Elder Goddard: What week even is it anymore?

Monday, November 4, 2019 8:46 AM MST

This last week has been a real good one.

Me and my companion have been using the local language Ewe a lot this past week, and it's been really fun. We know next to nothing but we've been trying to learn a little bit. Just like how to say hello, goodbye, thank you, and stuff like that. The people love it, they laugh any time we use it. I don't know if it's because we can't pronounce it at all, or if it's because it's two white boys speaking their language. Either way, they're lovin it and we're havin a good time with it too.

Yesterday we had planned to go pick up one of our amis and walk with him to church. We had 8:30 planned, and we called him at 8 to confirm, and he said he'd be there. So we walked there and got there right at 8:30. We knocked on the door, and his brother answered and said he left. In the 30 minutes between our call and our arrival, he managed to leave. It's such a joke sometimes, they respect appointments so much differently than we do at home haha. No appointment is a given here they're always a wild card.

But despite that we still had 3 people come to church this week, which made us happy. The 2 who are getting baptized and then one other kid that we've been teaching. We went by his house Saturday and he wasn't there and his neighbor said he had moved to Ghana, which we were sad about but we kinda just forgot about him, because there's not much you can do when your amis moves to a different country haha. But he walked with his brother across the border to come to church this week. It was honestly such a surprise. Like I said, everything here is pretty much just a wildcard, you take what's thrown at you and you do the best with it.

Anyways, he came up to us after church and asked when he could be baptized, so we fixed his baptism for December 1st. So that's 3 baptisms scheduled now, 2 will be this Sunday and then his in December. We're so excited for all of them, they're all so ready and I'm excited for them to take this step to follow Christ!

This week makes the last week of this transfer, which means I've got one week left of my training. It's so weird to think, it's seemed slow in the moment sometimes, but looking back it seemed so fast. And it's already November? Time flies. I'll be home before I know it so I've gotta cherish it while I'm here. Anyways we're getting calls this Saturday, so I should have some news to share next week. But hopefully it's that I'm staying in Adidogome!

Thanks for the prayers and emails, love hearing from all of you. Have a great week.

Elder Goddard