It was another great week for Elder Skiba and I. We are really grinding out the work and are finding and teaching new people each day. Elder Skiba and I whitewashed which means that both of us were new to the area. And when we first came to Konongo the work was super slow and wasn't going so well. We really had to kickstart the area and now it has gone from a small little snowball rolling down the mountain to a full-on avalanche these days. People are coming out of the woodwork to be members of the church and to meet with us to know more about the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Monday evening we had a district activity in which the Samoan brethren in our district cooked and grilled a whole pig. We had the thing running around one room of our apartment and then sadly drowned it in a tub of water so the Islanders could then gut it and cook it over hot rocks. It was seriously awesome to watch them do it. The district activity wasn't even the most interesting part of the day it was after the district activity when the real party got started. Once the activity ended my companion and I went to drop off the keys to the chapel at our branch president's place while the rest of the district walked to town. We took a taxi and arrived home before anyone else which was strange because they left before us. We started to get worried when even after an hour they still weren't coming back. Then around 9 pm our district leader came back and said that one of the Samoan guys punched a guy twice and got thrown in jail!! It was seriously crazy. After being in the cell for three hours his bishop and the stake president went and bailed the guy out. He has to pay over 1000 cedis which is like 200 bucks. Konongo is just filled with crazy stories everywhere.
Later in the week, we were sitting at our chapel waiting for one of our investigators to meet us for a lesson. It started to pour rain and of course, the guy never came. The one thing that Ghanaians are afraid of the most is rain. Anytime it rains the whole town shuts down and is turned into a complete ghost town. No one goes anywhere. We are now getting into the thick rainy season which means that a lot of our days are getting interrupted and a lot of our plans are getting canceled. But, no matter what opposition we go through we always come out on top. We were waiting for the rain to stop for like two hours and we got to the conversation about how we haven't really been finding a lot of serious people these days and then not even a couple of minutes later President Sarpong came into the chapel compound with a couple that is getting married here in a couple of weeks. They were meeting to plan for the wedding. After they were meeting for only a couple of minutes our branch president comes out and say elders I have a huge task for you guys. He and the husband want us to teach and baptize the woman before her wedding. Apparently, she had been meeting with missionaries a couple of years ago and was even preparing to be baptized but then she moved away. So now we are doing the best that we can to get her prepared by this upcoming Saturday for her baptism. We have even received some other referrals from the bride and groom already as well and hope to receive a lot more at the wedding in a couple of weeks. It sure was so unexpected and came out of nowhere but it was also such a huge miracle!!
And then finally on Sunday during church, a random guy showed up to the church. He said that he had seen us walk by his place in town a lot and always wondered what we were doing. He found out that we were missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and felt inspired to come and see how everything at the church was. After church, we walked with him to his house and was able to answer some of his questions and he seems super interested. Time will tell if he will be another baptism.
Things are still going on so well out here. I thought by now I would have seen everything out here but Ghana still surprises me each and every day!
Love you all,
Elder Ordyna
A bunch of assorted pics. Some of a crazy storm, one with the little boy of our member and then me in a public toilet out here in Konongo
Huge Massive Thunderstorm rolling in
Outside our member's hardware store- the shop next to it makes crazy shaped coffins (the one pictured is a book)
Visiting Johanna's family (Elder Skiba and I with Kwame)
Had to pee super badly but there were tons of people around so I had to use the "public restroom"
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