Sunday, May 17, 2015

Alles Gute Zum Mutters Tag

Guten Morgen 

WOW, WOW, WOW, I can't believe that it has already been 6 weeks already transfer calls are coming up... let us all pray that sister Walker stays :) 
There reason that I wrote three WOWs was not just because the transfer is over but also because this week was just WONDERFUL. So many miracles and wonderful things. 

So good news, this week Emma didn't feed us giant Bowls of Oat mill. :) That was a wonderful blessing. However like always the trains here were on strike again and so we had a lot of transportation problems. Blah, it always messes with our daily schedule. Early this week we got to me with one of our investigators named Nana. He is so so cool. It is taking him a little more time to accept to be baptized than most of the Ghanaians ;) but he really knows what it is about. It was just so cool because he just has so many good questions and Kind of Challenges us to do better.  To study harder and deeper. He is also just such a crack up and makes as laugh so hard. The other day we went to meet him and he was helping is GF move out of their house and we asked if we could help him and he looked at us and said are you crazy.. You are not strong enough that is obvious...that is very obvious! Ah man I just love my mission and being able to interact with so many different people. I think I just laughed so hard every day I am surprised I don't have a 6 pack. 

So we teach a lady from Papa New Guinea named Gaure. She is seriously the coolest I love her so so much. Last week we were talking and I found out she knows how to Hula, so we started talking about it and she agreed to teach us some daces. So last week she taught us a Hula dance, let’s just say that I have lost all my dancing skills on a mission I took a video of us and it was amusing to see us try to move our hips and fallow along with her ha-ha. She is seriously such a great person though and has so so much potential for the Gospel it just stinks because she is so scared. 

So Miracles of the week. On exchange, with Sister Bollwinkle, which was awesome because I just love her so much and am so glad she got transferred to be in my exchange group again. We just had miracle after miracle happen. To start off we had a great lesson with Ophelia this week about all the commandments and to our surprise she just understood everything and said she would fallow it all. Also our joint teach fell out with her which is hard because her English is not so good so she doesn't understand things very well, but someone she just understood and was able to respond back to us this time around. Just got to love the gift of tongues! 

Then we went by on a contact named Joseph, Sadly he wasn't there however there were five of his friends were there and we talked for a little and they all decided they wanted to come to church on Sunday. How cool is that. :) Then we went and taught Joanna. She has not been feeling so good so we thought that it would be so good if she could have a priesthood blessing. We brought the Elders with us and what was cool was Joanna had invited two of her friends to be there as well. How amazing. One of them we met with last week. Her name is Flavia and we gave her a book of Mormon and asked her to read a chapter in it. When we were there this time we asked if she has read in it and what she thought. She said she reads it every day and that she knows it is true and that she also wants to be baptized with Joanna in June. How cool? Then her other friend was there and she had never heard from us before. We were able to teach her the first lesson and talk about the priesthood and she got to see the priesthood blessing which was amazing. She was so excited to know more and said she is excited to meet and learn more about the church, as well as coming to church this Sunday. :) We are so stoked. 

Then this Sunday we went and met with a guy named Tommy who is a really really big non-denominational Christian and in a Christian rap band!!! Anyways he invited two of his other friends to meet with us and Tommy and his guy friend were really not too interested, other than debating about the doctrinal differences between, us and them. However the Spirit was just so so so so so strong. I just knew in those moments when we bore our testimony about the restoration, Joseph smith and the book of Mormon that all of this is undeniable true. It was amazing. That even though they were not open to listen all the way that the spirit was testifying so strong in the room. It was such a miracle because then one of their friends Louise who was there wants to meet with us again and agreed to take a book of Mormon and read about it. It is amazing how we can find the prepared people, because it is really true that the Lord does put his prepared people in the way of his prepared servants. 
I just love it. And can I say Mom, dad and fambam how awesome it was to see you yesterday. Skype was amazing and I miss you so so much. Thanks for all your support. I really do love you all. 

Just a little spiritual message for this week. We are preparing a lesson for our ZTM this week and we are talking about the promptings of the spirit and how it will help us in using technology. There was a quote from Jeffry R Holland that I just love so so much. It says 'The Children of God will not commit a serious sin without first having a warning from the spirit" So so true. We have his promise that the spirit will always be with us to guide and help us make right decisions in our lives. We need to think more on that promise from our Heavenly Father. The spirit will always warn us of danger spiritual or temporal. 

Well I love you all and wish you a great week, 
Sister Toma