Zoo

Dear America,

Well this would be the last week of the transfer if we weren't on an 8-week transfer schedule, but things are cooking along as usual. The rainy season has finally arrived. It's my favorite. I've been missing the rain. I made spaghetti this morning for a change. It was nice.

Elder Antwi and I had the opportunity to instruct in Sunday school this week about 2 Ne chapters 31-33, "Press forward with steadfastness in Christ". I taught mostly from chapter 32, about feasting on the words of Christ. I was looking through past issues of the Liahona and found this quote:

"Don't yield to Satan's lie that you don't have time to study the scriptures. Choose to take time to study them. Feasting on the word of God each day is more important than sleep, school, work, television shows, video games, or social media. You may need to reorganize your priorities to provide time for the study of the word of God. If so, do it!" --Elder Richard G. Scott

And one of my favorites:

"Your faith will grow not by chance, but by choice." --Neal L. Anderson

We went to the Kumasi Zoo today. It was super neat. Hopefully I'll be able to send pictures in a little while.

On a different note, it's a well-known fact that we don't always get what we expect when we pray. Even Nephi prayed to burst the bands with which he was bound, but took it as an answer when they were loosed a little so he could get out. I don't know if he was disappointed when that happened, but it must have been a little anticlimactic. The primary song "Holding Hands Around the World" says, "when I pray for help, he will give me strength". It doesn't say, "when I pray for help, he will give me help". It's true. Most often, we just get enough divine assistance to continue on a little bit further.

This week I went on an exchange to be with Elder Larson, on of my TCs from Arizona. He's cool. While in Afrancho, I saw some children walking flies. They had caught these huge flies, as big as American quarters, and tied yarn onto them. They were walking beside their flying pets on the dirt road. It was probably one of the coolest things I've seen so far.

I'll send some pictures separately. Have a good week!

Elder Nelson