11 Weeks!!

I am convinced that the Adversary tries his hardest to stop people from going to church on Sundays because we never have problems with taxis unless it’s Sunday. Today our driver drove less than 10 mph most the way and stopped about every 5 minutes to pick up or drop someone off. Yesterday it took us 25 minutes to get all the way to Asamong but today it took us almost half an hour just to get to Agona. Once we got to church, we were miraculously there a couple minutes before it started so we sat down behind Jackie and Lauren and Sacrament began. I read my Teachings of the President book and the Book of Mormon the whole time. Sacrament got out at 9:15 and we had a “5-minute break” which actually lasted 15 minutes so Sunday school was only half an hour. The new Branch President was supposed to come but he was travelling from Accra so I’m sure he had some issues getting to the building. We normally never have Relief Society so today when they told us we were going to have it we were very excited. We went into a very small room, probably meant to be the storage closet. The books being used for the lesson were old books with pastel faded colors on the front and lessons about “How to Weed Your Garden” and “How To Prepare Healthful Meals” for your family. We mainly read through the manual laughing, sometimes out loud, at how absolutely ridiculous some of the lessons were. One section suggested each woman get an apron with pockets so she can multi task throughout the day. The pictures for the book were almost as ridiculous as some of the lessons themselves. Today was our last day at this ward so we took pictures with the primary kids, branch presidency, and Relief Society. On our way home we ran into this man with thick rimmed glasses making him look like a total hipster. We talked to him for awhile asking him if he was a hipster and he said “Yes I am the Chief” so we called him Chief Hipster although the guy had no idea what we were talking about. After we ran into him Cassie saw a kid carrying a camera so she yelled “obibini take Pitcha” just like the little kids yell at us for a picture. He gladly got his film camera ready, attached the flash, and took Cassie’s picture. For lunch we cooked four eggs and divided it up giving us each about 2 spoonfuls of egg. I didn’t have anything for breakfast either so I was pretty hungry after this snack. Lauren pulled out her peanut butter and let us dip obama crackers into it. We sat around and talked before King took us to go see the Fetish Priest. We arrived at her house but she had traveled to Kumasi but she would be back to do her show on Friday. Once we got back home we watched The Proposal and ate the most delicious tomato stew over rice I’ve ever had. Mama makes the best dinners so I’m really going to miss them. We were about to leave until we heard King cracking up in the family room watching TV. We walked in to see the British version of Wipeout on TV. We sat down and watched the episode laughing so hard right beside King. The show is one of the most ridiculous but hilarious shows. Once the show ended it was pretty late so we had to quickly walk to get a taxi. We ended up catching a tro tro back to Agona and got into a taxi to return to Wiamoase.