September 1, 2014
Family,
Wow what another great week we had! It was
super busy and not easy but
It was all good. We had a mission tour with
Elder Dube in Kpong on
Wednesday and so we drove down to Ho Tuesday
night and slept there.
Then early Wednesday morning we made our
journey to Kpong. It was
great to be able to hear from a GA, but it was
kinda funny because I
was used to seeing him around the temple site
when I was the AP so it
didn’t seem as awesome as when Elder Vinson
came earlier this year but
it was great!
We have been working hard in teaching part
member families and
that seems to give us the most success!
Yesterday was kind of weird
at church because I was the one presiding and gave the
concluding remarks.
Everyone was late to church and so I went over
the parable of the ten
Virgins and how 5 weren’t prepared and were
late so it was kind have bold
but I made sure I got my point across and
people really enjoyed it.
We only have sacrament and then the gospel
principles class after that
and then call it a day because of not enough people
to do a lot of different
things. But it was another great service and
the spirit was really present,
especially during the gospel principles class. We
talked about baptism and
a man we never met before came up to us and said
he needs to
baptized by the priesthood authority! It
was great. Like I said, have been
working a lot with part member families and even had two wives of
members come to church and so we are really praying that they progress
to baptism this month and prepare for further covenants with God! At
the church service we had 7 members, 3 children
11 investigators along with Elder Zaugg and I. We were so happy! We worked
our hardest for those
investigators to come to church and it really strengthened the members by
helping them prepare giving a talk or blessing
the sacrament, etc. This week
we are hoping to
start a mid weekservice where we can help the members
and investigators grow even
more. We have to rent plastic chairs each week
because we don’t have any and so that is always a struggle, but its
good!
We have been having lots of rainstorms and they
are so awesome! We
had a super important lesson at 3 o'clock and
it was raining really
hard but we didn’t want to miss the lesson
because this lady is really
smart, educated and prepared so we biked a few
miles in the pouring rain
to meet her at 3 and she loved that we were so
good at keeping time!
So everyone back home make sure you are keeping
your time management
because I hate how people are always late here!
We have just been
involved with so many things that it’s hard to
remember everything to tell you.
Elder Zaugg is awesome and we get along so well
and so the teaching is
great and people can really understand us!
The people here are so loving and kind! They
dish our free meals to us
all the time! Nothing like in Accra! We met a lady
two times this last
week and they weren’t even that long of
meetings and she called us
today and fed us a massive free meal and it was
so good! That
would never happen back home, you don’t
invite complete strangers
into your home like that, let alone
feed them an expensive
meal!
So today was also probably one of the greatest Pdays ever! Elder Zaugg
and I went to the Wli waterfalls, which is the
highest waterfalls in
West Africa. It's 20 mins from our area!
You hike 40 minutes
and come to a beautiful waterfall and it’s so
awesome! The hike is
amazing and we only took the short one, so mom
and dad when we come
back to Ghana we will go on the 6 hour hike
where it goes above the
waterfalls and all around it! (oh yay!) it was so
awesome! We took a lot of
photos but the Internet connection today is
terrible so we can't send
photos..... but just know that it was awesome
and I can’t wait to go
back there with mom and dad!
Well family I love you all and hope you
continue to do good! It must
be weird with only you two in the house alone! Sorry. haha but that
will make you look even more forward to me
coming home :) ha have a
good week!
Elder Eppich
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