This last week was awesome! Sorry that I am writing you on tuesday again! The library was closed! Well your week sounded great!Something I've figured out since I've been out here is really how bad some songs and even tv shows were that I used to watched, Satan truely is the great deceiver. I have figured out that when everything that I'm doing is uplifting, everything else goes better as well! So it's positive in all aspects! I hope your new years was better that mine haha! All I heard were machine guns and pistols going off all night! Well I opened my presents you sent yesterday because we remember elder AK was going on an exchange today and would miss my whole birthday :(, so I wanted him to see what I got. Thank you so much for everything, it may not have been the biggest birthday, but it was a extremely good one! I only get two mission birthdays and one is already gone! ITS CRAZY! I'm 20!?!?!?!?! Does it seem like your little boy can already be 20 and on a mission serving the Lord? I dont think so haha. Well thank you for everything thing I love you both very much! Well this last week was pretty cool! During the holidays is was so hard to find people, the work has been a bit of a struggle. I kept telling Elder AK though, "if not today, then tomorrow, if not tomorrow then next week, if not next week then next month". I was sure we would find SOMEONE and we did this week! We found some of the most amazing people! We now have 7 baptismal dates set up and I hope they are all going to go through and be prepared! I mean we are saving souls here, how much more could I ask for? It's the greatest privilege on this earth for me right now! I must say I love your new years resolution! You can do it! Mine was I'm done with POP! All together, well out here is should say COKE, because all pop is coke out here haha that's what they call sprite, mt dew, dr pepper, its all COKE. haha the south is weird I know. ;) Elder AK did really get much at all besides from you, I guess packages to send from Ghana are WAY EXPENSIVE! So maybe send something as a late christmas haha I have no idea what, even if its just a gift card to walmart or something, I think that would make his day. A letter or something would be good too! :) Well good luck with starting the new job and going back to school! I hope you all continue to be safe, smart and healthy! I pray for you so much you really dont know! Have faith in the Lord and he will provide anything and everything! I LOVE YOU! talk to you next week :)
Last week was pretty awesome! So we found some of the coolest people ever! So legit! The work has been going really slow here for the last couple weeks, and it's been a struggle to find people who are really prepared, but this week we did! :) We found a lot of people who are ready, no we just have to get them to church! That is by far the hardest part because none of them have cars and we have to provide rides, and not everyone can be picked up because the branch is so small! But we have 7 baptismal dates set up in the next week so I am pretty excited to see how they are turn out! On Saturday we went to Birmingham to go to a trainer/trainee meeting, it was so legit! President Holzapfel just blows my mind everytime he talks! Then yesterday was another AWESOME day, well some parts were, I'll tell you why. So we go to Montgomery and eat at this place call Hibachi buffet (WAY NICE) and it's a chinese/sushi place. After we go bowling again with all the Elders and Sisters in our zone and this was WAY FUN again! Then after that we went to the stake center in Montgomery and played ball with everyone, it was intense haha, but way fun! I havent played ball in like 8 WEEKS!!! :( Here's the bad part.. Elder Fatiau and I were throwing a football in the gym. He threw one way hard and it was kind behind me, so as I reached high and backwards to get it, it twisted my left are funny, and I think I tore my rotater :( I'm not jumping to conclusions but it hurt way bad this morning I can barely move it. So I'm gonna wait a couple days and receive a blessing and I'm sure I'll be fine, so please pray for me. Well new years out here is INSANE! We were COMMANDED to stay in the house hahaha all we heard were ak's and machine guns going off all night haha it was so nuts! It was probably raining bullets. Holidays out here are SO TOUGH! No one wants to be bothered, and when I say no one I mean no one! People are way rude! I think I've heard more swear words this week than I have my whole mission! Well I really can't think of anything else to say! The mission is really just flying by it's crazy!!! I will be talking to you both at mothers day in NO TIME! Well I cant think of anything else to say! I miss and love you both! You are amazing! Talk to you soon!
Love, peace and blessings,
Elder Tolman
