Okay, so I had a little word with the President about not getting enough time to email home earlier today, so I got him to reopen the computer lab for me and now I'm in here with my companion getting special privileges :) Haha. I still only have about 15 minutes though so I'll be quick. So anyway, here comes the longest recap of everything I can give in the time I have! (and hopefully I can answer the questions you asked in it)
The flight from Atlanta to Accra was about 11 hours long. It was terribly long and so hard to sleep. But luckily the flight wasn't full at all so I had two seats all to myself! Side note- "Accra" is pronounce like "Uh-cra" not "Ahccra." Yeah I was getting it wrong this whole time too. Anyway, one of the Elders on the flight looked extremely familiar to me and I was finally able to figure out where I knew him from, he was in my EFY group when I was 15! It was crazy. Small world right? So we landed in Africa and waited at the airport and went to the MTC.
The MTC is really not as scary looking as people make it out to be. Sure, there's an electric fence around it, but there's one little security house. Not armed guards patrolling it 24/7. We are very safe here. So Mom, don't worry :) I haven't seen any crazy wildlife because the MTC is a PRISON. We can never leave. It's so sad. Except in Provo I think the fences are to keep the missionaries in, here it's to keep people out! Haha. As far as the AC goes we have it in all the classrooms and chapel, but only fans in our rooms. So it's not too too bad. I have like 5 minutes so I'll start wrapping this up. And throw out random things I've noticed or thought about. I've gotten to play football a couple times but it's frustrating because the Africans here are BALL HOGS. Also, I think they assume I'm bad at football because I'm American. We'll just give it some time ;) Another thing here is that the Africans like to sing. A LOT. So much that they literally shout the hymns as loud as they can. Kind of kills the whole reverence thing, but it's really entertaining so I guess it's okay. In the food department- like I said, it's just tons of rice. One day we had rice with a side of rice. It was just great. Needless to say I freaking miss American food. Oh man. So much. A Big Mac has never sounded so good. Or a waffle. Or some chips. Anyway, I'm stinking ready to get out into the mission field and teach some real people!
Well I'm out of time so I'll talk about the pictures real quick
First one- that's me eating chicken bones. Yup, not that great.
Second, yup, I'm pretty cool
Third, those are all my roommates!
Fourth, the Ghana temple! It was super cool! It's a little bigger than the Baton Rouge one so not super big. I got to be an escort for my companion because the Africans who don't have temples near them go through for the first time with the MTC. It was great! Also, the temple is about 45 minutes away. The MTC is in Tema and the temple is in Accra.
I think about y'all a lot and miss and love y'all tons! Can't wait to hear from you!
Love,
Elder Stewarty Hunt a bunt booger fun woo woo
This is in response to some questions my Dad asked him:
1. Only family can email me
2. I just want one email from the family, that way it can just get posted on the blog and I don't have to repeat things over and over again.
3. The weather is pretty much the same as home. For Mom- it has not rained here yet. The iPhone is a lie. It is pretty much overcast 24/7 though. The difference is that there's no nice air conditioned house to walk into so your room is crazy humid too. We have AC in the classrooms and chapel, but the rooms only have fans.
4. Yes! We went to the temple today actually. It was awesome and I took lots of pictures. More on all of that in the email to Mom (just cause I haven't read hers and I'll go in depth on everything then)
5. Typically we wake up, exercise (play football mostly), shower, go to class for endless hours, then eat, then endless class, then eat, then class, then sleep.
6. Well people are yelling at us to go eat so I actually can't answer more questions now. I'm actually really frustrated with this computer situation right now because people won't listen to me when they don't know how to use computers! I'll hopefully finally be able to type a real email sometime soon!
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