Dear America,
This has been a productive week in Nkawkaw. We've followed up on some neat people who seem ready to listen and act on the message of the restored gospel. One is a lady named Ellen that lives close to us. We pass by her house every week on the way to chapel cleaning and to church. She usually greets us when we pass and a few weeks ago we invited her to come to church. We were surprised when she showed up at church the next day. She only speaks Twi, though, so it was a challenge for us to teach her. But we've been using Ghanaians to help us and she is very excited about the Church. She had a dream earlier that some white men dressed like missionaries brought her a gift that would bless her life. She's been learning the lessons and feeds us every blessed time we go there. I'm excited for her and her family:)
I wrote about Brother Boateng last week. This week we met him and he had a troubled countenance. We asked him how he was doing and he said that he was confused. His daughter has been sending him some videos that he had questions about. Oh great. Yeah, they were anti-Mormon videos. We've been seeing more and more of that recently even though Ghana is the last place where I would expect those things. It just shows you how widespread it's becoming. But we talked to him about the way to discern truth. Here's what I can advise:
Feelings from Satan
Doubt, fear, confusion, disgust, worry, loneliness, anger, outrage, disbelief
Feelings from God
Love, joy, peace, happiness, comfort, gentleness, faith, certainty, motivation
What feelings do you get when somebody starts talking about the church in a negative way? The Spirit won't ever lie to us. Elder Wood and I were easily able to identify the Spirit leaving as soon as Brother Boateng showed us a video. We stopped it and spent a while talking about how we can really find truth. There's a lot of crap in the world today, and we just. don't. need it. Stay away from it. The lowlifes who make that junk will never tell you to ask God or to learn for yourself. They have no qualms about intentionally deceiving you or manipulating you.
We went on exchanges with Mpraeso this week. I was with Elder Mbir, a Ghanaian (in the pictures). On Saturday we fixed the signpost for the chapel.
To quote an EFY song, "Life is good, eternal life is better!"
Love,
Elder Nelson
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