28 June 2010

Hey everyone I hope you guys are all having lots of fun. I guess most of you have been in the car for hours. The trip to Utah sounds like fun. Hope no one gets hurt or sick or anything. Anyway this last week was pretty sweet here in Ghana. I went to Oda again on tuesday with Elder Moses so Elder Kivaya could do our baptismal interviews in Asamankese. Elder Moses is pretty funny. He's from sierre leone so he has a kinda strange accent, but I'm pretty used to strange accents. Man, Oda has been struggling this transfer. It seems like they just have tons of not serious investigators. Anyway then on Wednesday Elder Kivaya and Elder Moses came to spend the night so one Thursday we could all travel to Accra as a district. On Thursday we were in the trotro for pretty much ever. We rode down to accra to first go to the temple and then to have interviews with President Smith. The temple was really great as usual. I love being in the temple. You have no stress and total peace for hours. Then we had some lunch and the mission home and had interviews. As usual my interview lasted like 2 minutes. I think I chatted with the office couple longer than with President Smith. He just told me to be exactly obedient and sent me on my way. Elder Stout said in his interview President Smith almost made him cry--because of all the nice things he said. Speaking of Elder Stout, he's getting excited about going home, but I think he's realizing more and more how much he'll miss being a missionary so we're working harder and harder. Anyway after interviews we came straight back and spent hours in Accra's traffic, squished into a trotro. Saturday was the worst day of the week trotro wise though. First thing on saturday was a great baptism though. We had to rush and fill the font though. We had I think three hoses filling it as the baptismal service started. Moroni and Celestina's dad, Redeemer, was the baptist for Moroni, Celestina, Mary, and Ernestina. We didn't think Kingsly was going to make it in time, but he came in right as they were baptizing Ernestina so we had him quickly put on the white clothes and baptized him with the others. Then after the baptism we took a trotro to Oda to do splits to do some interviews. I went with Elder Kivaya to Kade. We spent like an hour in the station waiting for the car to fill up. Just before we got to Kade the back windshield shattered and pieces started falling out and glass was blowing inside. We all were shouting at the driver to stop, but he wasn't serious at all, just said that we were almost there. When he dropped Elder Kivaya and I he grabbed the biggest pieces dangling from the van and just through them out on the road. Like, I said: he's not serious at all. Then we had an interview for Frank and went to the station to ride back to Oda. Then back to Asamankese were we had to spend the evening inside because of the Ghana match. Guess the USA lost. Well not much else happened. On sunday we were hoping to give baptismal dates to this one family, but the mom went to her old church instead. And while we were teaching them this old lady came and interrupted the lesson by telling jokes in twi. Probably rude jokes I'm pretty sure. Then we spent the rest of the afternoon catching up on our contacts for the week. Well I love you guys too much. Hope you are having a fun summer. The church is really true, and being dilligent and valiant is worth it. If anyone is wondering being on a mission is the greatest thing. I've learned there is nothing like serving the lord. Spell check isn't working today so sorry about that. Love, Elder Bradford Chambers