Akpeteshi Fun

So this week was very good! We baptised this man Ezekiel and this very small old man Paul. Paul is cool. We met him three weeks ago and he's already been dunked. He progressed like a bullet train! Ezekiel is a straight-up rockstar who owns a sick moto-bike and has an awesome family. They are all members but Ezekiel wasn't able to be baptised before due to some WofW probs (which is normal here... people love their Akpeteshi (Beer)). We gave him a blessing and he's been doing so well.

Which reminds me of an amusing anecdote.. One night it was me and Elder Olschewski going to get chicken and jolaf rice. We were placing our order and he forgot the name of the rice, so I told him that it was Akpeteshi. Which, as I stated earlier, means beer in Ewe. He was oblivious to my Ewe skills so he ordered himself a nice solid order of Alchohol. The lady almost fell on the floor laughing. I got a few slugs as a result of this small episode but it was worth it on every level.

The people here love to laugh. I am so lucky to be here because the people actually get my humor. At night everyone stares at me because I am a random white man in the middle of the African bush, wearing nice clothing. So I ride my bike like a moron and scream, "Good evening Kpando! ... HOW! ..." Or sometimes I make moto-bike noises as I wizz past them. I think I'm starting to have too much fun.
I think I need to start learning the gospel a little better because lately I've been hanging on the knowlege of my companion and just having fun with these people. I hope so bad I don't leave Kpando this transfer. The people here in the Kpando branch have become family to me. They are all amazing. I blessed the sacrament this week, and was just looking at all of the faces of all my wonderful friends and felt a little heartbreak thinking about leaving them. 

Q:  Tell us about a favorite family in the ward.

A: Favorite family is probably Stephen and Comforter. Comforter is prego so we go there and visit and help them. They just crack me up. The way they think is very funny. At first, when they joined the church they did so because they were sick of getting headaches from the yelling preachers in other curches. By the way, we have a church that does that very same thing sometimes till 1am. I've learned to tone it out. I've learned to tone a lot of things out because the goats also like to sing the song of their people at 4am - onward.

Q: tell us a favorite experience in teaching this week.

A: Well we taught a man named Joeseph who was all very excited about our message after we met him for the first time, and he started getting all fired-up about the restoration. He started getting a little too enthusiastic, and we weren't sure if he was on that good kush so we also dropped him a WofW pamphlet.

Today it's just me and Elder G-Money (Grant) trucking through Kpando like mad dawgs. It was hard saying goodbye to my DL, Elder Vosarawrawa, we got really tight the last 3 mo. We went on exchanges twice which was a blast. It was nice having an enthusiastic companion for once. I thrive off of other peoples enthusiasm. Today has been a blast with G-Money. 

JUST CALL ME MOMMY - This is what African Mommies do with their children.

Say Hello to the Kpando Goonies.  These kids are crazy!!!  They turn into demons on Sunday.  I'm finally paying for my rowdiness when I was in Primary.

...And it came to pass that Elder Flake did travel to the land of Golukuati as he has done at the latter end of every week.  And it was custom among the Ewe tribe to hold a celebration in said town of the 21st of November, evenasmuch as there was a large mass of people, that they could nevertheless not be numbered because of the greatness of their number.  And he did find and see many marvelous things, including many white people, far more than he had seen in the space of 3 months....  No kidding the celebration was huge.

It reminded me of the 24th of July because there was grass, people, and it was a beautiful summer day.  Haha it still feels like mid July... (NEENER NEENER) and the air is getting dryer and the citrus is starting to spread its intoxicating bouquet throughout the town.  I love it!

Preaching the gospel and looking finking SWAG whilst doing so.

Q:  What is a typical P-Day?

A:  We workout.  We chill.  We wash. We clean. We party.  We E-mail (when we can) We talk about stuff.  We shop sometimes.  We nap on occasion.

Q:  What kind of mattress/bed do you sleep in?

A:  I have the hardest mattress.  It's basically a rock, but I've gotten so used to it, especially after I chisled out my body shape with Ye Old Hammer and Chisle.

Q:  Besides FuFu what's the weirdest thing you've eaten?

A:  They sell these weird dried up fishes that basically look like old-moldy fish, but they are very good.  Sometimes they put the fish into the stew and rice, which if chewed incorrectly, will stab the roof of your mouth with the fish's bones.  It has been said that only Chuch Norris has withheld a small tear after this instance.

Q:  Tell another teaching experience for the week!

A:  Today we taught this woman named Praise who has been taught for like 1-1/2 years now.  You extend her a date and she just says, "Soon."  We taught her a lesson, Elder Grant and I, and anytime I was impressed to say something, G-Money would say that very thing I was impressed to say.  After the lesson G-Money said I was doing the same thing to him.  LOL...SPIRIT!