3/10/14 story

So this week was really testing of faith, but it strengthened my faith as well. We ran out of money on Thursday and we had no food after Friday lunch. Every missionary gets 100 cedis, about $40, to last them 2 weeks for food, clothes, and hygiene. due to inflation occurring in Ghana and prices rising, it's almost impossible to make that last 2 weeks. And no one in our apartment had any personal money seeing as my card is still on it's way here... if it ever gets here. haha. Anyway, Friday we had no food and before we went to proselyte from 2-8, we said a prayer that we would somehow find food or be okay until today when we got more subsistence money. Well Friday night, we got nothing. Lessons were hard to teach because we were starving and you lose focus when you're walking for miles in the hot sun and you just can't focus. We still managed 5 lessons before we just came home and slept to just distract us from the hunger. To make matters worse, every day last week we only had electricity for about 2 or 3 hours of the day. It was constantly going out. It's a daily thing here that they call "lights off". Anyway, Satruday morning we woke up and just went about our day, praying and hoping we would find something. About 24 hours from our last meal, Sister Effia, the investigator who has given us 2 FMs already, insisted Elder Noble and I have fufu with here and her family. IT WAS WONDERFUL!!! Fufu, and crab, and goat, and snail, and mushrooms! The thing about the crab is you eat the crab... like not just the meat... It actually wasnt too bad. But after that, we didn't have anything to eat until Sunday after church, with just one meal in the last 48 hours, Elder Seyoum told me he had a feeling that we should ask Nii. I just kinda laughed and pointed out that Nii was a university student so there's no way he has any money, or extra food. He said he knows, but he just had a feeling. I was like "okay... but let's ask in an indirect way so it doesn't look like we're begging too much." haha. so we asked Nii if he knew any members that had enough food to feed us just one meal or something. And that's when the miracle happened because Nii said that his mom had sent him lots of food and he was looking for someone to give it to so that it didn't spoil and he didn't over eat and get fat. So he gave us 3 kilos of rice, several weeks worth of gari (the stuff used to make eba), a bag of oats, some powdered milk and some ramen. So maybe we struggled for 48 hours, but it was just the Lord testing our faith to know that we truly were acting on faith and trusting he would provide. I really don't think typing this story does justice for what actually happened, but it was a good testimony builder. Other than that, the week was a usual busy one. Oh! Effia accepted a baptismal date! She plans to be baptized April 6th. Ferdinand and Yawvie get baptized in 2 weeks! I'm really excited to start the recent convert lessons. They look fun actually!