o here the big thing is that the US was beat by Ghana. I'm just tired of everyone trying to slap me on the back or something. Everybody has their story about it. My favorite was the people in the branch we went to yesterday. One of them prayed about how he was thankful for Heavenly Father letting the black stars beat obama's boys. The other guy took about 10 mins of his talk on it. I don't really care. When I see kids ditching school to play soccer in the streets then maybe I'll feel a little twinge of come on guys. Plus the fact since Ghana is the only African country still in EVERYONE is rooting for them. Other then that a fairly good week.

The whole rape story was announced on the radio up here. A lot of members and investigators started calling our phone wondering if it was us since the radio basically just said two missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are in prison with a description of missionaries having white shirts, ties,and black tags. The trip to the temple was good. I was sick so my timing couldn't of have been better since I didn't have to really work too much for two days. We went to the Accra Mall and well coming home will be a culture shock. I think more than even coming here. Everything there just made me feel out of place. Kind of like it just belongs to a different world. By the way the Accra Mall is like a mall back home. Even has a nike store.

At the mission home my tag got broken. I was a little sad. We've had some good times together. A missionary I hadn't seen for a long time gave me a really big hug and well it broke. What was even better was Saturday morning Sis. Smith made us pancakes! Like real from scratch pancakes! She even had strawberry jam and real butter. It was great. Except the whole being sick thing so I didn't feel like eating too much. Dang it! The temple was great. Though I didn't really like how rushed we were. After our interview with Pres. Smith we has about 20 mins to get to the temple and then after getting out of the temple we only had about 10 mins before we left. I like to take a little bit more time and just kind of slow down. It was good as always. Meet some girls from Utah State that had come for something. I wasn't really paying attention.

Sunday something really good happened. A member woman who is pregnant who we are on pretty good terms came up and asked for a blessing. Her husband has gone out with us a little bit but his job had made him to travel. She doesn't speak English too well and didn't tell me at least why she wanted a blessing. Elder Boateng anointed and I sealed. As I started the blessing I was a little lost of words but stuff just kept coming out of my mouth. Whatever that woman heard I know that it gave her some comfort because it didn't come from me. OH and Sunday church attendance was super low because everyone was out partying because Ghana won.


Something I have thought about kind of with examples is that the first impression really does matter. As a missionary especially. If we aren't going to give a good first then all the other times we will have to work to showing that what we are and do is good instead of being able to have the people we are meeting with gain more of a belief in what we teach. . Well I hope you guys are having a great week!
Love Elder Gibson