Major Key

Wednesday might have been the longest day of my mission so far. We left the apartment at 8 in the morning and had a teaching appointment pretty much every 30 minutes until about 9:30 at night. It was awesome all the lessons we got to teach and how we were running all over Agoe. Usually during the day we switch off whoever has to hold he keys to our apartment just to switch things up. Legall and I always joke with each other though out the day about how we don't have the keys or our phone just to try and get a reaction out of the other, panic the other a little bit. So on Wednesday like any other day we did that the whole day. Around 9 we started heading back to the apartment after eating a ton of pat with one of the people that we teach, I was just trying to keep it all down the entire walk back, we got to the apartment and did the usual "Dang bro, I don't have the keys" until we realized that neither of us actually had the keys. Kind of a big problem for us because even though we share an apartment with two other missionaries we lock our room as a measure of additional security. No keys= no access to anything in our room, like our food, soap, pretty much everything we need.

We frantically started calling all the people we had taught to see if we had left the keys at their homes. After we called every person we could possibly think of we decided to do the only thing we could in that moment- pray. After wandering around Agoe we went to our church building (that we weren't at all day), and boom our keys were just sitting on a table there. I still don't understand how that's possible given we weren't there at any point in the day and there is nothing on our keys that would signify any relation with the church. I'm just grateful they were there so that I was able to shower and eat that night.

The attached photo is of Sr. Elisabeth and her daughter. They were the ones who fed us Wednesday night and are a really fun family that we eat with a lot.

Hope you guys all have a great week.

Hospital Hazards

Got to start this week off by taking Elder Bracken to the "hospital". He hasn't been able to hear out of one of his ears for a while now so we decided it was finally time to seek some treatment. He drove down to Agoe Tuesday morning and we headed out bright and early to a specialist in Adidogome. When our taxi stopped we were more than puzzled, we were definitely not at a hospital like we were led to believe. We stopped at a run down building; which turned out to be the doctor's home. He beckoned us in and we followed him into his living room. Before I let the doctor start treating him I asked Bracken "Do you really trust this guy, we are just chilling in his living room, he is wearing basketball shorts, and he does not seem qualified?" After looking around for a second he responded "Dude, he's got medical posters up, so yeah I guess I trust him". I questioned the doctor a little more and he reassured us that he was licensed and had even done his schooling in France (when he showed us his degree it looked like it was printed off his home computer) but we agreed to let him pull the stuff clogging Bracken's ear.

He started off by shoving this tiny pipe into his ear canal. It was not the most comfortable thing so Bracken kept flinching. The doctor just kept laughing and laughing and kept telling him (in broken english) "You are American Marine- STRONG, no move" I was dying of laughter- each time the doctor said that Bracken tried to explain he wasn't a marine but he just kept saying it and then continued to explain how his small daughter wouldn't have moved. After a couple minutes of "American Marine, No move" and the ear vacuum sucking all the debris out we thought we were done so Bracken and I are just there testing his hearing now that his ear was unclogged, Bracken is halfway through a thought when the doctor shoved another pipe up his ear and instantly turned on a water jet to get the lingering dirt out. Bracken jerked his head to the side- he was not ready for that at all- and so he got soaked the doctor is making fun of him and I was still just laughing my head off. (See attached photos for Bracken's face during this whole commotion).

Besides that it was a pretty normal week. Sunday we had a party at the church to celebrate the role of women in the gospel so my companion and I were assigned babysitting duty of all the kids. Basically we just played games with them all Sunday afternoon and it was a blast. Also attached is a photo of my basketball team after we beat my companion's team in triple overtime.

Hope you guys all have a great week.
Elder Remer

Finally Play A Sport I Don't Suck At

So this week we had the opportunity on Saturday to play basketball with some people that we were teaching when our other lessons fell through. I though it was going to be like how I saw other guys playing when I got to Ghana and I was confident that if it was like that even with my limited skills I could show them up. So basically one of the guys we were teaching with invited us to be on his team because they think all white people are ballers. I was feeling super good until we got there and I saw these giant men like some of the tallest I have ever seen. The tallest was six foot ten, the shortest was six one (yeah still got a lot on me, and yes I asked everyone). Super fun cause they all played like centers so no perimeter shots just under the basket elbows in the face type of shots. Just was super fun to actually play a sport I could show off in a little and it was fun to talk to all of them and then teach them afterward. Don't hyavee a ton of time this week because we walked to a new cyber so I'm going to have to leave it at that. Hope you all have a great week. Uh just found out this new cyber doesn't let us plug in usb drives so photos will be coming later...
Hope you guys all have a great week.

Run Through The Jungle

Before you start reading this one I recommend searching up "Run Through The Jungle" by Creedence Clearwater Revival just for some mood music while you read.

This week I finally got to go work in the bush with the missionaries in Tsevie, we took buses up to the villages of Zafi, Ahepe, and Tabligbo on Thursday to do some missionary work. Almost no one there spoke any french so we worked with a member of the church to help us translate throughout the day. Had a blast seeing all of the kids because most of them were scared of us. A lot of the parents there tell stories to their kids where white people are pretty much boogeymen to scare them into staying home. After we started to win their trust some of the kids there invited us to lunch and I asked what we would be eating, one of the boys proudly flaunted the biggest rat I have ever seen. This ugly bugger must have been like 2 feet long with his tail included. Needless to say we politely passed and opted to eat pat with our member that had been translating for us. In the afternoon right before we left to come back down before it got dark there was a huge rainstorm; I don't know that I've ever been more soaked to the bone before that. Was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to going up there again this transfer period.

Speaking of that I am still going to be working in Agoe with Elder Legall for the next 6 weeks. And one of us will probably stay another 6 weeks after that to train a missionary on the area before we leave so potentially could be here beginning of December to the beginning of June. Only time can tell and I'll know for sure in 6 weeks.

Hope you guys have a good week.