Hello everyone!!
Let's see, I had another solid week this week. It was full of hard work, paperwork, finishing up in the ULM, long plane rides, and HOT HOT HOT.
(Sorry this email will be longer then ones in the past, but a lot happened)
I finished up the last couple of days in the ULM (Utah Layton Mission) and finished strong. We were in a trio and so we had a lot of fun ending my time in Utah. I got to say goodbye to all of my new friends and members that I grew really close with. I started packing Monday and had to send a ton of stuff back home, because I wasn't going to need it in Africa. I sent that back home and had to suffer through the cold for a couple days till I left on that Thursday. I had to send my suit and all of my winter stuff and it snowed on Wednesday so it was real cold with out anything, but we managed!
Fast-forward to Thursday, I had to be at the mission office at 11am and I met up with 4 other missionaries. Some were going to Chile and some to argentina. I was the only one going to Africa. One of the office elders took us in a big van with all of our luggage to the airport. I was the only one flighing through delta, so they just dropped us off at the front and said see you later haha. We all went our separate ways and I got checked in.
I met up with another elder on the plane and we flew to New York. It was about a 4 ½ hour flight and we met up with about 15-20 Elders in the New York Airport. Some were going to Accra, some to cape coast, and some to Kumasi with me. We had a lay over in New York and didn't leave for Accra until 11:45pm. The flight to Accra was about 11 hours and it was very crowded. There were quite a bit of missionaries on the flight, and there were two missionary couples as well. We got to Accra, and it was so hot. Especially coming from Utah were it had just snowed and it was below 30° and going to Accra where it was 90° and over 50% humidity. I was sweating as soon has we got out of the airport. We had to go through a lot of covid regulations before we could go, I had to get another covid test and test negative to be let our of the airport. They stuck it up my nose, into my brains and got the sample.
People drive crazy over here. We got into two vans to head to the MTC and the ride over was crazy. There are people all over the streets, trying to sell stuff to people driving. Everyone is balancing food/socks/water on their heads and walking in between cars. Their are kids doing this as well. We were stopped and these two kids came up to our window and the driver said to keep the window up. The kids were trying to sell us shoe polish and kept knocking on the window. Totally different then America.
We finally got to the Ghana MTC. We got there and put our stuff in our rooms, I am rooming with 3 other elders. We then went straight to the cafeteria and got some dinner. We had rice and stew with a fat fish head on it. The food is just a bit different then American food haha. It is pretty spicy and they eat a lot of rice and "stew".
They told us we will stay at the MTC until Tuesday because we need to get our green cards. On Tuesday we will fly out to Kumasi. There are 20 of us at the MTC right now and we are really just chillin, waiting to go out.
There is a turf soccer field in the back of the MTC so all of us went out on Saturday, we had a little pday. We played a game of soccer and it killed all of us. We were so sweaty and had to go shower another time. I have never appreciated cold showers until I came here.
Yesterday we had church, and the branch presidency joined us. We just did Sacrament here at the MTC with us missionaries and the branch presidency and their families. After Sacrament we had a Come Follow Me lesson and overall we had a good church service. The rest of the day we got to walk around the temple and have some missionary directed time. Today we have to get our green cards, and will have preparation day. We will probably play soccer or do something else. Tomorrow we will leave for our areas! I'm excited to start doing missionary work, in the field. I'm excited to get to my area and start working hard out here in Ghana.
I'll update all yall next week on my area that I go to and the other experiences I'll have. I love you all and hope you all are doing well and staying safe.
Love Elder Morgan.
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