Big Launch

Dear America,

This week was a really free week for us. We were actually able to proselyte for a lot of time. It was so nice but also hard at the same time because our schedule is so random. We have weeks when we have no free time and weeks when we're in our area every day. So we find investigators that we can't maintain as well as we should. And then when we have a bunch of time we don't have anyone steady to teach. But we've arranged to share areas with the Assistants so there are two less-effective companionships sharing investigators. It works out.

We spent much of the week just trying to find new investigators and following up on some potential investigators that we found before. It was full of disappointments. People lied to us, ran away from us, insulted us, and failed us. We had an unusually long string of those occasions. But Heavenly Father always knows what we need to keep going. At church on Sunday we met a man named Fred who had come by himself. We followed him home and taught him right after church. He was an apostate pastor for some time and he's been involved in a number of different churches but came to a point about three years ago when he felt like something was missing. He wanted to attend a different church, but didn't know which one to go to. So he prayed to ask God and spent a while without any apparent answer. He knew about the Church and was interested in it, but it wasn't until he found out that one of his friends was a member that he really started his research. After a while he showed up to church. And we met him and taught him what he was missing and now we have a sweet investigator. Just what we needed.

While I've been in the office I've discovered and renovated the "MY MISSION" section of the missionary portal, which has been neglected up to date in our mission. It's basically news and documents posted online for missionaries. President Cosgrave and the assistants have been trying all different ways and means to get news out to missionaries, none of which have been very effective. We've started using it and we have our" big launch" (for Dad) today. So we'll see if missionaries use it or not. We're a technology mission! Haha yeah right.

Stay out of trouble!

Love, Elder Nelson

This is the Rogers' family who live in Kumasi. They txt home this picture as a surprise one day.