Elder Aidan Holyoak: 🏨 Hospital Trip 🏥 (Not for me)

A very eventful week here in Asamanketewa. From American food to hospital visits. Let's get into it.

American food

Right now I am in a 4 Elder apartment. Our apartment has me and my companion Elder Duncan, but we also have Elder Webley (who is from Washington State) and Elder Bright-Essiakoh (who is a Ghanaian). It was Elder Bright's birthday this week and Elder Webley decided he wanted to make an American dish for every day of the week. A list of the meals have been hamburgers, chili cheese dogs, potato soup, teriyaki chicken, spaghetti, french toast, and breakfast burritos. Elder Duncan and I are blessed to be in this apartment. Haha.

Biking and more biking

This week we had a baptism interview for the same boy that lives in the middle of nowhere. For the interview we told our district leader that we would have to bike pretty far. I don't think he knew how far I meant. It takes about an hour and a half to bike there and a good part of it is uphill. When we got there no one was in the house and we almost left when the boy Kelvin showed up. Kelvin is in a part member family and he speaks ZERO English so every lesson we have taught was through a translator. We were able to get the interview that we needed and then we had to bike all the way back.

Hospital Trip

Yes, I'm fine and my companion is fine. We were walking near the main part of Asamankese on Friday when we got a call from some of the Elders in our district. One of them said he needed us to get a taxi for them so they could go to the hospital. We asked what was wrong and apparently one of the Elders threw up blood. We rushed over and got him to the hospital. We thought everything was good when we got there... until we walked into the hospital. The next hour was one of the most unorganized experiences I've ever had. We had to walk back and forth for each little test, while we were making sure our Elder didn't pass out. The funniest thing to me was that this hospital was sponsored by an energy drink called Lucozade. They had an ad for it on every sign there. We were able to figure out the problem and he has Typhoid Fever. You get Typhoid from infected water and fruits. He is on medication now and has been doing a lot better. Pray for Elder Hill.

Esubo

We held a baptism this week. It was kind of a headache trying to squeeze it in because it was also Stake Conference this week. After a bunch of struggles, everything went smoothly. The two candidates were Kelvin and Eunice. The other guy in the pictures is Ebenezer. He is from the other Elders' area. Kelvin is the boy that we bike to and he is a great kid. I don't think he's missed a day of church in months and he lives in the middle of the bush. Eunice is one of our friends and she works at a seamstress shop where a bunch of our members also work. She is super positive all of the time and Ebenezer is actually Eunice's brother. We didn't figure that out until a week ago. We were teaching Eunice and other missionaries in our area were teaching Ebenezer. Overall they are great people who will make great members.

Scripture of the week

Alma 5:40 - "For I say unto you that whatsoever is good cometh from God, and whatsoever is evil cometh from the devil."

Beautifully simple, Simply Beautiful

Contacts

Email - aidan.holyoak@missionary.org

Facebook - Aidan Holyoak

Well thanks for reading this monster of an email. We have been having tons of fun here and we had the chance to make another Facebook video! I'll let you all know when it is posted so that you can watch it. Thank you all for everything, you are always in my prayers and I'm grateful for every single one of you.

See you next week!

Elder Holyoak