From November 29, 2010: On Tuesday the sister missionaries Siter Udoh from Nigeria and Sister Oduro from Ghana got upset because they were told that they can't continue to teach the people they were seeing because they all lived in the other missionaries area (Missionaries are assigned to a designated area and are responsible for the people inside that area. The maturity from them is very low. Whenever something doesn't go as they would want it they pout for days. On Sunday they got upset because the four male missionaries in the district (a grouping of several areas given to a companionship), the ones I live with didn't sign their journal like everyone else. We didn't have much to write to them so we each wrote a few lines sideways and Elder Silika drew some block letters, and apparently this was a no no. On Wednesday the apartment was told that no one would be transferred to another area and will be here for a bit longer (each transfer lasts six weeks).
Wednesday I hit my two month mark. The individual days in the week are long but the weeks in the months go by like a blur. In December the Mission is busy with meetings and holiday stuff so this month will go by fast.
Thursday was Thanksgiving so the apartment made some mashed potatoes from the packaged potatoes Elder Boyd had. In addition we also bought some frozen french fries so we cooked that too. It was really good the first day, but the mashed potatoes the next two days weren't as good. All in all though like any other day here Thanksgiving just came and went.
I feel that my teaching as developed a lot from when I got here and I'm excited to see how it will be when I'm done in Ghana. I'm excited to see how I have changed compared to who I was before I left the states. Anyway, Elder Orchard and I stopped by a members house looking for a person we have been teaching and she served us some fufuo. After we ate she also brought out an unopened bottle of Gin. Elder Orchard and I were a bit surprised because as members we don't drink. We took a picture of the meal, thanking her and left.
On Friday Elder Boyd and I when on a split on my area (I went with Elder Boyd and Elder Orchard went with Elder Silika). We walked a lot trying to find our investigators,but it was fun spending the day with him.
On Saturday Elder Orchard and I baptized Isaac Ofie. When we got to the church the baptisimal clothes were locked in a closet and because no church leadership was there because they traveled four hours to a funeral. (Funerals, weddings and birthdays are excuses for Ghanaians to stop what they are doing and party. Last week a drunk lady at a funeral humped me as I was passing so that was fun). So we didn't have a key. Elder Orchard and I had to travel thirty minutes to the next ward to pick up other baptism clothes. We had the baptism in the end so it was good. Later that night there was a rain storm. Elder Orchard and I ran out of money so we walked/ran up to our apartment. we rapped our things in our bags in plastic bags so they didn't get wet, but we were soaked when we got to the apartment 40 minuets later. The lightning was really close too so it was interesting to see the night light up.
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