Things This Week

    First of all, I am kind of disappointed that out of the three of you, only Cordy gave me Super Bowl news.  I wasn't focused on it yesterday, but it was in the back of my mind.  Anyway, thank you Cordy. (Oops! I thought that Dad would and he got talking about his fishing)

    Second,  someone told me that the kenke that I ate might have been spoiled or made wrong, so I don't know.  I honestly don't know how to describe it other than similar to bonku, (which I can't describe either really).  For the language, I can say a few more words, but we really aren't supposed to learn that much of it.  We don't teach in twi unless we have a member with us.  Elder Osei is Ghanaian so he speaks twi fluently. It is sometimes fun to speak twi, other times it is annoying to greet people because they don't stop trying to test your twi.  Sometimes it is fun to show off your twi to them.  They usually like it.  If you do it too much in contacting, you get not serious investigators though so we have to be careful. "ahbroni onti twi" "White man speaks twi." The market is fun.  I enjoy bartering with people.  It puts a smile on my face.  My favorite members to visit are the ones that feed us, like the Adams family, (I will talk more about them later), and President and sister Nii.

   Speaking of "white man", we saw a white man driving a car with a rubber snake scaring small kids.  It was funny.  White people aren't common and white people with rubber snakes are less.

   I can't believe that everyone is coming home soon.  I will be 6 months in about a month.  It is crazy to think about.  Soon Austin and Justin will be home and it will be us three that left last year and anyone who leaves this one.

   This week was kind of cool.  I can't remember if I told you but a week or two ago, we brought an investigator to the Wednesday mid-week class at the church and he came drunk as a skunk.  Well, Sister Adams had a dream about him on Friday.  She said that he was laying on the ground almost dead and all of us missionaries were trying to revive him but couldn't so we left him to die I guess. (She apparently wasn't there to help him)  I don't know if it was a revelatory dream or not but we gave her his number because he liked her and the way she taught at the midweek class.  She invited him to the FM she was doing for us that night.  She usually feeds our district once a week (and she almost killed us with the amount of food she gave us that night too).  But we had a really great member present lesson where we taught word of wisdom and a district leader and President Adams gave a powerful testimony.  He said he wanted to give up drinking and come to church so he could baptize this month.  We went to pick him up on Sunday, but he said that he would bath and press his clothes before and would come late.  He never showed, so we were kind of upset.  But one day he will baptize, I am sure of it,  just not right now.

   Another guy, Asemwah, wants to baptize soon.  But his uncle who we haven't met with yet read a bunch of anti-Mormon junk on the internet and doesn't want him to join.  He pays for his schooling and will stop if he joins.  We called him today to talk to him but he wouldn't listen to us.  We want to find his house and bring a member to talk to him.  Our investigator's family loves us and feeds us a lot.  The dad would come but his job won't allow it and his mom believes all Christianity is good and is too stubborn to change.

   On good notes, most of our other investigators are progressing and we confirmed our recent converts yesterday.  I got to do one for Elder Orji's candidate.  One of the members told me of a place in town where they sell clippers so I will find that place and buy them.  The waffle iron might come down the road but right now I am not worried about it.  Elder Williams will be going home in March and I will give him my drive with the pictures on it before he goes and he said that he will deliver it to you guys.  I am glad ice fishing season went well even though it was short.

   I love you guys.  Things are going well here.  Have a good week.

Elder Warner Ashby