OK here we go again. This week was pretty normal but I'll find some stuff to talk about.
The first thing is an update with Adelaide. She is a Ghanaian, but her husband is an American living in Michigan. Shout out Elder Perry. We went back for a second lesson and it was interesting. It became very apparent from the beginning that she wasn't the one coming up with questions. She had an ear bud in her ear and her husband was telling her what to say the whole lesson. They had a complete misunderstanding about what our church believes. They thought we worship the prophet Mormon and a few other things. Next time we will bring a translator to speak Twi to her, so the husband won't be able to jump in.
I've decided that I'm gonna dedicate this paragraph to Ghanaian foods. I've probably talked about it before but Ghana has a great variety. There are 4 common types of rice; fried rice, plain rice with stew, jollof rice, and waakye. Jollof rice is rice with tomato stew cooked into it and it's very nice. Waakye (pronounced "watch-ay") is brownish rice with beans cooked into it. You usually eat Waakye with some kind of stew. Now we get to swallow foods. Swallow foods are exactly what they sound like, you just throw some in your mouth and swallow it without chewing. The four most common are fufu, banku, kokonte and rice ball. Fufu is plantain and cassava pounded together and it's my favorite out of them. You usually put the ball of fufu inside your soup and eat it with your hands. Banku is made out of corn and cassava dough. You can eat it with soup or stew. Kokonte is probably the least appealing food to look at, but it's basically brown fufu. Rice ball is just a ball of rice. One of my favorite foods here is Gobe or Red Red. It's beans and plantain with some palm oil mixed in. There are a lot more foods in Ghana, but those are the main ones that you will hear about in my emails.
This area has been a lot of fun so far. The work moves great here with a lot of member support. Being in the city, we have to deal with a lot more fake rumors about the church. A lot of people are talking about stuff in the temple and how once you leave the church you can never leave. Please if you hear any rumors about anything in life, do your own research, don't just blindly believe what the people around you say. That should be pretty self explanatory but we all do it sometimes. Anyways the area is great, my comp is great, and everyone we are teaching is great.
Scripture of the Week
Revelation 21:7 - "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son."
Contacts
Email - aidan.holyoak@missionary.org
Facebook - Aidan Holyoak
That's a little bit about my week. I'd love to hear what's going on in your guy's life and I live pictures! See you all next week.
Elder Holyoak
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