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Good Whatever time it is there Family! 

Thank you all for the stories and family updates! I got an email from Steven today about it. It is very exciting indeed! 

I am much grateful to all of you for your love and support. One of the things I really enjoyed about emailing this week was receiving talks from dad written by dad and Danielle. They were both very nice and I learned a lot from them.

This week was not easy in terms of missionary work. My companion is very stubborn and thinks that since I came to meet him in Obuasi, he is in charge. He is also older than me which is making things extra difficult for me. Now I write these things to preface a testimony. Through all of the difficult days, the greatest source of help has come from studying about Jesus Christ. One thing that our mission president has counseled us to do is study a scripture about Christ every day. In doing that, I have found many scriptures that I have been able to use in teaching and also to use to illustrate a topic to my companion. Through studying these scriptures on Christ, I have grown in my appreciation of the Saviour more and more. One verse that I have grown to love is in John. I have to have my scriptures in order to tell you the exact place but I can quote it "I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live". Why this verse means more to me is that to me it can be taken two ways. The obvious one is through Christ we will all be resurrected and live. The other is dealing with spiritual death. Though we are all dead because of sin, we can all live again and have eternal life through Jesus Christ our lord and Redeemer. I know he lives and loves us all.

Elder Walch

Enjoying life.

Because of time this week, my email will be shorter. 

All is going well. I am really enjoying life right now and am very happy to hear from all of you that you are well. I pray for you all everyday and love you each very much.

I  gave a talk this Sunday. On obedience! Na spirit de talk me say what ting I de talk. I go fi jus say Obedience and no wahala der watiase. Yoooooooo. Anyways that was a little something called pigeon. I'll speak it when I get home. 

Today for p-day I am going to play a game football so I'll score a goal for you!

Please continue to pray for this area. We are struggling to find serious people to teach. Some days we just walk from 10 to 8 and find no one. It isn't easy, but it was never easy for the Saviour so why should I complain. 

I love the Lord and am very grateful for all his blessings and the miracles he has done for me in my life.

I love you tons! Until next week!

Elder Walch

His Glorious Name!

Hey family!

I am glad you appreciate the snail story. It was nicer than I thought it would be!

Anyways thank you all so much for all that you do! I love and am grateful for each and everyone of you.

The teaching here in Obuasi Asonkore 2 is going well. We have found a lot of people and hopefully they will all be serious. We just had a baptism yesterday of a 17 year old boy named Samuel. His sister is Constance who was just baptized in January. 

Right now we are teaching a man named Richard Kuma. He is very powerful. He reads all the assignments we give him and is just very cool and everything! I love that man. He should be baptized by the end of this month or the beginning of next month if things go as planned. We also just started to teach a woman named Miriam. 

 When she called us over one night on our way home, we didn't expect anything. We came back yesterday and she told us she knows nothing of Jesus Christ and  feels like she needs to know about him. My companion is a younger missionary than me and so whenever there is a question he thinks is too hard, he just looks at me and waits. So I taught the whole time and testified of Jesus Christ as the Son of God. By the time the lesson was over, She committed to get herself a bible and is eagerly waiting for us to come again. This story brought to my mind just now something that President Cosgrave has taught us: even in the name of Jesus Christ there is power. Nothing bad that you think of can ever stay if you just simply think His name. I know that more than just the name of Jesus Christ is needed to compel someone to follow him. It takes a witness of His name through the Holy Ghost that allows us to know exactly for sure His everlasting love for us. I am so grateful to be a witness here of His glorious name and for the privilege it is to wear display on my chest day by day. I love Him and I know that he lives, and just as Elder Holland said in this past conference, He loves me. 

I love you all tons!

Elder Walch

Oh Snail!!!

I am very glad that you enjoyed my pictures.  

Well I am happy . I love you all and would like more family updates. 

I hope you all enjoyed general conference! I was able to watch the second half of the Saturday morning live along with the sunday morning live. It was very good to be nourished by the words of a living prophet. I know and I can testify with all the force of my being that Thomas Spencer Monson is the Lord's living prophet here on this earth this day. I know that his counselors are called of God and will lead us and guide only according to God's words. 

Anyways, All is going well. My companion makes great food and in the market one day I saw some snail. The next week, we wanted to make Kontomere stew. The meat we wanted was fish. Elder Naawu also know how to prepare snail! We got it and guess what?! It was very nice. Really honestly it was. The pictures are of one snail. we out in five. So nice.The other picture is of The stew with boiled yam. 

I love this gospel and oh how it has blessed my life. I am here for Jesus Christ and the salvation of our brothers and sisters. I know that this work is divine!

Elder Walch