Well this last week was interesting!

February 06, 2018

The fog in the morning is so thick!

This last week we had a lot of good and some interesting things happen!

I will start with one of the good things! We were visiting with some people late in the evening and this random guy just walked up to us. At first I was skeptical of what he was doing, because he just started by saying, "I know you guys are missionaries and I want to know the truth so can you meet with me tomorrow?" I was like what?! That is so cool! So we met with him the next day and had a great lesson with him! He accepted everything and just kept telling us how badly he wanted to know the truth and so he was happy that he could talk to us. I hope that he reads out of the Book of Mormon because that right there is the truth to this whole gospel!

Missionary work here is hot, sweaty and your hair will always be a mess, ha ha!

So on the interesting side of things, our toilet fell apart ha ha. We were cleaning our apartment when I heard my companion tell me that the toilet broke. Well the connection pipe that goes from the tank to the toilet bowl broke so it just started to poor water out onto the floor. We got the water turned off but there was at least 2 inches of water on the bathroom floor. I was in there trying to mop it up for a good 45 minutes ha ha ha. Man gotta love Ghana!

Here's my nice broken toilet and me cleaning up all the water.

So then over the weekend my companion was feeling pretty sick. He asked me to give him a priesthood blessing and he said he felt a little bit better. Then on Saturday it was worse so he asked me to give him another one. Right after that he just went to sleep so I didn't know how he felt or what. Well on Sunday, he got up to bear is testimony and just started to talk about how thankful he was for the priesthood. He talked about the blessings I gave him and how the last one I gave him just gave him peace. He talked about how blessed we are to have the priesthood here on earth with us today. It is so true! Without it we would be lost and confused. It truly is an amazing power that we have and I am so thankful to be one of the many people who have the privilege of having it.

So the geckos are everywhere. Apparently, they are also smashed in our door too!

While studying this week I did a lot of studying on some of the Christ-like attributes in the preach my gospel book. The one that I really loved was patience. In it it talked a lot about the Sons of Mosiah and how they were awful people who were trying to destroy the church. Well they had a mighty change of heart and were able to become some of the greatest missionaries in the Book of Mormon. But the part I loved, was when the Lord told them that if they were patient in all of there afflictions they will have success and be protected. They were beaten, bound, cast into prison and so many other things happened. But they were patient and they were blessed for it. Now to tie it all together I learned that patience is a form of faith in Christ. If we are patient in our afflictions we are showing faith that we will wait for what the Lord has in store for us. I truly loved this message and it is my firm testimony that if we are patient with our afflictions we will be blessed for it.

Alright kids, be careful with knives! I learned that my knives are really sharp ha ha.

I love and miss you all!

Sincerely,

Elder Baird

This is now my staple breakfast. Bread, banana, and ground nut paste which is like peanut butter but has a lot less flavor, ha ha. But it still has a good nut taste to it!

I found there were like 10 ants coming out of a tiny hole in the wall, well I sprayed in it with bug spray and then almost instantly thousands kept coming out! So pretty much this picture is showing all of them dead, ha ha. They were trying to escape but died before they could get away. Yeah so that was an interesting thing to find!