I have the best mom in the whole world:) mom i love you soo much! i got your #2 box this week but its cost me 20 cedi to pick up! so i am going to need to use my debit card soon! aunt kim i got your second one, anut jill i got yours too! thanks you all soo much!
so this week was crazy!! we had zone conference on Thursday, and spliits after- friday, baptism saturday, and now i am in the mission home useing fast Internet!! kinda. so this morning we had to wake up at 5 and shower in the dark with bottle water because our lights have been out for 2 days. but it was soo cold (prolly like mid 60s) i had to heat up my water, and i froze all night! elder and sister terry took us to the Acrra mall, and this place they call costco! ha they have alot of my favorit things there like A&Wrootberr:) but every thing is soo expensive so it is not worth it, well maybe next Christmas i will treat my self:)
We have been teaching lessons like MAD men, but we didnt met our goals for this week because of the conference, and service project! we baptised Lois(24), and Hannah(13) this week! they both dont speak vary good english, but they have family in the church so we were able to baptism them.
Out here we are no allowed to teach people who do not speak english enough to read the introduction page of the book of mormen, unless they have family in the church that will work with them, and read them the book of mormen.
I usually take notes about things i need to write home, but as usuall i left them in the apartment, so i cant remember everything i wanted to say, but i am writing in my way sweet journal every day!
oh sunday i had MAC&cheese for lunch with a package of beef jerkey:) both have never tasted as good as they did! thank you all so much for everything that has been sent to me, hopefully i get it all, i have people i need to share with:)
At zone conference i got hammered. every other question that president had was for me, he asked me everything. its a good thing i was raised by a wonderful mother because i answered most of his questions but not from anything i have learned on mission so far!
so when i was on splits with elder farnbock from orgen, we talk alot about our favorite movies and since i miss movies sooo much, i would like to talk about one of my favorit movies "remember the titians". In the end during the championship game, Julius said something like(i cant really remember exactly) "coach you demanded more of us, but i am not perfect none of us are, but this team is perfect because we have won every game we have played." as i thought about this movie, i tried to relate it to the gospel. Our heavenly father has demanded more of us, he as asked us to be perfect, but none of us can be perfect we are all humans, but we as a team/church are perfect. The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is perfect. Everything that goes on in the church is the way heavenly father has demeaned it to be, every sunday we can take upon us the name of his son Jesus Christ, to help us work towards the common goal of being perfect and winning the championship or gain exaltation and spending for ever with our wonderful familys:)
Monday, December 13, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
December 6, 2010
I have the best mom in the world:) this week i got 3 packages when the zone leaders came to do our baptism interviews. They told me that there was 3 more in the mission home, they just didnt have room to bring them! so this week when we go to zone conference i will get 3 more packages! kim one of them was from you! thank you so much! but i dont think everything you put in it got to me:( but its better then nothing:)
No one ever told me that mission work would be easy. But up until this week i would have to say other words. My mission has been easier then cutting down weeds or sitting in classes all day and doing home work. I am not saying it hasn't been work, but it hasn't been hard. Things are only hard when we think they are or make them hard.. But what about when things we dont have any control over makes things hard. Some investigators are like kicking a ball down a hill at canyon park in to baptism, some is like rolling a big rock up a hill and down the other side to baptism. some are like pushing a car up to the top of the hill, and it is chained to the bottom then it runs YOU over and goes straight to the bottom.. This week my mission got tuff, for the past six weeks we have been working with David, and he was finally ready for baptism. So we gave him a date for this saturated. on Friday when we went to his place, he saw us coming and tried to run away from us.. but it is really hard to run when you are so drunk when you cant even walk. i didnt even bother going any farther, i felt like i just got hit by a truck. now i know why missions are hard, because you have to endure all the heart ache when all your effort back slides. But he still came to church, and we will still continue to work with him for january.
most missionary's go two plus some years with out being kissed... well i almost made it three months.. one friday when we were heading to Rita's from Davids this crazy man wearing only these short shot jeans runs me down. so i stops on my bike, and he began telling me that the missionaries used to teach him at his old town, and he wanted me to come and teach him so he could be baptized. He started yelling scriptures from the bible, with his arms above his head, when he said "i will kiss you" as he grabbed my head with both hands and kissed me right on the lips.... Me being already frustrated coming from Davids, push this man and i was ready to throw down with the guy.. but i am still a missionary so i gathered myself together, got back on my bike and left. friday was not a good day for me, worst/"hardest" day of mission so far. But saturday made up for it, we had another baptism in Nkawkaw. We baptized Benis(25) and Thersea(18). if i can get a picture to up load to the blog, they are the two in the middle and our two brothers who baptized them.
On thursday we were supposed to have cordination at the church, but in stead I got stuck teaching the seminary class. Its a good thing that I went to seminary so much that I know how a seminary class is ran. or not... but I did a pretty good job teaching the class, but I am not going to be a seminary teacher for sure.
Happy birthday brody, and bronson two days ago!!
love all of you and miss you all
love elder bbear
No one ever told me that mission work would be easy. But up until this week i would have to say other words. My mission has been easier then cutting down weeds or sitting in classes all day and doing home work. I am not saying it hasn't been work, but it hasn't been hard. Things are only hard when we think they are or make them hard.. But what about when things we dont have any control over makes things hard. Some investigators are like kicking a ball down a hill at canyon park in to baptism, some is like rolling a big rock up a hill and down the other side to baptism. some are like pushing a car up to the top of the hill, and it is chained to the bottom then it runs YOU over and goes straight to the bottom.. This week my mission got tuff, for the past six weeks we have been working with David, and he was finally ready for baptism. So we gave him a date for this saturated. on Friday when we went to his place, he saw us coming and tried to run away from us.. but it is really hard to run when you are so drunk when you cant even walk. i didnt even bother going any farther, i felt like i just got hit by a truck. now i know why missions are hard, because you have to endure all the heart ache when all your effort back slides. But he still came to church, and we will still continue to work with him for january.
most missionary's go two plus some years with out being kissed... well i almost made it three months.. one friday when we were heading to Rita's from Davids this crazy man wearing only these short shot jeans runs me down. so i stops on my bike, and he began telling me that the missionaries used to teach him at his old town, and he wanted me to come and teach him so he could be baptized. He started yelling scriptures from the bible, with his arms above his head, when he said "i will kiss you" as he grabbed my head with both hands and kissed me right on the lips.... Me being already frustrated coming from Davids, push this man and i was ready to throw down with the guy.. but i am still a missionary so i gathered myself together, got back on my bike and left. friday was not a good day for me, worst/"hardest" day of mission so far. But saturday made up for it, we had another baptism in Nkawkaw. We baptized Benis(25) and Thersea(18). if i can get a picture to up load to the blog, they are the two in the middle and our two brothers who baptized them.
On thursday we were supposed to have cordination at the church, but in stead I got stuck teaching the seminary class. Its a good thing that I went to seminary so much that I know how a seminary class is ran. or not... but I did a pretty good job teaching the class, but I am not going to be a seminary teacher for sure.
Happy birthday brody, and bronson two days ago!!
love all of you and miss you all
love elder bbear
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
November 30, 2010
ok sorry about not sending this letter yesterday but just remember i am in africa, and i am not using a mac book with high speed internet.
so this far i have gone day in and day out with the following quote. "pray as if everything depends on God, ACT as if everything depends on YOU" (i dont know where i heard this quote but i would be happy to take it as my own haha) it is amazing how much i find my self on me knees. i know with all my heart that what i am doing would not be possible for me with out Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. And i have been working as if everything depends on me, that if i dont do it..who will? and with that i would like to add to this quote from a letter i got this week, that hit me hard.(thanks kim) "The field is as white as you make it" this past week this quote has been in the back of my mind every day. i hope that some day i will be assigned to an area that missionary have deemed a bad area for teaching, and baptisms. Because i know that there is no bad area, cause the field is as white as i am willing to make it. I am up for the challenge, and i am willing that is for sure!
This week was crazy i dont now where to start. On tuesday when we were in Nkawkaw, we were passing down this path and i had to pee so i stop on the side and was doing my thing, when i see this monkey being chase by these two boys coming right for me.. lucky for me it had a rope around its neck and the boys catch up to it, or i might of been in a brawl with a monkey. speaking of crazy animals, sunday in nkawkaw the branch president was talking about distractions, when the biggest snake i have ever seen started in the door, and half the men stood up and ran out the door after this snake. not your usual sacrament meeting. But everything was alright the snake did get away but they said it was a cobra, or something.
On sunday we had a missionary speak who was leaving on his mission. so our room was packed, with our branch(45), investigators, and his friends. So there was about 60 to 70 people there. my comp said to me that he couldnt believe how many friends he had. i couldnt help but think back to when i spoke in front of a family bigger then the branch, and friends that i couldnt count. how blessed i have been with such a wonderful family, and great friends. i know every one reading this has had a huge impacted on getting me to where i am now, and for that i would like to just say thanks for every thing you have done for me! i love you all so much, and i could of done it with out you all!
Saturday we had a baptism. we baptized Patience(13) Tina(26) and Peritta(18). all three of these girls are already so strong in the church, and have been a great blessing to their family's. we are now starting to teach peritta's sisters, and working on getting her mother to listen to us. this week we called in our baptismal goal for December and we said 5. we got a call back and they told us to raise the bar. So we are hoping for 8 more baptisms for the month of December.
Christmas is coming up, but all that i can think of that i want is for all you reading this to know how much i love you and how thankful i am for you. you all have been such a great blessing to me. oh and maybe some candy and bubble gum:)
i love you all
love elder berry
so this far i have gone day in and day out with the following quote. "pray as if everything depends on God, ACT as if everything depends on YOU" (i dont know where i heard this quote but i would be happy to take it as my own haha) it is amazing how much i find my self on me knees. i know with all my heart that what i am doing would not be possible for me with out Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. And i have been working as if everything depends on me, that if i dont do it..who will? and with that i would like to add to this quote from a letter i got this week, that hit me hard.(thanks kim) "The field is as white as you make it" this past week this quote has been in the back of my mind every day. i hope that some day i will be assigned to an area that missionary have deemed a bad area for teaching, and baptisms. Because i know that there is no bad area, cause the field is as white as i am willing to make it. I am up for the challenge, and i am willing that is for sure!
This week was crazy i dont now where to start. On tuesday when we were in Nkawkaw, we were passing down this path and i had to pee so i stop on the side and was doing my thing, when i see this monkey being chase by these two boys coming right for me.. lucky for me it had a rope around its neck and the boys catch up to it, or i might of been in a brawl with a monkey. speaking of crazy animals, sunday in nkawkaw the branch president was talking about distractions, when the biggest snake i have ever seen started in the door, and half the men stood up and ran out the door after this snake. not your usual sacrament meeting. But everything was alright the snake did get away but they said it was a cobra, or something.
On sunday we had a missionary speak who was leaving on his mission. so our room was packed, with our branch(45), investigators, and his friends. So there was about 60 to 70 people there. my comp said to me that he couldnt believe how many friends he had. i couldnt help but think back to when i spoke in front of a family bigger then the branch, and friends that i couldnt count. how blessed i have been with such a wonderful family, and great friends. i know every one reading this has had a huge impacted on getting me to where i am now, and for that i would like to just say thanks for every thing you have done for me! i love you all so much, and i could of done it with out you all!
Saturday we had a baptism. we baptized Patience(13) Tina(26) and Peritta(18). all three of these girls are already so strong in the church, and have been a great blessing to their family's. we are now starting to teach peritta's sisters, and working on getting her mother to listen to us. this week we called in our baptismal goal for December and we said 5. we got a call back and they told us to raise the bar. So we are hoping for 8 more baptisms for the month of December.
Christmas is coming up, but all that i can think of that i want is for all you reading this to know how much i love you and how thankful i am for you. you all have been such a great blessing to me. oh and maybe some candy and bubble gum:)
i love you all
love elder berry
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
November 22, 2010
this week suffered for us.. we did no do well with teaching lessons or anything. my companion was sick, so that might of had alot to do with it. but we did 17 investigators to church yesterday, which was really good because we watch an all African conference. The conference was really nice, it talked directly to afican members, and explained how our church is always open to visitors. we have been teaching this old man named Keneth, he believes what we teach him but he is always sick on sundays or should i say hang over. he drinks alot, we have been praying like cray for him and going to see him every day trying to help him give up on getting wasted. he finally came to church, and i think that he is finally coming out of his shell. he stayed after the meeting to talk with the branch president, and i hope that went well.
week is the end of the transfer, i am praying that i dont get transferred, i have fallen in love with this area and i will cry when i have to leave. we have 3 more investigators getting baptised this weekend in Knawnaw (bubble gum land). we have been teaching this teacher in Nkawkaw, he also believes and want to get baptised but he is a minister, and he is worried about all the people who attened his church, so we are still working with him. he teaches at a school the Danny ange's son owns or something. his son came here on a mission while back, and returned to help out the people, and the kids. i hope to be able to do the same some day. the english premier league is in the heat, and weekends are not good days to try to talk to people because they are so focused on their radio, listening to the games.
this transfer i started the book of mormon over and i finished yesterday. what a blessing the book of mormon is, i learned so many more new things that i didnt know before. i love the book of mormon and i know it to have the fullness of the everlasting gospel. the book of mormon is literally the key stone of our religon, we use the book of mormon to teach every one, and it is the most powerful sources of conversions we have combined with the holy ghost. this transfer also we taught 128 lessons, and baptised 10 new members, not counting the 3 this weekend, we have currently 9 nine others we are working with for the 4 Dcember. and we are planning on committing 6 others this week (if the spirit is Strong with them)
i hope every one has a wonderful Thanksgiving! know that i will be thinking about all of you that i am thankful for and love so much. my english is slipping for american English, to african english. some times i will say something( and think in my head that makes no sense, but it makes sense over here) the people over here are amazing, they have taught me so much about my self, but fufu is still the worst thing ever. i will probably be having that on thanksgiving with chicken bones.. haha i love africa:)
i love you all so much
love elder berry
week is the end of the transfer, i am praying that i dont get transferred, i have fallen in love with this area and i will cry when i have to leave. we have 3 more investigators getting baptised this weekend in Knawnaw (bubble gum land). we have been teaching this teacher in Nkawkaw, he also believes and want to get baptised but he is a minister, and he is worried about all the people who attened his church, so we are still working with him. he teaches at a school the Danny ange's son owns or something. his son came here on a mission while back, and returned to help out the people, and the kids. i hope to be able to do the same some day. the english premier league is in the heat, and weekends are not good days to try to talk to people because they are so focused on their radio, listening to the games.
this transfer i started the book of mormon over and i finished yesterday. what a blessing the book of mormon is, i learned so many more new things that i didnt know before. i love the book of mormon and i know it to have the fullness of the everlasting gospel. the book of mormon is literally the key stone of our religon, we use the book of mormon to teach every one, and it is the most powerful sources of conversions we have combined with the holy ghost. this transfer also we taught 128 lessons, and baptised 10 new members, not counting the 3 this weekend, we have currently 9 nine others we are working with for the 4 Dcember. and we are planning on committing 6 others this week (if the spirit is Strong with them)
i hope every one has a wonderful Thanksgiving! know that i will be thinking about all of you that i am thankful for and love so much. my english is slipping for american English, to african english. some times i will say something( and think in my head that makes no sense, but it makes sense over here) the people over here are amazing, they have taught me so much about my self, but fufu is still the worst thing ever. i will probably be having that on thanksgiving with chicken bones.. haha i love africa:)
i love you all so much
love elder berry
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Email from Emmanuel Lartey
Elder Berry in Ghana is making me home sick and got quite a kick out of his letter. Being a Ghanaian and having lived in Utah for the past 25 years, I believe he's having the best cultural shock of his life. Where else can you go to get knee caps in your soup? LOL. I think it is pig feet he is referring to. By the way, if you've never seen an African Snail, attached is a picture of one I took when I was home 3 months ago.
I hope Elder Berry enjoy every moment of his mission including all the unique and possibly strange Ghanaian nuiances. He is the envy of many missionaries throughout the world. My prayers are with him as with all the missionaries in the Church.
Kindest Regards
Emmanuel Sr.
Monday, November 15, 2010
November 15, 2010 Another Great Letter!
This week we had our baptism on thursday, so we spend all of wednesday
reveiwing everything we have taught the 6 investgators. We went to
Nkawkaw (bubble gum land) as usuall on tuesday and had a great day
there, we committed one more investigator to be baptised on the 27. On
thursday one of girls didnt show up to the baptism so we only had 5
that got baptised. I was requested by all 5 to basptise them. Not a
greater experince in the world then that was on thursday, not just
because i got to baptise them but because i helped them take the frist
steps in coming unto christ. we started out with all of them on
faith, and how to deveolp faith in Jesus. We taught them that faith
leads to action, if you have faith in Jesus Christ then you will WANT
to follow his example and do everything you can to get back to him
some day. One of those things that you have to want to do is to be
basptised in the name of Jesus Christ. But my heart aches for stella
because she changed her mind about joining Jesus christ chuch. No
effort is wasted though, and hopefully some day she will come around,
and do what is right for her.
On friday me, my comp, elder hicks, and elder domnic with the Terry's
headed to Accra, after the 5 hour trip we made it there about 5pm.
sister smith made us pancakes! nothing has ever tasted so good in my
life. i felt right at home! i got to hang out with the AP's and they
showed my around the mission home, i hope that some day i will live in
the mission home, they have a washer and dryer. Elder Rich from af,
serves around the mission home, so he gets to stay there. So i got to
talk to him, and he is doing good! but i got to see how much different
it is to serve out in the bush where i am, i think that they have is
pretty easy in the city. Saturday we went to the temple, the temple
was unreal as always! i bought the conference magizine, i read the
whole thing this morning, conference was so great, i cant wait for the
next one!
This week i had two near death experinces.. the first was on wednesday
when we were at a FM (free meal) as usuall it was fufu but with a
little different soup and meat.. it is usually fish but this time it
was snail... when i bit in to that snail.. i saw the "light" and i was
running to it, but i got rejected and i didnt pass over to the other
side. the other was last night, fufu again but with beef.. well i
thought it looked like beef, it didnt taste like beef.. but after i
asked what was in the soup and i am pretty sure she said knee cap... i
dont know if that is twi for beef... but i almost threw up and died
right there.
Transfers end this week, so we will see where i will be at next
wednesday. i think that i will still be out here, but my dad is
probably leaving me. so hopefully i can learn the area really good
this week!
Everything is going well i love you all keep praying for me!
love elder berry
reveiwing everything we have taught the 6 investgators. We went to
Nkawkaw (bubble gum land) as usuall on tuesday and had a great day
there, we committed one more investigator to be baptised on the 27. On
thursday one of girls didnt show up to the baptism so we only had 5
that got baptised. I was requested by all 5 to basptise them. Not a
greater experince in the world then that was on thursday, not just
because i got to baptise them but because i helped them take the frist
steps in coming unto christ. we started out with all of them on
faith, and how to deveolp faith in Jesus. We taught them that faith
leads to action, if you have faith in Jesus Christ then you will WANT
to follow his example and do everything you can to get back to him
some day. One of those things that you have to want to do is to be
basptised in the name of Jesus Christ. But my heart aches for stella
because she changed her mind about joining Jesus christ chuch. No
effort is wasted though, and hopefully some day she will come around,
and do what is right for her.
On friday me, my comp, elder hicks, and elder domnic with the Terry's
headed to Accra, after the 5 hour trip we made it there about 5pm.
sister smith made us pancakes! nothing has ever tasted so good in my
life. i felt right at home! i got to hang out with the AP's and they
showed my around the mission home, i hope that some day i will live in
the mission home, they have a washer and dryer. Elder Rich from af,
serves around the mission home, so he gets to stay there. So i got to
talk to him, and he is doing good! but i got to see how much different
it is to serve out in the bush where i am, i think that they have is
pretty easy in the city. Saturday we went to the temple, the temple
was unreal as always! i bought the conference magizine, i read the
whole thing this morning, conference was so great, i cant wait for the
next one!
This week i had two near death experinces.. the first was on wednesday
when we were at a FM (free meal) as usuall it was fufu but with a
little different soup and meat.. it is usually fish but this time it
was snail... when i bit in to that snail.. i saw the "light" and i was
running to it, but i got rejected and i didnt pass over to the other
side. the other was last night, fufu again but with beef.. well i
thought it looked like beef, it didnt taste like beef.. but after i
asked what was in the soup and i am pretty sure she said knee cap... i
dont know if that is twi for beef... but i almost threw up and died
right there.
Transfers end this week, so we will see where i will be at next
wednesday. i think that i will still be out here, but my dad is
probably leaving me. so hopefully i can learn the area really good
this week!
Everything is going well i love you all keep praying for me!
love elder berry
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Pictures from MTC
Everyone in the MTC with me. Yes, I am the Tallest.
First seconds at the MTC. Fresh from longest flight, 24 September 2010, 7:00am.
Monday, November 8, 2010
November 8, 2010 Email
There isn't really any words or pictures that can describe this place, its just something that you have to see for your self. Every day it just amazes me how blessed we all have been to grow up in the United states! I walk done the street and I make news friends every where, every one that sees me wants to be my friend! just because I am American. so I dont have any problem talking to people because I usually get approached, and they start the conversation.
This week I had my first zone conference, so I got to see all the missionaries in the north zone. It was a great meeting I learned alot of new teaching ideas, I got to talk to the president, he was really excited to see me, sense he doesn't ever see me because we are so far away. After the zone meeting we went on splits with the zone leaders. I went with elder Domenic (from nigeria) to Abomosu, while my comp and elder Hicks(from utah) when back to our area to do baptism interviews. Splits was really good, I learned so much from Elder Domenic, he is the funniest kid I have ever met but he is so spiritual. On Friday it started to rain so we hid under the stairs to the church, and when we were standing there lightning struck like 30 feet from us.. we were so close i am pretty sure we heard it before we saw the flash, but it was the loudest thing I have ever hear in my life. it struck in the area we were heading, but we deiced to stop, not knowing why because it wasn't rain that hard yet. we had a successful split and we got almost all of our investigators interviewed.
This week we have a baptism, and we are baptizing Glovia Achampong, Isacc Akakpo, stella boakye, prince & Emmanuel boateng, and Esi Lauvia. we had to split the baptism, so the rest will be next week and on Dec 4th.
We are going to Accra this week, to go to the temple and I cant wait for that. the temple here is amazing!
so I will let you know how everything goes next monday, it should be a really good week! we have alot to do, but not enough hours in the day to do it.
I am not vary good at writing letters but I love you all. love elder berry
I got letters from grandma, kelly, kim, kortine, rachel asay, chris lee,
This week I had my first zone conference, so I got to see all the missionaries in the north zone. It was a great meeting I learned alot of new teaching ideas, I got to talk to the president, he was really excited to see me, sense he doesn't ever see me because we are so far away. After the zone meeting we went on splits with the zone leaders. I went with elder Domenic (from nigeria) to Abomosu, while my comp and elder Hicks(from utah) when back to our area to do baptism interviews. Splits was really good, I learned so much from Elder Domenic, he is the funniest kid I have ever met but he is so spiritual. On Friday it started to rain so we hid under the stairs to the church, and when we were standing there lightning struck like 30 feet from us.. we were so close i am pretty sure we heard it before we saw the flash, but it was the loudest thing I have ever hear in my life. it struck in the area we were heading, but we deiced to stop, not knowing why because it wasn't rain that hard yet. we had a successful split and we got almost all of our investigators interviewed.
This week we have a baptism, and we are baptizing Glovia Achampong, Isacc Akakpo, stella boakye, prince & Emmanuel boateng, and Esi Lauvia. we had to split the baptism, so the rest will be next week and on Dec 4th.
We are going to Accra this week, to go to the temple and I cant wait for that. the temple here is amazing!
so I will let you know how everything goes next monday, it should be a really good week! we have alot to do, but not enough hours in the day to do it.
I am not vary good at writing letters but I love you all. love elder berry
I got letters from grandma, kelly, kim, kortine, rachel asay, chris lee,
Elder Berry with Elder and Sister Cranny - Our friends Parents (Roger and Connie Miller)
I’m on the west Africa missionary mom list. My son serves in Accra in the McCarthy Hills district. Anyways, my aunt’s best friends are serving as couple missionaries in Ghana, and they apparently picked up your son to take him to his new area. He looks great.
He’s getting tan already.
My son, Elder Brady Bills has been serving in Accra since Sept. 2009. We are from Orem, Utah. Elder Bills birthday is today. He just turned 21.
He’s our baby, and our first missionary. He loves his mission and the people.
Welcome to the list and to Ghana. It’s quite an experience.
Love, Vicki Bills
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Elder and Sister Terry
Not a problem. He is a great young man... We had our zone training
today and it really packs 4 elders in the back of our truck. Elder
Terry thought you might enjoy some pictures. He shares great. In
fact he is on splits here in our little village and will go back
tomorrow. He is loving the work and doesn't have time to be homesick.
Thanks for sharing him.
Sister Terry
today and it really packs 4 elders in the back of our truck. Elder
Terry thought you might enjoy some pictures. He shares great. In
fact he is on splits here in our little village and will go back
tomorrow. He is loving the work and doesn't have time to be homesick.
Thanks for sharing him.
Sister Terry
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Elder Berry got Letter, I mean he GOT LETTERS!
Sister Berry,
I was in Accra today and picked up 26 letters and a priority mail box
mailed sometime in October with Cards and Halloween Candy. You paid
$13.95...Mailed to the PO Box... Perfect... It came thru good.. No
fees etc. I don't know when it arrived. But about every 3 weeks the
assistants or office elders bring his mail. He will get it a few
hours earlier by me picking it up. I also have a notice for a medium
box, that he has to giver permission for the office elders to pick up.
I'm sure he will share what is in it. Just wanted you to know.
Sister Terry
I was in Accra today and picked up 26 letters and a priority mail box
mailed sometime in October with Cards and Halloween Candy. You paid
$13.95...Mailed to the PO Box... Perfect... It came thru good.. No
fees etc. I don't know when it arrived. But about every 3 weeks the
assistants or office elders bring his mail. He will get it a few
hours earlier by me picking it up. I also have a notice for a medium
box, that he has to giver permission for the office elders to pick up.
I'm sure he will share what is in it. Just wanted you to know.
Sister Terry
Monday, November 1, 2010
November 1, 2010
Where is time going? i have been talking about serving a mission my whole life.. and now i am serving one, but time is flying by, two years simply is not going to be long enough for what i need to do here. i am working as hard as i can in every way possible, i push my "trainer" elder boateng every day, he has been out for 10 months and he is getting a little bit lazy. i am trying to give everything i have to the lord for this short time that i have. we had another baptism on Saturday, we baptized Raheal and her brother which i cant remember his name right now for some reason. But they both came to us when i first got here and wanted to be members of the church. what a blessing they have been to me, Raheal is only 11 and she has been the best example to me, she is the most humble girl, and she is my best friend. One of the things that the Lord wants for me is to be Humble. I thought that i was humbled enough, but this past week changed that. On Tuesday we ran out of water, so i had to go and fetch water out of this hole, so that i could shower for the day! (if you can still call it a shower) Then on Friday we had a hard day teaching, most of our appointments for the day fail before lunch, we only taught two lessons before 2oclock. being vary frustrated we went back to the apartment for lunch. we started to make our lunch when our stove ran out of gas... being frustrated already my comp went and laid on his bed. I dont know if it was my stomach telling me i have to eat, or me just trying to look at the good side of things. so i went out on our porch and built a fire. i made us lunch over a fire, it wasn't the best thing but i did my best, and i didnt give up. i have been humbled more and more ever day. i have been blessed so much in my life, and my eyes are being opened to that. Another thing that i am learning alot is how to be patient, every day i teach people.. some as old as dad that have the intelligence of an 8 year old. there is nothing more frustrating, but its a good thing i had some practice with brittion. people over here only go to school if they have money, then when they only have money for food they stop going to school. it breaks my heart when we teach people that cant read, how can we help some one who cant help themselves. they have to have some way of building their own testimony, but if they cant read the scriptures it is really hard to do that.
This week i almost lost my arm.. no to worry mom but we were in a troho on our way to Nkowkow and i had my arm out the window. i had a bad felling, but i wasn't listing to the spirit. then i had an itch on my other arm, not even 3 seconds after i moved my arm in we got side swiped. It amazing how the spirit works when we are in harms way. mom i am in good hands, the lord is protecting me, just keep praying for me!
When is rains around here, is means "free shower" haha people will just get naked and run out in the rain to shower. funniest thing that i have ever seen in my life. It is amazing the joy that can come from having nothing, this is probably as close as i am going to get to having nothing and i am happier then i have ever been in my life!~ Next Saturday we are having a big baptism, we are now working with 11 people getting them ready for baptism. please pray for me and my companion that we might be able to do everything in our power to help these good poeple. i have been having a hard time learning names, i meet so many new people every day. every one wants to talk to me, just because i am white, and they are always open to listen to our message!
My diet couldn't be worse right now, i dont think that fufu is really the best thing for you to eat, but i dont have many options so i am doing the best with what i have, i eat a lot of rice bread, bananas .. and thats about it. i love and miss you all! keep praying for me!
love elder berry
This week i almost lost my arm.. no to worry mom but we were in a troho on our way to Nkowkow and i had my arm out the window. i had a bad felling, but i wasn't listing to the spirit. then i had an itch on my other arm, not even 3 seconds after i moved my arm in we got side swiped. It amazing how the spirit works when we are in harms way. mom i am in good hands, the lord is protecting me, just keep praying for me!
When is rains around here, is means "free shower" haha people will just get naked and run out in the rain to shower. funniest thing that i have ever seen in my life. It is amazing the joy that can come from having nothing, this is probably as close as i am going to get to having nothing and i am happier then i have ever been in my life!~ Next Saturday we are having a big baptism, we are now working with 11 people getting them ready for baptism. please pray for me and my companion that we might be able to do everything in our power to help these good poeple. i have been having a hard time learning names, i meet so many new people every day. every one wants to talk to me, just because i am white, and they are always open to listen to our message!
My diet couldn't be worse right now, i dont think that fufu is really the best thing for you to eat, but i dont have many options so i am doing the best with what i have, i eat a lot of rice bread, bananas .. and thats about it. i love and miss you all! keep praying for me!
love elder berry
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
A Little Bit More Info from Sister Terry
Elder Terry and I have been out one year coming up Nov. 14th. this
is our 3rd mission as a couple. the first was in East Africa for Two
years (Tanzania as CES missionaries). the second was in South Africa
(Cape Town) as office couple for two years. This one is for 18 months
and we love being in the bush. This is what my husband has always
dreamed about. We live among 5 little branches and my husband serves
in the district presidency. It is a struggling district, but
wonderful people who are so good to us and we have come to love them
very much. We are born and bred in Las Vegas Nevada. Five of our
seven children live inour ward at home along with my parents..
Elder Berry and Elder Boateng, are probably the most isolated
missionaries in the whole mission. Our zone is very spread out. the
two zone leaders work in the same 5 branches we do and they have no
other missionaries, but us, but that is better than none. The Zone
leaders with us are part of the district with Elder Berry, but they
are so far away they don't have district meetings. Our elders do
travel to do interviews up in Konongo. We will proabably see them
abour every other week.
It is fun to share and glad to be of help. I remember when our first
son served.
Love
Sister Terry
is our 3rd mission as a couple. the first was in East Africa for Two
years (Tanzania as CES missionaries). the second was in South Africa
(Cape Town) as office couple for two years. This one is for 18 months
and we love being in the bush. This is what my husband has always
dreamed about. We live among 5 little branches and my husband serves
in the district presidency. It is a struggling district, but
wonderful people who are so good to us and we have come to love them
very much. We are born and bred in Las Vegas Nevada. Five of our
seven children live inour ward at home along with my parents..
Elder Berry and Elder Boateng, are probably the most isolated
missionaries in the whole mission. Our zone is very spread out. the
two zone leaders work in the same 5 branches we do and they have no
other missionaries, but us, but that is better than none. The Zone
leaders with us are part of the district with Elder Berry, but they
are so far away they don't have district meetings. Our elders do
travel to do interviews up in Konongo. We will proabably see them
abour every other week.
It is fun to share and glad to be of help. I remember when our first
son served.
Love
Sister Terry
Email from Sister Terry
Sister Berry,
I am Sister Terry a couple missionary living about two hours from
where Elder Berry is presently living. We are in the same mission
zone and I will see him about every two or three weeks. Yesterday we
met them in Nkawkaw for an interview. We also dropped him off there 2
weeks ago. He has a nice Ghana buzz, but is still a very handsome and
wonderful missionary. We contacted the office and one package and
several letters had arrived. He will get them on the 4th of November
when the Assistants come out to a meeting. He will let you know what
arrived.
I told him I would write and share with you. We have found that if
you mail things in Priority Mail envelopes ($12.75) to mail whatever
you can get in it, and then tape the edges so they don't break open,
he has no charge on this end. Bigger things they look through and
charge a duty or custom... If you have any other questions, please
feel free to ask. Thank you for sharing him with the Ghana Accra
Mission.
Sister Terry
I am Sister Terry a couple missionary living about two hours from
where Elder Berry is presently living. We are in the same mission
zone and I will see him about every two or three weeks. Yesterday we
met them in Nkawkaw for an interview. We also dropped him off there 2
weeks ago. He has a nice Ghana buzz, but is still a very handsome and
wonderful missionary. We contacted the office and one package and
several letters had arrived. He will get them on the 4th of November
when the Assistants come out to a meeting. He will let you know what
arrived.
I told him I would write and share with you. We have found that if
you mail things in Priority Mail envelopes ($12.75) to mail whatever
you can get in it, and then tape the edges so they don't break open,
he has no charge on this end. Bigger things they look through and
charge a duty or custom... If you have any other questions, please
feel free to ask. Thank you for sharing him with the Ghana Accra
Mission.
Sister Terry
Monday, October 25, 2010
October 25, 2010
wow it is so good to hear from so many of you! sounds like everything is going great back home. except one thing and that would be the weather. i would hate you be all you in utah hahaha snow couldnt sound worse to me! i love the weather here, nothing wrong with sun shine everyday with a chance of rain.
Things i forgot to put in last weeks letter:
i really wish i woulda took H.T more seriously, what a blessing that was to go on that! So many good things came from that! i love telling people that i have been to where Joseph smith saw heavenly father and Jesus. Here when the wind starts to blow, you run for cover because you only have about 30 seconds till its starts to dump. The rain is amazing though, and the lightning storms are unreal! On my way out to my area (as i just left the MTC) we were in traffic and i watch a guy bump into the back of anther car.. guys from other cars got out and pulled this man out of his car and started to beat him.... normally in the united states you just ask for their information.. but here you just punch him till your car gets fixed. That got me really excited to leave the mtc.. ha not. Driving on the free way is the funniest thing ever.. you see people (not just guys but girls) on the side of the road just peeing. its completely normal here. Ever once and a while the lights will go out, and it is the best time to look at the stars, the sky here at night is unreal. there are so many starts and the moon is always huge. we are all under the same moon still, it just looks better from here:) haha
So i have learned how to wash my cloths in a bucket, well i tried. i dont think that my white shirts will ever be as white as they were. i cooked for the fist time on monday, and it was horrid. i thought i new how to cook. but really i dont, and i dont have much to work with in the kitchen. i have been craving french toast and scones. I am the only white man for miles, probably till the next missionary which is 3 hours drive away. my average day consist of mountain biking, teaching lessons, and playing soccer with the little kids while my comp is getting mad at me.. haha he is always way to serious and i cant help that the kids just love me.. haha they always want to play and make fun of me. this week i pounded fufu, holy what a work out that is. it takes about two hours from start to finish, and about 30 mins of pounding. people here have nothing, this is a third world country but every one has cell phones.. haha so its not just americans that cant live with out them anymore.. its the world. this is the best place on earth to see shooting starts, when we are out at night i cant focus cause i am always watching the sky. i have learned how to speak some twi and i am going to give my testimony in twi next month. wish me luck!
this week we got 8 people to commit to being baptized next month, and we are working really hard to get 3 more this week.
i miss you all and love hearing about home
love elder berry.
i ran our of time that's why this letter is short.
Things i forgot to put in last weeks letter:
i really wish i woulda took H.T more seriously, what a blessing that was to go on that! So many good things came from that! i love telling people that i have been to where Joseph smith saw heavenly father and Jesus. Here when the wind starts to blow, you run for cover because you only have about 30 seconds till its starts to dump. The rain is amazing though, and the lightning storms are unreal! On my way out to my area (as i just left the MTC) we were in traffic and i watch a guy bump into the back of anther car.. guys from other cars got out and pulled this man out of his car and started to beat him.... normally in the united states you just ask for their information.. but here you just punch him till your car gets fixed. That got me really excited to leave the mtc.. ha not. Driving on the free way is the funniest thing ever.. you see people (not just guys but girls) on the side of the road just peeing. its completely normal here. Ever once and a while the lights will go out, and it is the best time to look at the stars, the sky here at night is unreal. there are so many starts and the moon is always huge. we are all under the same moon still, it just looks better from here:) haha
So i have learned how to wash my cloths in a bucket, well i tried. i dont think that my white shirts will ever be as white as they were. i cooked for the fist time on monday, and it was horrid. i thought i new how to cook. but really i dont, and i dont have much to work with in the kitchen. i have been craving french toast and scones. I am the only white man for miles, probably till the next missionary which is 3 hours drive away. my average day consist of mountain biking, teaching lessons, and playing soccer with the little kids while my comp is getting mad at me.. haha he is always way to serious and i cant help that the kids just love me.. haha they always want to play and make fun of me. this week i pounded fufu, holy what a work out that is. it takes about two hours from start to finish, and about 30 mins of pounding. people here have nothing, this is a third world country but every one has cell phones.. haha so its not just americans that cant live with out them anymore.. its the world. this is the best place on earth to see shooting starts, when we are out at night i cant focus cause i am always watching the sky. i have learned how to speak some twi and i am going to give my testimony in twi next month. wish me luck!
this week we got 8 people to commit to being baptized next month, and we are working really hard to get 3 more this week.
i miss you all and love hearing about home
love elder berry.
i ran our of time that's why this letter is short.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
We Got "PICTURES"
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| President and Sister Byron L. Smith and Elder Brady on Oct 13, 2010 |
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| Elder Berry and His Companion Elder Ecleki on gym time, playing some bol. |
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| Elder Berry, Elder Ecleki, and Elder Avitey |
Monday, October 18, 2010
First Email From Ghana - First Area is Konongo "the Bush"
Hey Family! hope you have a good day! I am just at the cafe, but I for got all my notes and things I wanted to say in this email. Hope every thing is going well! I am doing good. Never been so humble in my life, ha but really is amazing here. I am gonna send another email, and try to remember every thing I wanted to say! I miss you all. and I cant remember my church email, so hopefully I dont get in trouble for using Gmail.
things to send if you love me.
candy*** star burst and thing sweet and American
Protein**
lead for that multi color pencil
pictures from HT, Friends, Temples, family, any thing i dont have.
live strong band
C.d with hymns.. Brody you know what to do with that
face wash
*importance
I have so many things to write about but I forgot my note sheet with every thing on it. But the mission has been great so far. I love Africa, I would consider living here if you could find clean water and food every where, but you can't really trust anything. The MTC was great I learned a lot, probably more then I did in all 13 years of school I attended. (but that's not hard to beat) My companion was from Nigeria, and he woke up at 5 the first morning to iron my shirt for the day.. what a stud. He told me every day that he loved me and was going to miss me. We started going out and teaching people in the MTC, but the days that they gave us to go out we only had two hours, which is not enough time at all, we taught a lot of people and things were going great, but if we had one maybe two more days, me and my comp woulda had two maybe three baptisms in the MTC. We had to turn our investigators over to the missionaries that where assigned to that area, so hopefully they are still doing good. Boy do I miss moms cooking! I haven't had anything close to it this whole time. I did gain 15 pounds in the MTC, they feed us a lot and I worked out every day with elder Okeke.
The first night of being out of the MTC I went to some members home, and they made me fufu. wow probably one of the hardest things I have ever had to eat in my life. haha I wasn't even chewing just swallowing and I still almost threw it up. I miss In & Out. My companion is from Ghana, which is both good and bad. Good because he knows the area and how to talk to people who don't speak English. Bad because he likes to eat from the street vendors, and Americans cant eat out there or they get sick. Oh and I am out in what we call the BUSH. I am 5 hours out side of the city in a village. My area is two main villages about an hour apart, so ever other day we take a troho to the other village. Most missionary's don't ever serve in the bush, but me, I get to for my first area. I get remind about home about every day, every one listens to Akon, Eminem, shaggy etc. I got the most home sick when we were in a troho, and the driver was bumping American country. Two of my all time favorite songs were played, something like that, and sold.... haha all the good memories came rushing back from those songs.
Saturday we had a baptism, we baptized 3 converts. I cant take much credit for those ones even though I did teach them all lessons. But we have 5 investigators with dates and i can take credit for those. We found and started teaching them on Thursday. Hopefully they all will go threw and not pull out. But I have faith in them, they are all really excited about our church, just don't want to leave theirs, so we are working on that. My apartment.... imagine the worst motel, college apartment that you have ever seen, times that by 3 and then put it in a third world country. Its like a motel I have to go outside to get to another room, but we have the whole second level to ourselves. I will have to send picture so you can witness all the spiders, and bugs that live with me. I have seen monkeys almost every time we go out in to the mountains, and lizards are every where, most could eat a small cat and some could eat shatner.
There is a song in the green hymn book that I would like every one that is reading this, to read or sing.. Because I have been given much. I wish I could go back one year and just start counting all the blessings in my life that I took for granted. We live in a great country, we have homes that have clean water, power that will turn on every time that we flip the switch, stores were we can buy food that is clean and wont make us sick. Mom you sent me with 25 NICE white shirts. That's more shirts then people over here have in their live time all together. We have been blessed so much we often dont realize what our Lord has done for us. Kids will go to school, until they get low on money and then they will stop going till the have enough to continue, and they will pick up right were they left off. I have met 20 year olds that haven't finished high school yet. I wish I woulda taking school more seriously, and wanted to learn every thing I can. Knowledge is power. I cant wait to go to college and want to learn every thing that I can. It is so hard to teach people that have no education, most of them cant speak English, and none of them can read.
Its amazing how much I have changed already. In the MTC the mission president asked me "how have you changed" I simply said I am not the same, every thing about me is different. Before I left home EVERY thing was about I was always thinking about my self and what I wanted. when I met these kids from Africa, most came with on bag ( a bag I would put my ball cloths in) and that's all they had.. I came with 2 suit cases weighing 50 pounds each and my carry on. I have been given so much, so I two must give.
I had so much to say but I forgot my notes
Hopefully this makes sense my grammar is getting really bad, talking with an African every day
miss you all. Love Elder Berry
k thanks. I cant get letters out where I am, and I still haven't heard from any family. I have only got two letters, one from the bishop
things to send if you love me.
candy*** star burst and thing sweet and American
Protein**
lead for that multi color pencil
pictures from HT, Friends, Temples, family, any thing i dont have.
live strong band
C.d with hymns.. Brody you know what to do with that
face wash
*importance
I have so many things to write about but I forgot my note sheet with every thing on it. But the mission has been great so far. I love Africa, I would consider living here if you could find clean water and food every where, but you can't really trust anything. The MTC was great I learned a lot, probably more then I did in all 13 years of school I attended. (but that's not hard to beat) My companion was from Nigeria, and he woke up at 5 the first morning to iron my shirt for the day.. what a stud. He told me every day that he loved me and was going to miss me. We started going out and teaching people in the MTC, but the days that they gave us to go out we only had two hours, which is not enough time at all, we taught a lot of people and things were going great, but if we had one maybe two more days, me and my comp woulda had two maybe three baptisms in the MTC. We had to turn our investigators over to the missionaries that where assigned to that area, so hopefully they are still doing good. Boy do I miss moms cooking! I haven't had anything close to it this whole time. I did gain 15 pounds in the MTC, they feed us a lot and I worked out every day with elder Okeke.
The first night of being out of the MTC I went to some members home, and they made me fufu. wow probably one of the hardest things I have ever had to eat in my life. haha I wasn't even chewing just swallowing and I still almost threw it up. I miss In & Out. My companion is from Ghana, which is both good and bad. Good because he knows the area and how to talk to people who don't speak English. Bad because he likes to eat from the street vendors, and Americans cant eat out there or they get sick. Oh and I am out in what we call the BUSH. I am 5 hours out side of the city in a village. My area is two main villages about an hour apart, so ever other day we take a troho to the other village. Most missionary's don't ever serve in the bush, but me, I get to for my first area. I get remind about home about every day, every one listens to Akon, Eminem, shaggy etc. I got the most home sick when we were in a troho, and the driver was bumping American country. Two of my all time favorite songs were played, something like that, and sold.... haha all the good memories came rushing back from those songs.
Saturday we had a baptism, we baptized 3 converts. I cant take much credit for those ones even though I did teach them all lessons. But we have 5 investigators with dates and i can take credit for those. We found and started teaching them on Thursday. Hopefully they all will go threw and not pull out. But I have faith in them, they are all really excited about our church, just don't want to leave theirs, so we are working on that. My apartment.... imagine the worst motel, college apartment that you have ever seen, times that by 3 and then put it in a third world country. Its like a motel I have to go outside to get to another room, but we have the whole second level to ourselves. I will have to send picture so you can witness all the spiders, and bugs that live with me. I have seen monkeys almost every time we go out in to the mountains, and lizards are every where, most could eat a small cat and some could eat shatner.
There is a song in the green hymn book that I would like every one that is reading this, to read or sing.. Because I have been given much. I wish I could go back one year and just start counting all the blessings in my life that I took for granted. We live in a great country, we have homes that have clean water, power that will turn on every time that we flip the switch, stores were we can buy food that is clean and wont make us sick. Mom you sent me with 25 NICE white shirts. That's more shirts then people over here have in their live time all together. We have been blessed so much we often dont realize what our Lord has done for us. Kids will go to school, until they get low on money and then they will stop going till the have enough to continue, and they will pick up right were they left off. I have met 20 year olds that haven't finished high school yet. I wish I woulda taking school more seriously, and wanted to learn every thing I can. Knowledge is power. I cant wait to go to college and want to learn every thing that I can. It is so hard to teach people that have no education, most of them cant speak English, and none of them can read.
Its amazing how much I have changed already. In the MTC the mission president asked me "how have you changed" I simply said I am not the same, every thing about me is different. Before I left home EVERY thing was about I was always thinking about my self and what I wanted. when I met these kids from Africa, most came with on bag ( a bag I would put my ball cloths in) and that's all they had.. I came with 2 suit cases weighing 50 pounds each and my carry on. I have been given so much, so I two must give.
I had so much to say but I forgot my notes
Hopefully this makes sense my grammar is getting really bad, talking with an African every day
miss you all. Love Elder Berry
k thanks. I cant get letters out where I am, and I still haven't heard from any family. I have only got two letters, one from the bishop
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
LETTERS, WE ALL GOT LETTERS
Braxton, Bronson, Britton, and Girls,
I miss you guys! Keep working hard in school. Do your homework everyday so you can be smart! Thanks for all your prayers, they are helping so much and I can feel them. Boys keep helping mom keep the house clean, and be sure to keep the peace in the home. Girls keep your room picked up so mom doesn't have to get upset. Be sure to do your best always and remember who you are. Hollie and Miriah please remember me! Will keep you guys updated on every thing. Braxton, Bronson and Brit, we do hard things so keep it up. Don't let any one hear you complain ever. Love you all, Love Elder Berry
Mom and Dad
By the time you get this I will probably have emailed you maybe a couple of times. But the MTC is starting to drag, I have learned a lot and the spirit is great but we sit way to much. I am ready to get out and start teaching the people. And the food here...well I am surprised I an still alive. I can't wait to cook my own food. We got to watch conference live yesterday and tonight, it was really good. I got a lot our of it. It probably has something to do with being in the MTC, or maybe actually watching it with no ipod or cell phone and not falling asleep. We went to the temple this week, I finally felt at home 8000 miles from home. The temple is really pretty and one of the smaller ones.. I think I took living where we do for granted, we have been so blessed with temples so close. Everything is going good. I will keep you more updated when I can email. Writing letters takes to long. So can you send me some stuff! Anything American candy, and some protein bars, pictures and I need you to send some cash with the other kid from Alpine when he comes. Thanks so much for everything. I love you and miss you! Love Elder Berry
I miss you guys! Keep working hard in school. Do your homework everyday so you can be smart! Thanks for all your prayers, they are helping so much and I can feel them. Boys keep helping mom keep the house clean, and be sure to keep the peace in the home. Girls keep your room picked up so mom doesn't have to get upset. Be sure to do your best always and remember who you are. Hollie and Miriah please remember me! Will keep you guys updated on every thing. Braxton, Bronson and Brit, we do hard things so keep it up. Don't let any one hear you complain ever. Love you all, Love Elder Berry
Mom and Dad
By the time you get this I will probably have emailed you maybe a couple of times. But the MTC is starting to drag, I have learned a lot and the spirit is great but we sit way to much. I am ready to get out and start teaching the people. And the food here...well I am surprised I an still alive. I can't wait to cook my own food. We got to watch conference live yesterday and tonight, it was really good. I got a lot our of it. It probably has something to do with being in the MTC, or maybe actually watching it with no ipod or cell phone and not falling asleep. We went to the temple this week, I finally felt at home 8000 miles from home. The temple is really pretty and one of the smaller ones.. I think I took living where we do for granted, we have been so blessed with temples so close. Everything is going good. I will keep you more updated when I can email. Writing letters takes to long. So can you send me some stuff! Anything American candy, and some protein bars, pictures and I need you to send some cash with the other kid from Alpine when he comes. Thanks so much for everything. I love you and miss you! Love Elder Berry
Thursday, October 7, 2010
First Letter Home - 14 days
Family
Things are going good, today is September 26, so it will probably be October before you get this. My companions name is Elder Nkoro, He's from Nigeria along with half the MTC. There is just me and the other two white Elders. The Africans are very hard to understand, they speak with some kind of slang that I don't get the first time, but it goes both ways everyone is always repeating themselves. My companion tells me he loves me everyday and hes going to miss me. He only has one pair of pants, one long sleeve and one short sleeve shirt. He is the most humble kid I know, well not kid. I'm the youngest person here, most of the Africans are older than 21. It's rained everyday, and we play soccer in the mud yesterday. If the food I'm eating doesn't kill me, fast Sunday will, they are making us fast for a full 24 hours. The food is bad, yesterday we had some African oatmeal (Nothing close to oatmeal) and a Hot dog for breakfast. The first day they taught us how to eat the bones, ya I'm not planning on eating them. I am already having a hard time swallowing water. I feel like my throat is swollen, but that just might be because of the change in foods. It's been hard to adjust to the time over here I can sleep at night but then I struggle staying up during class. Best wishes for everything, I love you all!
Love, Elder Berry
Things are going good, today is September 26, so it will probably be October before you get this. My companions name is Elder Nkoro, He's from Nigeria along with half the MTC. There is just me and the other two white Elders. The Africans are very hard to understand, they speak with some kind of slang that I don't get the first time, but it goes both ways everyone is always repeating themselves. My companion tells me he loves me everyday and hes going to miss me. He only has one pair of pants, one long sleeve and one short sleeve shirt. He is the most humble kid I know, well not kid. I'm the youngest person here, most of the Africans are older than 21. It's rained everyday, and we play soccer in the mud yesterday. If the food I'm eating doesn't kill me, fast Sunday will, they are making us fast for a full 24 hours. The food is bad, yesterday we had some African oatmeal (Nothing close to oatmeal) and a Hot dog for breakfast. The first day they taught us how to eat the bones, ya I'm not planning on eating them. I am already having a hard time swallowing water. I feel like my throat is swollen, but that just might be because of the change in foods. It's been hard to adjust to the time over here I can sleep at night but then I struggle staying up during class. Best wishes for everything, I love you all!
Love, Elder Berry
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Writing to Elder Berry
The MTC in Ghana
Elder Brady Todd Berry
Ghana Accra Mission
Ghana Mission Training Center
Community 10
Hospital Road
Tema
Ghana
Pouch Mail - One piece of Paper folded, no envelopes, just taped
Elder Brady Todd Berry
Ghana Accra Mission
P.O. Box 30150
Salt Lake City, UT 84130
emailing options;
brady.berry@myldsmail.net
dearelder.com
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Elder Brady Todd Berry
Ghana Accra Mission
Ghana Mission Training Center
Community 10
Hospital Road
Tema
Ghana
Pouch Mail - One piece of Paper folded, no envelopes, just taped
Elder Brady Todd Berry
Ghana Accra Mission
P.O. Box 30150
Salt Lake City, UT 84130
emailing options;
brady.berry@myldsmail.net
dearelder.com
How does DearElder.com work with the pouch mail department to get letters to the missionaries?
The Pouch Department only sends one package per week to each mission. The deadline on the DearElder website to submit a pouch letter is 12 midnight (MST) on Sundays, which is technically 12am on Monday morning. We print, process, and deliver your letters to the Pouch Mail center in Salt Lake by 9am on Monday. The letters are sorted by mission and mailed out on Tuesdays.
We are aware of all the pouch mail regulations, including no envelopes, tri-folding, tabbing closed, etc. We follow all the pouch mail regulations, as outlined by the LDS Church.
DearElder.com is fully compliant with the USPS Private Express Statutes. Property postage is applied to all mail delivered to the Pouch Mail Department.
Monday, September 27, 2010
The Big Weekend and Last Week - Family-Friends-Fun
When Brady went to the temple for the first time,
Grandpa Berry officiated in the session we were in.
Grandpa Berry officiated in the session we were in.
On September 18, 2010, Brady had the privilege of Baptizing Britton
His first Baptism.
His first Baptism.
Brady saying good-bye to Grandma Parrish, She had been in WY with Aunt Jill waiting for the baby to come, she left to come home to the baptism and to hear Brady talk and as soon as they left WY, Jill had her baby. So early Monday morning Grandma flew back to WY to be with Jill and her kids.
As we finished up all the last minute shopping, we were able to go to lunch with Kofee, (who is from Ghana), Tyler and Camille, and Grandpa. Kofee played soccer last year at Lone Peak, he told Brady he will love the food there, he misses the food so much.
On Tuesday before Brady left, He and I(Sherri) headed to Manti to do a session. After we were done, His friend Ryan(Ryno) came and they went and did Baptisms for the Dead. If was a very neat experience for me to watch as Brady baptized Ryno.
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