I have become a complete animal. Like I eat anything, haha. This week I ate a fish head, snails twice, swallowed some more fufu whole, I've begun eating the bones of chicken to get calcium, I eat eggs and bread and bread and eggs, I eat indomie (ramen) straight out of the bag uncooked, etc... all eaten with my bare hands. The funny thing about all of this is that I actually enjoy it somehow... so that’s the food side of my ruffian living.
Next is my english: I walk around talking small small in the language I've talked my whole life. I can’t remember any words bigger than one syllable (which that word is like 3... so I'm over exaggerating small... but still) and I completely drop middle words like “the” and “at”… yeah, I’ll get back and be talking at the same level as Miles. Actually, he will be able to out english me probably. The language I'm beginning to speak more an more is Twi. Twi sounds like a gorilla who is a wizard from Harry Potter. For example : "fa cane na bra, nti u be woo! kwasia!!!!" means: "go get a cane (beating weapon) and come, then you will die. FOOL!" Now if you say the Twi version, you sound like you are casting a spell in Harry Potter. The word ‘kwasia’ can be said with a Voldemort like voice and sound like the torture curse in Harry Potter. Yeah, it’s fun, hahaha.
Next is that I have become a hairy beast. Like Gaston, every last inch of me is covered in hair hahahahahhahahaha.
The collars of my shirts no matter how hard you wash them are looking more and more yellow and so is my missionary tag, haha.
I have a ratchet farmers tan haha. Gratefully I will be getting home in the fall time so no one will see, but I think that even by the summer after, I’ll still have hard cut tan lines on my neck and arms.
So now you know who I am becoming... I feel like kinda a Han Solo - Bear Grylls combo. Beast. :)
Yeah, so weird food for this week was snail. We had some crazy rain this week so big snails came out. So on Sunday we were at K’s house and we went out to the forest near his house and caught a bunch of snails and then smashed them on the rocks, cooked em and ate em. Yeah... like I said, barbarian. But they were actually good, hahaha! Like I’d eat it again probs. Haha, funny stuff.
The great young man we have been teaching, K, was baptized yesterday. I was blessed to be able to perform the baptism which was such a privilege because I love that kid like he is my own brother. When we met with him Saturday night to make sure he was all ready and stuff, after we finished, I showed him how he would be baptized. When we finished, he grabbed me and hugged me, haha. I love that kid. It made me miss the hugs Miles would give me, haha. I took a bunch of videos of me hanging with him so that you can see what he is like. I’ll try to send one in a minute. He has one of the most solid testimonies of all of our investigators slash recent converts slash members. He knows the church is true.
On Wednesday, we met a referral from the zone leaders. His name is Prince K. He is actually a prince in his tribe, so that’s cool. So his story is that he learned with the missionaries years ago. So after 7 years later, he is living away from home and is doing his own thing when he sees the zone leaders and then says to himself, “Now is the time, finally.” He just breathe in deeply and said “Wow, finally.” Then we handed him a Book of Mormon and his face lit up and he said, “I’m home.” I couldn't believe that it was happening. I was in awe. What an amazing turn of events?! I couldn’t believe it. Usually you are the one who teaches and then the guy gets his books burned but to be on the other side of it was cool. So hopefully he will be baptized in the next few weeks.
On Tuesday my journal wrote: “Today everything has been of the most spiritual nature”-President Monson. And it truly was! We saw K again which was amazing and we read the first 3 chapters of the Book of Mormon with him. (He is so smart.) I could have read all day with K, no problem. The second we read, “I Nephi…,” the Spirit entered the room palpably (big word, clap for me). Such a powerful lesson. He is so spiritual. Every time the guy opens his mouth i feel the Spirit. I love K and I am so glad that I get to stay in Nsawam for another transfer. (p.s. I’ll turn 6 months in my first area, crazy!)
Next Tuesday experience was with recent convert D. We went and D confessed that he had been feeling extremely incompetent and un-good-enough (idk the word). He told us that he felt like he didn't measure up. I testified with all of my force that he was doing wonderful. I praised him for reading the scriptures, and writing down questions he had, and words he didn't understand. I told him that there was rejoicing from on high for his efforts. The Lord is so happy for how you are doing, keep it up!!!! D is so good. He has grown so much since he has been baptized. The gospel and the Book of Mormon is truly changing and improving him. Yeah, Tuesday was a good day.
So comedic brake: I was at the mall and there was an iPhone store so I went in and was looking at it. It’s so fancy... I didn’t even know what to do with it... I just kinda looked at it and poked it. This must be how old people feel...
Okay, let’s continue...
I've really been feeling the spirit in lessons recently which is wonderful. We had a lesson with Dl and her family about the Atonement and sacrament and church attendance. I read Isaiah 53:4-5 and Alma 7:11-15 or so and then testified that the reason we don’t have loud music and stuff in church is because the sacrament is a sacred time to remember his sacrifice. I then read in John with them how before going out to the Mount of Olives, Christ and his apostles sang a hymn. I asked them if you were with Christ, right before he was about to go out and suffer for your sins, what kind of a song would you want to sing with Him? Would you want loud rock music and have a party? Or would you want to sing a reverent soft song and try and comfort Him before he went out and died for you? And I leave the question at the rest of you readers. If you were with Christ before He was about to perform the Atonement, what kind of attitude would you have? Would you be talking with friends in the sacrament hall, or would you be sitting reverently and preparing to receive these sacred emblems. What would you think about if you were there in the upper room with Christ? Can you center your thoughts and hearts more on him for that short hour? Or can ye not watch with him one hour? I testify that if we are centering our minds and hearts on Christ at the time of the sacrament, we will be blessed with inspiration, guidance, comfort, and the companionship of the Holy Ghost. Your Sundays will be so much more spiritually uplifting and you will feel closer to him.
Ok, enough preaching. :)
We played volleyball on Saturday with the ward and that was fun. This Saturday we will be competing in the stake games in volleyball which will be fun hahaha. Being an obruni is fun haha cuz you can rage at games like that. So fun.
Also there is a really fun card game that everyone plays here called Spar and I wreck at it. I’ll teach all of you when I come home and we will enjoy papapapa (very much) hahah!
Also my fav thing that I'll miss so much is snap shaking. Every time you shake someones hand, you finish it of with a snap. Like you use your middle fingers and pull off of each others fingers to make the snap against your own hand... like yeah... it’s so fun cuz your fingers hit and the same time and it makes a loud snap. Yeah, I'll definitely try to keep that one going when I go home with you peeps.
So yeah, that’s about it for this week.
Haha love you guys, take care.
