they should sell for. So I've been having to use a little bit of the personal money for food. Dad: We love pictures so if you can take more pics that would be great. You should have your companion buy all the food if he can get the food cheaper. Tanner: He tries but if I'm with him then it doesn't happen. Even today we went on exchange so that the two african missionaries would go to the big market to buy things because if they see us white missionaries they will put the price way way way up. Dad: Should we also send our emails by mail, so that you will have time to read them at home at night instead of just quickly at the Internet Cafe? Tanner: I would like that! I still have a couple of the letters that I printed off at the MTC and read them often, so yeah you guys should do that. Tanner: I'm already excited for the end of my mission so that i can buy a ton of souvenirs because they are way way cheap here even if you're white. Dad: I would be excited to come and pick you up when you are finished and haul some of those things back home, but I am a little worried about the food. Do parents come over and pick up missionaries there? Tanner: Hahahahaha Yeah I don't think you would like the food at all but I'd make sure you would just have like rice and stew so it wouldn't be bad. I haven't seen any parents come out to pick up missionaries but I'm sure you could. Dad: So are all your baptisms on track for Sept even with Elder Effiong leaving? I think you said that you had 3 or 4 committed to Sept? Tanner: Probably only two will happen in September now. Two of them haven't been serious about coming to church but they would be in October, if not this month plus we met like 3 yesterday that want to be baptized, so October will be a really good month. Dad: That is really exciting to have so many interested people. In most of the world they only get a few baptisms a year. What a blessing. Do most of them stay active in the church or is the activity rate really low? Tanner: We have 17 baptisms in our ward this year and I think 14 are active but two others make it about 2 times a month. Dad: Also, how is the language? Can you know understand their English? And are you picking up much of the native language? Does your companion understand any of the native languages? Are they splitting your ward because it is too big for the building? Tanner: I'm picking up some of it but it's alright because I’m doing a lot better with their language and I learned to just not stress out about it, so its all okay. They are splitting two wards to make 3 and mostly because some people have to travel a long distance to come to our ward but our ward building is also really small. Hey everyone!
This week was my first week with my new companion Elder Adyatu. He is from Uganda and has been out on the mission for a little longer then one year. He is very different from Elder Effiong, he is very laid back and relaxed and loves to cook as well. This week I made my first tomato stew and I think I did very good! I'm getting a lot better at making the type of food out here and I'm enjoying it more and more every week. Today we went to Ashaman to play the zone there in futbol. We also played basketball there and it was really fun. There was a huge transfer of new missionaries coming in this week, about 26 new missionaries. Our zone (Nungua) has two new missionaries, one from Salt Lake and one from England. They are really cool people as well. Ashaman has one of the biggest markets in Ghana, if not the biggest and you can buy things for very cheap. I bought some sunglasses for 8 Cedi's (about two dollars). You can also buy a speaker for music there for about 12 cedis. I bought a flash drive last week and put a lot of Mormon tablenacle choir on it. Also music like Enya and Kenny G have been approved so i got that music as well. I'm using a DVD player for the music now but we only get that during training to watch the training videos so I want to buy a speaker soon as well. This week went better then I was expecting. I was stressed out because I still don't know a lot of my area and yet I have to be the senior companion in a way, but It went a lot better then I was expecting. We were able to meet a lot of members and since Elder Effiong is gone I'm all they know so they are a lot more nice to me now! Anyway, one cool meeting we had was we were just walking around meeting investigators and one of our investigators wasn't home so I brought my companion to a members place and when we got there, there was a man reading the Book of Mormon and the member said that he has questions for us. He had a lot of questions about temples so we taught him about temples. He was very interested and so we decided to invite him to be baptized next month. He accepted and told us that if God answers his prayers he wants to join the church sooner! Anyway after we left the member told us it was a sign from God that we came because the man just showed up not 5 minutes before asking her questions. I didn't think much of deciding to go over to this specific members house, but now that I look back it was quite a blessing for us and this man! Last Saturday a missionary in my apartment got sick, his name is Elder Lafo and he is from Ethiopia. He told me he has never been sick in his life before and thought he was going to die. He woke me up by turning on the lights in the middle of the night and I sat up all night with him. He told me he wanted to die and he had to go to the hospital immediately. I told him that since he's never been sick before he is just experiencing it for the first time and that he'll be fine. The next morning he was feeling 100% better and was able to go to church. It was pretty funny to see how people react to illness when they've never had it before. I was exhausted on Sunday because of this though. It was a real struggle to stay awake in the meetings and so after church we went back to the apartment so I could take a quick nap. That quick nap turned into a 3 1/2 hour nap. I feel bad because there were things we could have done but I really needed the sleep after the long night. I don't have many pictures this week, but I will send a picture of my new companion! Also i'm still losing weight and everyone thinks that I'm starving myself out here lol. (only partially true) but because of this I have gotten all of my clothes tailored to be smaller. Love Elder Smith Questions from Dad and answers from Tanner: Dad: You look like you are now the muscle in the companionship. He is a small but happy looking guy. You are looking more trim and fit. The weight loss looks good on you. Did you only tailor your pants? Probably not your shirts? Tanner: Yes, all of my shirts as well. That was the most important thing because they were way to big for me before coming out. Dad: So do you come back to the apartment and have lunch for the break? Tanner: Yes, he's definitely not Elder Effiong but he's still a good teacher. He just likes to take a long break in the middle of the day. Dad: Uganda? I thought you said Uruguay in South America? Forget the sesta comment and my companion was from South America. So he is African as well? Good. Tanner: Yeah sorry he is African. He and Elder Lafo from Ethiopia also ran from our apartment to the Nungua Elders apartment. It's about 10 miles they came home and Elder Lafo was complaining about his foot hurting for like 4 days Dad: Do you have four in your apartment? Who is the District Leader? Did either of the other two in the District get moved? What are there names and where are they from? Tanner: Our district is the Klagon district. The district leader is Elder Barnes from North Carolina, his companion is Elder Lafo from Ethiopia, and then my companion and I. They are splitting our ward soon into two wards, so the other elders will be moving soon to another apartment. Dad: So you all live together now? And soon they will be moving out of the apartment to another apartment? Do you have a shower? Tanner: Yes we have a shower as well it's only cold though and it doesnt work when power is out because our pump won't work. But yeah there area is a bit away so probably in a month or two they will move Hey everyone! So this week was a lot slower then the last couple, we only taught about 31 lessons but man everything is still so crazy. We were able to confirm 5 people this last Sunday and it was awesome. They are so curious in the gospel, one of the recent converts is trying to dive into really deep doctrine with us, like things I don't even know, but his desire is great. My companion went easier on me this week which was really nice. I've really appreciated his help with lessons. We have a translator during some lessons. It’s a little frustrating when we will say something and then the translator member will get ahead of us and teach the whole lesson. I won't know that he has gone ahead with the lesson but my companion knows since he understands the language better. So I will continue to talk and tell them stuff that the member already told them and it just confuses the investigator. My companion doesn't like stopping for breaks during the day. On a typical day we wake up at 6:30 and exercise for 30 minutes, eat breakfast, have personal study, apartment study, companion study, and then get ready and leave at the latest by 11:00. We never stop for lunch, part of the reason is because we never know when people will feed us, and if someone feeds us here they feed us A LOT. So I am still losing a lot of weight. We have a lesson planned every hour of every day basically until 8:00 at night. The pace slowed down this week since we just had 5 baptisms this month. We already have 3 more investigators with dates! Two are a father and a son named Christopher and Michael. Michael is 16 years old. They are doing really well. We love teaching them because they are so accepting of what we teach. The other investigator committed for baptism is a girl named Joyclene. She is very open with us as well and we've had some very spiritual lessons with her. Some of the things she shared with us are very personal so I won’t mention them, but watching her feel the Holy Ghost and seeing how the atonement is working in her life is a real treat. Anyway those three people were what really made this week. So to answer some of your questions, Aywe is a very hard language so I only know how to say, “how are you”. They speak similar to the french and use their tongue in a very strange way so it's difficult. We don't have Ipads here. They are too valuable for this area so they would just be stolen. Plus the power is off most days so there isn't really a way to charge them. Even today the power was out so we went to another city to email. We bike everywhere so the mission provides a bike. If we break it or it is stolen and it was our fault, then we have to pay for the replacement. Every mission apartment has a mosquito net for each missionary. Yes, I will be washing all my clothes by hand for the rest of my mission. Today the power is out so our water pump isn't on. I have no idea how to get water to wash my clothes so this will be interesting! We usually eat out at member’s homes about four times a week. We have a sweet woman who makes the missionaries tons of food every Saturday. The meals we make ourselves are just like making a lot of stew at the beginning of the week and then we eat it with rice for the rest of the week. Sometimes it lasts two weeks, It's a lot of the same food. I had kinke for the first time this week and man was it nasty! The rice cooker works when power is on, but it never makes enough rice for my companion and I so we just use a pot. I tried to send more pictures but my camera died and I can't charge it because we have no power today. So sorry I only got one picture out this week. These are some kids around a member’s house that always come running out to meet me. My allergies are not bad and I’ve had no congestion. We have a fridge but it only works when we have power. This last week our compound was out of power for four days because someone messed up the wiring. A lot of our food spoiled.
Last Sunday the mission president surprised us at our ward. President Heid told me my MTC companion ate something bad and has been sick the majority of his time here. He's been in the hospital for a while. The only person i've seen from the Provo MTC is Elder Fesolai, He is from Australia and is way cool. I got to know him really well on the flight over. We are in the same zone so I see him every once in a while.. I'm actually starting to really really like banku and fufu. As long as the soup stays hot while you eat it, it is really good. Especially when you are hungry! And none of the pictures on my missionary blog are of Banku, they are all fufu. Banku isn't inside the soup it’s in a plastic bag and you pinch a piece off the ball and then dip it in the soup. Fufu is just inside of the soup. It's not hard to eat because you don't have to chew it. Once I got down the whole not chewing things and swallowing them whole, it made it a ton easier. I love you all and tell Taryn good luck this week if she ends up having the baby! Love Elder Smith August 17th, 2015
Hey Everyone! Sorry there was no email last week. I was on the computer for 30 minutes then the lights went out. All electricity in western Africa comes from the dam at Lake Volta and a company called ECG (Electrical Company of Ghana). The electricity goes out often here. There is a large chance that it will go off every day. So, sorry there was no email. These last two weeks have been really, really busy. Last week, my companion and I had our first baptism and then this week we had 4 more! Wow! 5 already this month is crazy. Out of the five, I only really taught 3 of them and they are a family. I’ll start at the beginning of last week. So the days were going really slow, but we had a ton of lessons. I think about 40 lessons in total that week. Saturday was my birthday and I went on exchanges with the other missionary in our district so that my companion and the District Leader could go do baptismal interviews with our candidates. It was a day of a lot of finding and nothing really special happened during the day, just a normal day. Later that night, every Saturday we go to a members for a FM (free meal) and so we went there and it is tradition that if it is your birthday then they dunk you with water. So my companion told them it was my birthday and after we got done eating my birthday meal (Banku, Yum right!...) They sat me down on a stool and dumped water on me for about 10 minutes straight. I have pictures that I'll send next week. I was very wet! After that we had our PEC meeting at the church house and I had to sit in an air conditioned room for an hour and I was freezing cold! Anyway that was the only thing that really happened out of the ordinary that day, so besides that it was just a normal day. I haven't got your package yet either. I think that it's just sitting at the mission home and no one wants to come out to Klagon to give it to me. Hopefully I can get it soon! So that was the biggest thing last week. The baptism was awesome. His name is Prince Ofor and he is from Nigeria and he is the coolest guy in the world. He was a professional Futbol (soccer) player in Nigeria and then he decided to move to Ghana with some friends. He's been taking lessons from the missionaries for about a year and he finally got baptized so it's awesome. This last week wasn't so great. We were super busy all week and on Wednesday I had a very bad lesson. I was very fatigued and my companion was getting frustrated with me during the lessons for not talking enough, so he told me in the next lesson he wasn't going to talk at all. It was a lesson with two women and they only speak Aywe so we had a member present to translate. I really had no idea what was going on in the lesson and we had somewhere to be so I ended in the middle of the lesson and we left. The member was a returned missionary and him and my companion chastised me for like 10 minutes on how bad I suck at teaching. The next morning in companion study, my companion went off again chastising me for not knowing the Bible well enough. He has a firm belief that we should only use the Bible for the first couple of lessons because that is what people know and man it was rough. I just wanted to lay down all day, but we went out and I was trying really hard to be more involved in the lessons and the day was much better then the one previously. I feel like I am doing much better in lessons, but my companion is still upset that I don't have a lot of scriptures memorized in the Bible. So that's what I'll be working on the most this week! Saturday we had our service project. All of Africa had a service project I think because I got some pictures from Brian Woolley doing some service as well. Dad mentioned that some in Accra went to the beach but the Stake that I'm in (Tema Stake) went to Tema General Hospital to paint the building. We woke up at 4:30am in the morning to get to the church by 5:30 and then left in a bus with our ward at 6:30. We worked from 7am – 11am and it was real fun. I was able to contact 2 people, but they live in different areas, so I sent the areas their information. We got home and then went straight out to proselyte. We didn't get home till around 9:30pm and I don't think I've ever been so tired. I fell asleep almost instantly that night and my companion told me that I was sleep talking and that I was teaching the Word of Wisdom and I was speaking very clear. I don't think I've ever slept talked in my life, but I guess it is in my genes! lol! Sunday was really busy as well. We woke up early to fill up the baptismal font. We were able to have 9 investigators in church! It was missionary Sunday. We gave all of the talks and taught all of the lessons during the day. President Heid even came to give us a nice surprise and teach the investigator/recent convert class. He is a very good teacher, but I wasn’t able to see him teach because I was teaching the youth class. It was a good Sunday! This week we had some crazy numbers as well. I think we taught about 37 lessons and we have 4 more people with baptismal dates in September! It was really rough because of my struggles in lessons, but we have been blessed with people more prepared then I ever thought possible. Things still aren't easy, but I am getting more familiar with how things work, so it makes it much easier. I can tell you guys have been praying for me and I am seeing the blessings. Today, (Monday), we went to Nungua to play basketball with the missionaries there. There is a mall there that really reminds you of the US and Elder Barnes and I went on exchanges there. We even got a cheeseburger and fries! I'll make sure to send pictures next week. To answer some questions: My companion’s brother is a Bishop back home, but his mom and other brother aren't members. He took the news about his girl friend surprisingly well. The culture is getting a lot easier and eating foods isn’t so bad anymore. Yesterday night though I had to eat like 3 pounds of fufu. I thought I would explode! That is about all that’s happened these last two weeks. I am writing about our lessons and spiritual experiences in my journal at night so don't think I'm ignoring these events. It's just a lot to write! Love you, Elder Smith Hey everyone!!
So this week was pretty stressful. It started off well. My companion and I had some high goals for this week. We have SIX people getting baptized in the month of august (hopefully) And then we have another with a date in September. In the MTC they tell you to challenge people to baptism on the first lesson but our mission president told us not to since people out here will just say yes to be nice and they wont be ready. These people are the nicest people in the world though. They always say hi and are very friendly. They always call me obolo which means fat boy, but here it is a compliment I guess, haha. We are teaching like 4 people right now who dont speak any english so we have to have a member present which is hard because I get lost in the conversation so easily. The language is still really hard for me and some of the names are very hard to remember too. Anyway the beginning of the week went really well and then I got sick on Friday and Saturday. I thought my appendix burst or something. Anyway it was really bad and I had to sit in the apartment all Friday and Saturday. Sunday our bishop's daughter was blessed so we went to a party at his house after church. I had Fufu for the first time and i finished it! its still pretty hard to swallow these things without chewing but i'm getting better. Also most of his family aren't members so there was tons of alcohol and I accidentally had a coke that was spiked with something. I couldn't tell until my companion had the last little bit but I thought It just tasted goofy because it was made out here! I felt really bad, but another elder in my district said the same thing happened to him when he went to a funeral. These people drink a lot of alcohol and if they aren't they drink malt (non alcoholic bear).The members drink that a lot so i've been getting used to having it! To answer a lot of your questions, if you want to send me something you send it to the mission home then they bring it to me. We don't have any real address or mailbox or anything like that. I was grateful that I got to catch up on some sleep this week even though it really sucked staying in the apartment for two days. My companion takes me running every other day at 5:00 in the morning which is very tiring haha but hopefully it'll make me slim down a bit! The hardest thing I did this week was try and eat while I was sick because I could barely keep it down. The best experience i've had this week was having one of our investigators have a special interview and pass and just seeing his true desire to get baptized. He makes it so easy to teach and he's already being a missionary to his wife who wouldn't take discussions at first. His wife said that she would probably join the church eventually! Also we met with a young man about 16 years old and he said he wants to be baptized. We taught our lesson and said goodbye to his father and he said he loved our church and wants to join after his son, then his stepmother walked outside with a Book of Mormon and said she had been reading it and wants to know more! Man the Lord truly prepares people. Hopefully we can baptize that whole family in September but we don't want to get our hopes up! Anyway thats pretty much all that happened this week. We couldnt reach a lot of our goals since I was in bed for two days so that was kind of a bummer. Thank you for all of your prayers! Things will always have adversity i'm just trying to push through It! Love Elder Smith We had a member make us Banku. You don’t chew any of it and its hard to explain, but its like a fermented corn dough ball and you take a chunk out of it and dip it in soup then just swallow it whole. It took me a well to get it down.
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