Hi! It sounds like it’s been a good week and will be a good week! This has been a good week out here in Jurassic Park as well! I didn’t buy the knock off Reeses Puffs, because I decided to go with the knock off Cap'n Crunch called Sammy the Sailor. I bought some milk powder and enjoyed it for the week each morning haha! It was soo good!!!! I am glad you enjoyed the pictures! There were a lot! Yeah last Sunday was awesome and we did confirm them yesterday! Hopefully they will all get the priesthood this week! Just depends on if the branch president interviews them. Speaking of the branch president....

They had a big leadership training for all the wards and branches in Takoradi last week Saturday. So apparently our branch president and 1st councilor got in a big fight over some money or something and were screaming at each other and he said he wanted to stop being branch president. The poor guy runs the branch by himself and really doesn’t get any help from the councilors or anyone. The clerk can’t use the computer so he even puts all the records in. On top of that he is a teacher and is always really busy. So he was feeling really stressed. But he got calmed down and he is cool now. But on Tuesday we had a Zone meeting with President Shulz and he came and did interviews. He called me and Elder Cardon to be the Assistant Clerks in the branch so we are going to help with all the records and basically all the computer stuff. So I am glad we will be able to relieve that stress from his job. He is a really good president, he just doesn’t really have any help and is really busy. Oh and his name is Adolf so he has that going for him haha. On Friday I went on splits while Elder Cardon was in Agona doing interviews. I was with Elder Reihle from DC. We had a pretty good day, only taught a few lessons though. But we taught this guy named Ebenezer who we met recently and he came to church. He is smart and interested. We were teaching him a good lesson about the Restoration and it was going good, and then some guy came and joined us and wanted to cause trouble. He must read American news some small bit or something because he just kept saying stupid things like. "I’m sure you know about Mitt Romney and the reason he lost is because the people in America are suspicious about where your church gets its money from." He was just obsessed about where the church got its money from. Then after that we detracted from the Restoration and talked about tithing, he just went off about how nobody in America likes black people and stupid stuff like that, so that was sweet. But Ebenezer was awesome and was like, "No man, I have been to the church. It’s good." So he is a boss. We will see if he keeps it up. We also taught the boy Paul’s auntie. He is the one who got baptized. She came to church and she has sat in our lessons before. I think she knows the church is true but she is just stubborn and won’t leave her Anglican church. We had a really good lesson with her about how if you want to know the truth and act on it, God will answer your prayers. She felt the Spirit you could tell, but she is just stubborn. Hopefully she will humble herself though and accept it.

That is so weird that Adam is 12! Seems like yesterday it was my first time doing fast offerings and passing the sacrament. Good for him, that is sweet. About the lds.org thing, I know I had to create a mormon.org profile before I left, is that what you are talking about? We don’t ever use them or anything out here because people really don’t have computers. Seems like everyones phones can access facebook though, everyone is on facebook.

I am excited for the christmas packages! I will do my best to wait, But it will depend on our fridge haha. See the thing is if you leave any food out, even if it is wrapped and sealed, the ants will swarm it. So we have to put everything in the fridge. If there is room in the fridge, I will save it. If not, then I will have to open it and cram each thing individually into the fridge haha. So we will see! I still have some of the candy from the last one in the fridge. The kids loved the glow sticks and I have started on the bracelets. Got a picture of Paul and his handicapped cousin with them on, so I’m sure you and whoever made the bracelets will enjoy that picture.

For Thanksgiving I am planning on buying a frozen piece of chicken today! So we will boil it or something and have it with the potatoes and gravy you sent, maybe I will even make the jello! It will be just like being home for Thanksgiving! Except for the pie and family and stuff haha. Good luck with Festival.  That is a good quote you sent, and is timed right haha (quote: It’s ok to be a glow stick; sometimes you have to break before you shine). Thank you!

I hope you have a good week, thanks for all you do for me. You are the best parents in the world!!!!! Love you!

 Paul, Moro, Francis, me, Elder Cardon!

 What an awesome day! So blessed to be there!!

 A close up.....Awesome!

Paul and his aunt. She is not a member, and was really standoffish to us at first, but we have begun teaching her and she has potential I think. He lives with her and talked her into coming to the baptism!

 This poor guy. Ladies and Gentlemen, the sea turtle. I wanted to flip him over so bad, but someone had bought him for dinner.

 Haha this picture makes me feel like a bad person.

 But apparently not bad enough to take two.

Cody wanted some pictures of the wildlife, so here is an Aponche(goat)!

Poor Sea Turtle!

 I bought these two kente ties for like 16 cedis. Havent even worn them yet haha! They are sweet though!

 A recent convert gave us each a tie. Cardon got a normal tie and I got this SWEET Christmas tie. It even plays music if you push on Santa haha!

Here we are with her! Her name is Elizabeth. She is like 80 years old and got baptized in July. (And I have on my sweet Christmas tie!)

 The glowsticks are a hit. We gave them to some kids, like Paul that we baptized. They were walking around showing all the neighbors and stuff. We had an older lady run up to us and demand we give one to her. We laughed and asked how old she was and just straighfaced she said, "I am 51 years." Hahaha sadly we were out. But this little guys name is Joshua. He is a legend. He never cries or gets upset. He is awesome. Always happy to see us, so we gave him a glow stick and it made his life.

 Some more of the Rock

 These kids were playing the jugs like drums and the others were dancing. It actually was really cool! We went out of our way to walk over to them and take some pictures. You can see how the one jug is facing me right? Every time he would hit it a blast of air would come out and hit me in the crotch. Took me a minute to figure what the heck was going on haha.

 Window diving haha!

 Our main room in our apartment!! So spacious and luxurious!

 Another pic of our room/my bed.

 This is the kitchen, small but with two people not bad at all! We had some dishes in the sink, but we usually get them done right away!

 The fridge sits alone.

 This is my desk! Lots of stuff!

 The inside of a guy's house we know

 His Ceiling

 This is a typical house in a village. Not many like this in Axim, but in Bokazo there were alot.

 This was when I was with Elder Moore in Takoradi. This is from their apartment window. That house looks like it belongs in San Diego or something! It was so nice.

This is a road we walked the other day. Typical Ghana.

 THANK YOU FOR THE PANCAKE MIX!!! It was sooo goood! Made some apple pancakes here with a side of apples!

 Some Acheke. Its an Nzema dish. Its pretty much like salty rice, but it has veggies and, obviously, fish. "Dont eat me Elder!"

 This is some acheke that Francis made for us, it was really good! That is fish on top.

Haha the guy we baptized Francis fed us a few weeks ago. We had fufu and there was just random meat and fish in there as well. Shrimp, fish, and this thing. It was a ribcage. To what I dont know, but you can see the heart on the left side. The meat was actually really really good. I am guessing it was cat just judging by the size. If so, cat is dang nice!