First of all, I would like to say happy Fathers day to Dad and the
rest of the dads in our family. Next, I am sorry for complaining about
not getting e-mails and letters from you guys these last few weeks. I
really do appreciate and love you guys. Third of all I would like to
say that I am jealous of Ry for getting to go the the world cup twice
and that I am not jealous of Jon for getting to watch it with a bunch
of sweaty south Americans. I see all of the Africans cramped together
in front of a TV, and for some strange reason, I have the desire
sometimes to join the group and become a sweaty spectator myself.
Ghana has done really well until this last match with Australia in
which they did not live up to there full potential and the tied the
game 1-1. That means that they need to either tie with or beat Germany
on Wed. to continue into round 16, which for any of you who know
anything about pretending to know football that's not an easy thing to
do. Needless to say, the number of lessons that we have had these last
few weeks has gone down, and we have actually had some of our good
investigators yell at us for even suggesting to turn off the TV for 5
min during the per-game show for the Ghana match. Things here are
going really well here though. We have met some really sweet
investigators during the matches that we never would have found if we
were not watching the match. God love to bless his missionaries. I
hope that all is going well with all of you guys back at home. Thanks
mom and dad for sending the e-mail with grandmas testimony. That was
really special. Ryan, I was actually able to get and to see your
e-mail with all of the pictures. Those were the first pictures that I
have seen of the family in the last 9 months. Thanks so much for
sending them. Your girls and your wife look really really cute. You
look good too I guess. If anyone ever sends me any kind of a package,
or even a letter, the best thing that I can get at this point in my
mission is pictures. Its so cool to see people and how much they have
grown. On thing that I wish that I had brought with me was pictures
from home. It helps a lot with your companion too, when they can
actually see who they are talking to. The missionaries now go through
g-mail and so things go a lot faster. If anyone wants they can try to
send pictures by e-mailing them as an attachment like Ry did. I hope
that it works.
Today Elder bond and myself went and climbed a "mountain", (it only
rose about 200 feet above the rest of the surrounding area) with some
of the other missionaries. It was really cool, because we had to go
through about as much of the African bush that you are ever going to
find in southern Ghana. It made me feel like and explorer, and I wish
that I had had a cool safari suit while I was doing it. It was a lot
of fun. Unfortunately the only wildlife that we were able to see was
the brush in with a ferocious lion, that I was able to tame and train
to jump through a hoop. (I put that last line in far all of you that I
reading this to your children). There actually seems to be a shortage
of any animals in Ghana, besides chickens and goats. Other than that
everything here seems to be great. I love the work, just as much as I
love you guys.
Love Ty