Daniel Buchanan <daniel.buchanan@myldsmail.net> Today at 11:55 AM
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Hey everyone!
How's life? I hope everything's going well for everyone.
This has been a pretty good week. Exhausting, but quite good! Haha, one day we
went back to the apartment for lunch, and I had some extra time, so I went into
my room to do a little studying, and I could barely keep my eyes awake to
finish one section, and I passed out at my desk for 20 minutes, haha. We then
went out proselyting some more and contacted some interesting people. So it was
still a productive day! I know the Lord has given me strength to continue His
work, because if not, I would have passed out from exhaustion a long time ago,
haha. But there's also joy in the work, so that keeps me going so well! I love
sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with those around me. It's definitely an
interesting experience here, though, because pretty much everyone here is
religious (mostly Christian, but there are plenty of Muslims and other faiths,
too), but they all worship so differently! It's really pretty cool to hear
about all the different faiths!
I had four things I totally geeked out over this week.
1. I found Texas BBQ Sauce Pringles!!! I took a selfie of
them with my Texas flag, haha! (Picture included below)
2. I HAD CEREAL THIS WEEK. We found a shop in the Ashaiman
city called Melcom and I found cereal and bought it. Ah, I didn't realize how
much I missed my bowl of cereal each morning. It was glorious, haha
3. There's a new trainee in our zone from California named
Elder Takis, and he's a musician! He's way cool, and we've been talking music,
and that's been pretty dang awesome. It's nice to have someone to talk about
music with!
4. The last, but most certainly not the least thing about
which I geeked out over:
WE HAD THREE INVESTIGATORS COME TO CHURCH YESTERDAY. Oh my
goodness, I was so incredibly excited. One of them we started teaching only
this past week, but she seems way solid. She reads the Book of Mormon, she
reads the lessons we give her, she asks questions, and she actually came to
church the first week we asked her to! I'm really beginning to understand when
the Lord says in D&C 18 about how great shall be your joy if you bring save
it be one soul unto me! She said she was actually glad she came to visit the
church and that she enjoyed the service! We have a return appointment, and it
seems like she's progressing really well, so I'm way excited about her.
My companion, Elder Udonsa, is pretty awesome. I've noticed
he's really good at contacting, so I'm trying to learn from him. I think it's
helping a lot! I feel like I've become more comfortable contacting, and it
definitely brings in more people to teach! I think it seems to work better here
since everyone wants to talk about God. They really do love God here, despite
the differences in their views. So it's really easy to go up to someone and
tell them you want to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's really quite cool
:)
I miss you all! I hope all is going well for each of you. I
can't wait to hear from you all again! Thank you so much for all of the love
and support you give me.
With love,
Elder Buchanan :D
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| The Texans at the beach! (Not swimming, though, don't worry haha!) We had a combined district activity and we went to the beach, and it was actually pretty cool! |
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| New companions - Elder Udonsa (from Nigeria) and Elder Buchanan |
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| I FOUND TEXAS BBQ SAUCE PRINGLES. They were like 18 cedis, haha but I bought them anyway :D |
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