When I joined
the church I had a testimony of the gospel but I didn’t want to be fully
involved in church activities because I felt it would take much of my time. I attended
sacrament meeting and didn’t attend any other meeting again. There was an
association called Latter-day Saints Students Association (LDSSA) which was for
the student members of the church and I attended all theirs activities and it
was through one such activity that I decided to attend all my church meetings.
It was a cleaning exercise to clean the chapel.
During the exercise I “came out of my shell” and had a long chat with two
returned missionaries, brothers, Felix Ewusi and Joshua Gbetoryedzie, they
talked about their mission experiences and how attending church activities like
institute will help me to develop greater faith in the Lord. I started to come
to church regularly and also started to attend institute. That year in
institute we were learning Doctrine and Covenants and Preparing for an Eternal
Marriage. All this while, my family didn’t know that I had joined of the church.
When I came home for the Christmas holidays I attended
church with my mom but I didn’t fill fulfill and I didn’t like the place even
though I had been there several times. I was scared to tell my mom I had left
the Presbyterian Church. I decided against telling her. I was eager to return
to school so I could have the opportunity to partake of the sacrament again. During
the second semester at school LDSSA-KNUST visited the Accra Ghana Temple it was
the one of the greatest feeling I had ever had in my life. The peace I felt
while in the temple and on its sacred grounds was amazing and can’t be
described in writing. I decided to get a limited-use Recommend so as to enable
me to visit the Temple often since it was close to my house.
Accra Ghana Temple
When I came
home for the long vacation I decided to start reading the Book of Mormon cover
to cover. It was quite difficult at the start but as I pressed on I was able to
finish it in December. In August, when I returned to school I was called as a
ward missionary and later on in October I was called as a counselor to the
Elder’s Quorum President. I felt at that time I was too new to be called to
such a calling so I decided not to accept it, but I decided to pray before
declining the calling. During sacrament meeting that day one of the speakers spoke
about callings and said whoever the Lord calls he qualifies. There and then my
answer came to me and I knew what to do. Then another Christmas came and I returned
home.
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