From April 11, 2011: Getting hotter; cooking skills

From April 11, 2011:  Well on Monday I checked my emails at night due to several power outages. Elder Gagnon and I spent time talking to the owner of the cafe, George. George is a fat middle 20s Ghanaian who has lived in several places in the states for periods of time. George gave us some snacks and  we had fun talking to each other because he has a Western personality. On another note I got some exercise equipment from another missionary so it has motivated me to work out again. My goal is to be able to identify that I have lost some weight by the end of the month. I figure it will take a lot of effort and time, but I do have a year and a half left.
  On Tuesday we met with the member, Isaac Ahenie and his muslim wife trying to convert to the church, Furella. Because of the Muslim culture to stay in the religion or face reproductions from the family such a separation, physical abuse, severance of body parts, or death we don't teach a Muslim unless there won't be problems. For the three months I have known Isaac I thought his Christian faith was known to his wife's parents. However he told us on Tuesday that when his wife's parents come to visit he goes to the Mosque pretending to be Muslim to keep his Christianity as a secret. It was eye opening to see Isaac go great lengths to protect his secret.
  Wednesday was when I made a stew of some sort to eat with my Indomie (top ramen). The first apartment I was in didn't cook so I was use to eating out more. While I have been in the McCarthy Hills area I am working on developing more cooking skills. I figure it will pay off.
  On Thursday it was really hot. It has been getting progressively hotter which hasn't been much fun. I felt the sun developed an agitated state that day so I wrote down in the journal how the locals treat us. The majority of people are friendly to us asking us various "white man questions" and speak Twi to us for them to get a response from us. There are some instances though where we are served last in a line or charged more for what is sold in a shop because we are white. It is an interesting form of racism I guess.
  On Friday, like Thursday it was really hot. The only notable thing I wrote down is that Elder Gagnon and I passed a woman peeing in the road.
  Saturday was Elder Gagnon's year mark in Ghana. We had a baptism for Samuel Aboagye (14) who is a member of the Aboagye family baptized earlier. After the baptism we went to Shoprite to buy some food to celebrate his year mark.
  Sunday it rained before church so none of our investigators came to church. The Ghanaian people don't go outside when it rains so there was a significant lower number of people at the church.  The bishop gave some inspiring remarks at the send of the service about how he compared the foundation of a bridge being build nearby to the church being build upon the apostles and revelation from Jesus Christ. He also talked about how the roof of the church protected us from the rain just like the priciples of the Gospel, but only if we use them.