Happy 4th

Hey guys, sorry that I was not able to write this last week. I got to
celebrate the fourth in a very special way this year. I got malaria.
It was so much fun!!!!!!! J/k Actually, last Monday we went to one of
the other missionaries apartments and took some of there pots and made
some lids that fit really tight so that we were able to use them like
a dutch oven. We then made three of the most delicious cakes that I
have ever tasted in my life. Unfortunately, half way through was when
I started to feel sick. I have continued to be sick until yesterday
afternoon, and by that time it was too late to plan for the holiday.
Today we did got to another apartment and we had fried rice and
watched church history videos though, that was a blast. Yesterday we
baptized the granddaughter of one of our members. Her name was Susana,
and she is a really sweet girl. We had planned on baptizing her last
baptism, but she wasn't quite ready, so we told her that she would
have to wait. She felt so bad and you could tell that she was ready to
cry so this last few weeks we worked with her a lot and she was
finally ready on Sunday.It was really cool, because the grandmother
who she stays with was so supportive the whole way. She kept on
telling us that when Susana was baptized she would take her to the
temple with her so that she could walk on the temple grounds. That is
really amazing, because most people have to sacrifice a lot to buy the
bus ticket to get to Accra, and then its about a five hour ride on
terrible roads on top of that. The other news from Ghana this week is
that Ghana lost to Uruguay. Most people were not very happy about
that, but at the same time, they are really proud, because Africa
(especially Ghana) did so much better this world cup than last time.
On Saturday, one of the days that I was feeling the sickest, we met a
baptist teacher trying to give it to one of our recent converts. We
walked up and he started the conversation by looking at us and
pointing to the Book of Mormon and saying "did you give him this
book?" I answered "yes", and he said "Well I just need to tell you and
him that this book is a lie and that you are teaching false doctrine,
and that you are going to have to stand before God one day and tell
him that you led his children astray." I asked him if he had ever read
the book and he said no. I then with the help of Elder Bond gave it to
the man and told him that he had no right to say if it was true or
false if he hadn't even read it, and that we would gladly stand before
God and tell him that we know that the Book of Mormon is true.
Unfortunately we couldn't talk very long, because I was about ready to
fall over at this point because of the Malaria, but we did stay long
enough to give it to him about prophets and baptism too. He then
launched into this twenty min. monologue that was talking about fifty
different things that didn't really make much sense. I finally
interrupted him and asked if I could ask a question, to which he said
I'm in a hurry right now and have to go, he then talked for five more
min and then just kinda left. The whole thing was really kinda funny.
I'm sure that everyone reading this has had similar experiences that
are just kinda funny. They seem to happen a lot to me.Anyways, that's
about all that happened this week worth writing about. Mom and Dad
have fun on the treck. That is so cool that you get to do that. Also
tell the Vaughn boy congrats and that that is a sweet mission. One of
my favorite comps. was from Sierra Leone. West Africa is in my mind
the best place to be for a missionary. Also, Sierra Leone seems to be
a little more advanced than Ghana. Also the pictures worked great and
anyone else that wants to send pictures via e-mail is most definitely
invited to. Everyone else, I hope that you all had a wonderful 4th and
that everything went well. Sounds like you all are doing well.
Love Ty
P.S.: Ry you should have waited and given it to that guy at the
theater. He had no right to do that. In Ghana they give so little
respect to the women here that it makes me sick. When I get married
I'm going to do all that I can to be as good as you all in treating my
wife with the up-most respect. It makes me so angry when people treat
women poorly. If they had thrown the stinnken thing at you that would
be one thing, but at Brooke its completely different. That's what I
think anyways. Ty