It's time for another email, yessah boss. This week was super busy so I've got a lot to talk about.
We had a lot of lessons with recent Converts and soon to be Converts. It's hard planning for people in Ghana because they say they're "busy" when they are just sitting in a chair doing nothing. We had two special interviews over the phone with our mission president and luckily both people passed. Everything went according to plan and 4 of our friends got baptized this week. 2 of them, Cynthia and Priscilla, have members in their families and became interested in the church. The other two are Emelia and Miriam. Emelia was going to the Baptist church for over 30 years until missionaries came. It took a while but she eventually gained a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon and decided to get baptized. Her daughter Miriam was just as excited and decided she wanted to be baptized as well.
And now I'll get to the title of the email. On Wednesday we went to the temple distribution center. We went just to get some books and things for people we are teaching. We were sitting on a bench when a group of about 25 white people walked up. They were all our age and it was the weirdest experience ever. I'm so used to Ghanaians and the way they talk that talking to people from home like that was super awkward. We took some pictures for them and after we left I felt sick to my stomach. It was a very confusing experience. White people are weird.
It doesn't stop there. This week we started teaching a woman named Adelaide. We found out early on that her husband lives in America and he is from Michigan. They met each other on a Christian dating site and they are working on the paperwork to get her to America. During the lesson she had a lot of questions from the Bible about the Old testament specifically. At some point we found out that her husband was on the phone listening in. He spoke up and said, "What denomination are they?" We said, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" like any missionary would say. He said, "Oh they are the Mormons... Honey, you need to send them away now." The weird thing is that he almost seemed scared when he said it. His wife was confused and didn't know why. She went in the other room and talked with him on the phone for a bit and when she came back he brought up the Book of Mormon. He said it's not OK that our church uses it and we explained that it's important. The funniest thing was when his wife said, "So you don't like this book, but have you ever read it?" Of course he said no, but he had heard a sermon about it from his own church. It was just a weird interaction seeing the difference between Americans and Ghanaians. We ended up bearing our testimony of the Book of Mormon and leaving her with a copy to find out for herself if it is true. White people are weird. We plan on going back this Tuesday and we are expecting something interesting, so I'll keep you updated. White people are weird.
We had Multi-Zone this week and I got some more cool ties and some inspired instruction from our mission president.
Scripture of the week
Moroni 7:33 - "And Christ hath said: If ye will have faith in me ye shall have power to do whatsoever thing is expedient in me."
Contacts
Email - aidan.holyoak@missionary.org
Facebook - Aidan Holyoak
I hope this email was good. I hope you guys are all good. Have a good week. God is good.
Elder Holyoak
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