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| Josh and his companion to the left. The zone leaders on the right.. Elder Batutsi is on the end. I forgot to ask him what they are drinking, Im pretty sure it is sprite. |
Hello family
and friends,
Sorry this is going to be a short letter for
now. Things have been great here in Ghana, we have been working very hard and
enjoying life as it comes. I hope
everyone is doing well and things have been good. We had another 2 baptisms this week; it was wonderful
and so powerful, it just made me so
happy. One of the baptisms was a girl whose name is Florence, it’s as if she’s
my sister, I just love her so much and I'm so happy to see her change, and she
will be such a strong member. I love to see such wonderful people be baptized. We have been doing well and we are enjoying
the work. I will be writing a long email in a couple weeks that will talk more
about everything but as for now I don’t have time I’m sorry to say.
Love you all hope everyone is happy and
healthy
-Elder
Lawson
Elder Lawson
has a special relationship with his zone leader and we have adopted him into
our family, Josh speaks so highly of him and they have become good friends so I
thought I would share parts of his letter to me.
hallo sister
M. Lawson, can i just call you mum!!! well i guess i can.
so mum am so
happy to read from you. i come from a third world country, with a mother who
loves me but she cant read and write, so its always been my habit to write
other missionaries parents in-case i wanted a source of advice, encouragement
or comfort in times of stress but unfortunately my previous companion's parents
were from Tonga so they only could fully write Tongan language so never had a
chance to write them, and my current companion is from Nigeria, parents not
members so more so like me. But now i have another mother to write, thank you.
as for my
mission, am so doing fine, am now in my 3rd area, sunyani, the work is great,
the lord is indeed hastening his work, i was called to train 6 transfers ago, my
son was from Idaho, then after training him, i was called as district leader at
the same time, then i was released, it was such an opportunity of serving my
fellow missionaries, i got to learn a lot to be able to lead by example, and
now my new assignment in sunyani am the zone leader, another demanding yet
humbling experience. the missionaries in my zone are mostly Americans and such
great people which makes it easy for collective-obedience, have had
6companions, 4americans and 2nigerians.
my mission
has been such a good experience simply because the Lord has blessed me with
great companions, and very unique missionaries. of these missionaries, one
stand out, and that is Joshua, me and him we have become brothers, though from
different continents, backgrounds and culture, we have so much in common, when
i got here, we just clicked in the very first few weeks of being in the same
apartment, he has told me a lot about you and the family, he is really blessed
to have you as a mother.
we have had
great moments together, in fact i look forward to coming back in the evening to
talk to him, but the funny thing is that it takes forever for him to some times
understand my English, when he finally figures out what i was saying, we both
laugh about it so hard.
send me
pictures of your family, well i guess i have seen most of them.kind regards to
the family.
with love
elder
Batutsi
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