This week was so busy it almost didn't give us time to think! First we had the transfer call to anticipate and well guess how it was going to change our zone. Completely was wrong on our guesses. Only one person moved out of our zone and that is only because his companion is training. Everyone else stayed put. A lot of missionaries were disappointed. They kept calling asking about it and asking if we were playing a joke on them. Guess they really wanted to leave. The worst was as we were calling to check up on everyone there was one companionship who completely refused to work with one another. Ended up we went on a split with them. Ended up only being a sleep over as the morning after we started my companion called me and said that we had a sister who was just crying her eyes out and needed our help. Kind of patched things up with the first companionship and then rushed to the sister's chapel and talked her into wanting to still be a missionary. Yeah by the time it was all said and done I hadn't actually proselyted in our area for about 3 days. Which was okay because we had a baptism on Saturday!
Elder Botwe then got into a somehow serious bike wreck afterward though. We were riding down a street when a few kids ran out into the street and right in front of his bike. He slammed on his brakes, laid his bike down, and then jumped off his bike. Luckily the kid got a little piece of skin rubbed off of his ankle and not much else. It was a close call, could have been really nasty. We had an investigator named Charles Antwi tell us a cool dream he had. He said he met us on the street and we showed him a copy of The Book of Mormon and that I told him it would prepare him for the 2nd coming of Christ which was going to happen soon. So we extended a baptismal date and he accepted and said he'd start coming to church. Then as we were getting ready to leave he told us it would be hard for him to come since he has a role to play in his church and doesn't know if he can leave. We weren't too put off.
Randomly we have been teaching his girlfriend and she'll be getting baptized the second weekend in October so we are hoping she can influence him a bit for us. Saturday afternoon we had an appointment fail on a part member family who live pretty far from where we just normally proselyte so I wanted to explore on the way back. Found a sweet preserve area in the middle of our area that neither of us had ever known about it. Has a lily pad covered river and everything! It reminded me of getting to be up in the more "bush" areas. Too bad most people just use it as a place to dump their garbage. I had to teach the Gospel Doctrine class on Sunday. I realized that I can teach investigators a lot better than classes. Yeah A LOT better when it is smaller personal setting.
There is a bishop of another ward who is staying in our area right now who use to hang out with Elder Botwe's dad, they all come from Takarodi and after church he invited us to come over and eat. The best part was he told us to go and pick up the missionaries in his ward. As we picked them up I was playing around with one kid who always talks about how he played football in High School and tackled him onto a bed, too bad it broke two of the bed slates. :S Yeah oops. The food was really good. Too bad I had to finish just about everybody's food because they wouldn't do it. I was stuffed to it being uncomfortable! Oh well. I'm still alive. I love you guys and hope it is all going well!
Love you guys!
Elder G
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