Gloria, who is living in the Abu’s house with us got baptized today! Her fiancé, from her home town of Tema, is the member who introduced her to the church. Then a month ago, when Gloria came to stay with the Abu family here in Abomoso she started meeting with the missionaries. So imagine our surprise and joy when we meet her our first day and we are told about the upcoming event.
It was a nice, cool day because of the freak rainstorm that hit this morning (which Emily and I had to walk home in)
SIDE STORY: It was crazy!!! Emily and I went to observe two of the classrooms we’ll be teaching in, and not two minutes after we walked in the class it suddenly got REALLY dark (there is no electricity in the classrooms, so they rely on the sun from the window holes and doors) and the wind flew through the classroom dismantling the teacher’s desk as she ran to close one door and the kids all ran to close the other. Then suddenly the rain dropped. It was like a waterfall dropping out of the sky. You couldn’t hear a word the teacher was saying because of the tin roof, so basically the teacher, kids and us just sat there, waiting patiently for it to stop so something could get done.
Then Emily and I decided to walk home, because we didn’t know how long the rain would last, and we’d already set up our class times, so observing the class during a rainstorm was doing no good. We were a mess when we got home! I had forgotten to change from my flip flops to Chacos before we left, so I was flipping mud all up my leg (because all the inner village roads are more like dirt walkways that could probably wash away at anytime) and we were just getting soaked. Here’s our picture to prove it!
Anyway, back to the baptism – it was so wonderful! She was so happy and smiley all night, and I am just so excited that we got to be a part of it! Her fiancé baptized her, and Spencer was asked by the missionaries to be one of the witnesses. It took a few tries for George, her fiancé, to remember to get her hands under the water too, but when it finally went right everyone was so excited.
There were so many people there to support her, and it was really great to see how excited all the branch members were to be there for her. The people here are so great, and there is so much that we will be able to learn from them. We are learning from them every day, and I am continually more and more excited that we have 2 ½ months to get to know them all better.
Here is a picture of all 4 of the great people we live with here in Abomoso.
Left to right: Sister Margaret Abu, Gloria (just after she was baptized), Brother Stephen Abu Senior, and Nana.
We love them all and are lucky we get to spend so much time with them!
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