News From Africa

Hello everyone,

 

Well another good week! It was especially good because it has started to stop raining so much. But it still rains about once a day but its not serious rain. Its funny because we will duck under someones house and we talk to them and they always say oh this rain not serious (meaning its not going to rain for very long) i don't know why but it makes me laugh every time. The Nicholsons received the Aaronic P.hood yesterday unfortunately i missed it because i was out working on the branch retention list with the branch clerk but it was cool. Elder Neves called me this week and told me that Joseph and Samuel "the Nicholsons" had gone to a fireside that they held in Kissy and some big wig had come in from Ghana and was doing the fireside and i guess my 2 recent converts were right there front row answering questions and getting involved he said it was really cool! They are so good. The area seems dry right now like with investigators we only had 2 come to church yesterday so that was disappointing normally our investigator class is so full that my companion and i have to go outside the chapel and stand in front of the window into the class room. But the work is going really well. We will be having a baptism on the 23rd of October we should have about 4 baptizing on that day. One is a girl named ALMA. I don't know how in the world she got that name is kind of funny. No one in her family are members so i don't know where they heard it. Christiana got malaria this week and so i always call her and say Christiana have you taken your drugs!? because that's what she does to me when I'm sick. She always just laughs and is like yes Elda Langasta im taking them. She has to travel to her village sometime in November because it will be her dads 40 days since he died and the Muslims always to like this 40 day celebration thing so she will be closing the restaurant for like a week. she said she is going to make soup for us and put it into individual pots one for every day that she is gone so we can put them in our freezer and then heat them up. I just hope we have electricity so the freezer will work. My companion and i broke our generator we went out to start it the other day and when my companion pulled the rope it came all the way out. It would be really easy to fix because the same thing happened to me in Bo and i just took it apart and i showed you in the videos how we had to wrap the rope around to start it but this apartment doesn't have any tools so now we have to call Marcus " the guy that works for the mission" to come fix it. Anyways you probably don't care about that. So last night when we were coming home from our area i handed the taxi driver 5 thousand Leones for transport and told him it was for me and my companion. and he was supposed to give me 3 thousand change because its just 1 thousand each for transport. So i sat there for a minute and he wasn't giving me my change so i just waited a little bit then turned to him and said to him in Krio is it because I'm a white man that your not giving me my change. And he looked at me with these big eyes because he didn't think i knew anything about transport or could speak the language he gave me my change and apologized it was pretty funny. So today a member in my branch is taking my district hiking up in some mountains in Grafton so i should get a lot of really cool pictures and I'm going to take some video too. But that's about it for me thank you all for the letters and  love and support i love you all.

 

Elder Lancaster