Hi everybody,

I hope this email finds you all safe and well.  I have had a fun week.

Well some highlights for the week is first off we had 2 amazing baptisms on Friday. It was awesome to see our candidates enter the waters of baptism. It is always a great scene. The two of the them are younger boys both 15 named Seth and Steven. Both awesome and have grown really close to both of them.

This coming week though we will have 2 more baptisms right at the beginning of March this week so im also excited for that. Life is good here.

This week I have been sick since last P day. A head cold going on. Sucks, but things come and go.

This week one cool thing I found to study is how the Bible and the Book of Mormon have comparing scriptures and found that to be really awesome. Like the scriptures that talk about Joseph Smith and how the Book of Mormon will come to us.

I have loved my time here in Asunafo. This week we had Interviews with President and he told me that I will most likely be leaving this area and headed to probably my last area. I'm excited but also sad, this place has become like a second home to me and I have grown a love and appreciation here for the people.

Well that is really all I got. Sometimes the days on mission just seem like they repeat themselves. Haha.

Love you all.. May God bless.

Elder Paulson

1- A little girl named Sis Ima

2-Our Baptisms

3-Ghana sunset

Dear Family and Friends,

This week has been a good week for my companion and I, we have been working hard to have baptisms this week but we felt that we should push them forward to this week. We are hoping to have 4 this week which is super exciting.

We are working hard here and continuing to be blessed by the Lord in the things that we do. I have come to see the small blessings in my life each day as I search for them. We have found some awesome people this week. One, his name is Martin and he has a desire to follow God and wants to know how he can know which church is God's church. We are working with him and he is doing amazing.

This week Elder Tupou finished his training and it has been really fun to be able to train him and be with him. Lucky me I will still be with him for 6 more weeks. We have grown close in this time and is truly one of my brothers now. It seems like every one in my apartment is.

Well I want to share some things I have thought about this week. When I go to do interviews in Kwabeng which is some how like 45 minutes away we take a taxi and when we are coming back it gives me time to think about things and to just kind of relax. I do a lot of this thinking lately when I have time and it really helps me to relax and overcome challenges. I was thinking this past week about the story of the young Indian boy and his grandfather and they talk about how there is a battle of 2 wolfs going on inside all of us. One wolf is good and one wolf is bad and whoever wins is the wolf we feed. I have thought about what this means and have come to see that all of us have a version insideof us God intended us to be and all we need to do is what he asks to become what he has made us to become. 

I know that was somehow random and a lot but that was one thing I wanted to share. I love all you guys. stay safe and have a good week.

Elder Paulson

  

Our Apartment.

Sister Chukwu - one of the sister missionaries

Dear Family and Friends,

Elder Reid and i had a great week this week. Unfortunately we had some concerns to resolve with our investigators we were planning on baptizing, but we should have a baptismal service this Saturday. We have plenty of people to teach and we continue to find new investigators. We had the opportunity to provide service for sister Gyaba, we fetched water for her and her family. We also brought her the sacrament again this Sunday after church. We started teaching a man named Commander 1,  he is very good and will be baptized very soon, we are helping him with his problem with the word or wisdom. My son Elder Reid will finish his training this week.
Have a nice week.

Elder Antwi loves you all.

One by One

Good evening Family and Friends,

I hope this letter finds you safe and well.

Well another week gone by and it seems lately that they are flying by, like it seems like the days are long but the weeks are short and that is just crazy to me.

This week we have had a lot of success as we have gone and done the Lord's work. We are teaching some awesome people who we are preparing for baptism this week. We are hoping to have 3 this Saturday baptized. Life has been good here!

On Thursday, when I was in Accra for my last eye appointment,  I had a surprise Birthday from my mom and Bro Promise, which was super awesome. I was unprepared for it but I loved it. Thanks momma!

We had a great time Elder Tupou and I working this week and made my Birthday very awesome I want to say thank you again for all the birthday wishes.

This week I have been studying the Hebrews in the Bible and have loved it. It talks about how we can continue to have faith in Christ and the reason Paul wrote it is because he was talking to the people who go through challenges and happen to lose their faith somewhere on the road. As we pray and continue to study the scriptures we can always know that our Father In Heaven and Jesus Christ are there for us no matter what thing is happening to us or what we have done. Their love is unfathomable for us. I have come to know that they love us no matter what.

Happy Birthday shout out to my Pops!  Hope you have a great one! 

I love all you people, thank you for the Love and support. Be safe and God bless.


Elder Paulson

More Days here in the Bush!


Hi Family and friends,

I hope you all are doing fantastic and having an awesome start to your week.

This week my companion and I were able to do a lot of good work.

We did a lot of finding new people to teach and also trying and continuing to help our investigators who are progressing towards baptism.   I am excited for the future work Elder Tupou and I have to do here. Looks like I will be staying here until April 3rd, that is when this transfer ends because we will be having a 9 week transfer. I'm excited though for the work here.

This time last year if any of you remember, I was sick the day after my Birthday and now this same time just a little bit before I also got sick, which always sucks. I was sick Friday night and all Saturday. I have come to the conclusion that becoming sick on mission is the worst thing ever. Over it now though, which is good.

We had a great district meeting on Wednesday and talked about companionship unity. As for the spiritual note of this letter, I always talk about the Book of Mormon but today I wanted to talk about the Bible.  I have been reading in Paul's letters and right now I'm in 1 Timothy and in these small chapters he has a lot of great lessons that I have learned from him. He talks about Jesus Christ a lot ad the importance of his teachings for us. I have really enjoyed reading those teachings, I have learned from him.

Well peoples time to go. I love you all! THANK YOU ALL FOR THE BIRTHDAY WISHES!  The videos were awesome and the voice recordings!    God bless.

Love Elder Paulson

So sad no pictures today!  His camera battery is shot but what he doesn't know is a friend of his in Accra is going to surprise him with a little pizza party when he goes to Accra on Wednesday for his eye appointment.  So next week look for some great pictures of that surprise!  Wish I could be there to see his face!  

This is a letter from an Elder who is from Kumasi, Ghana serving with Elder Paulson.  I love how he describes their village.  

Hello Mother,

It was great to read your message but is not good to be sick.I know that you will be better soon! It was good to received the priesthood blessing and I know you will be good.The week was great! we taught many people and it was great some were at the Sacrament meeting and it was great to see them.The work is still progressing.

I hope one day you will get the chance to attends a service in Ghana and it will be great, people has a wonderful testimony.

Asunafo is a big village and the people are nice people but is BUSH! I am Ghanaian but I have not been in a bush like that but it's fun and nice to be there.The people in the village are farmers,they plant many types of crops but the most one is Cocoa.The people here are very strong the old people can carry a lot of stuff on their head.They have nice school buildings because they supported by the WORLD JOY FOUNDATION,the foundation has been helping many people here and it from Utah, especially the people in Cache Valley.People here are not rich but they are happy people,there are many different churches here but the Mormons are many.

As for shopping we used to go the nearby town to buy stuff.Everything is great here in Asunafo the Lord want us to be here and we say to Him Father thy will be done we will do the work with all heart and might.

Mother I will tell you more next week.


Love you mother,
Elder Antwi.

This are some of the pictures from Asunafo