3 January 2011

Hey everyone, I hope you guys enjoyed your new year. We had a pretty good week here in Alajo. We were balancing the two areas and enjoying the holiday season at the same time. The teaching pool is getting somehow dry in my area. The people we are finding we usually only end up seeing them once. There's a lot of problems causing this, people that can't read, people without phones, people that don't actually live in our area, people that are always working (especially on Sunday), and people that always come along and tell the people we just taught that we are evil occultists that just want to drink their blood. So we are trying to find people we can actually keep and teach. This is a problem with the whole district. Anyone good we find we baptize, and then we are back to having no one to teach. On Friday night they had a ward party that was really nice. It was like a christmas program with different groups singing different hymns and christmas songs. Then on New Years Day we got invited to a lot of FMs. The first person we saw gave us juice and cake, then we had malt and biscuits, then we had banku with okro soup, then minerals and biscuits, then fufu with light soup and malt, then banku with okro soup again, and then fufu with groundnut soup, and then lots of rice with stew and more malt. We felt so sick at the end of the day. Here in Ghana it's like you are not allowed to leave any food left. At the end of the day, when we were eating the rice, Elder Nwachukwu kept telling stories so that he wouldn't have to eat so much rice (all our meals we were eating out of one bowl). As he was eating he asked, "is it by force? is it a commandment we have to finish all?" I can tell you that we had no problems fasting at all the next day. Anyway we are anticipating transfers this wednesday. By all means some change will come to the two of us and the district. Love you guys so much. Love, Elder Chambers