Elder Aidan Holyoak: Vegemite 🦘🦘

7/3/23

It's July...

This week wasn't too crazy. We just worked in our area and didn't take too many pictures. The work has been good though. We have been trying hard to get members involved in all of our lessons and it has gone pretty well. It has helped us become more united with the ward and it has helped the investigators do the same.

On Wednesday, our district leader called us and said that his companion has a fracture in his foot and that they need to go on exchange to be able to work in their area. Elder Kaufusi is the one from Australia and he fractured his foot before he came out without knowing it. We went there on Saturday and I went with our DL Elder Marx in the morning. We just rode to Swedru to get food and money so they could survive in their apartment longer. When we got back we switched and I stayed in the apartment with Elder Kaufusi for the rest of the day. We had some good talks and played some card games. He even gave me a bottle of Vegemite, haha.

Some of the people we are teaching now are really progressing. Right now we have a pretty interesting situation with Kojo and Jennette. Kojo is blind and Jennette isn't healthy enough to walk to church. We've talked to our Mission President and he said if they meet baptismal requirements and the branch is able to bring them the Sacrament when the missionaries leave then they can be baptized. So we are working on that right now. We've also got Mary Osei who has come to church 3 Sundays in a row. We teach her with some people who live around her house and all of then said they would come to church, but Mary is the only one who has kept her promise. Not much else to say we are just working hard until my time is up.

•Week 4•

Be You

Don't be a phony. Everything that has happened to you in your life and every decision that you have made has brought you to this moment. All of those decisions and experiences culminate into what and who you are. Before my mission I was a little bit nervous that I would come home a robot. That I would have to change my personality in order to be a successful missionary. I have realized that God gives all of us different talents and skills that we are supposed to use to help others. Matthew 25:14-29 shows us exactly how God feels about our talents. We are not supposed to hide them, but to use them to gain more talents and skills. Don't ever think that you must change your entire personality to fit a certain social group. Of course we all have bad attributes and weaknesses that we should leave behind us, Ether 12:27. All I'm trying to say is just be yourself. People can really tell when you are genuine or not, and most of the time they can tell when you are being fake. Take your mask off and find some people who appreciate you for who you really are.

Contacts

Email - aidan.holyoak@missionary.org

Facebook - Aidan Holyoak

Thanks for reading. I love you all!

Elder Holyoak