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| first baptism ever in Hoeho, Ghana |
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| Elder Eppich |
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| Elder Eppich and brother Jonathan |
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| Brother Gameli and sister Helen |
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| newest members of Hoehoe group |
September 22, 2014
Family,
Well this week was a great week! It was a little stressful
at first
but finished great!
Everything was going good until Tuesday when we
got a call saying that the older missionaries needed to be
in Accra
the next day to renew their national non citizen ID cards. This
really messed up our plans because the next day Elder
Cosgrave was
going to come up to Hohoe to do our special interviews for
Helen and
Jonathan. Luckily we were able to figure out that Elder
Zaugg would
be able to stay in Ho with another missionary and then go up
to Hohoe
on Wednesday to do the interviews while I went to Accra, so
that’s
what happened.
Tuesday night we went to Ho, spent the night, and then
embarked on our travels to Accra and back. Once we got the
cards we
went to KFC (Elder West, Mackay, Fausett, Crandall and I)
and then
Elder West, Mackay and I headed back up to Ho, spent
Wednesday night in
Ho and continued our way to Hohoe Thursday morning. When I
had asked
Elder and Sister Cosgrave about how the interviews went they
said it
went superb! He said brother Jonathan looked like a future
patriarch
of the Ho stake in the future years and Sister Helen was
not a whit
behind him, so that really made us happy!
So the next problem we needed to worry about was the
baptismal place....
we had the option to
travel 45 mins or so to Kpando to do it in their font but
that would
be expensive and no support from the Group. The next option
was
possibly a swimming pool, a not serious man that had a
swimming pool
said it would cost us 1500 ghc to prep the pool for Sunday
so we said
no to that and the next option was a small river that runs
through
Hohoe. So Elder Zaugg and I kept looking around and finally
found a
perfect spot for the baptism! We were both super pumped for
Sunday!
On Saturday we went and visited sister Helen and she was
ready for
baptism and wanted her husband, Gameli, to baptize her. Brother
Gameli is
an accountant and super humble, loving man. He was baptized
8 yrs. ago
in Kpong but moved to Hohoe where there was no church. So he
was more
then happy to baptize his wife! Then we also visited brother
Jonathan
and we discussed about the procedures of baptism and how he
needs to
be completely immersed for the baptism to be successful so
that is when
he said he wanted me to baptize him because I was taller and
longer
than Elder Zaugg and can ensure a successful baptism! haha He
is so
awesome! He is loving and fired up for the gospel! He has
found the
truth and it has set him free. My prayer is that we can
ordain him an
Elder before I go home! He can progress and help the Group
out so much! (He was the man that we have no idea of who
called him
and told him exactly where the church was at!)
So Sunday came around
and had a great service and we all headed to the river side
after the
service and got prepared for the baptism! It went pretty
well, the
only problem is that bro Gameli couldn’t baptize sister
Helen all the
way so I had to hop in and help him out. Sister Helen is
like 5
months pregnant, so that dang belly was poking out too much
haha... oh I almost forgot that the last week it had been
raining so much
that it raised our small little river close to 4-5 feet and
every one
was saying that we can’t do the baptism because the water is
too high
and I’m like"the more water the better" John 3:23
haha (And John also was
baptized in Enon
near to Salim because there was much water there: and
they came, and were
baptized.” it was all great
and a day to remember! Jonathan was so happy and it all
surprised us
when we found out that yesterday was his birthday!!! How
awesome is
that to be baptized on your birthday! I think he is 74 yrs.
old but
doesn’t look over 55 except his white hair! We got nice pictures
and I
hope you will be able to get some of them!
Then to make everything
else even better today Daniel (the man that called you mom)
Elder Zaugg
and I went to the monkey sanctuary today and the monkeys
were crazy
comfortable with us.... right when they saw our tour guide
caring bananas towards them they all came running and
jumping all
over him! We would have 2-4 monkeys on us at a time!(does he not know that the Ebola virus is
carried in monkeys?! Ughhh) I can’t wait to
take mom and dad there! You will love it! hopefully Ebola
stays away! (ya me too J)
haha then we returned from our little trip and we all went
to the
market and made some nice jollof (special rice) and chicken!
super fun
Pday! Daniel is an amazing man!
Well family, I love you all and hope you have a great week!
Choose the right.
Elder Kade Eppich
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| Elder Eppich hopefully holding a non Ebola virus carrying monkey :) |
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