Tuesday, August 11, 2009

This week seemed to just fly by. Sad thing is that this next week will go by even quicker. It seemed for some reason that the gutters in our area were really full and backed up this week. The smell was pretty terrible everywhere you were, not too different just a lot stronger then it usually is. We taught a lot of muslisms this week which was pretty strange. One was a real standout. His name is Abraham and he basically just has lots of questions. After teaching him and having him come to church he invited us to a seminar to teach 300 muslisms about the Restoration. Elder Riding was pretty excited but I'm a little apprehensive. I've heard stories of similar things being set up just to bash old testament laws against modern christian beliefs. We'll see what comes of it. Elder Riding got himself into an awkward situation during a first meeting with a new investigator named Jennifer. He asked if she was married and then her sister who wouldn't join us but was washing clothes right by us stopped him in his tracks when she answered for her saying, "no, why, do you want her?. Yeah we got a pretty good laugh, even though he froze for a few moments it ended up all good. Learned how to trap grasscutters out in the wild this week from our recent convert Frank Ada Agyepong. Don't know when or where that will come in handy but hey you never know. Grasscutters are kind of like muskrats. On Saturday Alex Agoboada was baptized. It was pretty sweet even though his father creates some problems by trying to push too much at the wrong times. It at least is in love. I was pretty glad that Sunday after church I got to help ordain him to the priesthood. Sunday was pretty hectic again though. We had 12 people come to church that we are teaching along with a few of their children so we were glad when we could get out of that. It seemed like I kept seeing kids wearing Arizona shirts this week. My favorite was one that had what looked like a road map transfered onto the shirt. It was cool to trace them and tell the kid all of the places that I had been. We are suppose to go eat a big barbecued tongan style so catch you next week. Anyway I hope everything is going great for you guys.

I really like the picture of all the family. Crazy to see how many people were there! It is true that all the technology that we have somehow seperates us. That or more takes out the personal time but I think since coming on my mission I have definitely learned the importance of having those quiet moments a lot more then before. I hope you guys have a great week!
love Elder Gibson

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