Aficia paa!! *Happy New Year!
Wow, what a week!
So I'll start by saying that my Mission President is the coolest president of all time! He is from New Zealand and he is just so wise. Yeah, wise is the word. I had an interview with him this past week and I felt like i could have talked with him for hours... He is so cool! I'm so thankful that I have an awesome Mission President!
So missionary work wise:
We taught a lesson to this woman and her kids and two other guys that were there. It was so cool. I've been reading the New Testament and I felt like Christ giving a sermon when we were teaching. Just teaching lots of people at once is really cool.
So that man who hated us a few weeks ago came out to us as we were walking to teaching his wife and he just chilled with us while we waited for her... He just lit up when he saw us and was just joking around small with us... We are just still in shock at the change that has come in him.
So one day we were teaching this woman, and a guy came and started Bible bashing us... So we couldn't just back down but we didnt want to be contentious either so we taught him using the Bible and then started testifying of the power of another book that could help us know Christ. We testified of the Book of Mormon and were trying to give it to him when he just walked away... Walking away from someone is like a super rude gesture here in Ghana and even back home too but really rude here. Man, the guy was stubborn and wouldn't even let us say anything about the Book of Mormon to him... It was a wild experience, haha, even the woman we were teaching started to testify with us of the true points of doctrine that we stated. Haha, it was so cool to see her pitching in.
So then we taught another woman. And oh man, the woman is so so so ready for the gospel. She just eats it up and actually remembers the stuff we teach when we come back which is super impressive! I think she will defintiely make it to baptism!
So we had several people planned to be baptized this next Sunday but one of them told us that they weren't married to their husband... Man, that is probably the biggest issue we face here is no official marriage. Traditional marriage is too expensive and legal marriage is really looked down on by everyone so people just say they are married and that's good enough for them... Yeesh.. It's such a problem but the others all should be able to make it without any unforseen problems arising! We will pray for the best but be ok with whatever happens!
btw: my New Years resolution is to survive a full year in Ghana, hahaha!
So we went on a chicken hunt: ye che awoke (how you say it in Twi.) We were running through the forest with sticks tryin' to catch these chickens ahahaha. It was so fun, man! I was like, other missionaries may have warm showers but they don't get to hunt chickens on their missions!!! Hahaha man, it's primitive here...
So nasty food for the week was cow face... Yeah it was completely disgusting!!!! The eye brows were probably the nastiest part... oh my gosh I about threw up... it was so sick... can't even describe to you how nasty it was.
So that's pretty much it for the week! I'm feeling great and I am excited for what this year has to offer and the growth I'll continue to feel on mission. Hope you all are doing well!
