Baptism Day!

Hello everyone!!

I am doing great out here in Kwamo, we are still staying busy and are loving the work. There is a lot of work to do out here in Africa so we are staying busy. This past week has been unusually busy though. We had zone conference on Tuesday, interviews on Wednesday, we had to go to Effiduasi and Ejisu for the Elders and Sisters because I had to do some interviews, and on top of that we were trying to prepare 7 people in our area for baptism on the 28th. It's very very busy but again I wouldn't want it any other way! It beats staying in the apartment all day doing Facebook finding. 

Zone Conference was great as always, it was a lot longer then the ones back in Utah. Back in Utah it was only 3 hours and out here it is all day, it was about 6-7 hours. It was really good though, they actually introduced Facebook into the mission. So we are now going to be using Facebook and technology more. It is a totally new concept to many as this just became a technology mission a couple months ago. It is fun seeing all the change that is happening in the mission. We will have even more change when the new mission president comes in June. The mission is starting to prepare for him to come. 

As I mentioned these past couple of weeks we were preparing 7 people for baptism, unfortunately we had to push 4 of them to April 11. We have been working with yaw and clement for the past two weeks and they were excited to except the invitation to be baptized yesterday. Emmanuel was the other young man we were preparing to be baptized but Saturday night we got a call from him and he said he wasn't quite ready, he is leaving for school on Thursday so we will have to wait for a couple months until he returns. But we had a successful baptism with yaw and clement right after our church. We had to fill the font the night before because the baptism would be early the next morning so we did and all was well. When we got to the church we checked the font, and the water was all gone! So we had to quickly turn the pump back on and fill it during Sacrament meeting. We let it go through the first hour and we had to go and teach the primary, so we left the responsibility to the ward secretary to turn the pump off when it was at the right level. As we are teaching the primary I remember that we didn't have towels ready and that I need to look for them. We get done teaching the primary and we rush to find towels and they are no where to be seen. We talk with the ward mission leader and get him to look for them as well. We soon find them in a corner of one of the classrooms in a big black bag. The towels were still wet from the previous baptisms a couple weeks ago and they had mold all over them. We let the ward mission leader deal with that problem. As we got that resolved, we come out to the baptismal room and the font is basically overflowing. We had to run out and start to drain the font, as water was about to start flooding the room. Apparently the secretary forgot to turn off the pump haha. As we started to release some of the water we couldn't wait for it to drain because we had to finish before the next ward came in. So bishop told me to hop in as I was the one baptizing the two brothers. I got in and the font was still up to the top full of water. The water was very high almost up to my chest, as I am a short person and so I had to raise my arm and basically still have my elbow in the water if you can picture that. When I baptized the individuals the only thing that wasn't underwater was my head. I think it was the closest I have had to swimming in 8 months. But yaw and clement were safely baptized and after all the running around that morning it turned out to be a great service. We will hopefully be more prepared for the next baptism on the 11 of April for Jozi, Jozial, Kendra and Maa Mary. 

We are having a district activity today which I am excited for as I wasn't able to have them with my district in Utah. It has been super fun getting to know people in my district and become close with them. While in Utah it was completely different, we weren't able to do anything together because of Covid. We weren't able to have activities or get together. I didn't feel like I ever got to know my district as well as I could have. It's been nice to have some freedom and ability to have activities. We have been able to meet up with each other and get to know other missionaries which is nice. 

Elder Flomo one of the Elders we live with tested positive for Covid, so we will all have to get tested for Covid on Tuesday. None of us are showing any symptoms so I guess we will see what happens. He got the call yesterday and the doctors told him that he tested positive, but they then proceeded to tell him to not tell anybody. They told him if he was married to not tell his wife or his kids. They said to just keep it to himself. Haha I don't know why they didn't want him to tell anybody, I guess they didn't want it to be bigger then it needed to be? I have no clue, but we called Sister Webster and she told us to all get tested on Tuesday so we will see what the tests say. 

Besides that we are still working hard, and still sweating buckets out here. We are in week 4 of the transfer so we have two weeks left and it is going by really fast. But I am doing great and staying safe. I hope all y'all are doing well, and having fun. Thanks again for the love and support it means a lot. Have a great week this week! Love you guys

Love Elder Morgan 

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