Dear
Family,
Hello!
Happy 8th of June, 2015! Is today significant at all, though? I don't really
know. But anyway, it's great to hear from you once again! First, a couple
thoughts on your email this week: Okay, okay, I do read them, I
just chose not to comment on those jokes.. though I did show all the elders
in the cafe the funny picture. :D
WHOAH MY
FLIGHT PLANS. O.o Crazy. That'll be a long flight.. around 25 hours
cumulative. [We received his return travel itinerary. He's currently scheduled to arrive home on September 18th.]
So this
week had some fun stories! First, Tuesday. Tuesday is when we passed by a
monkey! It's in our area, but we normally don't pass by that way. We happened
to, so I took a bunch of pictures! :D
Also, as we were walking through part of
our area, we passed a lady and started talking to her. She was pretty obviously
Muslim and we had a nice conversation; she even invited us to visit her at her
mosque! I thought that'd be a unique activity. ;)
Wednesday
was an exchange! I went with Elder Allen into my area. It was a really great
exchange, and we had an amazing lesson with a less active member named R. We
had a member with us, Georgina, who was just the perfect person to
have for the impromptu lesson. The two just took off and R really opened up.
It was so great to feel the spirit there, even though we didn't say too much as
missionaries because we don't speak their language. :) We also taught a great
lesson with our investigator, B, the one that I said might be a
"slow-cooker". Yeah, no. She's doing AWESOME. She read the pamphlet a
few times before we came, and had been understanding everything. But that was
just the start. Wait a couple days for the really cool stuff. We also saw Alice
and her mom, Emma! It was sweet; we taught them about the Articles of Faith and
just helped them grow. More on them in a minute, too. ;)
Thursday
was a pretty normal day, and we had a really sweet lesson with An. We
were sitting with him inside his room, and we looked around and everything was
so much cleaner, he had a mosquito net hanging neatly over his bed with his
sweet little daughter on the bed, he was clean cut and wearing very good
clothes, and then he proceeded to talk to us about how some of his old friends
had visited him and looked at him and said that he's changed so much and then
left his room without him having to reject them. His whole demeanor and
countenance have changed, and he's so great. More later. :)
Friday.. Was quite the day. It started off with the zone meeting. Some good instruction
there! But I was disappointed that the zone leaders forgot to grab packages and
such when they went to Cape Coast, so now we have to wait a long time for them.
This frustrated me quite a bit because the office elders called me on Tuesday
telling me that Meet the Mormons was here for me (and venting about how they
wanted to steal it..)! Well, I guess I'll just wait for it to eventually get
to this side of the mission. [Deseret Book will ship directly to Ghana, so I ordered him the Meet the Mormons DVD online, shipped directly to him via the mission office.]
After that we decided to go to one of our
favorite rice and chicken places. They were out of chicken, so we decided to go
to this new one that we had only seen. We get in there and we ask the price.
It's a cedi more than what it normally is at a decent place [that's about 25-30 cents US], but after some
discussion we decide to order it anyway, hoping that it's good and worth it.
Well, they bring out the plates and there's nothing nice with the rice, no
lettuce, no mayo, no anything by it. So that's disappointing. I did my best to
be content. So I started eating my chicken. One bite. Yum! Second bite. As
I'm pulling the chicken away from my mouth, there happens to be around 7
maggots squirming inside the chicken that I just opened, right there, tucked
between the bone and the meat. It was such a wonderful sight, one that caused
me to immediately spit out EVERYTHING in my mouth onto the plate, and nearly
throw the chicken. We proceeded to be quite frustrated, and I went and drank a
coke. Somewhere else. Not there. Blahhhhhh. :P (that's a far from normal thing
here. All the people I've told that story, members and missionaries alike, have
all said that it's terrible and nasty. Memories, right? ;))
As we
were coming home from that fiasco, we noticed that it started to rain.
Wonderful! So we got out of the trotro and hid underneath a bus stop thing with two small umbrellas to cover all four of us. It was working somewhat well until it
started to rain sideways. The wind was strong! We finally found a place to sit
inside, a nearby shop, and waited for quite a while. It ended up raining the
entire day, and we weren't able to go out, unfortunately. It was also CRAZY
cold. I was wearing socks, jeans, thick shirt, my jacket, and wrapped up in a
sheet. The other elders said I was crazy. :)
Saturday
was a good day! We started off the day going to a member that had called and
asked for a blessing, but then we went and taught B again! And what a
wonderful lesson that was! We brought the Relief Society President with us,
Sister Zwennes, and B committed to coming to church! We also had a couple
other great lessons, and finally another one with Emmanuel. :) Since
he's been baptized, he's received a nice job, been given a nice car
from that company, and is just doing well! He's also been able to help another
member around get a job at the same place, and now they are the managers at
this soon to open import store! We'll go there sometime before I'm transferred.
:)
Okay,
now here's the really awesome day: Sunday!!! It was Fast and Testimony Sunday,
and so that means everyone could bear their testimonies. A few people were
among those "everyone": Emma, with the sweetest testimony about a
priesthood blessing she had received, An., with a testimony about how he
didn't know any of these commandments like the Law of Chastity, Word of Wisdom,
but that he has now changed his life and found happiness in his life, and
Benjamin, giving his first testimony in the church about his journey here and
such powerful moments of his life and being able to join this church. It was
pretty incredible. I felt so sad thinking about how that might be my last Fast Sunday in this ward. I don't want to ever leave this area. :) Also, B came to church, and she had a GREAT time. :)
After
church we went and visited a member, Bernice, who then took us to visit her
neighbor, a lady who we had given a blessing to some time ago. We had blessed
the woman because she was VERY pregnant; the baby is born now! She showed us
the cute little baby boy, and we will have a couple people to teach now from
this. It was so cool to see the effect that the blessing had on this woman's
spirit and feelings, especially having gone successfully through labor and
everything working out. A guy sitting there also told us that he wants us to
teach him, that he has a Book of Mormon, and he REALLY wants to learn. He also
mentioned that he "sees something around [us] that [we] might not
see", and he described that he feels this light around us. That was a
pretty neat thing for him to say. :)
The
week's been good. I'm out of time, but I hope you enjoyed this week's letter! I
love you so much. Have an amazing week. :)
Love,
Elder
Price
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