Monday, July 6, 2015

July 6, 2015

Great to hear from you and it was your birthday too.  Happy Birthday.  Wow!  That is a very big family coming over and having fun together.  I really want to meet all of them badly and get to know them.  It is a really great thing to have family that loves God and his commandments.  I'm really sorry about the weather.  It sounds super hot.  I really want to hear from you how it looks like to have church at home with family.  The Bush means a remote area of the mission, far from the mission home.  There is nothing but the church start it here in this town, when the church came to Ghana.  There is really good, good, members that come from this branch.  There is a book that talks about church history here in Ghana.  I'm thinking to get one and send it to you so you can read the church history in Ghana.  Yes, very bad roads here.  It takes hours to reach just the next town because of the roads.  If the road is okay in half hour you will be there.  People are farmers.  They all farm.  In the morning when we go teach, there is no one home.  Then they will come back from the farm at noon and prepare their food.  So we use our time and teach them.  Most of the time we teach LA members.  We had 6 LA at church yesterday.  It was great to have them at the church.  We have a few people that we are teaching.  It is not easy to teach people like other parts of Ghana because of the language.  When the church came here first, many joined the church and then many left the church.  That is why we have a lot of less actives but we are doing great.  We had 60 people in Abomosu and 105 in Sankubunase branch.  It is really boring to stay at church for 6 hours doing everything.  We will give a talk, bless sacrament.  But it was not bad to work hard.  I'm always busy doing something.  Yesterday was the hardest day of my mission.  It is fast Sunday.  Moving from place to place.  Looking for car to come back to Abomosu branch and talking all the day without food.  But I'm happy for the work that I'm doing down here.  Thank you so much for all things that you are doing for me.  Hope you had a great birthday party.  My greetings to all.
Much love,
Elder Birresa