Another week has come and gone! I was lucky to make it through this one. I got sunburnt really bad because it seemed like a lot of our appointments failed and we just spent time walking around and trying to drum up some new people a lot. That is in due part because we just dropped a lot of people because they kind of lazy about it. We stayed up a little too late on Tuesday night hold it . . . CLEANING . . . yes Mom you can act surprised. We got a little hint that our apartment was going to be inspected so we cleaned like crazy. Our apartment was clean enough I might have even considered eating off the floor. When the office couple who was inspecting came they said it was even clean enough for them to live in. We'll see what happens.
That same day we went on splits. I went with an elder from Tonga. He is smaller than me but I guess he is pretty much amazing at rugby. He was playing for Tonga's national team. He showed me their jersey and it was sweet! He was pretty cool even though he doesn't really speak english so that is kind of a problem he has in teaching. Made me thankful for my companion who is a really good teacher and all that kind of stuff. I went and stayed in their apartment and we kind of played a prank. Our District Leader hadn't taken his bike so we took it and hung it on some rebar that was sticking out of the roof. Yeah it was awesome, especially since the elder whose bike it is is like 6'3 and weighs like 230 or something and couldn't quite climb up to get his bike. We all had a good laugh about it. We got it down without problems and nobody got hurt. That is what is important.
So this week about Wednesday I was feeling really good with our area and everything. By Saturday pretty much it had unravled. A guy whose wife is a member who seemed really solid is now pretty much seperated from his wife. Another guy got a job, yes a job, playing the drums in some church and he feeds his family with it. Another guy is friends with his pastor and is worried about leaving the church and hurting his friendship. Just a lot of stuff like that. We're praying a lot right now. Some better things is the family we baptized last week one of the girls turned 18 this week. She was completely surprised when we showed up and sang happy birthday to her. It was great because well we couldn't keep a tune.
So Saturday the muslims stopped their month long fasting and to make sure their celebrations wouldn't disturb they just shut the power off in our area and other areas that have a high muslim concentration. Yeah I thought it was pretty messed up but I guess crowd control. As we were walking back to our apartment they turned the power back on and everyone cheered. It was funny. I also got a call from a guy that I had baptized in one of my old areas. He has his visa and pretty much everything ready to go on his mission. Just has to wait to turn a year old. Made me really happy because he is already like 24 so I didn't know if they'd let him go or not. This week it seemed like every missionary I met just wanted to talk about how "old" on mission I am. I hate it. I'm excited to come home but I mean seriously sometimes I got the feeling they felt like we were sentenced to this instead of volunteers. Whatever. I can do my part and just be the best I can I guess.
Sunday at church waiting for it to start I saw a member watching football on his phone and it was crazy! His phone I mean. It is literally a computer in his hand. Guess a lot of stuff has happened since I left home. I thought phones were for just making calls. Also at church I was told that I just need to turn black because I already am a ghanaian. A member, his name is Francis, that we are baptizing his friend this saturday, his name is Evans, was amazed at what I have eaten, seen, and kind of how I talk. Francis said that there are the local foods that I have eaten that he never has. He is pretty cool and will be coming to BYU in January. I told him when I go home I want to eat fufu like once a month and he told me I'd have to show him where to get it. Then I had to explain about how far away from BYU we live. It was fun.
He and his buddy, Nii, totally are going to get us a cat to eat. The only things I haven't really eaten that they eat here is cat and dog. Plus snakes but that is only up in the north north. So yeah I've got some stuff to get down before coming home. Today even we are going to have a tongan pig roast because like 4 missionaries in our zone turned 1 year. I'm excited. So gotta run and stuff my face! Love you guys!
That same day we went on splits. I went with an elder from Tonga. He is smaller than me but I guess he is pretty much amazing at rugby. He was playing for Tonga's national team. He showed me their jersey and it was sweet! He was pretty cool even though he doesn't really speak english so that is kind of a problem he has in teaching. Made me thankful for my companion who is a really good teacher and all that kind of stuff. I went and stayed in their apartment and we kind of played a prank. Our District Leader hadn't taken his bike so we took it and hung it on some rebar that was sticking out of the roof. Yeah it was awesome, especially since the elder whose bike it is is like 6'3 and weighs like 230 or something and couldn't quite climb up to get his bike. We all had a good laugh about it. We got it down without problems and nobody got hurt. That is what is important.
So this week about Wednesday I was feeling really good with our area and everything. By Saturday pretty much it had unravled. A guy whose wife is a member who seemed really solid is now pretty much seperated from his wife. Another guy got a job, yes a job, playing the drums in some church and he feeds his family with it. Another guy is friends with his pastor and is worried about leaving the church and hurting his friendship. Just a lot of stuff like that. We're praying a lot right now. Some better things is the family we baptized last week one of the girls turned 18 this week. She was completely surprised when we showed up and sang happy birthday to her. It was great because well we couldn't keep a tune.
So Saturday the muslims stopped their month long fasting and to make sure their celebrations wouldn't disturb they just shut the power off in our area and other areas that have a high muslim concentration. Yeah I thought it was pretty messed up but I guess crowd control. As we were walking back to our apartment they turned the power back on and everyone cheered. It was funny. I also got a call from a guy that I had baptized in one of my old areas. He has his visa and pretty much everything ready to go on his mission. Just has to wait to turn a year old. Made me really happy because he is already like 24 so I didn't know if they'd let him go or not. This week it seemed like every missionary I met just wanted to talk about how "old" on mission I am. I hate it. I'm excited to come home but I mean seriously sometimes I got the feeling they felt like we were sentenced to this instead of volunteers. Whatever. I can do my part and just be the best I can I guess.
Sunday at church waiting for it to start I saw a member watching football on his phone and it was crazy! His phone I mean. It is literally a computer in his hand. Guess a lot of stuff has happened since I left home. I thought phones were for just making calls. Also at church I was told that I just need to turn black because I already am a ghanaian. A member, his name is Francis, that we are baptizing his friend this saturday, his name is Evans, was amazed at what I have eaten, seen, and kind of how I talk. Francis said that there are the local foods that I have eaten that he never has. He is pretty cool and will be coming to BYU in January. I told him when I go home I want to eat fufu like once a month and he told me I'd have to show him where to get it. Then I had to explain about how far away from BYU we live. It was fun.
He and his buddy, Nii, totally are going to get us a cat to eat. The only things I haven't really eaten that they eat here is cat and dog. Plus snakes but that is only up in the north north. So yeah I've got some stuff to get down before coming home. Today even we are going to have a tongan pig roast because like 4 missionaries in our zone turned 1 year. I'm excited. So gotta run and stuff my face! Love you guys!
Love ya!
Love Elder Gibson
No comments:
Post a Comment