FuFu = No Bueno

Hello Everyone !

So last week was pretty good for us. Last Thursday we had a bible study at the church. I guess every week they have it. Its fun. One of the guys who comes cooks up a ton of good food.

Friday : We had a lesson with one of our investigators named Paul. Hes from Ghana. He is great. Hes one tough investigator though because hes stubborn ! He knows what he needs to be doing and he knows it will bring him happiness but hes not doing it !!! He progresses slowly every time we go over there. He said he will try and make it to church in the next couple weeks.

Saturday : Well it was definatly an interesting day! We had a lesson with Jonathon. He flew in from Ghana about 3 weeks ago and just got baptized last week so we were teaching him the "new member" lessons. He lives with his sister shirley. Shes not a member but she loves the missionaries. Well when we got there she let us know we were going to be eating fufu with them ! I stomach dropped. So I had no choice but to eat it !!! It looked like a big pile of dough in this bowl with some weird soup. Then you just pick pieces off and rub it in the soup and eat it. The taste really wasn't to bad , but the texture...oh man the texture got me. I finished it all though. It was like the size of the pizza dough balls at little ceasars nate...remember those? It goes down way heavy though so it fills ya up quick !!! Then we had a lesson with Demetrius, our 13 yr old investigator. He lives with his adopted dad robert. Robert is hilarious. Hes baptist. He loves the missionaries though. He says we are his best friends haha. You guys will have to meet him one day. Then we finished the night with a lesson at lawrences. Hes a pastor. We shared with him like a 10 min restoration lesson then he took over haha. He wanted to read Romans 1 with us. It took about an hour and a half to read it !!! He like preached a sermon to us. Weird.

Sunday : I woke up and felt sick again !! I have been getting sick like every month...I don't know whats wrong with me ! I felt like I had the flu. I had some leftover amoxicillin because I forgot to take it all when I had strep. So I took that and now I feel great again ! Sunday night we had dinner with an ethiopian family and our investigator who is from Ethiopia. Needless to say we had ethiopian food !! I was starving since it was fast sunday ...all I wanted was some american food...pizza...hamburger...something !!! But instead we had durawatt. Not sure really what it is...but I don't think im a big fan. Then we had like this bread stuff. It looked like the rollups you make but they were purple and they were a little puffier and really soggy. I thought I was gonna lose it.

Those were some of the highlights I guess. Yesterday we went and checked on this new investigator we found. His name is Immanuel. Hes from Ghana also. We left him a restoration dvd last week. We went back and he said " I LOVED the movie you left me ! I have watched it several times. I feel good when I watch it ! " I thought he was just sayin it cuz some people do that...but then he like started quoting the movie !! It was amazing. He said hes already burned a couple copies and sent it to his friends in ghana haha. So were meeting with him in a couple days and he will probably get baptized soon.

Tonight we are going to the temple. Were heading down at 4:30. They have all the temple lights up and so we get to do down and do parking or something for it. Im excited its going to be fun !! The only downfall is that its been like 20 degrees.. Its FREEZING !!! I can't find the outer part of my coat that I have....so im trying to decide what to do. Im gonna buy thermals at least.

Well that was my week ! It was a good one. I am enjoying this area. It is so different then what im used to. What a great experience its been for me. I am lucky. I love you guys !!!!!