Bed Frames and Upcoming Assignment Changes

Hi everyone!!

These past couple weeks have been great! Last week We finished zone conferences and they went really well. It's nice to have them finished because now we get some time in our area. 

We have really met some great people in our area lately. If you all remember Rose, we have been getting closer with her family and have a really good relationship with them now. On Sunday 4 of them came to church. We will continue to work with her and her family, we met another family the son is Jr and the daughters name is Enrita. We have another family we have met and we are teaching their son Dennis. In total we have 6 that are ready to be baptized this transfer! We had two baptisms at the beginning of the transfer so we have been working hard. May 1st we are planning to have the baptismal service. 

These next two weeks will be my last in Kwanwoma so Elder Yaboah and I will finish strong. We have a lot to do in our area, so everyday we are busy. I love it though, great things are happening

A cool little miracle that happened this week: Saturday morning Elder Yaboah and I were planning for an instruction. We left our apartment to go to our area and we saw I man who had fallen over on the side of the street. He was having a seizure. The spirit prompted us to stop, so we stopped. We got out of the car and there weren't any people around. The man was lying in the middle of the street. We decided to move him because he could have been hit if someone didn't see him. So we picked him up and started to take him to the shade. As soon as we touched him, his seizure stopped. He came back to it and he started to respond back to us. He told us his name, he had hit his head really hard and was bleeding, he had bit his tongue really bad, and fell onto his wrist. We don't know how long he had been there prior to us arriving. As we were talking with him, he told us that this was the second time today, this happened. He said that he was grateful we came when we did because no one else was around. He said that even if people were around they wouldn't have helped because the people think that if they touch someone having a seizure that the "disease" will be passed onto them. He said that he simply needed someone to touch him for him to snap out of it, and if we hadn't been there he could have died. We were grateful we were there at the right place at the right time.

Everything else has been going great! We are having great experiences together and are finishing the transfer strong. President told me I will be released on May 3rd and will be a zone leader for my last transfer. He hasn't told me the place yet, but I'm excited for the change. I'm excited to see what the Lord has in store for me. I sure will miss Kwanwoma though. Mission is slowly coming to an end! I am excited, but I am also really going to miss the people of Ghana, I have come to love them. I'm trying to make the most of my last little bit. 

I forgot to mention! Elder Yeboah and I found some bed frames in a room in our apartment. We were excited because all of our mission we have just slept on a mattress on the ground. We got them out and set them up. We are living like Kings now with our bed frames lol. Doesn't seem like much but out here not many people have actual bed frames to lift their bed off the ground. Even my comp was saying that we are living the high life now. And in America it is just normal so it doesn't mean as much to all y'all, but to us it's a big deal! 

I hope everyone had a great Easter, Ghanaians don't really celebrate it like we do in America. Most just have a party, or a dinner. It's pretty relaxed. But I hope back home it went well. I love you all, and I am grateful for the love and support 

Love Elder Morgan

Teaching Moments in Zone Conference

The following is taken from an email Malachi's Mission President, President Kunz, wrote in his weekly email. Malachi has had the wonderful opportunity to work closely with President Kunz for many months. It's been a great experience and he has grown so much.

The Assistants led a marvelous discussion about being ALL In as a missionary. This topic is a follow-up to the wonderful devotional with had with our friend Kevin Ball on February 4th where he talked about what it means to be born again. Elder Morgan and Elder Yeboah “hit it out of the park” (an American colloquialism) with their discussion focused on 3 main sub-topics.

Elder Morgan and Elder Yeboah

1. Born again moments – Alma the Younger and Ammon and King Lamoni were highlighted. Scriptures used were Mosiah 27:17-18, 28,29,32; Alma 18:41,42 Alma 9:6. The concept of being born again was also highlighted using 1 Cor 11:28 (let a man examine himself) and D&C 88:40 (light cleaveth unto light)
2. “I will give myself to Him” – This is the title of a talk given by Spencer Osguthorpe who was then serving as the General Sunday School president of the Church. In that amazing talk, he asked three questions which Elder Morgan and Elder Yeboah repeated in their discussion. 1 – What does the word “will” mean? (Hel 3:35 and Mosiah 5:3). 2 – How do we give our will to God (change of behavior vs. a change of nature). 3 – How do we know if we are succeeding? (Alma 5:26 – singing the song of redeeming love)
3. Eternal Perspective – Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (for God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing….) Alma 5:14 (Have ye been born of God?)

“All In” whiteboard discussion

While the content of the discussion was excellent, the spirit with which they delivered it was the most powerful part of the conference. These elders are two of the finest missionaries I have ever known. I do not tell them what they should teach. They seek inspiration, present their ideas to me and then they study and prepare the topic. They always teach at MLC and then the rest of the rest of the Leadership Council decides who will teach the same topic at zone conferences, themselves or the Assistants.