We got robbed 🙂

On Monday night we got robbed! The guy had a fake gun, but he shot it and it was very loud. He got the other Elders' phone too. He jumped onto the back of a motorcycle and they drove off. They dropped the phone while they were driving and the guy had to get off and pick it up. The Elders have a new phone now so we are all good. Cool story though. He missed.

I got a new companion on Monday named Elder Christensen. He is from Helena, Montana and he's a dope guy. We've had a lot of fun in the area the past week. 

We are teaching some guys from Nigeria and they have a pet pug who is crazy. Every time we go over we save a little time to play with "Banshee" the pug.

The rest of the week has just been me showing Elder Christensen our teaching pool and meeting members. The area has an amazing future and we have a lot of people progressing.

I'm short of time, but we've got some pretty good pictures from the week.

Exodus 20:15 - "Thou shalt not steal."

Contacts

Email - aidan.holyoak@missionary.org 

Facebook - Aidan Holyoak

Well I promise I'm safe. We got a basketball for our apartment today too so I'm excited about that. Enjoy your week everyone.

Elder Holyoak

New companion Elder Christensen

Sheep

Banshee

Our apartment (bottom left)

Cool New Hat

Gas station find

Shawarma

Pepper Dey Inside

Pear Season 🥑

3/13/23

Another week has ended and another email has started.

This week was kind of weird. Monday night it rained super hard. I think I jinxed myself with my last email because the power went out that night for the whole night. We woke up the next morning and our bathroom was flooded with about an inch and a half of water. That also meant that the whole apartment smelled like a septic tank. No water, no power. We called some guys that came to weed the compound and take out our trash. They were supposed to fill our water tank, but I think they forgot. They came a few hours later and filled it though. As I'm writing this the tank is less than half way empty.

Wednesday was our MLC and it was fun. One of my trainers, Elder Okeke, goes home tomorrow to Nigeria, so we're all pretty bummed about it. Lunch was great though and I ate a whole pizza and some ice cream.

Right now it's Avocado season, but in Ghana they call them Pears. So I've been munching on pears the past few weeks. They don't really make them into guacamole or anything here, they just eat it raw. I've been eating it with bread though.

This week we also got transfer news. My companion was called to be AP. He is super nervous about it, but I know he is gonna do great. My next companion is Elder Christensen and he is from Montana. I am pretty pumped because I've always wanted to serve with him and he will probably be my last companion. That's crazy!

Well on Saturday we were doing some service for a member at the chapel. The phone was in my pocket and it started to get really hot. I took it out and found out that it had factory reset itself in my pocket. Which means we lost every picture, every contact, and every file that was there before. I had some great pictures from this last email, but I was only able to recover some of them. I lost all of my pictures from the last 6 weeks. Everything is temporary. 

Scripture of the Week

1 Corinthians 14:19 - "Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue."

Contacts

Email - aidan.holyoak@missionary.org 

Facebook - Aidan Holyoak

Have a nice week! See you all later.

Elder Holyoak

Sunday Best

Elder Arthur's Birthday

AP Guy

MLC

Lunch

August 6, 2021

March 8, 2023

Mabel

Random Road

🇬🇭 Happy Birthday Ghana! 🇬🇭

3/6/23

Ghana Independence Dayyyy!!!!

Welcome back to my email, I'll give you a little update on the last week.

First things first, we don't have water in our apartment. I've been in this area for a little over a month now and we haven't had water from the main line since I got here. We talked to our landlord and he told us the people who owned the place before him were in huge debt with the water company so when he got here he had to start paying it off. They let him have water for a few months but right before I came they just cut all of the water completely. They've filled our water tank twice and both times it has been empty in under a week. We think there is a leak or a problem with the pipes. So we've been using water buckets to shower and to flush the toilets. We also wash all of our dishes with bags of water. The place we get the buckets of water from might run out soon so we have to ration. It's all good though, at least we still have electricity. Sleeping without fans is terrible.

This week I went on exchange with Elder Sowards in the Gbawe area. Not really much to say about the exchange. Elder Sowards is a super cool dude from Colorado. They are teaching a taxi driver named Amen. We saw him like 4 times the whole day in different places. Every time he was super excited to see us.  

Everyone in Ghana loves soccer and most of the time they talk about the English Premier League. Liverpool beat Manchester United 7-0. Let's go Liverpool! Sorry Rashford. It started a lot of funny conversations with the YSAs in our ward and it's been pretty funny to listen to.

Last Monday we had a multizone activity with the Lartebiokorshie Zone. Lar-ta-B-O-core-she. It was good seeing some friends and we played some basketball. I taught a lesson about missionary safety. You'll see by the bike helmet picture, I used an object lesson to get one of my points across. I also ordered pizza from a guy named Daniel in my last area so it was good to see him again.

Yesterday we had the baptism for our friends Elizabeth and Mercy. They were both more than ready. Both were super fun to teach because they were honest and loved asking questions. The whole ward welcomed them so quickly and I was very happy to see that. I love the church in Ghana because most of the other churches I have seen here just lie and take peoples money. Even the churches that are great in the US are completely different here and corrupt on the inside. Stealing money from people with real faith in their words. If anything at all I am happy to be here helping people in Ghana not fall into a trap like that.

1 John 4:8-"He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." Love everyone around you and feel God's love stronger.

Contacts

Email - aidan.holyoak@missionary.org 

Facebook - Aidan Holyoak

Thanks my week. Hope you're all good. Email so we can catch up. See you next week!

Elder Holyoak 

Nana Yaw

Exchange with Elder Sowards

Gbawe

Teaching at Multizone

Multizone

Multizone Activity

Elder Arthur's Birthday

Small Yaw

Elizabeth and Mercy Baptism

Pants

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