Elder Aidan Holyoak: We found Michael ! 🥳

This week we had MLC, Zone Council, a boy fell in the gutter, and we found Michael!

MLC was great, we talked about asking inspired questions and President made a few changes to our mission standards. We had jambalaya for lunch and we got another whiteboard for our apartment.

President is doing away with Zone Council so we had our last one this Wednesday. It was a great time seeing everyone there and we had pizza after. We were able to plan our zone activity which you'll hear more about in next week's email. After Council, we always go to a food place called Mama Dee's and Chop. This time I had a rice ball and groundnut soup. Delicious.

We were walking in our area this week and we saw a boy sliding down the big gutters. It's not really a gutter but that's what everyone calls it. He got to the bottom and we realized he was there to save his shoe. He had no way to get back out so we came to help. A bunch of kids gathered around and one guy went in to help the kid. While he was helping, his shoe fell too! I actually got the shoe falling in the picture. At the end of the day we got all of the people and shoes out of the gutter safely.

On Thursday I went on exchange with Elder Murdock in his area. We had a great work day and at the end of the night we had one more appointment. Elder Murdock told me that there was a boy named Michael that we were going to put on date and ask permission from his parents. When we got there I saw Michael and found out he was the same Michael I baptized in my first area! For a little context, Michael was the first person I baptized in Bawjiase, my first area. A few days after he was baptized he moved to Accra and I never thought I'd see him again. When Michael got to church in Accra he told the missionaries that he wasn't baptized because he wanted to be baptized again. They started teaching him and his friends and Michael wasn't missing any days at church. Over one year after his baptism I was on exchange with the missionaries that were teaching him on the exact day they were going to put him on baptismal date! I'm happy to see Michael again and to know he is going to church, sorry Elder Murdock. Can you imagine if I came for baptismal interviews and saw Michael there. Haha....

Scripture of the Week

Mormon 9:19 - "And if there were miracles wrought then, why has God ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being? And behold, I say unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles."

Contacts

Email - aidan.holyoak@missionary.org

Facebook - Aidan Holyoak

The work is good. I hope you're all enjoying life wherever you are in the world. Have a great week and keep working hard!

Elder Holyoak 😶‍🌫️