November 16, 2015
Hello All!
There were so many things that happened this week that were awesome! And also some not so awesome things... but that is the nature of the work here!
Let me start with the vegetables...
Earlier this week my companion and I were walking from one village to another. Between those two towns the road goes downhill and then uphill and cars often like to go very fast through there. It is pretty scary as a pedestrian because if people here know their car is 4 feet wide and there is a gap 4.2 feet wide... they will go for it!! Maybe slow down small small if they feel like it! Yikes! Anyway, as we were walking we could hear a car coming from behind us, and as it approached the horn was honked a couple times. My companion moved off the road and right as we turned to look at the mini-bus we saw it run over a dog!!! I was so heartbroken! I will not go into detail about the rest. But, even after the bus hit the dog, they did not even slow down! All I saw was one guy lean out the window, shrug his shoulders, and lean back into the car!
This week we also had
Friday the 13th! It did not exactly go well for us. haha. Every morning my companion heats up water on the stove for his bath. This morning as he was pouring it from the pot into the bucket, he spilled a bunch on his foot and got a pretty nice burn. Next, as I was cleaning up the kitchen small small, I bent over to pick something up and knocked over our crate of eggs.
Before: approx. 15 eggs
After: 2 eggs
Then later in the afternoon, we were teaching a lesson to Isaac who we just baptized yesterday, Sunday! As we were teaching him my companion and I were sitting on one bench and he was sitting on another bench. In the middle of our lesson, the bench broke!!! My companion and I both fell to the ground! Ha!
Now I will give the dessert!
This week our branch was able to go the Accra temple and when they came back, all they could talk about is how happy they were and how amazing the temple was!
On Sunday, 15 November, we baptized a young man named Isaac Beppile (Gala)! He is a very powerful guy!
Also this week
on Wednesday we had one Elder move out (Elder Lindley) and we another brand new Elder move in! (Elder Naawu). Elder Naawu is Ghanaian and a very powerful teacher! I think the week was a little hard for him though because he was trying to spend every minute of his free time cleaning. He even tries to bathe 3x a day. I think he is starting to loosen up a little bit but I am not sure. I really like him though! He is a funny guy!
One story about Elder Naawu,
Just last night the 4 Elders in our apartment we were all hanging out in me and my companions room. Elder Naawu was sitting on my bed with me, and Elder Ashby was sitting with Elder Nortey-Annan on his bed. Elder Naawu was looking around and saw the picture of my family I have hanging over my desk. He saw it and immediately pointed at Lauren and asked if it was my sister. I said yes and he quickly responded by telling me he wants to marry her! I was slightly in shock! For the rest of the night he was talking about how beautiful Lauren was and how I was going to be his future brother-in-law! I am currently in the process of bringing him out of the clouds as gently as I can haha.
Hope all is well with all of you!
I love you all!
Please Email me! :)
Odo,
Elder Brandt
PS - Sorry also the internet is crazy slow today so I cannot send pictures today :(
I will be sure to send them all next week though!
Love Elder Brandt
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