A Takoradi week

dear fam

this week was a takoradi week. we went about 4 times - monday for a p-day football match, wednesday for a district meeting with president shulz, and thursday for a medical training meeting with the west africa mission doctor.

over the past few weeks, president shulz has been going around to all of the districts in the mission and doing some training. we've gone to all the districts except four, and we will go to two on tuesday and two on wednesday then be finished. after those meetings we'll be in our area from about six going.

our branch president invited us to our pec meeting on tuesday and we have a couple of appointments. we have a really cool woman named rejoyce that we are begining to teach. she is a member's wife and is very smart. we're really really excited about her.

we also had a good meeting with our branch president tonight because the branch is really struggling. he was very humble and really listened to the input on how to improve the branch. we have a brand new relief society presidency, and she has decided to do some training for them on how they can put on good activities and how they can fellowship and get their relief society members to fellowship. we asked him if there was anything we could do to help and he said he would like to come and train the sisters on how to fellowship (how they can get to know their sisters, make them feel needed in the branch, how they can approch them and befrend them, etc) so we're really excited about that.

where was i? oh yea, thursday will be splits in assin foso. i'll be with elder ekaette for the day so that will be cool. friday we we'll have all day in the area. We have an appointment with rejoice.

we're also going around with a member named sister gibret to visit some less actives. we've gotten some less actives to come back, but we've learned the hard way that the key to getting less actives back and making sure they stay is member involvement. so we're gunna start trying to have members in all possible visits we make.

saturday morning we will wake up early and drive to kumasi and go on splits there. then we'll stay the night, worship there, then come back on sunday afternoon.

i'm really excited about this week i think there'll be some good memories.

thanks for everything, i love you and am excited!

love, elder mackay