General Conference in Ghana!

Dear Family & Friends,

I am going to be packing this week so that I don't have to do it on another day when I don't have time, because this time there is no getting stuff back later. I washed all the stuff that I will be using till the end for the last time today. Now next 2 weeks I will just have to wash my white shirts and garments and trousers. I had 3 pairs of trousers made with the fabric that Grace bought me. I don't know if I told you about that---well one of our recent converts bought me trouser material. I think she will be one that we will go see when you come in 2 weeks. I am pretty excited about it as well. I can hardly wait. Sometimes I think about all the stuff that I need to do when I go home--it's going to be pretty busy when I get back especially if I go right into school. I hope that I can remember some stuff when I finish because right now I cannot remember any schooling I took. My life has been Book of Mormon for two years and Preach my Gospel.

Well this week was pretty good for us, we had 4 people come to church and guess what it was General Conference. I was so happy to get to hear from the Prophet and the Apostles, it is always really sweet. We did not know that we would finally be hearing some of Conference, so Elder Nkomo and I were fasting so it was pretty cool. We are really hoping that one of the people that came to church this week is going to get baptized on the 20th of November. He has come to church enough times but always says he has been baptized before. This week we think things are going to be different.

Oh ya, to answer your question---there is not anything like scouts or young men and young women here. I think it’s really weird. I don't know why that is but anyway. I know they have some in Nigeria.

This week was Zone Meeting it was pretty much the same thing as always but I did learn some new things that we will try to apply. This week I am way excited--we have Zone Interviews that means we get to go to the Temple! I wonder how my last interview will be. I hope really well. It’s going to kind of be funny. I will probably never see most of the people that I know here ever again. Kind of sad, but I guess we will meet in heaven. I am glad Grandma got home safely. Maybe now she can come here with you so she can get the real experience. That will be fun for her and Grandpa---jumping over gutters and stuff! Ha Ha!

Sounds like your tests went pretty good, Dad. It does not sound very fun to get that done to you. I guess it’s worth it though, then they can find problems early and fix them. I will probably have to have lots of tests when I get home.

Oh ya, did I tell you I got my flight ticket home---Dec. 2nd I leave to come home. I am supposed to inform you so you can come to the airport to pick me up---but I think you will be with me! I am also supposed to inform you to get an appointment with the Stake President so I can get released as soon as I get home. I think that is about all that happened this week. Next week there is nothing extra going on---only going to work really hard so you can see a sweet baptism when you get here. I really cannot believe how fast and slow things are going. Mondays (p-days) are really slow, it takes a long time for me to get through the day, but then the rest of the days are sweet because we are really busy. So to me it will be like 2 more days until you get here. I bet that last Monday is going to go so slow--I will probably think that day is longer then my entire mission. Just like when I think back to those 19 days in the MTC---they seemed like 3 years right there.

Well this week we are having a baptism of 3 people, maybe 4. One person was baptized but their record never showed up---that was 8 years ago and they just found out. So we are going to baptize her again. She seems really cool, we taught her for the first time on Sunday (yesterday). We also have two part-member kids that are really cool and can remember everything we teach them, they are really funny. Last we have a lady from Nigeria that we have been working with---you will probably get to meet her too, I hope. She is really cool. So this week is going to be great! I will be happy to see them get baptized. We have one more baptism before I meet with you to go to the last one---the one that I will get to watch with you!

It’s been a great ride and everything will finish really well!

Well, love you all so much and I can't believe I will see you in 2 weeks. Wow!

Tell everyone that I love them and I am coming home!

Love, Elder Jeremy Reid