Daniel Buchanan <daniel.buchanan@myldsmail.net> Feb 15 at 11:40 AM
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Hey all :D
So this has been a pretty good week with some cool
experiences. So again, here's the list of what's been going on with me:
-I've always liked bananas, but since coming to Ghana, I've
seriously come to love them. They're really inexpensive, too! You can spend
like, 3 cedis (roughly $1) and get 15 bananas. There was one time I had 13 in
one sitting, haha!
-I've never really been a fan of seafood, but I'm developing
an appreciation for it now! We were having dinner one evening with the bishop's
family and they served us rice balls and palm nut stew. You eat it the same way
as banku and fufu, but it's rice, which I actually enjoy, so that was nice :D
But in the stew there was some meat, and normally it's fish in the stew, so I
started eating it, but it didn't taste like regular fish, so I ask what it is,
and they tell me it's fish! It was salmon, and it was actually surprisingly
good! So that was kind of cool!
-So for the mission tour, I played piano to accompany some
elders who were singing. We performed a medley of Love One Another and I'm
Trying to Be Like Jesus, and Sis. Vinson (the wife of Elder Vinson, a general
authority, I think a member of the seventy) mentioned that she felt so touched
by the song that she started video recording it so she could show her family,
so I was pretty proud of our group :)
-So I had a particularly interesting service opportunity
this week! So we went to a home where we have a few people we normally teach,
but one of the men there said he was busy because he was about to teach some
students. I ask what he's going to teach, and he says math, so I offer to help!
I was fully expecting him to say something like, "No, it's okay, thank
you," but he actually accepted! So he led me upstairs and I thought it was
going to be like two or three kids, but there were like 10-15 and I was like,
"Whoa, this is like a legit class!" Haha, but I got up there and
asked what he wanted me to teach and he said Algebra! Now, I can't say I'm
entirely sure why he was teaching these kids algebra because most of them were
really young, so I was proud of myself for simplifying it way down to their
level, but most of them weren't really paying attention, so I'm not sure if
that helped too much. Then he asked me if I could teach English and I was
almost more eager to teach English than math to show that I can actually speak
well, haha! So I get up there and I teach them a few simple things. I teach
them nouns, adjectives, and verbs, and then past and present tense verbs. I was
proud of how well I was teaching, too! I involved the students, had them come
up to the board and write stuff down, and it was cool! I included a picture
today :)
-There was one really funny experience we had while
teaching. So we were teaching a few investigators who are progressing really,
really well (I'm quite excited about it, if you couldn't tell from my previous
emails, ha), and it's a woman, her daughter, and her daughter. So three
generations. So before we actually started teaching them, the granddaughter
(who is three years old) was being kind of rambunctious and running around. So
after we started teaching, she started to settle down and got quiet. We were
teaching them about baptism and we were discussing Christ's own baptism and
that it was done by John and that he had authority from God to perform that
baptism. So the grandmother asked, "If John baptized Jesus, then who
baptized John?" Now, we had been discussing for about 10-15 minutes at
this point and it was going well and we weren't having any distractions. Then,
out of the blue, we just hear this three year-old voice excitedly proclaim,
"Me!" All of us just busted out laughing, because it was so
unexpected, and it's funny to think that this cute little three year-old
baptized John the Baptist :)
So I think that's mostly it for what's been going on with me
this week. As always, I want you all to know that I truly love the Savior,
Jesus Christ. He's always there, right by our side in good times and the bad.
He's always there ready to lift us up and strengthen us when our knees become
weak and our hands and heads hang down in despair. I've seen this time and time
again in my own life. I know He lives and loves each of us—more than we can
ever understand in this life.
As always, thank you for all the love and support. I can't
tell you how much I appreciate it. I love hearing from you each week, and I
can't wait to hear from you again next week!
With love,
Elder Buchanan :D
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| A selfie Elder Udonsa and I took walking home one evening. Elder Uche lost his glasses at an investigator's home and we got them back for him, so Elder Udonsa is rocking the specs and I'm sportin' the shades ;) |
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| This is me teaching English this week! I was pretty proud of myself :D |
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| The Elders in the apartment! Me and Elders Udonsa, Uche, and Odili. They're cool guys :D |
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