Hey guys,
1st off, Happy Birthday to dad and Riley. If I forget to wish Josh a happy birthday latter this month please forgive me. Jen, Delilah is only molstly wrong. There are the seven traditional names that most of the Ghana folks have. In fact, mine is Kowfie, but they also receive like five other names that they will use before that one. My companion is leaving in about an hour, so I don’t have very much time to write you guys. To answer Ry’s questions, Elder Whaikawa is way cool and not trunky at all. I havent had much time with Pres. Saybey, but I like what Ive seen and heard a lot. The appartment that we live in is the biggest and nicest in the mission, and we only share it with one other companionship. I have written in my journal a lot, and for our free time we mosly just either sit around and talk, because we all like each other or we just study. For p-days all that we really have time for is a short game of soccer, and then we go shopping and wash our clothes (that takes a couple of hours, because we have to do it by hand. There are no washing machines here). There really isnt so much devision between the Africans and the white people. In fact most of the time the white people forget that they are white! All of the elders are way cool, and there really isnt any segregation.
Good luck with finals everyone, and I hope that you all had a great thanksgiving. It sounded like fun. Sorry that Shell hurt her foot.
Mom, we can pick up our phone card here, so you don’t need to worry about it. In case anyone whants to send a big package, or even a small one, or even a letter, the address that you send it to is Elder Tyler Russell, Ghana Cape Coast mission, PMB 1385, Cape Coast, GHANA. The reason that I asked for stamps was so that I can send mail by pouch. They actually mail it from the U.S. when they do it that way, and for some reason they will not mail it if you use Ghana stamps.
We had a way cool baptism yesterday. I was supposed to be doing the dunking, but unfortuanatly they did not have a baptisimal soot big enough for me. I need to buy my own. Anyways Elder Whaikawa baptized three people. It was really neat. We did it right after church, and the whole ward stayed and watched so there was a big turnout. Ive been so busy here that I even kinda forgot about Thanksgiving. We had a big feest last night as a going away party for Elder Whaikawa, that he and I put together. I took lots of pictures. It was a lot of fun.
I will be going with the other elders in the apartment until I get my new companion later this week. I will find out who he is either tonight or tomarrow morning. Im kinda excited about that.
Mom, if you could send me an e-mail telling me how much money I have in my bank acount that would be great. I really sont whant to look at that kind of important stuff on the computers here, so if you could do that for me that would be great. There are some cool things here that I would like to have some small- small money (that’s how they say it here. I just realized that I even write like Im from Ghana)to get if I can find a good deal. Well, Ive got to go, I hope that Ive answered most of you questions. I love you all and hope that you are having as much fun as I am.
Love Elder RussellP.S.: Sorry that you had to sleep in the garadge Derek. I hope it wasn’t to cold or smelly.
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