April 18, 2016

Hey everyone!!

How are you all? I hope that you are doing well. My week was pretty good. We are doing the daily missionary grind!! We are doing really good with our investigators. We met with Irene on Saturday and she is progressing very well.  We are going to try and set a date this week for her baptism. We also picked up a couple of investigators, so that was nice. One of them is named Ladona. They both are really nice and we hope they are willing to listen to, and act on, the missionary lessons. 

It has been an adjustment getting used to the food here, but I have learned to really like it. This week I had some Banku (cassava dough) with Okra stew and tuna. I also had some Jollof rice (its like paella or jambalaya), good stuff! We have bikes, but we mostly walk around our area.  The zone got together in Madina for P-day today.  We played football and ate together, it was a lot of fun. 

Elder Allen and I are getting along great and working hard. Our hard work seems to be paying off and we are doing very well.  It was actually a pretty calm week this week. It is weird to think that I have been out for over 5 months already and we are speeding towards the quarter mark. It truly is hard to believe! I am so thankful I am serving a mission and I am so thankful for the Gospel, it means so much to me. I love all of you and I hope you all have a good week!

Love,

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Elder Travis J. Roberts

Ghana Accra Mission

April 11, 2016

Well another week has come and gone. I cant believe that we are already this far in!! It has been 5 months since I have been out! That is hard to believe. It really is amazing to see how fast time goes! It is still really hot and humid here.  We have gotten a little bit of rain, but it doesn't cool things off at all. I think its just going to be this way my whole mission, but that's OK. I have learned to like my Crocs, something I thought I would never say. If any of you have seen the movie "Freetown", it was all filmed in Ghana. The bridge near the end of the movie is here in Accra. It goes over the Volta river and I have seen.  It is a really neat bridge.  

This week was pretty normal. We taught quite a few lessons and had good results. We may have found a serious investigator. Her name is Irene, she is in her twenties.  We met her and her sister one day when we were contacting near our apartment and taught them. Her sister goes to work so we don't get to see her much, but she writes her questions down for us! Also, Irene has an LDS friend that gave her a Book of Mormon. She hadn't started reading it yet so we challenged her to read it. She said that she would but, over here you have to take things with a grain of salt and expect them to maybe not read it. We were suprised the next time we saw her that she had actually read! She actually read in Moroni 8 about infant baptisms and had questions for us! It was really exciting. 

The other fun thing that happened was that I read In Defense of Truth. I am sure some of you have heard of this book before. It is a really awesome book for missionaries to read. It answers lots of questions that other religions have about our church and helps to expand our knowledge as well, all using the Bible. It really is a good and interesting read. It isnt that long, only 75 pages, but it is beautifully written. Well that is all for this week. I hope that you all have a good week! Love you!

Sincerely,

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Elder Travis J. Roberts

Ghana Accra Mission

April 4, 2016

Hello Everyone,

WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! We made it! Already at the 20 week mark! Crazy to think that I am already that far into my mission! It really doesn't feel that long. A mission really does go fast. I will say though that it isnt easy. If anyone tells you that a mission is easy then they are either lying or they did not try at all on their mission. A mission is THE best decision you can ever make, besides your eternal companion. I am so thankful that I decided to serve a mission! No major changes in my area, just lots of contacting and teaching.  Saturday and Sunday though, let me tell you...THEY WERE SO AWESOME!!!! On Saturday we went to the Accra Temple for the ward temple trip with the young single adults. We got to do baptisms and confirmations. I actually got to be the person who does the baptizing and confirming.  After that we went to the mission office, it was very nice in there. Then we got a great surprise, council for the group from President Heid. We also got to see
Sis. Heid for a few minutes.  After that we each got personal interviews with Pres. Heid, it was super awesome! Then we got to eat KFC and went to watch Conference. We only got to see the morning sessions, but they were awesome! That was really all for this week! I love you all so much!

Sincerely,

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Elder Travis J. Roberts

Ghana Accra Mission

March 28, 2016

Hello everyone!!

I hope that all of you had a good week. My week was pretty good. I got to know my companion, Elder Allen better. He is from Piute County, Utah and has been on his mission for 9 months. He comes from a family of 4 kids, 2 brothers and 1 sister.  He is the youngest. We had a really good week in the fact that our numbers grew exponentially! It was really awesome to see. We also had baptisms on Sunday. I ended up baptizing both investigators on Easter Sunday! They weren't our investigators but I knew the people getting baptized. Their names are Sunday and Chica, two brothers in their twenties.  They are the only members in their family.  It was really neat to finally baptize someone, to know that you helped them enter into the gate that leads to eternal life. Not much else new going on here, just still livin' in Africa tryin' to teach the Gospel. Our apartment is actually really fun. The other Elder that came at transfers is Elder Loveridge. He is from Zimbabwe, just like Elder George! They were actually in the same zone! We all get along great! Well that is all I have for this week. I really love you all so much. Keep being awesome! See you later!

Love,

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Elder Travis J. Roberts

Ghana Accra Mission