Dear America,
Well, transfer news has arrived. I'll be staying with Elder Antwi in Kronum. Which I'm grateful for because everyone was saying that I would train this transfer. That kind of stuff happens here. President Cosgrave is unpredictable. It's a relief to be able to be a new missionary for a while longer. But my training is over. The Ghana MTC has gone back to a three-week training schedule. When I went, I stayed for less than two weeks. Eleven days, exactly. But I guess that things were only that way for a short time. It's back to three weeks, so our transfers have been weird. Instead of being a uniform six weeks, they've been going 4 weeks-- 8 weeks -- 8 weeks -- 4 weeks. And some new missionaries have arrived in the middle of the transfer. But it's all cool.
The quote of the week this week from Elder Antwi was really powerful: "The gospel is here to afflict the comfortable and to comfort the afflicted." I laughed for a long time. I can't say it better. Ponder that little gem of inspiration.
We were in the home of a member when some Reverend Doctor Professor guy came on the television and started talking about Moses' Hebrew mother. He credited her with making good use of the materials she had to save Moses as a child. She got a basket, lined it with some plastic, made the child comfortable, and sent it down the Nile. He kept emphasizing how she really worked with the few resources she had: a basket and some plastic. I'm sure he then continued to spew false doctrine, but frankly, I was kind of overwhelmed by what I had just heard.
If there's something that really gets to me, it's false doctrine. Whenever someone brings up some funny idea about the trinity or the Fall or our spirits, and they want to contend, I get worked up fast. Which is probably the reason why Elder Sutherin has started calling me
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