Dear Family,
Thank you so much for writing me
every week. I just wanted to say that, I am so grateful that you guys write to
me every week.
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| Elders Peters and Herrod eating sugar cane |
So on Tuesday I had an eventful
day. I had called my taxi driver George on Friday to come pick me up at 6 to go
to Presidents house to pick up my new companion. I got up at 5:15 and went to
get cleaned up. Only to discover that our poly tank ran out of water. I had no
water, so no shower. I bought some pure waters and took a sink shower. Then my
taxi driver was late so I went to pick another taxi to go get Elder Broadhead
from CP (about 10 minutes away) then my taxi driver called and said he was
coming and I told him to meet us at market. So and hour later he came and
picked us up and we started on our way to presidents house. We were the first
missionaries there. Then we got some instruction from President on some stuff
and I got assigned Elder Scott Herrod (yes the one a lot of you that are
reading my emails went to junior high school with, ill talk more about him
later). I gathered some apartment supplies and grabbed his bag and took him out
in front of president’s house and called my taxi guy. Someone answered the
phone and said, "Oh this isn't George, George got thrown in jail for
insulting a police officer." I laughed, said very funny George, that’s a
good one, so we will be waiting at the place you dropped us, ok?" then
whoever was on the line got super ticked off and said, "NO THIS ISN'T
GEORGE! George is in prison...” and hung up. So my taxi driver got thrown in
jail. But it was ok I just picked another taxi and we got back just fine. But
it was a pretty eventful morning.
So Elder Scott Herrod is a super
cool kid...
He went to BYU for summer and fall semester before he came on his mission and took mission prep there. He went to Fairfield junior high school and lived in Alex White's ward. His freshman year of high school he moved to California and that is where his family lives now. He played basketball and surfed at home and is a really cool guy. He is very prepared for his mission and is awesome because he just wants to work!
He went to BYU for summer and fall semester before he came on his mission and took mission prep there. He went to Fairfield junior high school and lived in Alex White's ward. His freshman year of high school he moved to California and that is where his family lives now. He played basketball and surfed at home and is a really cool guy. He is very prepared for his mission and is awesome because he just wants to work!
It’s been weird being the one
that calls the shots and takes the lead though. I think the weirdest part is
that up till now on my mission, my companion can speak more Twi than me. Now I
am the one being asked by elders Herrod and brown to teach them Twi. I feel
like is still don’t know a lot, but I will find myself having conversations
with people all the time. Elder Herrod's first few hours as a missionary saw me
contact a lady entirely in Twi. After we started to walk away, he said, uh ya
you just had a conversation in Twi. I thought about it and realized that ya, I
actually did. So I’m learning small-small. Btw-it’s not usually good to contact
people entirely in Twi because that means you will have to determine the next
time you meet with them if they speak any English and if they don’t it becomes
awkward because I can’t teach the entire restoration lesson in Twi yet. So you
just have to plan for a member to come with you. I also have learned that I can
eat the leftovers. As he is adjusting to the new food, bankuu and iced kenkey
isn't agreeing with his stomach or gag reflex very well so I have been able to
enjoy a lot of extra portions. Also something I never thought I would be able
to do.
On Tuesday night, after enjoying
kenkey at the Oppong family house, we were walking home on Obom road. Obom
road, I have heard is notorious for armed robbery, so we were moving pretty
fast because it was now dark and we were on our way home. I was looking for a
place where we could enter the back roads and weave our way home through them,
and he was telling me about something when all of the sudden this big guy with
his shirt cut in half, so you could see his belly, came running up behind us
and started to walk with us and was telling us about his situation. It scared
me to death, I jumped pretty good. He started talking to me and we kept walking
I wasn’t really listening to him because I was keeping my eyes peeled for other
people that would come up behind us or on our sides. it got to the point where I
was ready to trip him and tell my companion to run and we would take off, but
he just asked us for money and I handed him a pass a long card and told him that’s
all we could give him then we turned and went a different way. He stopped
following us after that. We were ok, but that’s the first time I was actually
afraid of getting robbed. Close call, but now I know what to do better the next
time.
Right now we have a lot of people
that we are progressing toward baptism. Henry is doing really well, but he
traveled to Kumasi this past weekend so he didn't come to church. But it’s no
wahala because I know he’s doing really good. we are teaching this guy who
introduced himself as "prophet Simon" so us (which is usually not a
good sign, because it means he runs a church, or helps run a church, so there’s
bound to be a doctrinal conflict) but he is really humble and as we have taught
him he has been reading and praying about the Book of Mormon and he’s told us
he knows its true. He’s also told us that his church provides EVERYTHING for
him. So he would have to basically become homeless to be baptized. Pray for
him. Also we started teaching this guy named Simon Notey who is gotta be one of
the most chill people I have met in my life. He has a childish smile and plays
the guitar really well. (I asked him where he got his guitar he said Melcom but
I went there today and they didn't have one, grrrr) he came to our emergency
stake conference this week and is progressing really really well. He hasn't
flat out told us, but I’m pretty sure he either has or had a problem with
marijuana. He has read a lot of the Book of Mormon and has told us that he is
praying about it and that at church he felt very welcomed and loved the
service. He liked how there isn't just a pastor telling you "how it
is" but he said he loved how we have classes where everyone can share
their ideas. He is currently writing a song on his guitar about Ether 12:27. I
sent a video of him playing his guitar for us after a lesson. All three of
these people have committed to baptism but it might not be us that baptizes
them.
So our area has been split so as
of right now half of our area is going to New market building and the other
part is going to CP. this is what the emergency conference was about. We are
still waiting to hear anything from the mission about this...
I don’t know where to tell my
investigators to go to church on Sunday and I have no idea where I am supposed
to go to church on Sunday.
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| Washing clothes |
I taught my son how to wash today;
he did a really good job. He is trying really hard to adapt as much as he can
to the culture here. I want him to be ready to train a new missionary by the
end of his training.
More to come next week...
In conclusion, these past two
weeks have gotta be the best part of my mission so far. This really is the good
life, a good good life. 2 Nephi 5:27
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| Chillin' in the back of a Tro-tro with Elder Brown...livin' the good life |
I love you all a ton!
Love, Elder Peters
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