The Last Transfer

Hi everyone!

Sorry I didn't write an email last week, things were crazy with transfers. 

Well it's crazy to say I have 6 weeks left! So crazy that I'm coming down to the final stretch of the mission. Before I forget I will share a cool experience I had in my last area right before I left.

A couple days before I left Kwanwoma, Elder Yaboah and  I visited with Rose and her family again. We had been meeting with then a lot, and we have really come to love their family. Rose and her siblings had been coming to Church about 4 times, and they were enjoying the lessons. We had talked to Rose about baptism and asked her to pray about the decision to be baptized on May 1st. She kept saying she was praying and we honestly thought she was just saying that. But this last day together Elder Yaboah was teaching some of the family about the Plan of Salvation in twi, and we had already taught Rose about it. So I pulled her to the side and we sat down and just had a heart to heart talk about the gospel and how she felt about the church. It was one of the simplest but one of the more powerful conversations I have had with an investigator. The spirit was definitely there. We started to talk about her experiences coming to Church compared to her other experiences with other churches. We talked about her life and her journey with God. She told me that her old pastor pulled her to church last Wednesday. She told me what happened. She told me that she got there and she just didn't feel comfortable. They were doing their prayers, and had loud music playing, and they were all dancing. She told me that she went and sat down, crossed her legs and started to read the Book of Mormon. She also told me she is starting to teach her kids at school about the church (she is a school teacher) and that she wants to teach the teachers as well. After hearing these wonderful experiences, I knew that she knew it was true. So I asked her what would be stopping her from being baptized. She said Elder Morgan I have been praying to God, I asked him about May 1st like you said and he said ok, I can go ahead. But then you decided to push the baptism back to the 8th of May so now I have to go tell God that the Elders pushed my baptism back! I have to ask him if it is okay for me to get baptized the 8th. She was just baptized yesterday. I will miss Rose so much and meeting her really has helped grow my testimony.

We had transfers! On Wednesday I got on a tro tro and headed to Techiman which is about 4 hours outside Kumasi. Its the first time I have been outside Kumasi and I am so excited! I have a new companion, Elder Abakah, he is a Ghanaian. He goes home the transfer after me. I love him, he is super chill. I am a zone leader out here, and our zone is our district. We have 8 Elders and 4 sisters. It is a lot smaller which I am loving. It is so weird not having President call me, or missionaries call me with problems, or me having to plan for mlc or zone conferences. It's weird not having any stress, but I am definitely not complaining. It is so nice to just worry about me, my companion, my area and my zone.

I got to the area on Wednesday and we have been working hard ever since. Right before I got here my companion and his previous companion met a wonderful family. Ma Cynthia is the mom and she is so good. The first time I met them, you could just feel how good they were. There are about 10 in the family and we have started teaching them all! They all came to church last week, and loved it. We are in the Bush, and everyone out here is just very humble and the nicest people you will meet. I will miss the people the most when I go home. I have really come to love them. 

Our area has a lot of potential this transfer! I'm excited for what these next 6 weeks will bring and the experiences I will have. They are going to fly by! But I will surely make the most of them.

I love you all and I am so grateful for the love and support. I hope you all had a great mother's day. Have a great week!

Love Elder Morgan