Dear Family & Friends,
Yesterday Elder Tohouri and I were riding our bikes up the hills
of Gbawe and he stopped next to a poster advertisement and said, "Companion!
We need to call this number! You’re to chingalingy you need to look like
this!" as he pointed to a big ol' fat mame on the advertisement. It was
one of those weird "get thin quick" medical things that are such a
fad all over the world I have learned. We rode our bikes away laughing. Chingalingy
is a Ghana word for skinny, it’s not Twi, I don't think its pidgin, it’s just a
goofy word...
On Tuesday we had a really awesome day, before each day the
following night you plan for what kind of a day you will have tomorrow. You
set numeric goals based on the names and people you have planned to see and ask
referrals from. We nearly doubled our number goals for the day and it was SO
awesome.
On Wednesday after we biked to a district meeting in Odorkor
(about 4 miles away) there was some weird funeral stuff happening back in our
area in Gbawe. I guess some person of tribalistic royalty had died and so there
were bands of people going around slaughtering chickens and goats that were out
and about (of which there are a lot) My companion and I weren't really sure
what was happening when we rode our bikes through these dudes with a bunch of
dead chickens slung over their shoulders. As we rode past them one of them
decided it would make him look really smart to swing his meat cleaver at
me. He ended up smacking my fanny pack as we rode by on our bikes. It gave
the buckle on my fanny pack a nice scar, but no injuries to myself. Sometimes I
just don't know what goes through people's heads.
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| Missionaries at MLC (Mission Leadership Conference) WIth Pres. and Sister Simpson |
We had MLC this week and on the way home I decided to stop by
the Lartebiokorshie apartment to pick up my hair clippers, as we got out of the
taxi it just so happened to be when Leslie got out of school and he ran up to
me and gave me a big hug. It was really awesome. Oh ya we received a new
instruction at MLC that the Wednesday after we will host a zone
training meeting and be expected to give instructions during that meeting. I
will be giving an instruction on weekly planning and I will tell you about it
more next week when I hopefully have more time.
One sweet experience this week for me was that our recent
convert started teaching our investigator by herself. Last week we baptized
Christiana and Emanuella Momoh. Emanuella is 9 years old and elder Tohouri and
I teach her primary class. After the class we walked out the door and past the
window of the classroom and I peeked inside to see Emanuella sitting next to a
little girl named Felicia (we invited her mom and the rest of the
family to church but mom didn't show up only
Felicia) reading her brand new book of Mormon to her. I noticed that
Emanuella had some scriptures marked already. It was just a cool moment
for me.
After Church, a member of our ward came up to me and
said, "Elder Cartwright was going to baptize my son, but he left
before we got a chance to schedule the baptism. Would you baptize my
son?" I said "ok" after he asked, I went to
the bishopric to tell them that he had asked me to baptize his son. I told them
that as a father, he presides over his family, really it’s his duty to baptize
his son, but if he and the bishopric would like me to do it I would be willing.
After talking for a little bit the bishopric asked me if I would. I agreed that
I would and got changed. It was kinda weird and they weren't very prepared for
it, but I baptized him.
We have been really busy lately and food is scarce in our area
for some reason. Usually we are far from the apartment and sometimes the only
stores around are provisions stores. I had coke and bread for lunch a few times
this week because there really wasn't anything else around.
Last Monday Elder Dy came here to Gbawe (he served here for a little
bit) to say goodbye to families he knew and recent converts. He ran into this
guy named Daniel in his travels and gave him to us as a referral. We started
teaching him this week and he is a really cool guy. His wife is in Koforidua
with their baby. After Ghanaian mothers give birth they go and live alone with
their mothers for 3 months to like shelter the baby or something. Its and
interesting tradition, sometimes it makes missionary work difficult. Anyway
Daniel has a wife and a kid and he works as a construction technician and we
taught him at his work site: a building under construction. Everyone had gone
on break for lunch so it was just us and him.
I love you guys a ton!
Love,
Elder Peters
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