I woke up still sick, but feeling much better than last night. Kenny helped me bucket shower before he headed to melcom to meet Sammy for church. I decided to stay home and sleep for a little longer, but met him for the last hour of church. Sammy met us in cape to attend church with us, because he is really interested. I gave him a book of Mormon 2 years ago, and we've talked a lot about it with him the past 2 weeks. I love watching Kenny teach, after our first talk Kenny said sammy is a golden investigator, so we are so excited for him. The church is expanding along the twifo praso road, and their are missionaries that live within 20 minutes of gyankobo. 2 years ago he wouldn't have been able to be taught or even baptized because of the distance. The missionaries have already called him, and I'm praying things continue to grow for Sammy!
I don't think there are many places on earth better than primary.
I'm bummed I missed sacrament because Kenny played the keyboard for them. I arrived just in time to meet with the primary and give them the cards from our primary back home. I also had the kids write cards back to the person they got a card from. They were thrilled and kept repeating the name of the child whose card they got. More than anything they loved the picture on front of each card. So glad I got out of bed to come. At the end of primary they sang away in the manager, and my heart melted to a puddle. Ghanaian children singing english lyrics is the best with their little accents.
Afterwords we went back home to rest before meeting barshiru at 230 so we could travel to the football match together. We made it just as the game was starting. We paid an entire 3cedi for those tickets. Gotta love Ghana. The dwarfs lost, and the entire stadium was in an uproar at the refs, the other team...etc. I loved every bit of the screaming. Sometimes its nice to not understand others cursing. The police were everywhere walking around with their guns out of the holsters to create fear so nothing got out of hand.
We took a shared taxi from their to the stake center for a Christmas hymn concert/program. The stake center is the same as ones back home, and the entire thing was filled. It brings me to tears to see how the church as grown in such a short time here in Ghana. They are such faithful members. It finally felt a little like Christmas as we sang the Hymns. They invited all return missionaries within the past 5 years to get up and sing a song together. I loved Kenneth a little bit more watching him up there singing. We got to meet the mission president and his wife along with some other missionaries and couple missionaries. Oh they are living my dream. I would love to be a missionary here in Ghana with Kenneth.
If you look closely you can see Kenneth up there singing.
We walked back into Abrah with Charlotte (steven acquahs mom), and caught a shared taxi to savoy. I couldn't have been happier to be home and able to get in bed. I think the only thing I ate the entire day was Ghanas version of saltine crackers, and pineapple juice. I was praying all day my stomach wouldn't bother me too much so I could do all we wanted to do today and it worked!!
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