Hello everyone!!!
We had another crazy busy but productive week. We were able to see most of our solid friends that we are teaching and found 10 new people to teach! The work out here is exploding and so it is keeping us missionaries very very busy. We usually leave the house around 9:30am and don't return until dark around 7 or 7:30 on a normal day. We do have special occasions were we have to leave early. On Saturdays and Sundays we have to leave the house at 6:30am to get to those that we are teaching or bringing to church. On those days we get up at 5:30am so like I said VERY busy! I absolutely love it though, I love being busy and coming home at the end of the day tired knowing I worked hard. To me there is no better feeling.
We have a lot of people we are teaching and so we are trying to fit all of them into our schedule, and as we walk through the streets people will come up to us and tell us that they want to join our church haha. So we write down their number and call them the next day to see when we are able to stop by and teach them. With all of these appointments we do a lot of walking, like A LOT of walking. We get to greet many many people, and with the little kids running up to me and touching my skin or playing with my hair or calling me white man in the native language, my companion and I have fun.
One particular day as we were walking there was a group of men sitting on a bench talking. My companion and I waved and said hello. They saw us and started to yell at us, they were doing it in a joking way but they started to yell in twi and started to get on my companion. My companion leaned over to me and said that they were mad at me for waving with my left hand. I totally wasn't thinking about it and waved to the men with my left hand, and in Ghana that is a big no no. You don't do anything with your left hand. And so the men were telling my companion to teach me to greet with my right hand. Haha they ended up being cool about it, but now I know and have to consciously think about which hand I am using for everything.
Like I mentioned earlier in one of my emails, most everyone goes to church out here. There are a ton of churches and so we get to deal with a lot of them. One of our friends Afia who we are teaching attends this one church were the pastor pays the people to attend the church. We are trying to work with her and others who attend this church and overcome that challenge haha.
We have about 5 or 6 kids that are in boarding school until March 4th. They will get home next week and we will start including them into our teaching pool. The work still continues! This is actually the last week of the transfer and so we will see if my companion gets yeeted out of Kwamo. We will find out the news on Saturday I guess.
That's about all that we have been up to this past week. I would say that I am finally starting to get use to everything. Again I say starting haha, I still have to get use to it but I am doing a lot better then when I first came out. These past couple weeks have definitely shown me that I am nothing without my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Like I have mentioned I have had to rely on them for a lot these past couple weeks and that has brought me a lot of comfort. It's definitely been a humbling experience and I know it will continue to be. I am loving the experiences that I am having and the testimony that is growing inside me. I absolutely love this gospel and everything that comes with it. Even if I have to sacrifice a bit these next 18 months. I wouldn't want it any other way.
I hope you all are doing well, and staying safe. I love hearing from you so shoot me an email! Thank you for the love and support and I will talk to all yall next week!
Love Elder Morgan
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