Sunday with the Axim branch

just Alex

Okay what up what up beloved family. Missed you guys this week. Crazy how fast time is flying by? Happy flipping b-day p-doe. Sorry I’m not around. I’m busy elsewhere.

Today for p-day we went to the beach and Cape Coast came as well. So it was Sekondi, Takoradi, and Cape Coast zone. We played football on the beach. It was a lot of fun. It’s always cool to see the other elders. I met elder Bunker for the first time and when I greeted him he said… ‘Huh elder Darrow. I’m supposed to say hello from like your aunt or neighbor or mom or someone.' Went on to tell me that he ran into someone at the Draper temple. He’s from Pleasant Grove and long story short, someone out there who knows me said hello. Thanks.

On to other news. We have an official date on the calendar for Isaac Mahh and Patrick. They will be baptized on the 23rd of November. Who knows what will happen with transfers but I know that it was better for them to wait a bit more. They are so sweet. (Cool things are always happening with them but I can’t tell you EVERYTHING right?) Just know things are sweet with them. Thanks for the prayers. I know they are helping.

This week I got to experience something new. I got to go up to a branch with elder and sister Lamb. They have been taking the Takoradi ZLs there but they needed us at church to teach some people. It was an hour and a half drive from Sekondi. I’m sure that most branches are like this all around Ghana but I have been blessed to be ‘born' in the area with the nicest chapel in Ghana.

Well they met in a schoolhouse for children. So everyone was sitting in benches. Remember the benches are for children, so you can imagine how this Ogre felt. Haha. Real fun. The branch Pres was new. The first councilor is blind and the second councilor couldn’t read or write. They have such great faith and it was very humbling to worship with them. They had elder Sintim give a testimony and asked me to fill the rest of the time. I spoke for like 20 min and just winged it. There were some big distractions as I talked but I pushed thru. One thing that they just don’t understand is reverence. They have no problem answering a phone call or the bishop/branch president calling someone from the stand up and just having a small meeting during it all. It’s just different from home.

(Schoolhouse/Chapel in Axim, Ghana)

As they were blessing and passing the sacrament I looked around the room and felt so lucky. To be where I am. To have come where I came from and have all that I do. It’s eye opening when you see stuff like that. It took me back to home and thinking that all of you would be going to church in a nice chapel with carpet and a/c or heater with nice big cushions benches later that day. It was very humbling and as I sat there with a deep prayer of thanks in my heart. After sacrament we broke out into different classes. They all go to various classrooms or just areas of the school. There are 3 other churches that meet in the school compound as well so for the last hour of church all you hear is the different churches singing and shouting and praying in tongues. A bit distracting yes but we endured. We (I) taught investigators class. There was a class of 16 people who will be ready for baptism within the next few weeks or so. They don’t have full time missionaries there and they just pray for it. Seeing how the branch ran and how everything worked out it really made me gain a strong testimony of how true this church is. Whether you’re in America or Korea (shout out to E Proctor) or Ghana, it’s all the same.

(Elder Darrow & the Lambs at the beach in Axim, Ghana)

After that the lambs drove us by the Axim beach. Axim is sweet.

That’s all for today. Love you guys real big. Thanks for everything!

Obruni bye-bye... !! (waving) I hear that about 20 times a day

elder darrow