First Week In The MTC

Hey everybody! I am alive and well!

I hope you are all doing great. So far the MTC has held many new experiences for me. I have never had to share a room with four guys before, and have never really relied on someone else to allow me to get to classes on time. These new challenges will hopefully be overcome before my next email. But progress has been terribly slow. 

I want to thank you all who have sent emails it is so good to hear from home. Unlike the Provo MTC i cannot read through my messages everyday but i guess one day a week is fine.

So I had to go to the temple today...... That was very strange. It is nothing like the ones that we have in Utah. But tha'ts not the end of the world, i get to say that I have been to the Ghana temple!!!

Everyone is very hard to understand, and many don't understand me and the other guys that I came with. That just means that we are all very quite in class. 

I have talked to a few guys that know people in my mission, from what I have been told my entire mission is 75 percent service!!! I have been told to be prepared to live with a machete tied to my back!!! So i am really looking forward to that being my life for two years.

The MTC is nice. There are ups and downs constantly, people not understanding cultures, not understanding the restrictions on time and so on. But everyone is really trying, we are all getting used to being away, and the idea of the two years ahead of us. So we have all been bounding over those ties and commitments.

The food is insane!! I have had so many new things that I dont know the names of, I am not sure that I have gone a day without rice. But hey we had cereal earlier this week so that was awesome. We have all been attempting to get used to the foods that we do not know, because it is neither Ghanian or American. So i dont know what i am eating but i doubt i will ever really want to know for sure. 

Not going to lie, i miss home, i miss food that isn't rice. and I really miss all of you. I haven't been given that much time to write so this may be it for the week. I know it isn't much and I am sorry. I hope you will all stay to hear the next chapter.