Elder Aidan Holyoak: Always on the move 🚐 🚐

6/26/23

I spent most of this week sitting in Tro Tros.

We did the same thing as last week. If you remember, last week our whole district slept in one apartment to wake up early and hear from Elder Gong. This week it was the same thing, except this time we got to hear from Elder Klebingat who is in the presidency of the West Africa area. We all shared mattresses and woke up early to get there on time. He gave us some pretty sweet council though. For the first hour, he talked about the premortal life and the doctrine behind the gathering of Israel. I took a lot of notes and it just made me realize that I've got a lot to study.

That day I also stopped at Swedru and got to stay another night in their apartment because I went on exchange with one of our Zone Leaders. His name is Elder Pessima and he's from Sierra Leone. It was a pretty funny exchange because he's only been in the area for a few days, but we still had a good day.

The next day we needed some baptismal interviews done by our District leader. He called in the morning and asked if we could just do an exchange and of course I said yes. I headed over to an area called Asikuma and we had a good time. A member gave us Banku and coconuts and we had a solid lesson with someone too.

The next day was Saturday and we had the baptism for our friends Godfrey, Cecilia, and Daniel. Everything was going smooth with the service and then we got to Daniel. This whole time we've been teaching Daniel we've had his name saved as Daniel Debrah in our records. As soon as he stepped into the water I asked for his full name and he told me his name is Ishark Inkum. Apparently he has like 3 names but Ishark is on his school records, so that's what we used.

•Week 5•

Work work work

On my mission I have learned that the secret to success is WORK. If you want anything in your life you have to go out and work for it. If you want a blessing from God you have to work for it. Faith without works is dead. If you want to be happy, physically fit, healthy, smart, spiritual, or have fulfillment you have to work for it. There is no way around, under or through it. We were put into this life to work out our own salvation and part of that is improving our skills and talents in this life. I can promise that honest hard work will bless your life and it's the only way to get what you want in life.

Contacts

Email - aidan.holyoak@missionary.org

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Thanks for reading! Put your shoulder to the wheel and I'll see you next week.

Elder Holyoak