Week 3 Day 1

Our computer is being really weird right now. Hopefully we’re able to get through this post without it dying or going crazy on us.

This morning was awesome! There a baptism at the branch building for 6 people!

I have never seen so many converts be baptized at the same time. It was so cool! What was even cooler was the fact that when we got there we realized that one of the teachers of a class we go into everyday was there to see her son get baptized. It was really fun to talk to her and to meet her husband and son. What a good family! I’m excited to see them at church tomorrow!

Here's a picture of a lot of the branch who came to support. Such wonderful people!


Other fun events for the day: Emily and I made No-Bake Cookies! Here in Abomosu they don’t sell actual cocoa powder, but the day we went around to all the shops asking for it we found a hot cocoa mix that has pretty much everything we need in it. All we need to add is water, butter and peanut butter, and they are SO good!!! They kind of have a hard time setting up though, so we’ll have to experiment on that to see if it’s just because of the humidity, or if we need to do something different.

We also spent a good portion of our day watching the World Cup games. There were 3 of them on today, South Korea vs. Greece, Argentina vs. Nigeria, and USA vs. England. We were obviously most excited to watch the USA game and that was the last one on today. And guess what!? Seeing the overall theme to this blog you’ve probably guessed it… The Power Went Out!!!! Only 30 minutes before the game started! We just about died! So 6:30, the time the game started here, came and went, and then 7:00 and then 7:30, and it’s almost 8:00 and we finally decide to find a radio and see if we can get the game on that and just when we got the game going on the radio… The power came back on!!! YAY!!! So we got to watch the last 35 minutes or so of the game.

I was a little disappointed in our performance against England. We ended up in a tie, but with the way we were playing I am so surprised England didn’t score again. We got lucky! Even our goal was lucky. The ball actually bounced out of the goalie’s hands and into the goal. Can you believe it!? The poor goalie is gonna dream about that one for the rest of his life.

Anyway, I think my favorite team to watch so far has been Argentina. They’re just a good team! They played REALLY well against Nigeria and won, but they were also such good sports! If they knocked someone over they would immediately bend over and apologize, which is definitely not normal from what we’ve seen so far. And when one of the Argentine’s got a yellow card, instead of yelling and throwing his arms in the air and asking what he did wrong (like every other person we’ve seen getting a yellow card), he just nodded his head and I think he even apologized. It was really cool! I like them! So if America and Ghana both get out before Argentina, they will definitely be the team we root for!