Walking down the street with no one around. Kind of like
siesta besides not being nationally recognized.

Another week of living in Kaneshie. This last week I went on splits with one of our zone leaders. His name is Elder Southwick and he is from sugarcity, Idaho. It was way chill day since Kaneshie was his last area so after teaching some of our people he showed me where a lot of the member's homes were. This week it seemed like we had a real struggle with people choosing the world over God. Tetteh Oaklet and his family own and run a furniture store. They recieved a massive order and because of it were unable to keep their appointments and come to church. Lots of things like that have seemed to pop up lately. Have to do our best to surpress it. Riding around on our bikes we kind of found a new area that it doesn't really seem missionaries have visited much. If they have it has been a long time since anyone has proselyted there. I saw a fight this week, super rare. People in Ghana when they get really really angry just kind of yell at each other as a crowd gathers and usually nothing physical happens. This time though it must have been way serious. They started getting into. One of the guys had a friend hand him a piece of something and he was whipping the other guy with it. Worst part of all it was that no one did anything to stop them. Just let them continue as they watched. We had some sweet question and answer sessions this week with people we've contacted. One time we were in the market and a guy just came up and flat out told us that he didn't like our church. Unfortunately Elder Frimpong decided he was going to try and convince him otherwise. After hearing it for a little bit I got bored of hearing them share opinions about things so I stepped in and cut Elder Frimpong and told him just to bear his testimony because our time isn't worth spending if someone wants to argue with us when we can find plenty of people who will be interested. Must of cut the guy pretty deep because he actually asked for a pamphlet before we left.

A view of the temple. Still trying to get Elder Frimpong to
understand where to line the camera up at.

A view of the temple. Still trying to get Elder Frimpong to
understand where to line the camera up at.

This is Elder Richards. He thinks he is a lady's chap. I'll admit
though very pretty girls send him pictures so yeah.

We had a temple trip this week. Definitely was a nice experience. We ended up getting to the temple a hour early and had a chance to just sit and wait for our session to start. Friday the U-20 World Cup Championship was played. It was Ghana vs. Brazil. All of our appointments basically fell through because everyone was watching the game. We ended up catching the last bit. They played into extra time and it went to pentalty kicks and Ghana won. It was crazy to see how people went out into the streets and just kind of partied like it was the real world cup or something. The worst part was the next day people were kind of failing appointments. Some were too tired from the activities of the night before, some of them were out still celebrating, etc etc etc. Plus since I'm white and they think everything is about race they rubbed it into my face that they beat my people. Probably the only chance I have in life to pass off as a brazillian and it happened in Africa.

This was the celebration in front of our apartment after Ghana won.

This was the celebration in front of our apartment after Ghana won.

Saturday something really funny happened too. Some apostalic church was celebrating its 40th anniversary of being a church and they organized a walk, basically to get donations. So on one side of the street you have about 400 or 500 apostalic church members all dressed up and on the other side two missionaries just kind of like wow, wonder if we should contact them. I wanted to take a picture but figured it might cause some problems so didn't. Sunday was interesting. Our gospel principles class didn't have a teacher show up so they picked me to teach about the Kingdoms of Glory. Yeah teaching about all of them for over a hour isn't that easy on the spot. Hopefully they got something from it because it was rough. We did have an investigator come and tell us that he and his mother want to be baptized. He is Frank Abbey and his mother is 85 which is pretty old for here. They just have three funerals in a row which means about a month or two months of weekends down the drain. They take their funerals serious here. He came because we've been coming by the house with no result and wanted us to know he is serious and everything just needs to take care of the family. Guess you kind of have to take them like they come.

Early this morning I woke up and decided to organize our materials.
It's okay to be jealous that you don't have as many pamphlets as us.

This little girl just kept coming up to me at church. No idea if she
even belongs to anyone in our ward or whatnot. She is adorable
though. Kept wanting to take her shoes off though.