Well hello family. What a crazy week it has been. It was so good to hear all of you. Sounds like everything is going just smoothly, which is always good. Well all is wonderful and I’m so happy I got to talk to everyone. It was just a really cool pick-me-up. I’m glad you got to ask all your questions. I just like chatting with you all.
Let me start with Sunday. Church was packed with all the holiday churchgoers (C&E Christians). Well we had a missionary Sunday. All the elders did everything. We taught all the different classes and our ward missionary leader spoke as did I. For a few weeks I had planned out what I was going to talk about, but as I was waiting to speak I was 'told' to change everything, so I rewrote in my mind a talk. That was fun. I got up and spoke on the Book of Mormon. I just tried to make it as simple as possible and still keep it powerful. It all went just great.
It's always fun to stand up and say... "Mema mo ache' agema ya hinuah" (good morning then declare my tribe and say I’m from a royal family) and then getting the whole room to praise me with "YA HINUAH!!" that’s always fun. hahah. You know I would enjoy that. hahahhah. Oh man.
But all went well on Sun. We went over to meet with Marsha and Rex who have been sooo busy with their work and she’s like 5 months prego. We were planning on meeting with them and setting a date for Marsha to be baptized but it was Rex's b-day and it turned into a huge party with a full 3-course meal that was quite delicious. (She is a caterer so she has GREAT food) as we were walking out her husband told me he wants her to be baptized. She has been coming to church the past 3 months but they are just so busy all the time. So he is planning on making time now that the holiday season is passing. So I think it will be sometime in January. She’s awesome and they will be a powerful family in the church. So I’m excited about that.
So as for this past week, pres. gave us each an extra 5 cedis ($3.50). He wanted us to all take someone out to get food. 5 cedis can serve about 1 person each IF you go to a good chop bar. If I just gave the 5 cedis to a family it could feed them all. So on Christmas Eve we went to BU and took Joseph, Patrick, BabyDoe and Peter (his older brother) out to a chop bar and enjoyed. It was really cool. They were very thankful which is always nice. Saw and met some members in BU and had a great night out and about.
(Joseph, Patrick, Elder Darrow, Peter, Baby Doe - Christmas Eve)
Christmas day was a day I will never forget. I figured missionary or not Christmas day is all about fun. Well I found that you could still have fun out and about and not just sitting in the apt. eating loads of food. After waking up and opening the small Christmas gifts, I had pancakes for breakfast. It was the last mix I had and so glorious. Then we went out and contacted for a bit. We haven’t done a lot of that on mission yet. So we went around and talked to random people. Nothing crazy sweet came out of it but I’m sure if Christ were around he wouldn’t just sit around on his birthday, he would be out and about. Of course he would come back and have cake cuz who doesn’t love cake?? But he would work.
Then after we took Meshaq to a nice chop bar and we got jollof and chicken (jollof is like fried rice mixed with some type of tomato stew, almost like the classical Mexican rice) and popped down 2 minerals. It was really cool to be out and having fun with a person I love so much. We were originally planning on going with Joseph and King David but they had some meeting at the stake center and said they wouldn’t know when they would be back but they would call. Well right as we were walking out King David called and said they were home and that we could meet. Sigh... we just put down a huge meal and if we go there I was going to have to do that again. But let's be honest. It’s not like Alex to turn down food (if its good food).
So we went to Joseph's compound. What’s always sweet about that is I get to hang and wrestle around with Pah Pah. Always a joy. I taught him how to play with a yo-yo and then taught Joseph how to play with one. We met up with e. Thompson and e Yapo and the people they were taking out and we ate again, and enjoyed ourselves, again. But it was really cool to go out and actually be a missionary on Christmas day and spend time with people I have got so close with over the past 9 months. I know that I’m ready to leave this area but I will truly miss them so much and will hate to say goodbye.
Then it was back home for the Christmas call. (And after the 2 lunches and contacting it was like 3ish) so that was basically Christmas here in Ghana.
Thanks again for all that you do. Thanks for being so awesome and so uplifting and so supportive. Thanks for being all that I could ask for and more. Thanks for all the prayers and for just being so extremely helpful. Love you guys big time.
xoxo
elder darrow
p.s. I did miss the snow.
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