Elder Aidan Holyoak: Manhu wo akye

12/9/22

This email might be long, because I wasn't able to send an email last week. We went to the temple on Friday, so I had no P day last Monday. It's been a busy two weeks though, so I'll fit in as much as I can.

In the past two weeks the World Cup has continued and last week both the USA and Ghana were knocked out. I was supporting Ghana for a while but I honestly wasn't too sad they lost because all of the Ghanaians were being super cocky about their last match. Then the United States played and lost to the Netherlands which hurt a little bit more. It's OK though, the next World Cup we have home field advantage.

I went on three exchanges. Two of them with the same set of Elders. All great days with cool people. I went on an exchange with Elder Rottweiler first in Maamobi and that place is called the Zongo. Everything is super close together and it's very easy to get lost. They also have a super nice part of their area and I bought some Dr Pepper. I was really excited about that. I went to Newtown 1 with Elder Ashliman and he goes home in 2 months. We actually didn't have any lessons that day because everything fell through but we got some good street contacts. The last exchange was with Elder Allen in my area Alajo. We had a solid day of work and he helped us out with 2 baptismal interviews the same day.

Since we skipped our P day on Monday, we had to proselyte the whole day and that was really weird. After all of our lessons, we decided to go to the mall in our zone and we bought sushi. This zone is crazy. The sushi was really good too. Elder Zile was feeling the Christmas spirit, so he bought a Christmas tree for the apartment. He leaves this area before Christmas and he said he doesn't care.

The temple trip was great on Friday. Our session started at 7 am so some people were battling sleep. The temple is the most peaceful place on the earth, which also makes it one of the hardest places to stay awake if you're tired haha. After the temple, a member who worked at a nice restaurant served us free food and it was super good jollof rice. While we were sitting there a girl walked in and the member told us she is a musician. Her name is Wendy Shay and she is super popular in Ghana. We also played some basketball that day.

To finish off the two weeks we had a baptismal service for our friends Caleb and Patience on Saturday. Patience is a super nice lady that has been consistently coming to church since we met her. Caleb is 19 years old so we can pick on him a little bit more. We are good friends, don't worry and we have a good reason. This guy is late to EVERYTHING. He showed up to church an hour late 3 weeks in a row. He started coming on time but he was even late to the baptismal service. It would be a little more understandable, but his house is a 5 minute walk from our Chapel. Anyways we love you Caleb. It was an amazing baptismal service and we had a good number of members there. Days like that make the work worth it.

Scripture of the Week

Jacob 4:7 - "Nevertheless, the Lord God showeth us our weakness that we may know that it is by his grace, and his great condescensions unto the children of men, that we have power to do these things."

Contacts

Email - aidan.holyoak@missionary.org

Facebook - Aidan Holyoak

Well I probably missed some stuff, but this email is long enough already. Have another great week everyone. I pray for you every day!

Elder Holyoak