Hello people!
As always, here are some great facts about Ghana.
1. Families are very tightly knit here, especially with obedience. This makes things difficult because when teaching, there are always one or two who do not want change to come into their home or their family. (In fact, this week, a baptism was cancelled because a young man of 18 years of age, was not allowed to go through with it when his parents expressed their displeasure with his choice. That was hard for all of us. We will follow up with the parents this week and make sure to stay friends with the young man for as long as we are allowed to do so.)
2. Fufu is a regular dish for all people here because it is so cheap and is usually what they give to people who visit. (Lucky me!)
3. Drinking water has to be very specific or you could get a lot of different sicknesses. So we boil, or buy bagged water or drink something else.
4. Taxi's are our main source of transportation but we mostly walk.
Today I wanted to talk about a really cool talk that I found this week. It had been ripped out of a Liahona magazine, so I cannot point you to the location where you can read this, but the message that is shares was something that stood out to me with power. It talked a lot about how weaknesses and sins are extremely different. "While sins eventually lead us away from God, weaknesses actually lead us to him".
I thought is was a really cool preface. It went on to explain that even Jesus Christ had weaknesses and was even tempted by Satan himself. We have to understand the difference so that what we judge to be a weakness is not a sin and what we judge to be a sin is not simply a weakness.
As we go through our lives, we are all faced with weaknesses because of our fallen state, even Jesus Christ had to face the weaknesses of mortality, he could get sick and hungry and even die. We cannot let the thought that our weaknesses are sins overpower us. We all go through temptations and have weak moments because of our mortal frame but we must realize that this does not make us unworthy. As we go through life, there are things that happen to all people. Weaknesses are things that happen but we do not sin because of our weakness. We sin because of choice - our weaknesses can be overcome and we should not allow them to lead us to sin.
"I give unto men weakness that they may be humble" (or something like that). Weaknesses are given to us from God so that we can be drawn unto Him, they are not something that goes against God's plan but they fulfill it. Weaknesses can become strengths not because they can become our greatest attribute but because they can bring us closer to God, much more then our pride and our excellent skills in one area or another can. We are told to give all of what we are to God, weaknesses included. Embrace your weakness and Go to God and ask him to make it a way you can see His hand in your life, and then your weakness will become a strength that cannot be matched by any skill you may have.
Love you all -
Elder Edison
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