Elder Aidan Holyoak: I found Gladys!

5/22/23

Great week, let me tell you about it.

We met up with some members of the branch to go to a funeral for one of our members. He passed away early on in the week and they held the funeral a few days later. We weren't able to stay the whole time because we had district council.

There was one crazy thing that happened this week. We were walking through the area at night and I stumbled into someone I knew from my last area. Her name is Gladys and we just started teaching her right before I left Odorkor. She was staying there for school and Nyakrom is her hometown. So she showed us her place and we plan to continue teaching her here!

On Saturday I went on exchange with Elder Chapman. He's a super cool guy from Michigan. We didn't have a lot of success in the area that day because all of our serious people were busy or they canceled on us. It's all good though, we ate some Fufu for lunch and caught the last 15 minutes of Guardians of the Galaxy 2 on the TV with super low volume.

This Sunday we were teaching our friend Grace and when we finished the lesson she said that she had someone for us to teach. We called the guy and after getting directions from some strangers we made it to his place. His name is Joshua and his friend John joined us for a lesson. In the middle of the lesson he asked a question about whether or not there was a third heaven. We were a bit surprised but we answered him with some scriptures about the degrees of glory. He told us that he would read the whole pamphlet in one sitting and he asked when we would come back. We have plans to see him tomorrow.

•Week 10•

Live where your feet are.

Shoutout to Elder Zile for that title. It's a basic principle, but the only way you can possibly be happy in this life is by living in the moment. At the beginning of my mission I missed home a lot. I always had thoughts like, "Life will be better when I'm 1 year out on my mission," or "I'll be happy when I am home again." I realized later that it is a terrible way to live. Never put off living! The only thing that you have is right now. Carpe Diem. Seize the day! They always say that depression stems from looking too much into the past and anxiety from looking too much into the future. Learn from the past, plan for the future, and live where your feet are.

Contacts

Email - aidan.holyoak@missionary.org

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Thanks for reading, I love you all. I'm happy to be here, right now, exactly where I'm at. See you all next week!

Elder Holyoak