February 19, 2013

Hey everybody! 

This week was great because we were able to see Elder Quentin L. Cook and the devotional was great!  He was also accompanied by Elder Dickson of the seventy and he spoke with his wife as well.  The day before we had the meeting, we had our zone leader council.  After the meeting, we stayed in Cape Coast with all of the zone leaders and had a dinner where we all contributed some money and then we had a testimony meeting after it.  It was probably one of the coolest experiences of my mission so far. The 14 zone leaders and the 2 AP's all sharing their testimonys together.  It really brought the Spirit in well.  Then my companion and then one other companionship went to sleep at the AP's apartment which means a hot shower and sleeping in the A/C!!!  They live on the same compound as the mission home so they get these nice things.  It was the best night of sleep that I have gotten in such a long time. I didn't have to sleep under a net and I felt cold so I had to put a big fleece blanket on myself!  The meeting with Elder Cook went great.  We were all able to shake his hand and it was awesome because it was the first time I have been able to shake the hand of and Apostle.  This weekend my companion and I have really been trying to get to know the few members that we have in our Praso branch. We've been visiting the branch president a lot and he is a great guy. He hasn't been in the church for too long but he has such a strong testimony and he will help the branch grow.  Everything else is going well.  It's still hotter then blazes out here but I guess that's normal now. :)  Well, have a wonderful week everybody!  Love you guys! 

Love Elder Kitchen

February 11, 2013

Hey everybody!

This week was great because we were able to have a meeting with somebody from the quorum of the seventy. It was Elder Curtis who is the second counselor in the Africa West area.  We had our meeting with him on Thursday and the zone leaders were lucky to meet with him before we had the meeting.  We just talked to him about how our zones are doing and how he could help us.  It was probably my favorite mission tour that we have had so far.  Elder Curtis was really nice and had a good sense of humor. He wasn't just completely serious the whole time but I learned so much from him.  The main thing that he talked about was faith. President Shulz also instructed and he talked about the Plan of Salvation.  Then we also found out that this coming week on Thursday, we are going to have a Mission Devotional with Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Twelve.  This month has been a lucky month.  We are preparing to have another baptism on the 23rd of February.  We went out to Nuamakrom on Friday and there had been a big rainstorm the night before and it looked like a tornado had hit the place.  Trees were all on the ground and also lots of houses lost their roof.  Even the school where almost all of the kids go lost its roof completely!  The people didn't really seem too upset about it though.  They just kept doing their normal thing and just trying to fix the roofs and stuff.  Today we came to Cape to play football on the beach and then we ate really good food at the restaurant next to the Cape Coast Castle.  This coming week should be a really enjoyable one. We have zone council and then Elder Cook is coming! Well, talk to you all next week! 

Love Elder Kitchen

Here are a couple pictures from the Zone Council.



February 4, 2013

Hey everybody!

Sorry about not sending an email to everybody last week. After I responded to a few emails then the computer stopped working and it wasn't even worth trying to fix so I just decided to wait until today! The whole internet situation here isn't the greatest but we are able to manage. This past week was really good. We have been preparing a few people to be baptized out in the village called Nuamakrom and it went well so we were able to have a baptism of five people. We went to church this week in the new branch in Praso this week because it has been a while since we went there. They are doing well. The newly called leaders are really trying to do well. There are a lot of less actives here in Praso and so there isn't a lot of people coming right  now to the new branch. We're trying to help them reactivate some people so that we can also teach their families who aren't members. We also went on splits this last week and I went and was with my old MTC companion in his area. We had a really good day and we were able to teach a lot of people and it was cool proselyting with him. We are having a mission tour this coming thursday and Elder Curtis of the Seventy will be here. I really like when we have Seventies come in. Well nothing else really happened this week. I'm going to be 18 months tomorrow which is pretty cool. It's weird that I've been out for that long now. Well, have a good week everybody! Love you all!

Love Elder Kitchen