Monday I decided that over time I would reduce my white collar shirt
tan line by washing in the sun. I knew I would come to regret such a
decision (which I did) because of the extreme African sun. After 2
hours washing and then exercising I was quite red. I have decided that
I wont do that again, but because I have a year left I will sit in the
sun for 10 minuets every Monday and over time that will take care of
the problem.
Tuesday we ran out of water at our place so we called the water
truck to fill up our tanks. The region of Accra that I am in hasn't
had any water pipes put in yet so everyone has to call a truck to
bring them water which they use until it runs out and then the cycle
repeats. The first people we called showed up on a tractor towing some
water. Elder Macaulay told me that the tractors just fetch their water
from the lake and it isn't really clean. Even though we use a filter
we decided that it was best to just dump the water and to find another
truck that retrieves the water from a borehole. After solving that
issue we visited an investigator named Cynthia. Cynthia is 25 and has
two children. The youngest, Mary (2) has some sort of a brain tumor
which has softened the skull and has increased it over the size of an
average adult. as a result Cynthia is distraught about the situation
and it's furthered by not having the 3,000 GHC for the operation. The
Bishop did go to see our investigators with Cynthia being one of them
where he took some information and a picture to call some church
members to see if something could be done. We will see what happens.
On Wednesday Elder Jones called us to see if we would like to go
into the market to do some contacting at some booth they had rented at
the market. We eventually got ourselves to the market where we joined
other zone members in the contacting. I eventually paired up with
Elder Jones and we went around the market contacting and talking about
life. At the market I found a place that can make a blond dreadlocks
wig so we will see how it goes.
Thursday I was able to study a lot, and I identified that as of
late, my prayers have become a lot better. There isn't much to say on
the subject, but I can see the blessings of devoted prayers and it's a
way I can become a better person stabilizing myself in the Gospel.
Friday. The highlight of the day was meeting a person who was
baptized by a missionary I knew in Oregon, Paul Booren. He served here
about 5 years ago and it's always fun to run into people that have
known him here. I think this person makes the fourth person. A nice
lesson we had today was with some investigators, John and Enoch, with
their member friend, Jackson. All we talked about was them and the
church with the blessings they have seen in their lives from the
Gospel and why they want to join the church.
Saturday the Bishop of the ward wanted to come to teach with us. He
picked us up in his car and we went around for 4 hours in which he was
great visiting our investigators. The Bishop was born in Togo and
served a mission in Sierra Leone. Upon his return to Ghana we was
given the calling to be a sole missionary to the countries of Togo and
Benin finding a few members of the church that were baptized in Europe
now in Africa. He said that he spent a few days in each country
teaching and then would return to Ghana for Sunday to attend meetings
before he returned to the other countries. He said that at the end of
two years doing that he had established a branch of 34 members. He
said he was going to several states in December including Utah and the
city of Chicago to visit family before he goes to Canada for a few
days.
At church on Sunday we had four investigators at church, John,
Enoch, Joseph, and Schemcia. the first three were brought by the
member Jackson, and Shemcia was brought by two other members. There was
also a white guy from Palmyra, NY doing some charity work here for two
weeks so it was fun to talk with him for a bit.
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