Hello everyone!!
Yet again another solid week out here in Kwamo. The gospel is so true and I witness it everyday. A lot happened this past week but I will just point out a few highlights.
First of all the food is Interesting out here, I absolutely love the fried rice and spaghetti but the other foods I am still getting used to them. For instance I think I ate cow intestine 3 times this week. One of which we were at Maa Mary's house one of our friends and she prepared us some food (i forget the Ghanaian name for it). I'll try to explain it as best as I can. They always have either rice, fufu, banku or something In which you pinch off a bit with your fingers and dip it in some kind of stew and swallow/chew depending on which one it is. They will always have some kind of meat with it as well. But this specific time with Maa Mary we had banku with a stew and the meet that we had was cow tongue, cow Intestine and a mystery part of the cow. I'll explain what I know about the mystery meat. Maa Mary (and other Ghanaians) get a part of the cow that includes the skin and about 2 inches of fat/and who knows what. It's like they take a cow and skin it 2-3 inches deep. I don't know if that makes sense or not but then they cut it into pieces and boil them to remove the hair. When they boil it, not all of the hair comes off so they have to let it sit in the sun for about a week. So what we ate was the skin of some part of the cow and it was about 2-3 inches deep. It was very very tough and I could not even bite a piece of it off to try it. So I had to through the whole thing in my mouth and chew it enough to the point in which I could swallow it. Let's just say it didn't taste the best. I think back to when I was in Utah and wanting members to feed me knowing they can't. And now I am out here in Africa wishing members didn't feed me haha. But I'm sure it will get batter as time goes on.
Another highlight was that we have had some big storms come our way the past two days. About 4 or 5 o'clock the dark dark clouds come in and the wind picks up and it starts to dump rain. It dumps like I have never seen before. On Friday we beat the storm and we were in our dry house when it hit. But Saturday we were in Aprade teaching a family and we saw the clouds start to roll in. We tried to finish the lesson up but ended up staying longer. We actually had to finish early due to the Wind being so bad. As we were making the walk to grab a tro tro to Kwamo the wind was getting really bad, and it started to rain super hard. We still had about a 10 min drive and a 10 min walk to get back to the house. The tro tro ride to kwamo was probably the scariest ride I have ever been on haha. We couldn't see anything as the rain was too heavy and there are no speed limits or really any limits on the road. Our tro tro driver is going very fast and I just pray that we arrive safely. We end up arriving to Kwamo and have to make the 10 min walk back in the storm. Keep in mind it is pitch black with occasional light from the lighting. So my companion and I start to run to our house and at this point we are totally soaked. It's like I took a shower in my church cloths it was that bad. As we are running back to the house the dirt road has now become a literal river. So we are running through the river our shoes and pants are now muddy and soaked wet do to the deep water. We eventually get to the apartment and guess what put the cherry on top.... The power was out! Haha we ended up going with out power till Sunday night. Haha but we made the best of it, we were able to return safely home with a smile on our faces. Welcome to Africa though! Haha I have really enjoyed the experiences I have had and will continue to have while serving out here.
I'll just mention a couple more small things. We got transfer news! Elder Donkor is leaving me and I will be getting an elder who is just out of training. His name is Elder Majdoub and he is a Ghanaian! Which means he speaks Twi!! I am definitely happy about that as he will be able to continue to help me with the language as well as help me teach our friends. He will come here on Wednesday so I'm excited.
I had the best pday today because GUESS WHAT... My companion decided not to tell me that we have a Kumasi mall in which they sell some American food. We went today and it actually looked like an American store! I also had the privilege to see 2 white guys (keep in mind I haven't seen another white guy since I got to Kwamo) so that was a highlight. I talked to them for a bit and they were super cool. It is more expensive but totally worth it as I got hamburger patties, and stuff to make American food. It's safe to say I will be going there every time I need Ingredients or food.
There have been a lot of robberies recently. One of our friends got robbed two nights ago, she ended up being okay but it wasn't the first one we have heard of. There was an incident that happened with the APs and from that time onward, the mission president said that we are supposed to be in by 6:30pm every night. But we are staying safe! Although many of our friends have had incidents, the Lord is keeping us missionaries safe.
Anyways sorry for the long email, there is always more but maybe my parents and family can fill all y'all in on everything. I hope you are all doing well. I love you all and pray for your safety. I hope you guys have a great week this week!
Love Elder Morgan
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