It was our first week with the new mission president and it was pretty
sweet! Monday I already told you about the big football match we had
with the 3 zones. But Wednesday I got to go on splits with an MT out
serving in Mankessiem. It's a town about an hour outside of Cape
Coast. We enjoyed! He has a pretty tuff area but him and his companion
have been fixing it up well. He is one of the four elders from
Washington so it was nice to be with an elder that isn't from Utah.
We have been teaching a new family out in Aburah Dunkwa who buy and
trade grass cutter, bush rat and deer! I'll send a picture of it next
week cause the internet is super slow today. Grass cutter is pretty
much a rat the size of a dog and they are fat and very fast.
We also had interviews with president allong with instructions from
the zone leaders and the assistants. They were both super powerful.... a
lot about working with members and changing who we are while we are
here on mission.
The new mission president is from Oregon and was a CFO of some big
company there! He seems like he is comfortable and ready to get a lot
of work done. He has been going on splits with all the missionaries in
the mission in the evening so soon he should be coming to our area!
It was funeral weekend so the area was going crazy. People were having
parades in the area and mosh pits at random jntions. The whole time
they are dancing and throwing each other around they are all holding a
coffin or two, they almost dropped one, but just kept going haha.
We had Forsters baptism this week and it was so sweet! We almost didn't
have enough water to fill the font so it only went up to his knees
but we still made it work!
Fast Sunday was probably my favorite day of the whole week. I was
fasting and all that so the spirit was really strong throughout the
day. we had a member who was really sick and she asked me to give her
a blessing while we were visiting another member.
So we went in the back room and my companion annointed her and then we
gave her a blessing. I don't really remember what was said throughout
the blessing but I do remember feeling the need to say that she should
be healed.. so we said it and a few other things that were very
personal to her because afterwards when she got up after the
blessing she was crying. So after that with all the emotion and things
I went and sat in another room helping fan the fire and the cassava.
when I came back out a few minutes later she seemed so happy and
looked a lot better! It was just really the first time I've seen
anything like that.
The church is true.
I would keep writing but the internet is too slow.
Love all of you
Elder Darren Hodges
sweet! Monday I already told you about the big football match we had
with the 3 zones. But Wednesday I got to go on splits with an MT out
serving in Mankessiem. It's a town about an hour outside of Cape
Coast. We enjoyed! He has a pretty tuff area but him and his companion
have been fixing it up well. He is one of the four elders from
Washington so it was nice to be with an elder that isn't from Utah.
We have been teaching a new family out in Aburah Dunkwa who buy and
trade grass cutter, bush rat and deer! I'll send a picture of it next
week cause the internet is super slow today. Grass cutter is pretty
much a rat the size of a dog and they are fat and very fast.
We also had interviews with president allong with instructions from
the zone leaders and the assistants. They were both super powerful.... a
lot about working with members and changing who we are while we are
here on mission.
The new mission president is from Oregon and was a CFO of some big
company there! He seems like he is comfortable and ready to get a lot
of work done. He has been going on splits with all the missionaries in
the mission in the evening so soon he should be coming to our area!
It was funeral weekend so the area was going crazy. People were having
parades in the area and mosh pits at random jntions. The whole time
they are dancing and throwing each other around they are all holding a
coffin or two, they almost dropped one, but just kept going haha.
We had Forsters baptism this week and it was so sweet! We almost didn't
have enough water to fill the font so it only went up to his knees
but we still made it work!
Fast Sunday was probably my favorite day of the whole week. I was
fasting and all that so the spirit was really strong throughout the
day. we had a member who was really sick and she asked me to give her
a blessing while we were visiting another member.
So we went in the back room and my companion annointed her and then we
gave her a blessing. I don't really remember what was said throughout
the blessing but I do remember feeling the need to say that she should
be healed.. so we said it and a few other things that were very
personal to her because afterwards when she got up after the
blessing she was crying. So after that with all the emotion and things
I went and sat in another room helping fan the fire and the cassava.
when I came back out a few minutes later she seemed so happy and
looked a lot better! It was just really the first time I've seen
anything like that.
The church is true.
I would keep writing but the internet is too slow.
Love all of you
Elder Darren Hodges
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