Elder Aidan Holyoak: 👥 🚫🔋💧

Another solid week this week.

Multizone

So this week we had "multizone" but it was just our zone so it was more like a glorified Zone Council. It was still a lot of fun and I learned a lot. Our zone Asamankese is the biggest in the mission and we were having some unique problems that President wanted to fix. Overall a great conference and I got some more cool ties.

Power

We lost our power again. It was around 10 pm and everyone was getting ready for bed. I was brushing my teeth and the power went out. Usually when the power goes out it takes about 10 - 20 minutes to come back on, but this time that was not the case. We had to sleep in the front room with the door wide open because of how hot it was at night. After 30 minutes of laying down we realized we were letting all of the mosquitos in and we were getting eaten alive! One of the Elders put his bed back inside his room and another started spraying his bed all over with mosquito repellent. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to spray insecticide everywhere in the room. I killed all of the mosquitos but we were all breathing in some nasty spray. It was about 11:30 and everyone was coughing and running around the apartment trying to fan the spray out the door. We all eventually fell asleep but the power didn't come back on until around 6 pm the next day. On top of that we lost power the next morning for another 5 hours. Ghana...

Baptism

Well we had a baptism this week but it wasn't very glamorous. In the US you usually would have a bunch of friends, family, and people from your ward there. In Ghana... well its not really the same. We invited a bunch of members to come but everyone was "busy" or just didn't want to come. We also called our Bishop and he was working. The best we could get was our ward clerk and he just showed up, gave us the baptismal clothes, and left. By the time the baptism started we had a total of 3 people there. Me, my companion, and our baptismal candidate. We just went through with everything and we had to ask someone in the building to be a witness. It all went smooth and Joseph was confirmed a member at church yesterday. He's 13 and a super smart kid. He had been helping us translate for some lessons and he said one day he wants to be a missionary too!

Scripture of the Week

Mormon 8:19 - "For behold, the same that judgeth rashly shall be judged rashly again; for according to his works shall his wages be; therefore, he that smiteth shall be smitten again, of the Lord."

Judge not for ye be not judged.

That's another week down. I hit my 8 month mark and that blows my mind. 1/3 of my mission is already done! I hope everyone has a good week, I'll see you at my homecoming in 2023 very soon.

Elder Holyoak