Second Week

Hey Mom!

I'm excited to hear from you! Wow lots of Q's haha well let's see. I am in a 6 man room with only 4 Elders. My companion is from Uganda and his name is Ivan Peter Waako-or Elder Waako- haha. There aren't too many missionaries from Ghana at the MTC right now. About half are North American and the other half are African. Lots from Uganda, Kenya, Sierra Lione, Togo, Debin and a few from South Africa. It's really hearing all the different African languages cause a lot of them speak Swahili (that's the only language I know the name of haha)

It's true what Logan said-the Elders from Uganda speak incredibly slow and my companion speaks quieter than Emma and has a super deep voice-but we get along really well. Well lets see as for as the accents go I would say that mostly the 'T' sound is said with a 'D' and there is a lot emphasis on the 'K' sound. Oh and another thing! It's really fun cause about half the MTC speaks French so I talk to the French speaking guys all the time and there is this one guy, Elder Gissignon, he speak French, Tribal Language and a little Spanish so he and I always talk in Spanish to each other! HahaMy MTC pres is really nice-He's from Idaho and has some Green's in his family so we may be related he thinks and his wife is British. They love it here and it is really nice, but humid.

Yesterday I went to the bank in Esu to get an ID card and the driving here is absolutely insane. As in if the road is crowded-you simply drive off the road or you go on the opposite side of the road and the pedestrians all just walk out into the middle of crowded traffic without even flinching. I hope I never have to drive.

Everyone here is just so friendly and everybody loves my name!! They always ask if I know an Elder Blue, or Purple. It seems they just like that it's a colour and they love saying I'll be green forever haha.
I am loving it here. The Spirit is just so strong and all I really want to do here is read from the scriptures. We mostly do like practice teaching each other and then we teach an instructor as if he was an investigator. Honestly I haven't used PMG that much-mostly just for lesson outlines and what topics I need to teach as there is no script or anything.

Well my time is short and there are lots of power flickers so I'll have to go! But I love you and the family and I'll keep Carl in my prayers! Tell him I love him!