Goat and Fufu Dinner

Well, one week down.  Roughly 100 to go but who is counting.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAVANNAH!!!!  When I figure out how to mail, I will send you guys a letter.  I know where the post office is but I am not sure about international mailing.  I will find out soon.

I didn't get to eat fufu this week.  A bit disappointing and a bit relieved.  I will have some tonight.  We are having a district party and are going to kill a goat that we bought and make fufu.  It should be fun and my first fufu won't be at a persons house so if I don't eat it all, it will be ok. 

I am not sure what I will need replaced out of my carry on.  I forgot that my camera charger was in it.  Pres. Holmes is working on it.  I sent him some information today.  Don't worry to much about it.  We will figure it all out.

Obuasi really doesn't have street addresses so you will probably need to use the mission address.  As of yet, I have not gotten any letters.  We only get mail when someone comes down with it or someone goes up and they are given them.  It kind of stinks.  (There many letters coming through Dear Elder that he is expecting to arrive soon .)

This week has been good, but it has been slow for teaching.  Most of the serious people were baptized before I got here and we have all the people who won't commit to things.  This week,  we will be going out and finding new investigators.  Last week we found a couple.  People will just ask us to come and teach them.  They say they see us walk by everyday and ask why we never stop by them.  We tell them that we have so many people to see that we can't stop and talk with everyone but now that we know that they are interested we will stop with them.  Tracting is not very effective here.  The people will sound interested but they are always to busy for you to come in.  People stopping us  happens more often than tracting does.

Everyone here is religious.  They are mostly Christian, but there are a lot of Muslims here too.  On the back of taxis, there will be a sign saying something about Jesus and most shops are named something like that.  An example is the "By His Grace Beauty Salon".  You will be surprised if you ever find an atheist here.

Food is interesting.  There are two supermarkets where you can by drinks and pasta and stuff like that.  Any American food like peanut butter is expensive and cereal is too.  We get 120 cedes for 2 weeks, which really isn't enough.    We are trying to see if it can be raised to 150 because there is an inflation going on right now.  I had to pull 50 cedes today to pay for food.  I don't know what that is in US dollars.  (We figured it is approximately 3 cedes to 1 dollar)  Last week, I didn't know what I was doing when shopping so I bought eggs and bread.  I survived but I am a little tired of french toast and fried eggs and the oatmeal I brought.  That oatmeal and the water flavor packs are amazing.  I thought you were crazy for buying so much but now I understand.  I have to limit myself to one in the morning and evening but they are good.

Glad to hear thing are good at home.  I know that you will do well in Primary, Mom.  (We told him of my new calling) 

I look forward to next weeks emails .

Love Warner.

P.S.

Elder Helgesen knows where I can get a card reader cheap, so you don't need to worry about it.

It has rained here almost everyday.  We were told in the airport that the dry season is coming but I don't believe it right now.  Here is a rough schedule of my day.  My alarm goes off at 6:30 AM, but it is quiet so I spend a minute or 2 trying to figure out what is beeping.  Then I lay in bed for another half hour trying to wake up.  I get out of bed at around 7 to shave and make breakfast.  I am usually the first one up too.  We make our own food here, but sometimes Elder Orji makes us all dinner.  After breakfast I do personal study until 9 then we have companion study until 11 because of my training.  Then we usually eat lunch and get out by 1 and proselyte for the afternoon.  It gets dark here at 6:30 PM and all the people go home and make food so if you don't have an appointment by 7 you just go home and make dinner.  That is what my day is usually like.


Elder Ashby's Dad had asked about laundry and if he used a wash board or not.  His response was,  "No, I just use my hands.  If you do it right you don't sand paper your knuckles.  Elder Adams bought a washing machine so we might not have to wash by hand all the time here.  In other places I most likely will."


He was also asked if he has seen any monkeys or the giant snails or spiders or had any late night rat hunts in their apartment.  He said, "The Ghanaian's don't like spiders so there aren't many here, thank goodness.  I saw one monkey and would have gotten close and touched it if it didn't look like it would eat my finger.  So I walked right by and it screeched at me as I passed.  Giant snails are expensive so I probably won't eat them.  (We had seen pictures of the Giant Ghana Snails that can be purchased to eat.)  We had one mouse in our apartment but it escaped somewhere."