Quarantine

Hello everyone!

Well this past week we have just been in quarantine. Nothing too exciting happened but I'll fill you guys in on what happened. 

Elder Flomo (one of the Elders we live with) took a covid test 3 weeks ago now because he wasn't feeling well. He got a call last Sunday and they told him that he tested positive for covid 2 weeks after he took the test. We talked with president and he said that we needed to go to the hospital to get tested just to be safe. On Tuesday we went to the hospital and waited for 4 hours for them to tell us that we aren't able to get tested because we aren't traveling and we don't have symptoms of covid. They aren't doing walk in testing anymore but they said that we could go through the system and meet with a doctor but that we would have to pay 300 Cedis. We call president and he said that he had just brought 3 missionaries to this same hospital the week prior and they had no problem getting tested. He told us that they were just trying to get the white man to pay money, it also didn't help that we were missionaries. We then talk with one of our bishops and he told us to come back the next day and he would meet us at the hospital to help us try and get tested.

We get to the hospital early and met the bishop. After another couple of hours of waiting the hospital staff remember us from the day before and still won't let us get tested unless we pay the money. The bishop has a long argument with them and then tells us that we won't be able to get tested and tells us to go home. I hate the hospitals out here, they are no good haha. We told President that we weren't able to get tested and he said for us to quarantine ourselves for the week just to be safe. So that's how we got quarantined. President just called us this morning and said that we are able to go proselyting finally. I definitely hate being in quarantine and cant wait to go out tomorrow.

I hope you all had a great conference weekend and a fun Easter. We were able to listen to conference for a bit, but the network was not good so it kept cutting out. I will have to re-watch it when it gets put on the gospel library. But the parts we were able to hear were very good, I enjoyed it. Our power was out all Saturday and Sunday and so it was a very very hot weekend as our fans didn't work. Even though the network was bad and it was very sweaty it was a good weekend. We were able to hear that Kumasi Ghana is going to be getting a temple! Everyone out here is very excited to get a temple close to them. 

Ghanaians don't celebrate Easter like Americans. If they do anything to celebrate they will just have a dinner with their family and that's about it. So the Easter weekend wasn't like back home haha, but we made the best of it.

I am excited to be able to proselyte this week, we will be preparing Jozi, Jozial, Kendra and Maa Mary for baptism hopefully for the 11th which is this Saturday. We have to go for a lot of baptismal interviews in Effiduasi and Ejisu so we will have a busy week this week. 

Overall it was a good week! Little slow and couldn't do much but we made the best of the situation. Conference was good and I'll be looking forward to rereading the talks. I hope you all had a great week this week and a great conference weekend! Thank you for the love and support, I love all y'all

Love Elder Morgan