Another wonderful week has come and gone!

Pig #2!

Monday we went and played football with the Elmina Zone and their members, which is always lots of fun. While we were there we roasted another pig! This one had been roasted for a total of 4 hours, which meant all of it was actually done this time. I talked with my white brother Elder Bay practically the whole time. Man I would kill to be that kid's companion. We would tear it up. We work so well together and think very similarly. We had FHE with the Andoh-Keson Family again. They are so wonderful and love to tease. Just like my family. :) They have a wonderful spirit that is very drawing. :)

The standard crew. :)

Tuesday in Zone meeting they discussed the importance of keeping the Sabbath Day holy. How the whole day needs to be reverent and not just the 3 hour block. It was really nice to hear because a lot of the time we get caught up in business, phones, or other people, but we need to make sure all of our thoughts and actions are directed toward the Savior. :) We came back and made Okura soup (Oh-cr-ah) it's like egoosy but not as good. The Okura vegetable itself becomes this green phlegm-like substance that has no flavor.... Why they put so much of it in I have no idea but it's good to embrace the culture. :)

Kids love cameras

School has started here and it goes from 7:30 - 4. So it's now really difficult to teach our younger investigators, we have to try to catch them in the evenings... :/

A Roger Woolley.... :)

On Wednesday it actually rained. Like hard. Which cooled things down a bit, but made everything really muddy. Cleaning my shoes that evening was a beast. Traffic was a lot better though since nobody wanted to be out and about, and it kept people home so we could teach! :) We taught Christan and Benjamin in the evening and killed 2 cockroaches, one was 2 inches long and the other was about 3. Ayyy! Those things are big! Christian said those ones were about average.... We also got another fridge! Since 4 of us can't fit in one. :) But me and my companion had to carry it up 6 small flights of stairs.

(Photo & Caption from Collin's Mom)
For those who may not be familiar
with Roger Woolley,
this is Collin and Roger Woolley
at Collin's Mission Farewell.
We just LOVE these two!!!

Thursday was great. Breakfast is always my favorite meal. It's the one meal where I can make normal food like oatmeal, pancakes, and french toast. (All made this stuff that slightly resembles the stuff back home.) Which is always a great way to start the day. :) Teaching was good today. First we taught Sister Stellah, an investigator that's married to a member, and Sister Bridgette. Both struggle with English with makes teaching hard since we usually can't find a translator.

Some African game

Friday that fridge is still sitting there in our dinning room. But we haven't had time to re-organize our tiny kitchen. We taught a man today named brother Ezekiel. It's hard to get him to stop talking once he's started.... And we finally discovered his true motive on investigating the church, and it was because he heard that we give out free health care.... which isn't true. After we told him that we didn't, his whole demeanor changed and it became hard to teach... oh well. :/

The best food ever!

Linda a Less active is gradually becoming more active! :) and she's inviting her friends to listen in on the lessons too! It's nice to see her coming back to the fold. :) I did 200 pushups before bed along with a bunch of skull crushers... My arms were completely wrecked....

Auntie Nancy. :)

Saturday was good too. I've been reading the September Liahona which also has lots of good stuff on marriage and child rearing. :) We had a combined Ward activity with the Green Hill Branch which was alot of fun! We played various African board games like Droubt, and did relays and other competitions. :) At the end we ate Geloff rice and chicken. And had a good ole Pepsi! I haven't seen one of those in forever! The activity went nearly all day so we could only teach Emmanuella that evening.

Liquid amazingness

Sunday was great. The day began nicely with Church at 11. Still didn't understand a word but I learned a lot from my own Sunday school class. ;) Auntie Nancy asked us to come over to her place directly after church which was at 2:30. When we got there we helped her pound Fufu for about an hour after which she finished making the soups. I mention soups because she had to make me a special batch of light soup due to the fact that she had made a batch of groundnut soup (Peanut soup) and so that took a little longer but the Soup was fantastic!

Photo from
Mission President:
Creature of the Week

We then proceeded to walk across the street to another Dinner appointment which was sister Sopa. She made us Banku and gave us fire (African slang for giving you an ear full) because she had prepared lots of Banku and knew that we had already eaten Fufu, which is really filling. So she decided to give us the same amount anyway and told us if we didn't finish then she wouldn't feed us again... So we finished and felt really ill.... Man that woman can be terrifying.... Hehe :)

So that was my week! The power is out pretty often which means sometimes we can't email Monday, but we should be able to the following day. :)

~ Elder Park