Hello From Ghana:
So I have had a request to talk more about where I am and what I do each day. Here it comes!.
Most mornings when I wake up, my companion and I go out to perform service for a man in our area. He is a long time investigator and is recovering from a stroke. I have been put in charge of his care. I must massage his leg and arm muscles for a long time each morning in an effort to bring the nerves back to life. He has a lot of faith and asked me to give him a blessing last week. That was a great experience. We help him as long as he needs, once we are done we head back to the apartment and go through a normal missionary routine with studies and planning.
Once we go out, we pray that people will not cancel their meetings with us which happens often in this new part of Dunkwa. People are not very reliable and that makes lots and lots of things difficult. When they do cancel, we go and talk with everyone we can find.
I have become far better at Tw! The Gift of Tongues is real. If anyone knows me, you know I can hardly speak English let alone a whole new language. After our day we head back home and cook dinner, we may play cards, talk, and exercise. But after all that we head to bed and repeat. Hopefully that is a good enough summary. If anyone wants me to study something for them of you want me to talk about something in particular, just make sure to ask. My time is limited at the computer and we are always trying to hit "send" before the whole system crashes so I try to focus on gospel thoughts but I will do better at daily living things too. It is not easy to be here and everything in my entire life has changed - I am grateful for your prayers and your letters, your emails, the packages (it doesn't even matter what is inside), everything helps! Thank you!
So today I am going to focus on enduring again, (I am sorry that this is a common theme but I must be missing something in my studies because I keep feeling inspired to forge on in my study of this topic).
SO I realized this week something new about enduring: Satan himself has a limited amount of time to hurt us or cause us to fall, so in a way he can only throw so many punches. Yet as we go and make promises with God, such as baptism, we have a good works and covenant score that cannot be beaten. This is a fight that cannot be finished until it is over, it will go to the final judge's scoring. If we can stick with our promises our score cannot be topped no matter how hard we are hit by Satan. I guess you can see that I am relating this to my martial arts training but it really is a fight we have to win! The only way we can lose is if we "tap out" - God will never let us down as long as we stick by Him.
If we are willing to take those hits and not move from our covenants, then we have already won the one fight that matters the most. I also wish to apply this to what I said last week about enduring for others. The more we draw closer to God the more satan tries to hurt us (the more punches he throws). Yet this is not a bad thing, if we are already commited with our full heart to the promises we have made, we won't lose. In a way, we are making Satan concentrate on hitting a brick wall rather then someone who may not be as strong. We also make sure that when others need our help we understand the punches that they are having to take and we can in turn help them.
I am not sure how accurate any of this is, all of this is just my thoughts and ideas and some discussion we have in our apartment before bed at night. I love you all!! Keep up the good work. You are doing amazing.
Elder Edison
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