Hello once again.
This is just going to be a
summarized email because this computer is a little slow and outdated but it is
cool.
As far as toughness goes.. Yup it still is hard as can be
here. The Tamale sun is not easy and is only getting hotter, but as the sun
gets hotter... I only get stronger... and more burnt. I have been working out
small small and I think I will soon be a different man, a skinnier man! But
don't get too excited because as you know I will eat everything that I can
because I Love food! I have found this cool gym place and I dont remember if I
told you about it last time but it is cool to work out with these HUGE guys who only lift all day, everyday. So there is
little Salaminga (white man) with his roughly 20 pound weights doing curls and
next to me is this man who is curling about 80 pounds.. ya its pretty
cool haha. These guys just laugh at me but then I think to my self that my job
in Ghana is not to get ripped but to serve God ... and survive.
Next, music... I cannot tell you how much I miss my country
music and all the things that kept me going back home :( Sometimes I will walk
around while we are trying to find people to teach and just sing country songs
and my companion will just look at me like I am insane. Dont worry as far as
America goes down here, I am representing it all the way with the songs and the
things that I do.
Ghana is pretty cool though. I have learned to accept the
ways and the people and the lifestyle. I will admit when I do see a white
person, I get very excited and always want to just run over to them and talk
because sometimes you forget here that whites even exist. haha.
I have noticed that at this
point in my mission, that the routine just seems normal, like now that I know
all the teaching methods to we use to help
others come unto Christ, I feel as if I am only waiting on time and waiting on
our investigators to accept the message that we bring to them. I have noticed
that my testimony has boosted through the roof as I continue to study and learn
through my experiences. I have now completed Alma in the Book Of
Mormon and I am continuing to progress.
I hope all of you are doing
well and that school, jobs, and life is going smoothly. It is sometimes weird
to think that I will not encounter those things for 2 years, but as far as it
goes for you.. just endure and enjoy life as it comes. You have it way too nice
and sometimes we take advantage of what we have. If you were to come here and
witness this lifestyle and these things, you would literally just want to stay
in America. (Especially air conditioning... there is none here.)
Today I got another hair cut
and we spent 2 hours washing clothes... oh what I would do for a simple washing
machine!!!!
I love you very much and I
enjoy your emails every time. I take pictures of them and read them on my
camera through out the week. It makes me smile every time that I read your
emails. Just keep in mind that YOU are on my mind every day and that this is no
easy work over here. So enjoy the daily routine that you have now cause it can
always be worse than what it is.
Peace out from Tamale, Ghana until next Monday!
Elder Cornelius
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