Greetings from New Town

(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