I'm going to apologize right from the beginning because I won't be able to write a lot this week. I've spent a lot of my time sending Christmas letters home. So be looking for that in a couple of weeks.
What can I write about really quickly? I had the opportunity to give a talk on Sunday. They assigned us to speak on Christmas in relation to missionary week, so Elder Antwi talked about John the Baptist as a missionary and I talked about the wise men and how we can help others come unto Christ. It went decently. It's interesting to go to church because not everyone here is as sound in the gospel as I have been raised. There are some doctrinal misunderstandings that would never happen in the US. If anything, it's just helped me have a more solid testimony of basic doctrines.
Read. Your. Scriptures. Every. Day. Book of Mormon, specifically. It's painfully easy to tell who does and who doesn't. If you do, you're a solid, humble person who is not easily swayed by every wind of doctrine. If you don't, you often don't even know when you're a really stupid, arrogant fool. So do it. Start it when you're a teenager. I want personal letters from every member of my family telling me that they've had personal scripture study every day this week.
So that's all I can write for now, but thanks for the letters. This week has been great for me. Elder Antwi made me the temporary senior companion this week. So that was interesting. And we didn't get a lot done because we had a lot of meetings in Bantama and Offinso. But he's really preparing me for life beyond training. I'm really grateful for him.
Love,
Elder Nelson
P.S. One of the pictures is of the sketchiest bridges I've ever walked across. Ever.
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