Emailing with the Parents

*Editors note*

Sometimes when Jordan is online emailing us, we are on at the the same time so can shoot emails back and forth (I call it a tender mercy).  Here is our conversation from this last week.  Hope you enjoy it! :)

~Andrea

Jordan:  Madre!! Hey, I got 2 of your packages, the first one last week (which I'm sad to say I have already emptied, with the help of the Elders in my apartment) and the 2nd one today. Thank you sooo much for them, they are perfect!!

Mom:  Did you get the birthday package with the Halloween stuff?

Jordan:  Yes!! And the other Elders in my apartment were pleasantly surprised

for their goodies as well (although Elder Kirumira left right before the package arrived, so I'm saving his goodies until we see him at the Christmas devotional on the 13th of Dec.) I also got the package with the hot chocolate and other stuff in it today. I only opened a little part, so I can't see all of it, but it looks good haha.

Mom:  I’m glad you liked it all! What are your plans for Thanksgiving?

Jordan:  About thanksgiving, the Ivie's are bringing us potatoes and coleslaw, while the other Elders in the apartment want to go for some cat....they originally wanted dog, but Elder Lee and I are set against that haha. And for Christmas...skypeing depends on whether or not we can use a members laptop. So, that's basically a no for our area haha, but I'll find out for sure.

Mom:  Are you really having cat?

Let me know about calling on Christmas!  I am so excited to talk to you!!

How are things going with your investigators?  How are the Elders in your

apartment?  How are you feeling?

Jordan:  As for the cat situation...I think I'll probably try in all honesty, I've heard from a lot of Elders that cat is pretty good (apparently dog is the best meat there is though...still not having that).

We actually dropped a lot of investigators because they weren't progressing\keeping their commitments etc. But that's ok, because now

we have time to focus on those who are serious, and the seed has been

planted in the ones we dropped, someone else will just harvest them.

Florence hasn't come to church for a month now, even after we went and

resolved concerns TWICE...so Elder Lee and I are looking at the

unhappy prospect of dropping her as well. On the other hand, we have a

candidate named John Yeboah who is SWEET!!! He is set for this Saturday and is soooo committed!! He has a 14 yr. old daughter named Sarah who we're planning on baptizing on the 14th, with her dad being the baptizer.

My stomach is pain free now, which I think means I've become accustomed to Ghana haha.

Mom:  What do you think of the headlamp I sent you?

Jordan:  Hahaha I got the headlamp, which the other Elders teased me about it a little just because of the idea of me proselyting in it, but the power goes out in our apartment so much that I can use it around our apartment, outside of our apartment though...probably not haha, but just because it might take away from the missionary appearance.

Oh, and tell dad that we have a mission goal of 5 gospel conversations a day, and I now can do them pretty much all in Fante (very basic Fante, but Fante all the same haha)

Dad:  Oh yeah well Jordan this is Dad,  Will you be speaking Fante in other parts of your mission as well?

Jordan:  Oh, hey dad haha. Fante is dominant in the Cape Coast mission, but

they speak a lot of chi as well, which is similar to fante, so yes, I'll be using Fante a lot.  Can you tell me about your mission? Who you trained, your experiences? That's all for today, gotta go, love ya bye!!!!