Election Year

Dear America,

Thanks for the news. I'm really proud of Pace. You know you're really worth something when you can see your own flaws and have the courage to do something about them.

Weeks are melting away. Time never ran like this when I was at home.

Every week on Sunday evening, we are fed dinner by a member named Osei Bonsu. He's almost fifty years old, with a really gravelly voice and a hard body that makes him look older than he actually is. He works by selling foam for sponges along the roadside under the scorchy sun for only a few cedis a couple of days out of the week. He's also theSunday school president. He has a really simple, solid testimony that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only true church on the earth today. He feeds us every Sunday and always wants to help us do missionary work while members with a steady income and a comfortable lifestyle won't even show us where their house is, much less the houses of their nonmember friends. I believe that if the church had more members like Osei Bonsu, it would be better for it. There's a powerful lesson to be learned from his simple dedication to the gospel. He isn't really a whiz when it comes to doctrine, and he doesn't know much about the finer points of membership in the church, but he holds as tightly as he possible can to the what he does know: that the church is true. He strives to magnify his calling and his responsibilities as a member of the church.

And he feeds us fufu, so of course I like him.

2016 is election year here in Ghana. My companion explained that things are going to get a lot better this year because President Muhamma wants to be re-elected. The light will be consistent, the prices of items will go down significantly, and life in general will just be easier. Ghanaians have a short memory, so everyone will be happy with him by the time elections come around in December. So far, Elder Antwi has been exactly right. The light has been on in our area every night since the end of 2015.

.......But we've been having problems with our electricity meter, so we haven't been able to enjoy it. Hot, sweaty nights filled with mosquitoes. Ha life is funny.

I spend last week working on the Christlike attribute of hope. I listened to a conference talk once where the speaker went in-depth on faith, hope, and charity. I would love to know the name of the talk or something. I don't think it was given by an apostle. Probably within the last four years.

Well life is great.

The one and only,

Ellllllddder Nelson

I knoooowwwww about the pictures. I really thought I would be able to send them today, but the world has combined against me. Ahhhhhhh I'm trying. Sorry. I'm also failing. They will come.