Back in Techiman

Dear America,

I'm not sending this email from Tamale.... nope, I'm back in my town, Techiman. I loved Techiman more than any other place on my mission so far and it's good to be back even if it's just for a day or two. We have a combined zone conference with Techiman and Sunyani so we all came to meet here. Life is good. Each zone was asked to prepare a musical number for the conference. I wasn't informed that I was in charge of said musical number until we showed up to practice. We have some appreciable talent in the zone, though, so we're pulling a nice Christmas medley together. I'm excited.

We had some triumphs this week as far as investigators go. One of our investigators (the Nigerian woman that I've written about before) has decided that God answered her prayers to know the truth. She's had several dreams that she takes to be revelation meaning she should join the Church. I don't have that much trust in dreams, but I'm glad that God talks to each of us in our own way that He knows we'll understand. It's funny that she struggles to understand my companion when he talks, though. He's from Georgia and is still relatively new on mission so his American accent is still pretty strong. And any Nigerian accent is always strong. So she doesn't hear him when he talks. I have to translate sometimes.

I felt blessed this week when we were knocking on gates and the people that met us all spoke English, were Christian, and were mildly interested to listen to our message. We were also able to do a good service project for the district president this week. He invited us to take out some weeds in his compound with cutlassas (machetes), hoes (Ghanaian version), and our hands. It was good work and we had fun talking about what we can do to strengthen the branches. We also ate a lot of fufu while we were there.

I feel like the members are kicking things up a notch right now, which makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE in our work. I'm happy. They're ever so slightly more active and involved--maybe it's just the Christmas season, but I like to think that we're making progress.

I'm planning on calling in the afternoon (for me) soooo before church for you. What time do you even have church? Either way, it'll be before. Just in case.

Thanks for taking the pressure off of the honors housing decision. That would explain why I wasn't feeling any major impressions in answer to my prayers.

Well life is good. I look forward to hearing voices on the phone this week.

Elder Nelson

PS The last picture is me with Elder Antwi!