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-