Every Thursday morning, we pick up two of our Elders and drive thirty minutes north of town to a little village called Chiraa. The road is horrible most of the way and filled with crater-sized potholes. We began teaching a funny little guy named Richard. He has a small "shop" on the main street. It's like most of the stores in Sunyani, made from a rusty old metal container, about a 10 x 10, and filled with anything and everything they can get their hands on to possibly sell to passersby. Whenever we would get there, he would just close it down and then we would teach him under the overhang porch of the building behind. The traffic and big trucks barrelling through the town made it quite noisy and the flies drive us nutz, but he is so eager to learn.
After a few weeks and lessons, two more people, Portia and Albert, joined us. The following week our little group of investigators had grown to seven and we had to move into a crude patio area in a compound behind. It's much better and and we can actually hear and understand some of what is being said. Now one of the older gentlemen who has joined us wants us to teach his grown children and grandchildren as well.
It's truly a testimony-builder to watch the gospel in action. We sit on crude wooden benches, over-turned 5 gallon buckets or anything that's available. The people are so humble. They know their Bibles inside and out and are very religious, even the young people. It really helps because we can truly teach the lessons and doctrine based on scripture because they are so knowledgable. Several of them have even been paying for taxis back into Sunyani to attend Church on Sunday.
Richard and Albert have set their baptism dates for June 10, and starting next week, the missionaries will travel to Chiraa each Sunday and have Sunday School in a school so they can teach more people. We are hoping when the mission splits in July, we will be opening new areas for missionaries and Chiraa would be at the top of our list.
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