sunburns and smiles...

Hey guys! It has been an amazing week here in Ghana. On Tuesday, we left the MTC and went to our mission homes, since the MTC is technically in my mission, we walked down the road to the mission home. After that, the AP's took a few of us out to handout some Book of Mormons... I got paired up the the AP1 and we handed out 10 Books in just an hour and a half. The same guy kept talking about how i can take his spot of AP when he leaves in a few months  but yeah! life is awesome here! I am in the Adenta 1st ward and my companion is a nigerian guy named Elder Eduok (pronounced Ed- Walk) he is super awesome and helps teach me how to be a better missionary, .... but we were able to have a baptism the first saturday i was in the area and it was awesome! i got to teach the sister a couple of the lessons before then, and then to be able to watch her be baptised was amazing!!
it was awesome to see her come out of the water with a bigger smile than i have ever seen on her face before. The Lord works miracles in peoples lives. well, i love it here in the Adenta first ward... everyone is very kind and we have had a lot of fun with all the kids.... (here in africa, they are a lot more relaxed about the rules about holding kids, so i get to play with little babies all the time) but i love it here.

 Also, i learned that fasting in Africa is much harder than in Utah... I can go for a couple days without eating, but not drinking when you are constantly sweating? yeah, no.... i hit the point of not sweating so i only fasted for 20 hours before i started getting really light headed and super pale, so i went a got a drink... but Ghana is an amazing place... nobody really knows my name, but they all call me "obrony" which is Twi for "white man" so its fun! well, here are some pictures... the one of my arm is the sunburn i got on the first day of being outside.... so that was pretty cool i guess... until next week!​