From May 16, 2011
Monday was a good day with Elder Chambers, and it has been fun to serve with him. While I was waiting for him to finish emailing I was having a lot of fun watching the person next to me in the cafe. It was this male a bit older than me in some chat room with a woman who had a web camera. The woman was a large build in her mid to late 50s. If that wasn't captivating enough the man was copying and pasting love quotes from another web page to the chat box and the correspondence was basically the ridiculous stereotypical stuff said in chat rooms by people who develop the addiction of chatting to people online. I found it sad that there are people in the world that spend their whole free time online speaking and developing relationships with people they have never met rather than to go interact with people on a healthy social level.
Tuesday is the scheduled transfer notification day and we were informed that Elder Hunsaker will be leaving and replaced with Elder Mutuku from Kenya. Elder Mutuku has been in Ghana for just over 13 months. Elder Mutuku and I were in the same zone when I served in Teshie with Elder Orchard. He is a good guy. For Elder Chambers, he is from Columbus Ohio. He has been in Ghana for a year and a half, graduated from high school in 2008 and attended a year of BYU before he came on his mission.
Elder Mutuku came on Wednesday. Elder Chambers and I also were able to teach a man named Aramah who is dealing with removing alcohol from his life. He said he was able to go to a funeral and not take a drink. He was very excited about his ability to resist and said he was fully committed to being baptized. It was sweet seeing him so excited about his ability to resist drinking and to see the progress he is making.
Saturday Elder Chambers and I went to a woman in the ward for her to teach us how to make waakye. Waakye is basically beans and rice cooked together and then eaten with peppe. I plan to try and make it. I figure it will be another thing I can actually cook at home when people want something African to eat. When we got back to the apartment from cooking it started to rain hindering the ability to see our scheduled appointments. Elder Chambers and I had a lot of fun walking through the rain though. After the rain stopped we went to our investigators named Steven and Helina. When we go and teach them they always feed us rice with some stew. It is very good food, but they always make too much rice. The meal starts with us four eating, but soon the wife becomes full and several minutes later so does the husband. As a result Elder Chambers and I are then forced to eat the remaining portion as we are much too satisfied and are resisting the urge to vomit. It's frustrating to have the couple keep preparing the same quantity of rice when we all know that even though Steven says we can always stop eating, he expects us to finish the food. Oh well, in reality it isn't a bad thing at all except when we are at the point of bursting with rice. Another thing I had thought about was the life style of married people here. The wife will be the sole one washing, cooking, and cleaning while the husband sits in a chair. As a result I like to help whoever is doing chores even though more often than not it requires me being tricky to help. I look forward to the chance of returning home and helping in the house I live in. I like to clean.
For Sunday we had investigators at church which was nice. There was a baby running around during sacrament meeting and eventually made his way to the sacrament table, pulling off the cover and causing the trays to fall on the ground during a talk which wasn't nice.
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