In life, we come across many paths. Whatever crossroads may come our way, choose to find joy in your journey. The path may not lead you in the way you expected. Your path might be flat and easy or it might be bumpy and full of hills. But you never know where it might lead! You can't always choose where your path may take you but you can choose your attitude. Heavenly Father knows what path will help you become the person He wants you to be. Trust His path for you.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Homework, Sleep, and General Conference


Writing on this blog every week reminds me of when I would email home every week when I was on my mission. Like those mission emails, some weeks you have SO much to write about. And other weeks, like this one, there is not much to say.

I didn’t do any traveling this weekend because I had a lot of school work to catch up on. I practiced my drums, wrote two papers, and got caught up on some sleep!

On Saturday morning I went to the Adenta Stake Primary Music Festival. All of the primary groups in the stake came together for a morning of musical sharing. All 9 wards/branches sang the SAME two songs. By the end of the event, I was more than ready to not hear “Nephi’s Courage” for a while haha. Although I love being involved with the primary, I think that I am a little timid around the children. According to the practices here in Ghana, any adult has the right/responsibility for the care and discipline of a child. I think that it just makes me a little nervous to pick up a child who I don’t know or to take a child out of the classroom when they are misbehaving. Hopefully I will be able to feel more comfortable as I spend more time with them.
Today (Sunday) we had our own version of General Conference. Because the churches here do not receive the conference broadcast when it occurs in October, the members here wait for the DVDs to arrive and then they watch two of the sessions on the first Sunday in November at the church building. It was really nice to spend the day watching the conference sessions. It made me a little homesick for our “traditional” conference weekend of coming home from school to spend time with the family. But there is always next conference!

The last piece of news that I have to share with you… I will be spending 5 days in London on my way home from Ghana! My mom has worked really hard to call the airlines and rearrange my plane ticket to leave Accra to London on December 16th and then still catch my flight home from London to the USA on December 21st! I will be traveling with my friends Kristen and Annie and we will get a chance to tour around London for a few days! I was really sad when I did not get to spend time in London on my way to Ghana, especially because the Olympics were happening at the time… But now I get to go on my way home! I am already preparing myself to go from 80+ degree weather to the lovely England winter haha.

The time I am spending here is going by so quickly.  I hope that everyone is doing well and is having a wonderful week!
(Sorry there are not any pictures posted this week. I will do better next time!)

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