3/9/15
Hey!
It's great to hear from you all. I’m really glad that I'm
able to email today. We’ve had some rain and the power just barely came back
on. Hopefully it doesn’t cut out again.
I've had an interesting week, seeing as I was without a
companion from Tuesday morning until just an hour or two ago when my new one, Marurai,
arrived. I have been working with the other two companionships in the apartment
the whole week mostly in their sector, but also a little in mine. It’s been
interesting. I’ve seen some really good teaching techniques. I’ve learned lots,
and have lots to consider. All in all though, it will be nice getting back to
staying in my sector with one companion. I’m excited to teach with Marurai
because I hear he is a good teacher.
I had another baptism on Saturday evening for my ami Ronald
(21 year old student). It was probably the most bizarre baptismal service that we’ve
had thus far. We arrived at the pool to find a party already in progress. Loud
music, dancing, drinks, etc. Luckily we convinced them to stop the music for
just long enough to the baptism, as soon as Ronald came out the water it
started right back up, so we drove to the church to do some singing and pray to
finish the service.
I’m currently helping a German polygamist make hotel
reservations in Accra, I wouldn’t usually be so nice with my computer time but
he seems pretty lost and can’t speak a lick of French. However, he is very good
at describing in English how much he likes black girls. Hmm. He is monopolizing a lot of my time here--this email might be short.
Also, another interesting story. There was a funeral party
going on outside of our apartment all day on Sunday. We were in our little side
yard, behind our gate, just talking with a few of the youth. I was showing them my
drum that I bought. When suddenly we heard drumming and dancing coming from
the other side of the fence so we decided to go out and drum with them a
little. It made everyone’s’ night seeing a yovo (white guy) playing one of their drums and they
offered us all beers, but we convinced him to just give us Cokes instead. We
took the Cokes and danced our way back into our gate to celebrate our victory.
Work is going well, I hope to have more baptisms coming up
soon.
By the way, I have a humongous virus on my SD card of
photos. I will be sending it home so that the geek squad (or Andrew) can
hopefully save my photos. I will start using another card in its place. Look
for that in the mail. So, I probably won’t be sending many photos in the
future.
All right, I love you all. I need to help this German man
find a place to sleep tomorrow night. Have a good week, and save some of those
blessings for me.
Love,
Elder Walls
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