Yo.
Today will be a shortie sorry-o. I am at the fast cafe trying to send pics but the darn computer kept freezing up. Bah humbug. I'll just write you guys some stuff and then send you more pics next week or something cool?
Well first off, we BAPTIZED SISTER JOYCE!!! YAHOO! Thus ends the dry spell of no baptisms. We got Joyce all ready and prepped. She showed up at 2:30 for her baptism that was at 4. Take that Africa Standard Time! KAPOW!
She showed up early and had to wait outside for a long while because the presiding authority with the keys to the chapel showed up 30 min late (smacks head!), but luckily she is related to someone in the Odorkor ward and he was there and they talked the whole time. She was just happy to get baptized. The bishop asked me to confirm her and it was nice. They gave her a calling to be a 'personal progress supervisor' so now she will be helping the young women. She will do a good job. It was great.
Sis Joyce is awesome. I was so happy after she was baptized. She was happy too. Ah man it was great.
Well in addition to that we had a Mormon Helping Hands service project and cleaned the Kaneshi market. Our ward, along with Odorkor was assigned to clean the 1st floor, which is really the 2nd floor (culture AHH!). We swept the whole thing and got all the cobwebs down. There is plenty of dirt in that place. The whole stake cleaned the Kaneshi market. There were lots of stake members there. A lot of my former converts were there and it was cool to see them recently baptized and already serving everyone diligently.
After finishing de-cobwebbing and sweeping, we moved down to the ground level floor and they hosed down the whole thing. They have this middle gutter drain area that we had to sweep all the water into. It was cool to see everyone help. A lot of people were happy to see us helping and we got some referalls from our bishop from people asking about the church (all of them were for the Zone Leaders area, dang it haha. It is cool, I don't care who baptizes them as long as they get baptized and are taught well). It was nice.
Well it rained a lot this week. We worked anyways, I hate staying inside. We went and had a great lesson with a girl named Feebe. She knows the church is true but is having a hard time coming to church. We told her that we would do anything to help her and she said that she knew she would. She told us that we had taught her everything, she knows it is right, she has felt the Holy Ghost, she even told us that if she didn't come that she would be disobeying an answer to her prayers. Hopefully she will come one day.
Yo, so Phillip D. got baptized? I remember him, he stayed at Asare Down behind the bible school. Haven't seen him for about 9 months. Good for him! Glad Elder Holt could teach him.
Yo, so the time is almost finished so we gotta run.
I liked all the photos of Grandma's great sidewalk opening. She was the diva and had her own paprazzi. Go grandma. She is awesome and so are you guys.
Um we will baptize another boy named Charles this Saturday. He just moved in with his brother and his wife, who are both members. He has been going to church for over a year, was taught formerly by Elder McGrath, but went away to boarding school. He will be here for 2 months so we are baptizing him this Saturday before the boarding school takes him away again. He is a good guy. 17 years old. At first I thought he was a member. We stumbled across him because for some reason we felt like visiting that family, didn't know why again.
Well gotta run. I'll tell you next week why we didn't have a lot of time this week to write. you will like the story mom. Well gotta run.
Love you all!!!!
Elder Bills
Pictures:
Sis Joyce. Man we found her after a day of no teaching. We finally knocked on a door and a Muslim family answered, they directed her to us as she was Christian. She then asked where we were from and we said The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The church building is at Sacaman Junction. She then told us that she had been praying to know which church to go because she didn't like her current church because of dancing with her grandson during church, she said that 'it is wrong.' She said that her taxi got stuck in traffic in front of the church and she decided that 'one day' she would visit it. 3 days later we knocked on her door and she accepted to be baptized. She is great.
She used to live in the US, I think that is why she knows that she needs to smile during a picture instead of the usual blank stare, haha.
Zone Leaders, us, and Odorkor elders. It was a baptism party!
I just sent this one so you can see how great Joyce is. Look how she already looks like relief society sister. YAHOO!
Here is a member named Brother Henry. His mother joined the church way way back and he went on a mission in 1987 in Ghana. We were biking around and felt like we should visit this less active family late at night, we didn't know why. Really we just went. When we arrived we saw brother Henry and he said that he was visiting from Obomusu, where he lives with his family, and said that his nephew was not yet baptized and that he was taking him to church tomorrow. His nephew came to church with him, and we gave him a baptismal date. The church is true.
Here is a game the little kids at our favorite rice spot like to play. I just take off my helmet and buckle the chin strap closed. Then I taught them how to open it, then they, one by one, try to open it. At first they all start pulling it trying to use their strength to open it, then I demonstrate how to push the teeth thingies to open it. The curlie haired fair one figured it out first then he showed the rest. They always like to play the bicycle helmet game. Ya see, these are the types of games the kids like. Not flash boom bang lights japanese anime tv crap. Just nice and slow, unbuckle the helmet YAY!!! They can do it for hours too. Ah Mr. Rogers would be proud.
Eating Fufu at the Narteys. My companion does not like fufu, he ONLY eats rice, so we schedule an FM (free meal) at this families house and are teaching him to eat fufu in a loving environment. Actually if he didn't eat it then we would have all beat him up, including the family who made it, haha.
After a rough 30 min or so he finally downs his last bites. We are celebrating his first full fufu by himself. I was so proud.
On splits with Elder Rampe from Botswanna. Look at these hills!
Mormon Helping Hands Service Project at the Kaneshie Market
Meat and spare tire anyone?
Rain!
Garbage!
