Elder Aidan Holyoak: Double Up

4/3/23

I missed last week so you get a double email this week.

On Monday we bought a basketball for our apartment. You can usually squeeze some basketball into your morning routine, so that's been fun.

On Thursday that week I went on exchange with Elder Mutombo, my District Leader. He is from the DRC and he's a super fun guy. He speaks really good English even though his home language is French.

We've been getting a little bit of rain recently. It's not too often, but when it rains it pours. The streets get huge puddles and dirt gets eroded so a lot of it collapses. Sometimes bridges get taken out completely.

I figured I could talk about what we usually eat for lunch. Usually it's one of these: Fried Rice, Jollof Rice, Gobɛ(Beans and Plantain), Fufu, etc. One of my favorite drinks in Ghana is Chocolate Malt. It tastes like a chocolate bar and it's super filling. Pictures of the food are below.

We have a lot of promising people in our teaching pool right now and we even have 3 of our friends on Baptismal date. We plan to have their baptism this Sunday so I will keep you updated. One of my favorite people we are teaching is actually moving to Nigeria this Wednesday. Another guy we were teaching just randomly told us he was moving to New York City. We lost both of them, but we said we could help them find the missionaries in their areas.

I went on an exchange in Bortianor this last Thursday with Elder Parks. Elder Parks is from Iowa and he kinda looks like the guy in Ratatouille. Bortianor is a costal town and you can see the ocean from their apartment. The Bishop's wife made us Lunch and Dinner. We are even going there today to see the Beach.

Spiritual Thought

I don't want to write too much so I'll just go to my spiritual thought. I hope you were able to listen to or watch General Conference yesterday. If not you should go and watch Russell M. Nelson's talk about Peace and Contention. The whole talk is about replacing Contention with Peace. He said we should communicate with EVERYONE with dignified dialogue and mutual respect. Contention ruins relationships, goals, and reputations. I really recommend that you watch the talk and find ways to use it in your life this week.

Contacts

Email - aidan.holyoak@missionary.org

Facebook - Aidan Holyoak

Thanks for reading, enjoy the pictures. Laugh more, Smile More!

Elder Holyoak