Morning morning morning! Random fact, 90% of the time you say good morning to a Ghanaian they reply "Fine morning" or "morning morning morning." I'm sure you were wondering that, Ghanaian English is the bomb!
Anyway, thanks for all the emails this week. I had like 13 or something when I signed in, always sweet when that happens! It's been a good p-day in Cape Coast. We played football in the morning with Abura and Assina Fosu zones. We found a sweet pitch in Yamoransa this week, so we decided to play there. It was awesome getting to play in Yamoransa, not having to travel 30 minutes in a trotro just to get to the pitch. We even got to walk to the pitch in moftee(aka street clothes), so that was cool. Let me just say, the few opportunities we get to wear moftee outside the apartment (walking to a service project, things like that) are awesome. Wearing my fresh levi's and my white macbeth shirt, and my gray macbeths is awesome. We don't get to wear moftee on P-days, have to wear white shirt and tie into town to email, buy food, and all that. No biggie though. I didn't score today, was a little off my game, but I had two assists, so I kept on the score sheet at least :) I probably have an 8 or 9 match scoring streak going on. I lock down in the midfield! Haha I'm not that good really...Last week we played bball on the beach, always fun. You can just call the Ghanaian Jimmer. He's all I hear about hear! Even Ghanaians are talking about Jimmer! No jok! When we contact people they say, "wati, are you from the church that owns the school Jimmer goes to?" It's pretty crazy. People show up to church in Jimmer jerseys...! (In Griffin's email this week (2/14) he said that he was joking about the people in Ghana knowing about Jimmer--guess you could say "We got Jimmered" :)
We had another great week in Moree, still can't complain. It's the dead of dry season though...veryyy hot. Elder Nzuki's fan broke the other night, he couldn't sleep at all. He said he took a shower at 2 am to cool off. I guess it is a lot cooler in Kenya. But there was one day it was a little overcast that was nice. As hot as it is, whenever we get to hot, we can climb a hill in Moree just by the beach and get a few minutes of a refreshing sea breeze, it's really nice. A member has a sweet house on the hill, and you can climb up on the roof and sit there, it's awesome. When I sat sweet house, it's two rooms, dirt floors, no bathroom, but the view is awesome :)
Tuesday was good, I gave an instruction at district meeting about revelation- the stuff that we learned at a Leadership training a couple of weeks ago. The new focuses they are giving us from Preach My Gospel are really helpful, they are working very well. At night we hopped in the 1 cedi tro tro for the one hour trip to Mankessim for an exchange with them. I went with Elder Alba (SLC, UT) in Mankessim and Elder Nzuki went with Elder Bunker back to Moree. It was a really good exchange, Elder Alba is young on mission (Elder Bunker trained him) but he is doing really well. Mankessim is a really sweet city. It's a little smaller than Cape Coast, almost everyone speaks English. A lot different from Moree. It was nice to have a day of proselyting in an area where I understood most everything that was going on. It was market day there, so the town was just cram packed with people from all around selling stuff. I almost bought some sweet shades, Ray-Bons (not to be confused with Ray-Bans) but they guy wanted five cedis for them- they really try to just take oboruni's money, and usually they do. If you come to Ghana, we'll ahve to do some serious talking about how much to pay for stuff! Tuesday night in Mankessim, they showed us a sweet chop bar in town. A chop bar is a Ghanaian restaurant, usually consists of an old woman pounding fufu and another lady cooking some groundnut soup in a pot over an open flame, and then you sit on a little wood bench to eat. But this one was sweet, it was a legit building, and reminded of an actual restaurant back home. It had a counter where you went to order, they had four pots of soup you could choose from, and the fufu was ready on demand. Then you sat at a real table, and they had a bowl on the table where you could pour water to wash your hands, and even had a roll of paper towels! And a salt shaker! And the fufu was pretty good too.
I did a baptismal interview while I was there in Mankessim, a cool guy named John. His brother had been baptized a little while before, and so his brother baptized him in the ocean on Saturday. Elder Alba played golf in high school, so we had fun talking about that. He sounds like he was pretty good. We decided that we are going to play in Takoradi when we go there the last week of the transfer for our football match. I'm getting so excited, even though its five weeks away!
Thursday was normal, the only thing interesting was that we taught a lady named Ekua. I think I have talked about her before, but it is an interesting situation. She is a referral from a less-active. Friday we worked at the chapel in the morning. I love doing that. Just good ol' fashioned manual labor. We basically dig ditches every time. Cool thing though- while we were digging, we started talking to a guy named William. He isn't a member, but we were able to start talking to him about normal stuff. He lives in Yamoransa. We talked to him the whole time, and at the end, invited him to go to church in Yamoransa on Sunday. And guess what? He did! Pretty sweet- that is the whole point of us working there.
Saturday was cool, we held a fireside at night at the chapel. Watched The Testaments. It was good, at first there was only like 7 people there, but by the end of the movie there was about 30, with probably 6 or 7 investigators, a few recent converts- and we got two new referrals. So I would say it was a success! We are going to start showing a movie every Saturday night at the chapel. We have one of the really good English speakers translate the movie, we stop it every 10 minutes or so to explain to the Fante speakers. I am honestly going to have The Testaments memorized by the time I get home.
We started a mission fast Saturday when we got home. With the current mission goal (baptize a referral from a recent convert and help a recent convert prepare names to go to the temple) there are still 31 missionaries who haven't completed. The goal ends February 28th, so we are working hard for that. Our whole zone is finished- our zone is one of the more "fruitful" areas of the mission. Kumasi is a lot more dry than the south. Fasting is always tough in 100 degree heat, but it was ok. Seeing the kids selling the pure water sachets on their head throughout the day is straight up torture though. It was a food fast though (I almost lost this whole email! luckily my good friend Mavis helped me out with the old computer though). Anyway, at then end of the day, we found our friend Christian, one of our old English-speaking investigators. He had somehow disappeared, but he walked by us at the chapel in the evening. He had traveled somewhere for a few weeks. Not sure how serious he is, but he was really happy to see us. We shall see. We have quite a few more English-speaking investigators right now, we have done a lot more contacting to do that. We figure if we contact, we will only be able to teach people that actually do speak English! None of them speak very good English....Just gotta keep working on da Fante.
Welp, I love you guys. Life is good, it's not easy, but its good. We are working hard here in Moree, nothing to complain about. I think our next baptism will be the 19th of February for Godfred, Phillip's best friend. Oh yeah, Phillip received the Aaronic Priesthood yesterday, he is excited to get to baptize Godfred and bless the Sacrament. Phillip is so awesome. He's gonna be a stud.
I love you guys! Thanks for everything!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't gotten your packages yet, but I"m sure they are getting here soon. They might even be in the mission home right now, the assistants forgot to bring mail to the football match today. Sorry you had so much craziness with the flights, but that's great everything went well with the blessing. Just saw you sent a bunch of pictures, so I'll be excited to look at all of those!
Love you!
-Elder Brown
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