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| Elder Skog and I in front of the temple |
Yo everyone!
Man this week has been
a very good week I would say. You know besides the fact that 2 of the elders
are sick in our apartment (with colds) and that light off has been coming a ton
more. But other than that is has been great. It has been very cool because of
the rain and now there is a Pizza Hut near my area. Who knew this would ever
happen? Well had some today and let me tell you it reminds me of home. I guess
this is the first pizza I have had here that isn't fake haha.
Well currently I would
say that we are having a hard time working with the members as much as we would
like to. Everyone knows that missionary work is a lot easier when the members
are willing to help you out. But let’s just say last week we had to kinda go
back and start knocking doors again even though there are better ways. We didn't
even do that much of it and still found a ton of people to teach. So you have
to rely on your own finding efforts sometimes.
So this week a couple
of cool things happened that I was not expecting, well actually 3. So the first
thing that happened is that I sat down with a Roman Catholic Priest. We talked
about interesting things that are Bible related. Something that came up was the
Apocrypha. Now I’m glad I knew what this was or this guy would just finish me.
But I had to explain to him that it isn't in our Bible but the church says that
you can read and learn from it. We just don't teach from it because it isn’t in
the regular cannon of scripture. But honestly, now i really want to read it! OK
number 2. So like 5 people died this weekend. There was a big funeral and one
person who died was from Oda (my last area) and I didn’t really think that I
would see any of the members from my last branch. But I did--- maybe about 4 or
5. I was so surprised that I still knew their names and that they recognized
me. They still call me Obolo. But they told me that I am a lot skinnier now
than I used to be in Oda. So this event alone made my week. This was so cool.
OK so the 3rd and final event-- You know how Ghana is like in the top 3 for
most religious countries or something like that? Well guess what? I found an
Atheist guy. You better believe I’m going to teach him. Here’s why. If you read
characteristics of a prepared individual, they recognize something wrong about a
bunch of churches/society. He kinda thinks all these churches here are silly and
fake. He told us straight up. He asked if our church did anything like that. So
I just explained how our service goes and I think he liked it for the most
part. We will see! Wish me luck!
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| Nsawam |
On Wednesday, we
decided that we needed to go out to these villages that we have never seen
before and just looking on our area map I was kinda sketched out about this. About
20 minutes into riding our bikes on this long road in the middle of nowhere my
front tire pops...The struggle is real. So shamefully, we had to walk another
45 minutes to this village. But thank goodness we have nice members out there
or I would have had to walk all the way back. He showed us to a bike repair
shop and I got my bike fixed.
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| After my tire blew |
Well, this is pretty much my week! I’m happier
and healthier than I have ever been! Thanks for all the support!
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| Emailing from an Internet Cafe |
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