A very surprising end to the week... 12-3-2018


Our "Kindness is..." board.

This past week was very busy, ha ha. Tuesday was zone conference, Wednesday was interviews with the mission president and then we had a "Light the World" activity at the Achimota mall on Saturday! 

When it came to teaching this week, we weren't very successful, but I want to tell you guys three amazing things that happened!


For the "Light the World" activity on Saturday, we set up a table with a TV that was playing the "Light the World" video and then we had people playing the guitar, the piano and we sang carols. We were trying to get people that walked by to be curious about what "Light the World" promotion is. 

My job was different though. We set up a whiteboard that said "Kindness is...." What we had people do was to take a picture of themselves in front of the board and their answer that they had written on the board. Then we asked them to post in on social media.

By the way, I did not write my own name on the board it was another Elder, ha ha.

We also invited them write down their name and number to allow us to contact them again so we can teach them more about the gospel. In four hours we had sixty-two names! It was a great surprise to have so many! All of them were completely willing! We had probably double that amount of people just come and ask us what, "Light the World" was and they also wrote on the board. It was so fun but so spiritual. I think that every missionary there was feeling the spirit. Every time someone looked at us they smiled because I assume they felt the spirit was there just like we did. :)

A nap for my companion, Elder Eliason, in a taxi, ha ha.

This experience was even better! We were able to confirm Sister Isata yesterday! The funny thing about it though was we had to run back to the apartment because we forgot her baptismal record, ha ha. We actually missed watching her get confirmed, ha ha. But afterwords, she told us she absolutely loved it! It was a very powerful moment. :) I also want to mention something that she said in our class during Sunday School. We were talking about what it really meant to fear God. Isata said this, "Fearing God doesn't mean being scared he will punish us for doing something wrong, fearing God is respecting and loving him." How true what she said is. :) Let us not be afraid of God, instead let's love and respect him for all that He has done for us. ;)

I got a picture with Rantsford, a man who I gave a Book of Mormon to and referred to  missionaries in his area six months ago.

Then for the craziest thing of all. About six months ago I was getting pizza with my companion and we sat next to a guy that I have never met. I felt prompted to talk to him and my comp said to just say hi. So we started talking and he asked what we did. I explained very quickly that we were missionaries and I gave a very quick explanation of the BOM. I took his number, sent it to the missionaries in his area and we left. I never thought about him ever again. Well, yesterday was a musical fireside at the temple site in Accra. After the fireside, an elder came up to me with a man I didn't recognize. Well after a short conversation the man next to the elder said, "My name is Rantsford, you gave me the Book of Mormon in the pizza place six months ago..." My jaw dropped to the floor! I was so overwhelmed with the spirit I couldn't even keep myself calm. He continued to tell me that the same day I gave him the Book of Mormon he didn't sleep that entire night because he couldn't stop reading it. I was so shocked. This whole time I have been sad because I haven't been having as much success as I was hoping for. But this was the Lord's way of telling me that my job is to plant seeds and that is what I did. 

This year, "Light the World" everyone. Take it serious. Help those in need. Miracles will happen if you serve faithfully.

Sincerely,
Elder Baird

Elder and Sister Glanfield

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

1 Month down!

Image
Hats are nice to have (with Elder Sebuliba) Alright everyone, I am 1 month down. It's kind of crazy to think it's been this fast! I love it here so much! Ok so this week has been insane. We got our new companions and our areas of service on Wednesday. I was assigned to open a new area called Akati. No missionary has set foot there and most people haven't seen a white man so they all are saying "Yevoo yevoo!" (means white man in Ewe, there native tongue). So to get there we had to go take the local transport system called Trotro's. A trotro is a big van that civilians just drive and are trying to get cash. It's insane. So we found a trotro at a trotro station going to a place near our mission. So we got in the trotro and waited an hour for it to fill up. We were pretty much cooking in it haha. Then we started our 5 hour drive to go to Aflou. We stayed there with two Elders so we could go to Dzodze in the morning. ( It's pronounced Joe-J...
Read more

Busy, busy work week here!

Image
This is one of the missionaries in our apartment. His name is Elder Wehyee from Liberia. We came back and found him like this yesterday, ha ha. Man this last week was probably one of the busiest weeks we have had so far! We had so many lessons to go to this week it was insane! People were actually wanting us to come and see them, so much so, that they were actually calling us! The only problem was, I have been writing down the wrong phone number the whole time that I have been here so we never got any of the calls.....  Hee hee, so this week we are going to fix that, ha ha ha.  The joy of finding mozzarella  sticks! :) #mineandhailey'sfavoriefood #bairdfamilychristmaseve A funny thing happened, we went to visit a members house and while there one of the kids wanted to show us where one of his friends live. It was far away and he had a wonderful idea (not really it hurt a lot , ha ha)! A common African thing that they do here is that they put two peo...
Read more

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Image
This little girl is so adorable, ha ha! May 14th, 2018 I know that Mother's day was yesterday but anyone who reads this I just want you to know how amazing all of our Mothers are! I mean they give birth to some of the biggest knuckle-heads *cough *cough...me, ha ha. But seriously though, you Mom's are absolutely amazing! You have raised us in the church our entire lives and taught us everything we need to know in order to follow our Savior the best we can. I love reading the story of the 2,000 stripling warriors because they specifically say that their mothers taught them to be faithful and to remember the Lord always. Just as you have all done. I love you all and just want to thank you for giving all of your children your time and devotion to raise us in this world today. For funerals in Akatsi they get a bunch guys together on motorcycles and just drive around honking their horns for ever, ha ha. Well now I will talk about how much I am going to miss Akatsi. I h...
Read more