From May 23, 2011:
Well on Monday Elder Chambers was informed that he would be leaving Alajo and be sent to Teshie (the area I had previously served in) that day making another emergency transfer. My new companion is Elder Moses. Elder Moses is 27 and from Sierra Lieon (however it's spelled). I came to find that while Elder Moses was in Teshie serving with an Elder Wardle from Wilsonvile, Oregon they had done some things contrary to the mission outline and eventually frustrated the landlord that he called the mission president with his complaints so as a result all of the four missionaries in the apartment were transferred out. Oh and Elder Moses has been on his mission for 18 months.
Elder Moses and I were at our investigators Helena and Stephen on Wednesday when they turned on the TV to watch some religious music videos. I found them very unappealing with their claiming to be religious artists because I was not able to feel uplifted with the heavy rapping and metal rock melodies.
Thursday was a rainy day and as result we walked for half the day and got our bikes later. The rainy season is here so it drives the temperature down making the Ghana sun more bearable. I think the rain will stop in a month or two so it will get hot again.
On Friday Elder Moses claimed it was too hot to go out to teach at 10 and wanted to know if I would want to stay inside for a bit while the sun reduced. We left on time, but | do find it interesting that everyone in Ghana says it's too hot, while the Westerners do go out the Africans tend to not want to go outside.
Our investigator, Helena was in a depressed mood when we came by on Saturday so we spent some time visiting with her and helped cook some rice and stew with her. it was fun cooking and cleaning the dishes. I find washing peoples clothes and dishes much more fun than some other stuff we do here. Helena came to church too on Sunday so that was good. I have come to realize that while my washing for people creates laughs and opens people up to our message if I do it too much the other natives around may judge the people we are providing service for because I am a visitor and according to them manual work isn't good for me to do. While I can understand that I am a visitor in the country, I'm not a fan of people telling me that I can't do manual service like wash, cook, and clean because I am white.
On Sunday I went on a split with the Zone Leader, Elder Thomas to the Newtown area for him to do baptisim interviews so I had fun seeing a different area of Accra.
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