January 14, 2019
This upcoming week (my last week in Odoben) will be good. Last week we found 2 very serious people one of their names is Berlinda and she has just been telling us that she has just really felt like she needed a church in her life and that she is ready to be baptized because she feels like she is getting old. She is around 26 years old but she is awesome. We should baptize her this coming Sunday as long as she is keeping all the commandments. It will probably be my best baptism of this area in my opinion. But her testimony has grown so much from the first time I met her and she really enjoys being around the missionaries. She even said that in all the other churches she feels like they just want money but in this church there is something more and so it has been really cool. We have shared some book of Mormon scriptures with her that have helped a lot so I am really all goes well!!
{We told Elder Shirley that we had received some hand-written letters from him} Yay you got the letters!! Did you get the money inside as well? It was just small African money so if you didn't don't worry, I will bring some home when I come! I would love some letters back! Haha handwritten letters can be so fun sometimes!
Have a great week!
~Elder Shirley
Question and Answers:
Q. After being out in Africa now for almost six months, what do you love about the people there or about their culture?
A. The thing I love most about the culture here is the way they all love God and how much they thank him for in their lives. Every time you ask someone how they are doing they answer by saying "I am doing good by the grace of God", they just give all credit to God.
Q. Do you see a lot of poverty amongst the people? You have always been such a giving person, is it hard not to give all the time?
A. There is poverty here but so many people ask for money that I am used to saying no by now, but sometimes it is hard to say no to people that I am close to.
Q. Is the ward growing or did you guys ever ask the stake president to combine the two wards?
A. The ward is doing ok but still can improve, the wards are still split and I think they will stay that way.
Q. We haven’t heard you talk in much detail about District or Zone meetings. What are they like? Do you guys ever get to see an apostle?
A. District meetings are good, my first multi-zone here we had elder Kacher from the seventy but no Quorum of the 12 yet for me. I think they had one come last year, so we will see.
Q. When I sent you Christmas presents, did the other Elder like the shirt and candy we sent him too? Did you enjoy the powered packets of Gatorade and Crystal Light?
A. I loved everything in the package especially the cosmic Brownies and the drink powders! They were amazing!
A. The thing I love most about the culture here is the way they all love God and how much they thank him for in their lives. Every time you ask someone how they are doing they answer by saying "I am doing good by the grace of God", they just give all credit to God.
Q. Do you see a lot of poverty amongst the people? You have always been such a giving person, is it hard not to give all the time?
A. There is poverty here but so many people ask for money that I am used to saying no by now, but sometimes it is hard to say no to people that I am close to.
Q. Is the ward growing or did you guys ever ask the stake president to combine the two wards?
A. The ward is doing ok but still can improve, the wards are still split and I think they will stay that way.
Q. We haven’t heard you talk in much detail about District or Zone meetings. What are they like? Do you guys ever get to see an apostle?
A. District meetings are good, my first multi-zone here we had elder Kacher from the seventy but no Quorum of the 12 yet for me. I think they had one come last year, so we will see.
Q. When I sent you Christmas presents, did the other Elder like the shirt and candy we sent him too? Did you enjoy the powered packets of Gatorade and Crystal Light?
A. I loved everything in the package especially the cosmic Brownies and the drink powders! They were amazing!
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