August 15, 2011

Me ebusua!!!! Wapum tesen?!?!?! Me pe nyame adom bokooo!!! Life is eye paaa in Ghana siesia. Confirmations yesterday were 4 for 4, everybody showed up ready for it. The week was pretty legit, lots to be done, but it just seems like our investigators are too busy right now. Had a hard time meeting most of them through the week. But met with the ones that were getting baptized/confirmed in the next few weeks. Like I said, the confirmations yesterday were a success, and we are having another baptism on Friday night for three guys. So since most of our other investigators were a little busy, we met a ton of new people through the week. We had 20 new investigators this week! That’s the most I have had since like my first week in Kwamo when it was just straight contacting all day long.

Tuesday we had a little run-in with some people that were not so positive about the church. And there’s one guy in the neighborhood who gives it to me every day because he says that I'm not an Elder because I am not married. He just calls me Mister Brown. He is also not very happy. That day it was raining and an older lady named Akosua invited us into her house to wait out the rain. Her house was just this perfect little Grandma house and we chatted with her a few minutes. She asked why God doesn't answer prayers immediately, and it led to a good discussion. She invited us for fufu this week on Wednesday, so we are excited for that. Oh yeah, I learned how to drive fufu a few weeks back. There are two parts to making fufu, pounding, and driving. Pounding is easy, but driving is more difficult. Driving is the person who turns the fufu over while the other person is pounding. The family was impressed with my skillz!

We had a great experience with a family yesterday. I am not sure if I have told you about a member who got in a terrible accident (so bad he doesn't tell us what happened) and broke his leg. He has been bed ridden for 2 months now. His cast is off now, but yesterday they put some local herbal medicine on the wound to help it heal, but it was paining him seriously. He was just writhing in pain on the bed. We got there and honestly it hurt to see how much pain he was in. He had been given a blessing by the bishop of the UST ward last month sometime, but I knew he needed a blessing right then, more importantly a blessing from his father, who had never given a blessing before in the span of his three years as a member of the church. So we sat down and taught his father what to do to give a blessing. He was nervous, but he did it. I anointed, and then the father came to seal it. I was a little scared about what he might say, but wow.... The Spirit really does work in those situations. He gave the most awesome blessing I have heard on my mission. Just simple, humble, and short, but man was it powerful. He blessed his son to be free from pain, and then blessed him to use the experience to better his life and be a leader in the church. Twas perfecto!!!!

Wednesday going to Saturday were all really long days. A lot of walking, not a lot of teaching because all our peeps were gone, but like said, we found some sweet new investigators. One guy was Oppong, a guy we contacted a few weeks back, but had traveled because he is a radio announcer and was calling Kotoko (the Kumasi football team) games. We went to see him and met his wife in the house, she seems really cool too, and said that he would be back the next day. We back the next day and found him there. He was really excited to see us and we had a great lesson. We talked about the Plan of Salvation. Oppong promised to come to church... and he did! It was sweet, he had a good time. We are teaching him and his wife again tonight.

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