CONGRATS ON THE ENDOWMENT AND ON THE WEDDING THIS FRIDAY!!!!! I'm super bummed I
can't be there, but I know it'll be great! You're taking the right step in your
life. An Eternal family is one of the greatest things! An eventful week!
Can't believe you met Elder Humphreys! :) We always talked about
this moment. We've definitely experienced the ups and downs together, and Elder Widdison is great too. Did you guys attend his homecoming at all? I
hope everything goes well with the wedding as planned. My luggage did finally
come!!!! (During the evacuation the airlines lost his luggage. He wore the same clothes for 5 days.) Now I have all my stuff. President Heid bought me some stuff just
in case I never saw it again. Which was a sad thought. Glad it came though.
The Berrett's are assigned here in the Accra mission, so I'll still see them atleast one time! Now I'm in GHANA! I got sent back to the bush. But.... it's not like Harbel. Ho is more built up and established. Everyone wants to be in Ho, so I'm glad I get to serve here and see what everyone raves about. My new companion is a Nigerian named Elder Jaiyeola. He's the District Leader and I'm his Junior companion. Weird not having responsibility at all... no numbers to do... nothing. You don't get to see how the mission can improve and where people need to focus. It'll be interesting! An Adventure like you've all mentioned! Transfer for them is on August 20th, so in a week or so. Don't know if I'll stay or go, but I'll let you know in 2 weeks time. It's a real change! We actually proselyte until 9... talk about feeling like I disobeyed the first night on the town. I'm still adjusting to that, but I'm getting it small small. Trying not to greet people how I would in LIB is difficult. I'll forget I'm in Ghana and greet someone and they go,"HUH?!?!" Uhhhh.... I smile and move on. :) What else can you do? I don't want to forget my LIB roots, and still want to keep how they speak, but these people speak something called Ayway (wrong spelling, sounds like that though) and they speak it in church..... so, its not a mission language, but I'll try to learn it small small. They look at me speaking their dialect and I don't know what they're saying. :) Its great! The food here is different, money, and everything. I can actually buy a good amount of vegetables for a decent price! Life here is crazy. Thanks for the Motherly, fatherly, sisterly advice. I appreciate it. I may have had some dust in my eye as you reflected my mind back to Sam Blaster and all those people. Just small dust...
P.S. Interesting how I always start out my "missions" with Nigerian companions....
weird how that works.....
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