Monday, February 20, 2017

Week 20: Loving the work. Loving the people.

Ghana, the land of bad haircuts. Because obibinis (Africans) can’t cut obruni (white men) hair. Hahahaha!

I'll begin by saying, that was literally the fastest week I’ve had on mission so far. I don't even know what happened... Every Friday when you call on the phone, the ringtone lady always says, "Thank God it's Friday!" so it felt like I heard that last 2 weeks and then all of the sudden again last week... like five seconds apart... woah!

A boy we have been teaching is getting baptized!!!! My favorite little kid I've met in Ghana! He is the one in the tree with me in those pics a couple weeks ago. Man, I love that boy. He was supposed to be baptized last week but we had to move it. So I’m pumped about it! With God as my witness I love him. I'll miss him so much when I leave Nsawam. He has such a strong testimony. In one of our lessons I asked him if someone came up to him and offered him marijuana what would he say? He stood up and starting yelling “No no no no no no no no no I won’t, I won’t, I won’t!!!” Hahaha. I love that little kid so much!

We’re teaching a Nigerian and the guy is a sweet, sweet guy. We have been teaching him for a while,  but he just has a hard time coming to church recently. He is awesome. I love him. Whenever we hang up the phone he always says “Ciao!” haha and he always tells us that he loves us and doesn't want to disappoint us.

At the end of our lesson on Friday, we got up and were walking out (in Ghana they always escort you out to the tro tro station or something) so we were getting up to leave and he “bro hugged” me haha. I was like, “Love you bro,” he immediately goes, “Love you too man.” Hahaha, then we all just walked out (like 5 of us) like bros, man, it made me miss cruisin’ the town with the guys back home, man! I was filled with so much love. I have moments like that where I’ll randomly feel like an overflow of love for this, for the people, for the place, for everything. I love those moments and wish that they could always be there but...then mission would be too easy hahaha...