Well eight months to go! 2-4-2019

Picture taken by Sister Keye's at training meeting.

Let me just say, that I can't believe my time in Ghana is starting to come closer and closer to its end. I will be honest, I am not ready to leave at all because of how much I love being here and how much I love being a missionary. There is nothing more fulfilling than serving the Lord everyday.

Training this past week has been going super well! Elder Klinglesmith is learning very fast and surprisingly, he can put up with all of my talking super well, ha ha! So here is funny story from this last week. Someone wanted to test and see if Elder Klinglesmith could hear any Twi. So they said, "Ayekoo" which means well done. His response was, "Am I cold?" Ha ha ha the way the person said it sounded like they were asking if he was cold and we all started laughing so hard! My poor companion had no idea what was going on so we had to explain it to him. Once he figured it out, he also had a pretty good laugh about it, ha ha.

Now for something pretty cool that happened! On Wednesday, I had to do a baptismal interview for my Zone Leaders. While doing the interview, I felt inspired to ask her how she received the answer to her prayers that this is the one true church. She told me that every time she came to church, she was so confused as too what was going on. She didn't understand some of the things that we do and she felt uncomfortable about being so lost on all the teachings and doctrines. Well one night, she had a dream where a man came to her and asked her what was wrong. She told the man that she was confused and she couldn't figure out which way to go. Well the man told her very simply, "Just pray and ask God." So when she woke up she said her prayer and she said that at the same moment she felt the confirmation that indeed this is the church she needed to attend. 

And another cool thing that happened was on Sunday. Our investigator Samuel bore his testimony in sacrament meeting! I was so shocked! He isn't a very outgoing guy! But he went up, and said that he indeed knows this is the true church and that he needs to attend it. He told the congregation how he received his answers and he thanked everyone for the example they all were to him. After church, he came to me and said, "Elder Baird, are you sure we can't move my baptism closer?" ha ha Sadly, I had to tell him no because we have to do more lessons first. It's so amazing to me that he wants to be baptized this bad. It shows me how devoted to this gospel he truly is. 

This email is shorter today because we have had the lights off most of the day so I don't have much time to write this email. I want to leave you with a thought from my personal studies. In 1 Nephi 11 the prophet Nephi wants to know if what his father saw in a vision was true. The angel asked him if he believed his father and he said yes. Then the angel revealed to him the vision. If you noticed, Nephi had the faith that it was true before it was shown unto him. I want to invite all of you to have that faith that things can be true before you ask for a confirmation from the Spirit. Sometimes we will only believe if the Spirit tells us. Well show Him you already believe and then the He will show you the answer. 

Sincerely,

Elder Baird

Mom's notes:

1. He is excited for Ben and Alexis getting married this month.

2. He couldn't send pictures this week because the computer he was working on has viruses and he didn't want to lose them.