(Entered by his brother, Ryan)
Hey everybody I've officially been in my first area for one week. Its called New Town, area 2. My companion is Elder Adaranijo, he's an awesome guy, he is 24 and from Nigeria. He gives me way too much credit for crap though. The biggest news is that by the time this letter is up, so you can read it, I will have had 3 or 4 baptisms, pretty quick eh? I am super excited for that. It's gonna be awesome. Were gonna have like 5ish next transfer if we keep on the investigators we have now. We're teaching some freaking awesome people.
Other than that exciting news, everything is chill here. Still getting used to eating fishy stew on rice with bread everyday. We did have a guy tell us that he would make us fufu soon though. I'm excited to try it cause everyone says its awesome. Oh so you know apple beer? Good stuff right? Well here we have something very similar, except instead of apple, its pineapple. It's pretty much amazing. I can't always buy it though, we get about $2.50 for food everyday. Not much. It's alright though, I can get fried rice and a piece of chicken for about one dollar. I am far from starving.
The people here are definitely different from back home. Most of them are awesome. Though we did have a lady tell us "If you come back I will slap you! I will beat you!" That was intense. Crazy old Roman Catholic Grandma. Hopefully I can get though the mission without getting beat up by an old Ghanaian woman. That would sad. Especially because my only allowed defense is running away from the Ghanaian grandmothers. Everyone here is super buff too, even the old women.
If you read this though you should email me. My new address is elder.tollsty@gmail.com. I don't have everyone's email address though, so you gotta email me or mail me first. I gotta go right now though, cause we are about to start our mission tour with our president. It sounds impressive but it is really just one very big long meeting. I love you all and can't wait to hear from you.
Elder Tollstrup
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Hello! I'm in freakin' Africa!
(Entered online by his brother, Ryan)
Maa ah-che. Ye fre me Elder Tollstrup Ye ye missionary na ye kaw nyame asem. Translation: Good afternoon. My name is Elder Tollstrup. I am a missionary and reach the word of God. That as in Twi (sounds more like "tchwee"), the language that I'll be speaking. So much for this being an English mission, Hun? Luckily most people speak english, they are just much more comfortable speaking Twi. That combined with African English is going to give me the weirdest freakin' accent when I get home. Oh-well.
The MTC here is pretty tight. Instead of the 2,500-ish people of the one in provo, this MTC has 25 missionaries other than me. Just a titch smaller. It's cool though, I like it here. Probably helps with the culture shock thing, being in Ghana and not Provo. At the very least its getting used to the food. Lots of yams, rice, deep fried fish (head included) and some kind of fruit. Its definitly not cheese burgers and fries.
My comp. is Elder Okechakwu, from Nigeria. He's a big kid, but INCREDIBLY quiet. Makes things tricky sometimes. Well, most times, but he's only my comp. till the 19th anway. Thats when we get transfered to our first areas. I'm suoer excited for it.
My teachers are pretty sweet too. They're Brother Tei & Brother Mobio. They're both pretty sweet. Tei is freakin ripped and leads our excercises. Brother Mobio is just hilarious, easily one of the funniest people I've ever met. We're trying to convice him to come to school at BYU or something.
They keep us freakin busy here though, luckily we get gym time once a day where we get to go play football (soccer) in the field. I am gonna be amazing at the game when we get home.
I don't have a whole lot of time left to write, but everyone should write me. Instructions on how are on Facebook. Ignore the MTC instructions because by the time this is posted I'll be out of the MTC anyway. If you write me I'll write you back, but I don't have anyone's address unless they write me first. I can't really e-mail, so regular mail is it. Hope to hear from you all soon.
Nyame Boa okyena
(Translation: God willing, tomorrow. Thats the closest thing to goodnight that is not about death.)
Tollsty-
Maa ah-che. Ye fre me Elder Tollstrup Ye ye missionary na ye kaw nyame asem. Translation: Good afternoon. My name is Elder Tollstrup. I am a missionary and reach the word of God. That as in Twi (sounds more like "tchwee"), the language that I'll be speaking. So much for this being an English mission, Hun? Luckily most people speak english, they are just much more comfortable speaking Twi. That combined with African English is going to give me the weirdest freakin' accent when I get home. Oh-well.
The MTC here is pretty tight. Instead of the 2,500-ish people of the one in provo, this MTC has 25 missionaries other than me. Just a titch smaller. It's cool though, I like it here. Probably helps with the culture shock thing, being in Ghana and not Provo. At the very least its getting used to the food. Lots of yams, rice, deep fried fish (head included) and some kind of fruit. Its definitly not cheese burgers and fries.
My comp. is Elder Okechakwu, from Nigeria. He's a big kid, but INCREDIBLY quiet. Makes things tricky sometimes. Well, most times, but he's only my comp. till the 19th anway. Thats when we get transfered to our first areas. I'm suoer excited for it.
My teachers are pretty sweet too. They're Brother Tei & Brother Mobio. They're both pretty sweet. Tei is freakin ripped and leads our excercises. Brother Mobio is just hilarious, easily one of the funniest people I've ever met. We're trying to convice him to come to school at BYU or something.
They keep us freakin busy here though, luckily we get gym time once a day where we get to go play football (soccer) in the field. I am gonna be amazing at the game when we get home.
I don't have a whole lot of time left to write, but everyone should write me. Instructions on how are on Facebook. Ignore the MTC instructions because by the time this is posted I'll be out of the MTC anyway. If you write me I'll write you back, but I don't have anyone's address unless they write me first. I can't really e-mail, so regular mail is it. Hope to hear from you all soon.
Nyame Boa okyena
(Translation: God willing, tomorrow. Thats the closest thing to goodnight that is not about death.)
Tollsty-
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