The Lord works in mysterious ways

Hey everybody!
This past week has been great! I've been proselyting in Juapong since September and now that I live here I really do feel like I'm becoming a part of the town. There are so many people that I know and love in the town and I really feel like I can make a difference in some of their lives.

The strangest things have been happening these past few weeks, but all of these really old, former investigators (people we stopped seeing way back in October or November) have suddenly been popping up again. It's like we'll run into them on the streets and they'll want us to come and see them again, or they'll just bring themselves to the Church. It has been so wonderful, and very very interesting. I only hope that now is the time for them to come to the Gospel of Christ.

I have been able to witness a silver lining in a very sad event that took place a few weeks ago. The death of Richard Awunor came very suddenly and was quite a set back at the onset of establishing the Church in Juapong. It Ghana it is almost like a cultural duty to attend funerals, especially those that are relatively close by. That being said most funerals are very big. At the late Mr. Awunor's funeral, there was a very large attendance, as custom holds it. Now, the way the Church conducts its funerals is very different than traditional burials--thus people take notice of it. Everything is done in a very neat, and modest manner. Church members gave talks, and short sermons, concerning the Gospel and the Plan of Salvation and our purpose on Earth. Since the day of the funeral there has been such a buzz about the 'Latter Days Church" and constantly when people see us they call out to us and want to know more about us as a church, and often times they have questions for us concerning the messages that we shared and especially the Book of Mormon. Now, more than ever, I would say the whole town has a buzz about the Church and the very elect people, whom God has prepared, are finding their way towards the Truth. I love you all and wish the best of a week.
Elder Green

The Lord gives us just enough

Feb 9, 2015

Check it out! SO we were able to move into our new apartment this last week and it has been such a blast. Unfortunately we had to spend our whole Tuesday waiting to be picked up with our luggage and then I got some serious food poisoning which grounded me for all of Wednesday so our proselyting week didn't even begin until Thursday (which was a huge bummer because we had a ton of people to see).
So no baptism. Abigail traveled with her family to Kumasi and she hopefully is returning today. We'll have to work with her a little bit more to prepare her well.
Juapong is a sweet place. I honestly hope that I can stay in this lovely city for the rest of my mission--
So This upcoming week we'll be working really hard to make up for lost time and we've been very blessed to have many investigators from Juapong travelling all the way to visit the Church. I love you all and hope you have a great week!!

Faith brings blessings

Feb 2, 2015

Well the news is, as usual, up and down. This week it's up and I'm super excited. Tomorrow we'll be moving to Juapong into a super nice apartment and probably by March we'll have our group established. Super excited for all the developments that have taken place thus far.
On Saturday we had the funeral for the late Richard Awunor of Juapong. The silver linings to this very sad event is that there has been a lot of interest in the Church expressed in the past few days and many people have asked us where the Church is located and after the main service we had so many people come up and talk to us and request tracts that we actually ran out of all the pamphlets and tracts that we had. Anyways it was a very bittersweet event.
Letter is short for this week. Internet keeps crashing so no pics this week. Maybe next week. Maybe. Hahah love you alll,
love Elder Green