Thursday, August 8, 2019 4:33 am MST
Salut ma famille et mes amis! (Hi my family and friends!)
It's been another week out here in the MTC, and we're one week closer to getting out of here and serving the Lord in the French language. We leave here on Tuesday the 20th, so we're getting there!
It's been a pretty crazy week. On Wednesday, we went out into Accra and went proselyting, and wow that was quite an experience. It felt surreal honestly. We hopped into a van, they dropped us off at a church building, and just drove away. We were just all alone walking the streets of Africa. I wish I could have taken pictures during our experience, but we weren't supposed to, so I didn't. But wow, it's so different from home. It's very poor. There's open sewers, dirt roads with potholes, and just wood sheds and shops literally everywhere on every road. It was surreal, that's when it hit me that I'm actually in Africa. And Ghana is more well off than Benin will be, so it's going to be crazy to see what Benin's like.
We got new companions for the day, and I got Elder Benitez from Argentina, who's learning English. So I had to do most of the talking by myself, which was a little stressful, but we got through. Honestly, I was way more stressed than I should have been, because the people here are so open to talking about the gospel. It was insane, it's so much different from the U.S. You can really just walk up to anyone, talk about the gospel, and they won't even think twice about it. We got about 20 people's phone numbers, and every companionship got about that many as well. These people are so ready for the gospel.
We had church on Sunday in French, and I was surprisingly able to pick out a lot of things that I understood. I guess it pays off to just study gospel vocabulary here haha. We had lessons and stuff in French as well. It's good preparation, because once I'm out in the field, there's going to be no English at all, which is a little scary haha. So I've definitely been studying as hard as I can to be as ready as I can for when I get our there. I want to be a good missionary!
All us missionaries here agree that the Book of Mormon is what gives life in the MTC. It can get really boring and mind numbing to do like the same thing all day every day, but we all find power in reading the Book of Mormon, and it helps us to push on. Take some real time out this week to read the Book of Mormon! There's real power and peace that comes from reading it, I've felt it so much since I've been here.
I love you all, and I miss you all! Thank you for all of your emails, your prayers are always felt!
Have a great week everyone
Elder Goddard
Hard to get pictures of it, but we introduced the African Elders to baseball, and they were loving it!
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