November 17, 2014

Ellen is good, and yes, Harold went back.  He is not a member and not too interested.  His English is not good enough to read the BOM we gave him.  His main concern is religion.  It is not good because it is the cause of so many wars.  Amanda didn't come but she didn't go to her church either.  She knows the truth, she just need to act.  This week was pretty good.  My bike did have a lot of trouble, but it all worked out.  We went to the new mall that has shop-rite into it and it is really nice and feels unreal to be in.  I plan to go there to get some things for Thanksgiving and Christmas meals.  I might spend small personal money.  The two main stores have pretty much everything and life could be completely normal here.  The light just went out and we are running on generator so I don't know how long we have but I will write something small.  I don't  know if I'm going to move transfer this Saturday.  Will be transfer news.  We will see.  Hope all is well with all of you.
Elder Birresa
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November 10, 2014

Wow! I hope you enjoyed your time at India for doing good. This week was pretty good, but it rained Tuesday and Wednesday. We tried to go out and meet with people while it was raining and every single appointment and back up failed. In short, Ghanaians don't like the rain. Ellen was baptized on Tuesday and her husband, Harold, was there from Austria. They were actually married on Saturday. On Sunday this investigator named Amanda came, even though she had not seemed sure the night before. We were so happy because it is her second time at church and she is actually progressing. I hope we will do good to help our investigators to progress more, and to help themselves.  Thank you so much, I got the first package! You know what? All things that you sent is what I my needed, especially the shaver. I have been wanting to buy for a long time, going form shop to shop to get shaver. I got the bad one, but now I get the good one from you. It is really good for skin. Thank you for that.  Ellen is good, and yes, Harold went back. He is not a member and not too interested. His English is not good enough to read the Book Of Mormon we gave him. His main concern is religion is not good because it is the cause of so many wars. Amanda didn't come, but she didn't go to her church either. She knows the truth, she just needs to act. This week was pretty good. My bike did have a lot of troubles, but they are worked out. We went to the new mall that has shop-rite in it. It is really nice and feels unreal to be in. I plan to go there to get some things for Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. I might spend small personal money. The two main stores have pretty much everything and life could be completely normal here. So light just went out and we are running on generator, so I don't know how long we have, but I will write something small. I don't know if am going to move this transfer. This Saturday will be transfer news, we will see. Hope all is well with all of you.

Love

Elder Birresa

November 3, 2014

Brother Phillip, he come last Sunday with his white shirt and tie. That is so good to see, from someone who doesn't care about religion and now he cares about religion. Yesterday we are listening to  General Conference Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.  It was so good to learn from conference, but for me I had chance to learn from all the talks form this conference. All is good talk, especially by Elder Jeffrey R.Holland. I just learn a lot of things from the conference. I can't wait for the next General Conference. This week is not good at all for me. Since Friday  I have been sick.  Saturday all the day am sick. Friday after we come from the field to the apartment I was so hungry I went to eat. I have food I cooked last Monday, because  of time am not eating fresh food. Going out  in the field every day on time, come back to the apartment on time. Because it is far we don't come home for lunch, so we don't take lunch at all. But on Friday I was so hungry and tired, so I went to eat and sleep. So I take my food from refrigerator and put it microwave and I eat  and am full.  I sleep,  getting to the morning and my stomach is paining me too much. I went to the bathroom and start vomiting out all thing that I eat that evening.  I have never been sick like Saturday in my life. It was bad day for me. I was sitting in the apartment all the day listening to  conference. Then  I ask missionaries for blessing and I pray that  I will be ready for Sunday sacrament meeting. God heard my prayer. I had hard night, but in the morning I pray and get up from my bed and am okay and am thinking to fast because it is fast and testimony Sunday. My companion told me that  today it not fast and testimony Sunday, because we are going to watch the General Conference. So I eat small and start our way to the chapel, my stomach started paining me because I ate.  I have to  survive after I reached the chapel. I sit next to my investigator, Ellen. We start watching the general conference for the next 4 hours after we finish the Conference we have interview for Sister Ellen. After we finish that, I went back to the apartment.  I wanted to eat food so bad. One of the missionaries was cooking. I asked him to give me small, but he give me a lot.  I eat too much, my stomach start paining me more that Friday  night. I thought  I would die. I have never been sick like this time in my life.  I don't want to be sick anymore. I called to Mission Mom. She told me to not take too much  food, and she told me to drink water and small amount of food. I am doing that. I want to eat so bad, but I can't, because I don't want to suffer again. So since yesterday I only drink water. It is not easy when the other missionary's are eating. I want to eat but.............. So tomorrow our Mission President will come to our apartment and I will ask him to transfer me. I am not really a strong person physically. We are looking forward for Sister Ellen's baptism  tomorrow evening. She is ready to be a member. Then she is going to be married on Saturday at our Stake Center. She talked with Bishop about it. I am happy that she is my investigator. She is reading the Book Of Mormon since we met her. She told us that she have hard time to forgive. She have problem with her father and she will never forget the pain. We start reading the Book Of Mormon with her, now she is ready to forgive her father and to forget all things. I am happy to hear that from her and she have strong testimony. She is looking forward to go to Temple to seal her marriage, so she is talking about the church with her husband. Hopefully we will meet him soon, start talking about the church. But for her she is ready 100% and we plan to find new people this week. We dropped three of our investigators. They are not progressing and last Sunday we baptized a part family member. She lives with her aunt. She is 8 years old. Her name is Emmanuella. I am not feeling well, but we are planing to have FHE with one of our ward member at 3:30.  That is small about my week. Thank you for all things. Hopefully I will have good week. Another good week is waiting for me because am having best companion ever. I hope you are enjoying your trip. Please say hello to all.
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Elder Birresa