From April 25, 2011: On Monday we went to visit a man named Michael Sarpong. He has family in the states and Europe. He is a smart guy and it had been great to meet with him. He may be moving to Dubai for several months long work thing, but if not we will be able to baptize him in a few weeks.
Tuesday was fine, nothing much happened. Richard Quarshie was able to meet with us and we were talking about the church. He said he knows the church is true, but won't visit because he doesn't know how he will leave his old church without the pastor getting upset. Later in the day we were also able to teach a cluster of guys, one happening to be an assistaint pastor. He is in the Apostolic Church and while we didn't know how he would take our message he was interested and was open to us meeting him. We ended up giving him a Book Of Mormon too. I had a lot of respect for him because we were able to have a friendly gospel disscusion where he wasn't trying to be contentous.
Wednesday we were able to meet with our investigator, Nero. Nero was working at his barber shop and he was watching Mama Mia! . He said he had watched it several times before when he was at his shop. In Ghana there are Ghanaian movies which highight tribal Africa and black majic. There are also Nigerian movies which focus on armed robbers, guns and girls. Lastly the people really enjoy American movies. Most of the ones here are focousing on white girls doing what white girls do or action genre movies.
Thursday Elder Gagnon and I ment with a Nigerian, Morris Brown. The Nigerians here are looked down upon by the Ghanians for their stereotypical personality to be internet frauders. The normal Nigerian without and actual job has to struggle to survive because people are not as willing to give them jobs and such. Morris a painter is experiencing this problem. He lives in a one or two room house with six other Nigerians trying to scrape by. I think at the end of the day he may go back to Nigeria. Anyway, on this occasion with Morris he apparently hadn't eaten for almost 24 hours and he asked us for some money. I ended up having to give him 1GHC (a Cedi can last one or two meals here). He also had us pay for his tro tro fare because he didn't have money. Elder Gagnon and I wont be giving him anymore money so we will have to talk about that with him. We are hoping he can get work soon. I have been confused with the whole situation though because he apparently spends all day looking for work, but he hasn't been compelled to sell snacks or water to people on the roads (they are called traders and are basically a walking vendor) which is what many people do here to earn some sort of money.
Well on Friday Elder Gagnon and I ended up getting lost and ended up deep in another missionary companions area. I received an Easter themed package with some Twi books as well so thank you mother for that. The candy and jerkey was great. Don't worry I shared the food with the other missionaries in the apartment.
On Saturday we taught a man who is friends with Rastafarians by a river under some mago trees. It was an interesting experience. Later in the night it started raining, but we were able to get to our investigators Comfort and Emmanuela's not getting too wet. They served us some Bonku with some really oily stew with fish, Willie ( sections of fatty pork skin) and some intestine. At the end of the meal they served us home made icecream. Ice cream is very expensive here so it was quite a suprise.
Sunday was Easter and we had 8 investigators at church with three others coming for the first time.
For Easter in Ghana there is an influx of "all night worship services" lasting for as the title says all night. For the ward there wasn't a single talk or lesson I heard about Easter itself. The opening talk was a girl reading word for word the Law Of Chastity forn in the Gospel Principle Book. The best talk was from the high counselor about the traditions of Ghana that shouldn't be practiced, namely Bride Price (think of Johnny Lingo)
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