Tuesday we had our district meeting. Our district has now moved up to eight missionaries, one of them being Elder Berry. Elder Berry came to Ghana at the same time so it is fun talking to him about where we are after 5.5 months here. later in the day we met our investigator at his friend's barber shop that has AC. We sat in there for a bit teaching them and eating some rice they fed us. We also went out to visit our investigators Abigail Yenfo and Godfrd Mensah. We talked to them about what they have learned, but we mostly just spent the time developing a relationship with them. Abigail has been going to literacy class at the church so we had a lot of fun teaching her Head shoulders Knees and Toes. She got a kick out of it too.
Wednesday was the day Elder Jones and I decided that it is way too hot in Ghana. The first several hours out in the day (we leave the apartment at 10) we can feel the suns rays cook our skin. I know that I have gotten used to the climate here, but it's way too hot. I checked the weather right now and it says it feels like 97F, oh well life goes on. The best lesson we had was with Victor Sosu. We have been meeting with him for a few weeks. Victor said while he was on a tro tro he was reading our book as a way to pass time when he finally took it seriously and felt it was true. He also said he had a dream with two angels telling him our message was true. However he didn't come to church on Sunday like he said he had to so we will see what he says this time.
Thursday I started my 24 hour split with Elder Stuart Withers from Idaho Falls, Idaho. We started at 5pm and were in his area until 8.
Up to 5pm on Friday I was with Elder Withers. After the split ended we took our investigator Michael Addo to a young single adult activity. There was music, food, and dirty filthy dancing for a church activity. Michael had a fun time socializing with the guys and flirting with the girls. He told the other investigators and the barber shop with AC the fun he had. For some reason though none of them came to church like they said.
Well the highlight on Saturday was our recent convert Philomena telling Elder Jones that she wanted to visit him at our apartment alone, in his pajamas, with the bedroom clean. We had a lot of fun trying to tell her how we can't have visitors over. We eventually got the situation figured out. When we talk to Philomena we use our Ghanaian English, but switch to our regular English when we talk to each other, usually about Philomena so she doesn't understand what we are saying. On Sunday I remembered that she worked at hotels in Holland for nine years. We then talked to her in our American English to find out that she can understand every word we say leading us to to believe that when we talk to each other at her shop she can actually understand what we are saying. Philomena was sent to the Aboagyes by the ward to fellowship the Aboagye family after they didn't come to church this Sunday because the father had stomach pains. We joke about Philomena, but in reality we couldn't be more impressed with her and her progress in the church.
Sunday was when the poop hit the fan. Normally the poop always covers the fan, but on Sunday we felt that there was an abnormal amount. We started off the day by walking with some investigators that decided not to come to church with us. As we parted ways and kept walking to the church our investigator Tei pulls up in his fathers car offering to give us a ride to the tro tro station. Tei said he had to change, but he would be coming with his friends, Sulo Tabor and Richard Acqua to Church. For some reason that we haven't identified none of them came to church. It got better though when a former investigator we met on the tro tro paid our fair to the church. I think it is a combination of us being white and being missionaries that brings out the hospitality from others here. We got to church and were greeted by President and Sister Smith. President Smith did an abortion interview for our investigator and Sister Smith gave me some medicine to take because I woke up at midnight to throw up some rice an investigator fed us. I was feeling 100% better when I woke up today so that's good. At the end of the day we were expecting around 25 people at church and would of been happy with 15, but in the end only 4 came. Oh well, life goes on and we will work to have better results next week. Life is good.
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