One Year in Ghana!

September 2, 2019 

Wow it has been quite a week! I have now been in Ghana for more than a year and I cannot believe it. The way that I have changed myself for the better in the last year is amazing. On Tuesday, we had an exchange with the AP's and I went with Elder Burnett and had a great day. I learned a lot from him. The next day we rode with them to district meeting where my former companion, Elder Bahiru, is the District leader. I enjoyed the meeting. After district meeting we taught a sister named Elizabeth Adwoa who is an amazing person and is so ready for the gospel. She is 21 and just leaving for college so we were really sad to hear that she is leaving to Cape Coast until December. I hope she finds the church in Cape Coast. On Thursday, we took our recent converts to the temple. Some recent converts who were baptized in the last 2 weeks. Later we went for a session and it was the first time that I have been in a session since January. On Friday, we had interviews with president and we also went a did an interview for a candidate that was being baptized on Saturday. Basically we biked a marathon that day, well at least that is what it felt like!! haha it was super hot and super super tiring!! But it was all for a good cause and the candidate was a great woman who is ready to be baptized. Yesterday on fast Sunday we saw some great miracles and I know that God hears our prayers and blesses others through fasting. I love you guys!! 

~Elder Shirley 

Questions & Answers: 

Q. Tell us how you have grown spiritually over the course of this past year on your mission. 

A. Oh the way that I have grown spiritually in 1 year! It is really remarkable how much I have learned in 1 year and much more the Book of Mormon means to me. I know without a doubt that the Book of Mormon is the most correct book on this earth and that it has answers to all of our questions. It is true and there is no way that it is not true. I know Joseph Smith really did see God the Father and his son Jesus Christ and that he was foreordained to restore the gospel of Jesus Christ, and his church. The influence of the adversary is real but those who hold strong to what they know is true will never fall. Missionary work is divine; the joy that I feel as one accepts the gospel is beyond other joy that I have been able to feel before. I know that families are most important in God's eyes and that we should always love those in our families. I know that God hears our prayers and that if we are struggling then we can rely on him and the Atonement of Jesus Christ to receive strength. Jesus Christ has done it all for us, He knows our struggles and He knows the way that we are feeling. There is nothing too "BIG" for us to overcome, if we rely on our Savior. I love God, His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. The influence of the Holy Ghost will always be there for us in times of need. If we listen to the still small voice that is whispering to us, we will never fall off the path of righteousness. He is our Comforter, our guider, our leader, our protector, our reminder, and many other things. I am fully converted to this church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and it is the only true church on the face of this earth.