Darkness and Machetes and Disciples

Obruni!!

This week flew by! Eeesh!

Tuesday we had district meeting. I got to meet the my Zone leaders and the 4 sisters in my district. They seem like a pretty crazy bunch, but I love them so much! :) We meet out in Araba, which is like a 15 minute taxi drive away.... All of the missionaries live in Cape Coast... So I'm slightly confused why we don't just meet at a local chapel, but oh well.

African Project

The Zone leaders invited me to go lifting with them at a local gym. So we'll be going every Monday Wednesday Friday. We give blessings all the time. I love how the members utilize us and call on us to help them in times of need.

Wednesday was an exchange. Elder Nwatah had to go to training so we took Elder Maphumo with us for the day, it was nice to have a third speaker in lessons, but at the same time he didn't know how to act around our investigators and totally went too deep for some of them.... which was a problem but hey, we learned from it. :) We gained 2 new investigators which is great! We've been looking for more people to teach!

With Brother Christian :)

We went gyming today, which ended up being an alley with 2 benches, rusted bars and cement dumb bells. It may seem like nothing, but you can get a pretty good work out still. :)

Weeding with a Machete!!!

Thursday was a little more difficult, the power was out all day and the night before. It's slightly hard to bathe with no light or water.  We had no water period, refrigeration, we couldn't iron or have fans on. After our first few meals we realized we needed to consolidate plates, since we couldn't wash any.

Being Disciples for Primary :)

I finally got Rachael's letter that she sent on the 23rd! It took a little over 3 weeks. I'm so glad she is serving and has set an example for me. :)

Matching Ties

Friday we still didn't have power.... so we each took 2, 7-gallon jugs down three stories to our water tank to fill them manually. But what goes down must come up.... Those were the longest 36 steps I've ever taken.

The owner of the alley gym is a pretty sweet guy. Plus, he's totally shredded! Like, freaking ripped. Aaay!

We had very little success, 4 of our 6 appointments fell through, and no one was wanting to talk. So it was rather disappointing... But as long as you do your best, that's all that He can ask for. :)

Love this Elder :)

Saturday was the African Project, it went from 5am to 1pm. We went to a psychiatric hospital and layed down cement and cut grass. But we didn't have lawn mowers or pruners of sorts. They handed out loads of Machetes and said "Go for it." And I was like "Waaa?!?!". Man that was hard work, but also a lot of fun. I'm so glad we don't cut grass like that back home. :)

I saw Elder Bay from the MTC. It was nice to see him and catch up with what he's been doing. They fed us at the project. There is a song by Inside Out talking about missionaries and in it a little girl talks about her uncle who went on a mission and all he ate was fish -- "eating their teeth, eye balls, and bones.... and that's it". That girl couldn't have been more right. Here, they eat everything, including the bones and cartilage. Which I'm still getting used to.

Sister Lucy.
She teaches me Fante :)

Sunday was great! I began reading the August 2015 Liahona and it's phenomenal! Everyone should read it. In church today, me and the other 3 Elders dressed up as Disciples of Christ and pretended to be various apostles talking about the miracles that Christ did. I was Peter. :)

Sister Sopa had us over for dinner again.  She isn't a member but she feeds us every Sunday. She made us soft Casava with a weird fish stew. The fish used was called "salted fish" and boy was it salty. Eeesh!!! But I stomached it. :) She had 10 sons and is an amazing woman. After we ate, her and I talked about families for a good half hour. I love her. :)

So that was my week! These weeks are flying by! Before I know it I'll be done, which is rather sad to think about. I am having so much fun and I love the people so much. :)

Yibishiwi!
~Elder Park