Mighty Rains

This week has been great! Elder Hovley and I have been able to teach some great lessons this week to some wonderful people. We didn't meet our friend Pastor Paul this week we were really looking forward to meeting him.  Lately we have been getting more  and more rain.  The temp dropped below 80!  It was so cold!  We made hot chocolate and wrapped up again.  Wednesday was an adventure!  We went and taught many lessons and had a great day.  We are still continuing to teach the Fefegula family and this time the Father was there and let us teach him.  We had a wonderful lesson on the temple with him and by the end of the lesson he had his daughter go and get a pen and paper for him to write the things down that we were telling him!  It was really exciting and of coarse we invited him to be baptized and he accepted!  We set a day of June 14th and we have scheduled all the lessons in which we will teach him in pencil on his teaching record in the area book.  At the conclusion of the lesson we looked to the sky and saw some dark dark clouds that I can't describe, coming our way.  It was an electrical storm and we could tell it wasn't going to be good.  We bagged all our things and left the house in which we were at.  The wind started up and we started running.  Of coarse everyone was yelling at us "White man run!!" "una you no de com comot pon dis rain!" "una no get senseo!" and many other things haha. all around us the sky was lit up with strikes of lightning.  Thunder louder than you can imagine cracked in our ears.  We almost made it home when the rain started to come on us.  We were then soaked..  We approached the gate to the house and I looked at my companion for him to unlock the gate... he looked at me with the same look.. who had the keys?? "DO YOU HAVE THE KEYS!!" I shouted. no he replied.   We stood out in the rain when it was beating on us so so hard. it was the hardest rain that I have ever experienced in my whole life.  Even worse than the previous rainy seasons.   After some small discussion we decided that we would just climb the fence. haha We have a compound wall that's about 7 feet tall with big spools of razor wire on them..  We climbed our big gate that we use for the cars and luckily we left a key in the back door.  That we reached through a hole and got in. Wow! we were so soaked seemed to be all the way to the bone! haha but besides that we had a great time and were really able to testify of Christ and his divine Son-ship to our Heavenly Father.  We met some great guys who are interesting in the Restored Gospel who want to take their family to the temple. Speaking of the temple. we just had a group of members leave from the Bo District to Ghana.  It was so special to see them go they  are so happy.   The couples that we have here have done a wonderful job in helping them do family history work for many of their ancestors. The couples seemed to really have a great time doing it. We have a new couple here. They are called the Hymas couple, from Utah.  They are just great!  We helped them speak to the people when at the bank and really gave them a big "welcome to the jungle!" when we went into town.  They own lots of land up the canyon and do big hunts for people. Elk hunts that is.  The name of their business is called "royal rut" told me to have you look it up. If there is any couple in our ward that is thinking of going on a mission tell them to come to Sierra Leone!   They will have a blast!   Its quite the challenge on them though from what I have observed but the blessings are sure and you will take away a new perspective on life and a different concept on what it means to have faith in God.  Away before I blab off your ears I have to get out of here! I love you all so much

 Elder Dillon Hales