Good afternoon, everyone on this wonderful Memorial Day Monday!!
I hope everyone is staying safe and having a great time where ever you might
be!!
I’ll get right down to it. 2
weeks ago I said I was kind of struggling finding people to teach and not much
changed this week ha-ha. I was feeling really sick and just lazy, not really
motivated to work hard. Then I changed a few things this week and it seemed to
help. I used to be eating really unhealthy like bread and butter with sugar for
breakfast and FUFU for lunch all the time. I was really just eating simple
sugars and carbs, no protein. This past week I changed that up. I started
eating healthier foods. For breakfast, I’m having oatmeal with peanuts and bananas
or sometimes boiled eggs. It changed my entire mood. This week I’ve been the
happiest even during some of our hardest times!! Saturday we had all but 2 of
our lessons fall through. While my comp was bummed I was surprisingly still
smiling, staying happy and positive!! It felt so much better. It was just awesome!!
So, I’ll definitely try to keep that up from now on. I felt more confident
while teaching this week as well and just overall much better.
A cool story from this last
week, Saturday afternoon we stopped by the chapel because they were having a
wedding and we went to get a member to see if he could help us teach a recent
convert of ours who we needed translation. He wasn’t able to come so we decided
to leave. As we walked out we met our bishop at the road side. He asked what we
were up to and we told him we were headed to see our recent convert. He said he
was just headed to work. (By the way, he’s a fire fighter.) All of the sudden a
taxi went flying down the road honking and flashing his lights. We thought it
was weird, even though it happens a lot here. So we look to the right, towards the
junction where a lot of shops are. The taxi, and trotro run is there also. We
saw a bunch of smoke coming from a car. The bishop started running over and we
followed to see what was up. Next thing you know the bishop was calling the
fire service and as we approached we saw a small car on fire! Ghanaians were
circled around the car trying to put out the fire with wet towels and small
buckets of water. That wasn’t working. Soon the fire truck pulled up and people
jumped out (not in any fire protective gear because that’s not how they do
things in Ghana ha-ha). They grabbed a fire hose and just start going at the
fire. Random people were jumping in to hold the hose and trying to spray the
car. It was all very interesting because as you know, back home they would rope
off the area and have people stay back. Not here! hahaha People just kept
getting closer and closer to the car. People had their phones out filming it. It
was amazing to see our Bishop in action. It all turned out okay. The people
were rescued from Bishop and the fire crew that arrived.
Another small story, on Sunday,
our ward mission leader was asked to conduct the music for Sacrament meeting. During
the rest hymn he was nowhere to be found. Bishop and I made eye contact and I
started walking towards the front…he gave me a nod of approval. Next thing I
knew, I was the conductor for the music. Ha-ha! I was actually pretty nervous
because I didn’t want to mess up but I’d just like to say thank you for all
those times I was asked to lead the hymn in Sunday school, Priesthood and
Seminary. It came in handy that day!
We’re still searching to find people to teach. I’m staying
positive about it. I know that all will be well. We just have to keep working
hard and keep our heads up! I finally finished reading the New Testament this
last week!! And now I will begin to read the Book of Mormon again. This time I’m
going to try and really study instead of just trying to get through it.
I’m hoping to learn something
new each time I read the scriptures and know that I will. As we study the
scriptures and try to apply the things we learn into our own lives, we'll grow
to be stronger disciples of Jesus Christ and feel more happiness and love in
our lives. Our love for those around us will increase as well.
I love and miss y’all! Thanks
for the letters and I hope everyone has a great week!!
God bless you all,
Elder Morris
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