Well Hello Everyone I love you all so much. I am so glad that I still have the opportunity to talk to you all even this close to Christmas. I love being able to stay in touch and hear all tyhe updates tht you have given to me.
So this week I want to tell you all more aabout Ghana.
1. Random snakes hide in garbage cans and will run into your apartment when found.
2. If you stand under tess here do not pull on leaves because qwhen you do random snakes will fall from branches and nearlly land on you (yes both of these are experiences )
3. When you are in Ghana on Christmas not much happens....... Thats fun.
4. fake tress here even small ones are too expensive for us to buy.
5. People Love Fufu in Christmas.
6. The main greeting at this time is A fish a paa, the reply is A fink Oh matre ay (spelling is inaccurate i wrote it how it sounds.)
So this past week has been a lot of fun. There have been a lot of ups and downs however we have had a lot of success with Frank this past week. He is a man that wee are teaching that was given handbook 2 from his friend to learn about the Church, when we found him he already knew everything about how the Chruch ran just nothing about what we believed in. He is super powerful and he is quickly making his way to baptism.
I have been thinking a lot about the Saviour this past week and i want to share an insight that i found for myself. This reference can be found in the hymn There is a Green Hill far Away. Now as this hymn goes on there is a single line that i want to point out: He only could unlock the gates of heaven and let us in. Many times a child i read it wrong, it acme into my mind that the only thing he was capable of doping was unlocking the gate and nothing more. When in reality he alone could unlock that gate. Now this relization that i have had has opened my mind to an issue plauging our minds. I say ours but i really mean mine. Too often we wish that this path and journey of life was easier and simplier, however this way of thinking is showing disrepect and a lack of faith to both God and Jesus Christ. When we wish for an easier way we are really hoping to just eat drink and be merry, whether or not we realize that. This plan was designed by a perfect God if we wish it to be changed we are saying we think we have a better way, now the one persoin that stood up against the plan goty cast out of heaven and took a third of the host of heaven....... So lets not go against this plan. We have been gifted a chance to enter into the rest of our Lord but insted of being grateful and being willing to pay the small price for that greeat gift we try and rebel, we attempt to enter in our own way. Do not lose track of who lets you enter through those pearly gates, when you look beyond that mark you have missd the full purpose of Gods plan for you.
We must always remember that Jesus Alone could opern that gate, and whatever price we are told to pay is miniscule compared to the price that he had to pay for those keys. Why ask for things to change, God gave you the power to change them. Why ask for thing to be easier, God gave you the power to grow for challenges. Why ask for a faster easier way into heaven when we hardly have to pay a price at all. Too often we wish things were just magically changed and edited by our creator while h3e has already given us the power to fight against any battle that we are faced with. We are straight up told that we will not be tempted above what we are able. He has already stopped life from being too hard for us to bare, your challeneges are only able to reach you because God knows you are someone that can handle what you are about to go through. This is the amazing gift that has been given to us. This perfect plan full of mercy and justicve. Made possible because He Only could unlock the gate of Heaven and let us in.