Surviving in the heart of Africa is changing me. . .I hunt for a decent rice stand every day, I feast on fresh bread right out of the oven, I work with my 3 African companions: Lokutshu, Beya, Sininde and I fight for survival. Who will be the first to draw blood. . .
I will survive, maybe. . .
Haha, sorry, I just had to do that!!! So everyone, this week has been pretty good. Elder Lokutshu and I have mainly been working in Odoben this week because we don't have the money to go to the other area as often as we would like.
As for Odoben, it's pretty amazing! We have a few more investigators and we have a lot of people getting ready for baptism this coming Saturday. The cool part also is that we have been working pretty hard with members to help us translate what the people are saying haha!!!!
Brother Isaac, an investigator, only knows Fante. We have been working with him for a bit and we have made sure that he is ready for baptism. We hope to get him in the interview by Friday. We also have Sister Esther, she is a young girl who we have been trying to see as of late. We have taught her a lot, but her English isn't that well, so we need a lot of members to help us with her. Her Mom also is a less active and we are trying to get her to come back to church.
We went on splits with some of the members and we had a lot of member-present lessons that day. I was serving with a brother names Raphael, he's cool. I helped him feed his ducks and I got to hold some chicks so that was fun haha!!!! Also, we were able to go visit Sister Debra. She lives a little ways from us. We have been teaching her and trying to get her to come to church, but it's been hard. We have also been seeing a lot of other investigators, but I can't remember their names yet haha!!!!
As far as this area is, it's pretty cool. We have a lot of work and a lot of places to go. We really enjoy the fact of being in a nice area. I especially am grateful for the cafe and resources we have in this zone. See, we travel about an hour to cafe each Monday, but for this one, we came to Winneba. It's near the beach and a few elders I know are here. We are here today and it just sucks. Everything is slow and I've wasted like 40 minutes waiting to have this page load on here. So hopefully next week we'll be in our normal cafe haha!!!!
We went to Acikuma this week for church. We don't have a lot of members there, sad to say haha!!! So, when we got there, it was maybe 7 members in the chapel, and Lokutshu and I had to bless the sacrament. Later, a lot more people came which made it about 20 or so members in the building. Luckily they spoke English rather than Fante or Twi.
I've been really blessed to know that I'm doing something amazing here!!!! True, at times I want to pick up the phone and come home, but I know that this is where I need to be. I've learned a lot of who I am and who I need to become. When I get back however, I'm going to take some big steps, and I hope that I'm able to take them this those I love.
Also fun fact, WE MIGHT GET iPADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, we got word that the mission might get iPads, but if that's the case, sooooo many missionaries are going to use them badly!!! Welcome to Africa!!!!!!!!
Hope you all are doing amazing back home!!! Family, also when I get off the plane I want HoHos, Ding Dongs and chocolate Zingers. Also, a Mountain Dew Voltage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really hope to see you all there when I get off and I'm definitely going to hang out with each and every single one of you when I get back haha!!!!!!
I love you all!!!!!!!!!!
Elder Stockton Smith
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