Elder Aidan Holyoak: Laundry Troubles and a Sick Rat

Nothing that big happened this week so I'll write about a bunch of the small stuff.

Mission Home

On Friday I had the chance to go to the mission home for some medical stuff. I'm completely fine, they just needed to draw some blood and do a COVID test so that I could stay in this country. Pretty much every American in the 3 zones near us were there. I saw a bunch of the guys I came out with and some friends from past zones. They also gave us sack lunches with PB&J and some Cheez-its. Heaven in a bag. We decided that we still wanted to go to KFC after and I don't regret it. It was the first time in a long time that I saw more Americans in a public place than Ghanaians.

Laundry Machine

Sooo, our laundry machine broke this week. We were doing a load of laundry one morning and something started to smell really bad. The smell was a mix between dirty laundry water and some sort of electrical fire. We drained all of the water and unplugged the machine. I still don't know why it died on us but we did fish out some stray socks in some of the tubes. I guess I'll be hand washing this month. :/

Bike day

We biked out to the same place we did two weeks ago with our friend Everand. He is crazy fast at biking uphill. I'm not sure if he's been training for the Tour De France or if its just because he's a returned missionary. Anyways Everand told us that he got accepted to a school in Koforidua. Shoutout to Elder Aznar. It's about an hour and a half drive from here so he won't be around anymore. RIP Everand. You were our only translator and a good friend.

Mouse

Yeah there's not much to this one. Elder Duncan and I were just hanging out in our room at night and Elder Duncan decided to go to the bathroom. When he went out of our room, he saw a mouse running around our apartment. He chased it around to catch it and eventually it ran into the bathroom. He ran into our room and told me about it but when I came out to see we couldn't find it. We still haven't found it since, but every once in a while you can hear squeaking and scratching from somewhere in the bathroom. Little Sick Rat.

Scripture of the Week

Mosiah 27:4 - "That they should let no pride nor haughtiness disturb their peace; that every man should esteem his neighbor as himself, laboring with their own hands for their support."

Contacts

Email - aidan.holyoak@missionary.org

Facebook - Aidan Holyoak

That's all I have for this week. Keep on rockin' in the free world and doot dooda loot doo!