Hello everyone, to start off, I'm just going to inform you that I'm not going to be sending an email every week. I gotta slow it down to every other week. My area that I am in is among one of the most boring. When I tell you nothing goes on here in Tamale, I mean it. So with that being said, I'm currently scratching my head trying to scrape together a decent email.
On Monday, it was a regular P-Day, nothing crazy happened.
Tuesday - Saturday was just normal proselyting days. The days are getting longer and hotter, I swear to it. I kinda think of Tamale being a ghetto St. George. When it gets hot, no one really goes outside. So the evenings when it cools off slightly, that's our time to shine. But the difficult part of the matter is our mission schedule says we must be out proselyting by 10:30 am - 8:00 pm, which is just fine. But the problem is, no one is outside from 10:30 am to about 5:00 pm. I mean, it's desolate. So finding people to talk to is pretty difficult. But I'm not going to be disobedient by staying in the apartment. So I choose to endure. By the time 5:00 rolls around and people start coming out, we have been walking in 100° sun for the majority of the day, so we are pretty much out of juice. I'm really hoping my body will adjust to it, so I will find it easier to keep doing that. But as of right now, it's a pretty big challenge.
On the other hand, a cool story from this week is me and my companion were just out walking around. And there was no one outside. The only people who were outside with us were two policemen. So I went over and started talking to them trying to make some friends. After a minute of talking and everyone got comfortable, I started asking them questions about their guns that they were carrying. They were AK-47, of course. It was kinda funny because I knew exactly what gun they had, but the police didn't know much about them. I told them I could disassemble their gun and put it back together, so they gave it to me. I stripped it down and took it about halfway apart, and they were dumbfounded, just in complete shock that I could disassemble the gun. I only went about halfway because if I am being honest, I couldn't remember how to fully disassemble it. I put it back together for them and gave it back. The police were some cool dudes. I tried to get a picture, but they wouldn't let me. Another funny thing is the magazine was completely empty. There were no bullets in the gun. So the gun is just there to intimidate people.
On Sunday, I gave a talk in church about keeping the Sabbath day holy. It went well. Sadly, none of our investigators made it to church this week.
So all in all, a very boring week, but we are going to have some of those every now and then. I hope y'all are enjoying the cold weather, and happy Halloween!!! Halloween isn't a holiday here, so I'm celebrating in my heart. I would really enjoy some Little Caesars pizza and some lil smokies from my Uncle Derk's and Aunt Sara's house right now. But I'll have it soon enough.
Photos this week:
Africa missionaries
Arabic school (I'm happy I don't have to learn that language)
A few of the Tamale missionaries together
And this really cool HUGE tree called a dowadowa tree. It was massive.
