March 2nd

Hey guys, sorry about last night, but things went kind of crazy, because we had to teach 3 lessons in 1 and a half hours when only 2 of the lessons could understand English well enough for us to communicate. The moral of this story is that I need to learn twi (my new language). Everything worked out well, and we were able to teach, but unfortunately, when we finally got time to e-mail the café was closing, so sorry.
Funny story that some-how sum up sweet elder Bond. We were doing some contacting, and we came across 2 boys that were quite clearly brothers from their appearance. WE asked them and they told us that they were blood brothers. WE then asked them how old they were and they told us that they were both 14. We asked if they were twins, and they said no, so we asked what their birth date was so that we could see how far apart they were. Come to find out one was born in April and the other was born in June. Since polygamy is a big issue here in Ghana, as we were walking away, I made some comment to Elder Bond about it. I think I asked, “So… you know what that means?” His answer was “yea… one of them stayed in his mom’s stomach longer than the other”. To this I said, “Elder it doesn’t work like that. They can’t stay in there for 2 months” He then said, “Well sometimes it does.” I laughed for about 10 min, and then very lovingly gave him a brief g rated version of when a woman’s water breaks (because I have so much experience in that field). It was somehow very funny and describes him to the T. I love Elder Bond so much though. He really does very well and we are able to work very hared. His lessons have improved greatly in the last week that we have been together. I’m not sure if I told you guys, but on top of training, I’m opening a new area also. Luckily, it is just a split off from some of the other area in our zone, so there were a few people that we are able to work with. The work has been going really well, and the word seems really happy to now have 2 sets of missionaries with them.
We now have people asking us to come every day so that we can discus, and its really sweet. We gave a few books of Mormons out this last week and they were accepted very well. It’s really neat to see the change that the gospel brings to other peoples lives.
One of the things that I think I’m most excited for in the next few weeks is mango season. They say that when they are in season you can buy four of them for about 75cents.
One thing that would really help me you guys is if maybe you would start a new e-mail every week so that they are not so big. The computers have problems with the big ones, and it takes forever for them to come up so that you can read them. It’s some how frustrating when you wait for 10 min just to read one sentence.
Ive got to go, love you guys, Elder Russell