Hello everyone! First of all, I am sorry for not sending an email last week. I ran out of time on my P-day. There's just too much to do sometimes. Anyways, I hope all of you are doing well. There has been a lot going on lately, so I will try my best to remember all of it.
To start off, last week was a good week. On Monday, we went to a waterfall. It was way cool and super beautiful. I took tons of pictures, so I will be sure to include a bunch. Being in such a tropical climate, I am so sad that I am not allowed to swim at times because of how great it would be just to jump in some water and cool off. But oh well, it probably has crocs in it anyway.
The rest of that week was honestly a blur. All I know is that we spent time with our investigators. We have just been plugging away, trying to get them all ready for baptism. That is something that I absolutely love about sharing the gospel. There are so many people who have never even heard of the Church here. But, of course, like everywhere, there are many speculations about the Church. But for the most part, it's so small here that many have never even heard of the Church. It's perfect because most of them haven't heard of these false speculations, so we share our message, and they get hooked. And I can just see how they flourish and improve in the time that we meet with them. It's definitely something special.
Coconuts are readily available here, and so I bought a few just to eat. Anyways, it was evening time here in Nkawkaw, and the sun was going down. I grabbed myself a chair, put it outside, and grabbed my handy dandy Bluetooth speaker. I put on my finest selection of country music and just sat watching the sunset while eating coconuts, and it was about the most peaceful moment I have had here. I sure appreciate moments like those.
Another thing that happened was I got a package from Ol Abrochilla (America). It was from my sweet Aunt Debi, and it was full of all sorts of goodies. I thank her so very much for it, and it truly was my saving grace to have a little bit of home so far away from home.
We had another baptism this week. We would like to welcome Brother Michael to the covenant path. We have been teaching him for a long time, about 8 or so weeks. He is someone who is a fact-checker. He liked to make sure that whatever the topic of discussion was, it was correct and the truth. He was telling me after his baptism that when we first started to meet with him, he wanted so badly to find a hole in what we had taught him. He said he wanted nothing more than to prove us wrong. But he couldn't find anything. He would think that he had found a reason, and he would research it. But it only proved itself to be correct. Anyways, super proud of him and his decision to be baptized. He has a strong testimony and a good desire to grow and better himself.
Today, we went to a prayer camp for our Monday activity. I have some wild stories to tell you, but I'm going to save that for next week. You will get a kick out of it.
Anyways, I hope y'all have a wonderful week. Thanks for all of your constant love and support. I sure appreciate knowing I have people rooting for me! Until next week, yours truly, Elder Gilbert.
For this week's photos, we have a baptism photo, waterfall photos, the sweet package (thank you aunt Debi), this random guy we met who was wearing a cool shirt he was a spunky dude, and some random pictures. Hope you enjoy!