Golf - Banging Pots and Pans.

by dad

Add Africa to the list of places where Alex has played golf. Why does it not surprise me that he chose a round of golf to celebrate his first 3 months in Ghana?

Last night I called E Saunders and golf was still on with him. E. Saunders is one of the senior couple missionaries that works in the office. I was sooo gidy. I have never missed a tee time that's important, (or any at all i think) and i woke up around 5:40 cuz I was so excited. It was SOO SICK. loved it. It's a day that will go down in the history books. The golf clubs stunk and it sprinkled for the first few holes. Then it cleared up and then POURED for the last 3. I honestly played pretty crappy, but i had sooo much fun. I had enough sweet shots i didnt care. :) E. Saunders was a great 'sponsor'. Very, very nice of him. He's such a cool guy.

Ghana 1 - Serbia 0. World Cup mania has hit Ghana, complete with the African Vuvuzela Horns. What's a Vuvuzela Horn? It makes that loud monotone sound you hear during the soccer matches that sounds like a swarm of bees.

You want to know what’s going on with the whole World Cup?? Anyone following the World Cup?? Well Ghana was playing at 2 right after church. :) We are under covenant to stay away from the temptation of the games so we stayed in the apartment. You could hear TVs and radios echoing in the streets. Well try and guess what happened? Ghana scored with 10 min to go. It was CRAZY here!! And it’s hard to tell you everything i saw, so i will just tell you this; as the horns, yelling, singing, dancing was going about, i witnessed a woman pop a bottle of champagne and pour it out to the small children in the streets who were out banging pots and pans. Yup. It’s flippin crazy here!

The postal system is Ghana is less than desirible. Letters from home seem to take 7-10 days, while envelope packages can take up to 2 weeks. Almost everything we sent has arrived safely. Some never will.

I wonder how much mail that gets sent to me i will never get. I want you to tell everyone that for those who have sent me a letter "if I have gotten it, I have replied. I’m not THAT guy." So their reply is in the mail OR it was lost :( sorry!

And through it all, the work goes on.

We have had some awesome lessons this week. I was getting e Bahme's cold but i didn’t want to spend another day in the apart. So i endured. It was tough. some people who really rocked are Kenneth, Vivian and Agyemang (ah-gee-mon) they are all 3 completely different people with all different stories. but they are all so awesome.

Kenneth was a really shy guy who just sat in on lessons with Thomas and Boaten ( if you remember those people then "10 blog follower points to you"). We didn’t really think he understood much English at all and when ever we ask him stuff he doesn’t really get it and is super shy. he’s maybe 25-29 and has one leg shorter (like a foot shorter) then the other. so its hard to get around etc. well two weeks ago we saw him at church? surprise! so we sit with him. when we asked him questions about what he knows and all that stuff we were SHOCKED. he basically has every pamphlet we have giving him memorized. we were shocked. this last week when we asked him (the whole promise pattern thing) if he would PROMISE to come to church tomorrow. after alot of silence and confusion on both parts he replied with... (in very broken English) i can’t promise cuz i want to be baptized and as of right now I’m just visiting till I’m ready. ?!?! BOOKAHRAH! so happy.

Vivian is a seamstress that dodged us my whole first transfer. she was a member referral from someone who is a powerful member. well we finally went back and sat with her and had a powerful lesson (this was 2 weeks ago) well she said she would come to church but the rain was plenty (wow i sound so stupid talking like a Ghanaian but that’s the first thing that came to mind) well in this lesson she opened up to us and told us that (yada yada yada) she cant read or write and is scared for everyone to know that and can’t read stuff we give her. (i mentioned the bisque! ;) ) and then on Fri. we talked about how families can be together and etc and she was really touched. opened up to us again and told us her husband is a drinker but wants to bring her kids to church (6months and 3yrs) so we were happy about that. she is awesome.

and Agyemang, well he is a 17-19 yr that Babydoo introduced to us. he is so flippin sweet. when we ask him about his assignments and what he ready he gives us the BIGGEST explanation and you can tell he read it 4-5 times. this last time we asked about his assign 3NE 11 and he told us so much he was teaching us! (not really... sigh hope no one went for that) he also is excited to come to church. well Sunday rolls around and yup... not one of them showed. sigh.... so sad. but each one of them has something big stopping them. like Kenneth only comes when his member friend Christian comes and he doesn’t always come. he needs help. Vivian i’m sure was stopped by her hub and Agyemang said his mom wouldn’t let him come. sigh... so sad. hope we can find a way to get around all that.

tell everyone i love them. sorry i dont have more time. i hope everything is well. thanks for all the letters/packages you have sent. i promise you blessings. :)

xoxox
elder darrow