5/26/2014
Well I am currently 1/3 of the way
through my mission! I can’t believe it, it truly has gone by super-fast
but needs to continue in that speed or even a little faster, and I miss my
family!! It sounded like you all had a great week. I can’t believe how
different everything looks. Everything is so much bigger then when I
left, I always think of that, and how much bigger the pine trees will be when I
get home. Dad you sound busy with that road, if I was there it would have
been done in a week haha. You made me laugh when I read about Mikey I
miss that man, can’t wait to see him again, he is funnier than heck!
This week was great. We have
had a ton of success and have been able to find some more people that the lord
has prepared for us. It was kind of a normal week though nothing much has
happened. E and F are still on track to being baptized this
week so I am super happy to get them baptized, I love seeing them glow as they
come out of the water, it gives me the motivation for another couple of
months. G is so dang funny, J is G's daughter in Law, I’m
sorry I get in a hurry and probably don’t make much sense. G is
hilarious she doesn’t speak great English but does pretty well. So me and
J always laugh with each other about it. Whenever I say crap she
thinks I say crab so we always say crap and Grandma goes yeah crab haha it’s so
funny. As well I always joke with her that someone is a gay, Ghanians by
the way hate GAYS if someone is gay in Ghana literally they get it beat out of
them haha, so I always say someone is a gay so me and grandma whenever we see
each other she says gay, just hearing her say it is funny to me!! This Sunday
we had stake conference and that was really neat.
Something really special this week
was Mommy B called me and so did Nana!! Mommy called and said
how much she loved the gifts and to tell you thank you thank you thank you and
how much she loves us!! The girls all got on the phone and said thank you
as well they loved the gifts. Mommy B said she can’t wear the necklace to
church though because the woman will be jealous. It’s true though
Ghanians love Drama and Gossip it’s terrible, and Mommy hates it so she said
she is going to wear it around the house! Nana called and the only thing
he said was Carson, my son Carson I love you, I love you, he said that everyone
talks about me in Oda and everyone misses me. He says in the church
everyone mentions my name always. I wrote a message to Nana and he said
it gave him the motivation to continue to help missionaries, and how moving it
was, he loved it. Well he called twice that night and said the same thing
every time haha it made me feel great!! Mommy B as well said she has my picture
on top of the television and all the missionaries know who I am haha and the
girls when they watch Grachi get sad sometimes because they miss me haha I sure miss them as well!
After hearing those phone calls it really made me grateful the lord used me to
help them, It helped me feel like a successful missionary. I hope
everyone can feel of my love!!!
Oh yeah so we were teaching an investigator
named J he is a great guy, around 25 we get along great, his family is
pretty wealthy and owns a big shop, so we always sit outside the shop and BS
and learn small. Well we were outside on Friday evening and the false
prophet guy came up and I recognized his face but didn’t recognize who he was
so I was All friendly at first and was like hey boss how are you...he didn’t
mind me haha and then went inside and started talking about us in Twi, but I
can understand hahahaaha fag but anyway I just let it slide and he made himself
look like a fool in front of everyone because everyone there knows us and he
just looked like an idiot, well as he left, I just said have a good evening
sir, just to be polite, in Ghana its very rude to not greet so he passed and
turned around and he actually remembered my name and told me I shouldn’t have
greeted him and he basically tried casting a spell on me lol it made us all
laugh as he went away, what a false prophet lol!!
I have been eating the same
food here as I did in Oda, it’s still rice and stew, Bread and Egg, and
Indo-Mei(top-arromin), Its been hard but I have been trying to eat a lot
more!!!
Mom, Dad , and Colby, I sure love you guys so dang
much!! I miss you every single day of my mission, but I know Heavenly Father is
watching out for you guys while I am here. I
love you all tons!!
Love you guys so much!!!
Elder Duke
Elder Carson
