Heya everyone.
Had a crazy this week. My heart soared when I heard that
Utah State beat the school from down south!!!! What up!
Anyway, shout out to Nicholas and Sally. I hope you guys
have absolutely amazing birthdays this week!! I wish you a very happy
birthday from Ghana and remember that next year I'll have to pour water on you
as per the Ghana tradition. Any cool birthday traditions in China?
Saw the pictures of Tony and Oli. I don't know who the
second could be because the Tony I know is a baby and is a whole lot
smaller. Great job Matthew and Sandee. You guys have a great
family.
Life goes on in Lartebiokorshie. The zone is pretty
cool. I like the missionaries in it and it will be the first time on my
mission that I interact with sister missionaries other than the office which
doesn't really count. I'm excited. We had a sweet MLC on Thursday
kind of focusing on the Book of Mormon. It’s amazing how we can take that
book for granted so easily. It's hard when a lot of people don't like reading.
Not that they can't, just they have been told everything their whole life and
are content with just taking what is said. We're gonna talk about it at
Zone Training tomorrow.
My new companion is awesome! I was a little worried I have
to admit but the way I see it now is either we are going to become best friends
or just not click at all and it's looking like the best friends right
now. He is a great guy. All about the work. It's good.
I like his fire and zeal.
The area is cool, we don't currently have any progressing
investigators but we have a lot of investigators. This area has a TON of
people. There are people everywhere. It's definitely the
city, hard core city. Probably child’s play for Nicholas but yeah
know, its Ghana. The Promised Land : ) We're gonna do some sweet
movie nights in the market and get loads of people to teach. Gonna be
sweet!
The apartment is big and
nice. I have a great view of the sunrise right from my bed every
morning. The only problem is that the sun rises at 6 and I get up at 6:30
and we have no curtains so sleeping stops by 6. And we get light rather
frequently and literally the house behind us is visible from my window is on
both sides and never has light out.
Mom, I got your letter this week, and 3 from Granny Grace.
I love getting paper mail. It's the best. To answer your question
on what normal life is like in Ghana we can take a nice dive into some social
trends and some economical and physical factors all of which affect the general
population’s home life. Let's go.
For the younger age groups most are in school. Ghana has
free education until 5th grade after that the ages are mixed. You'll meet
23 year olds in high school called SHS. School generally starts early in
the morning sometimes as early as 6am. Closed around 4 or 5 and almost
every school requires "extra class" which are an additional charge
which are every day for an hour or 2 and a few hours on Saturday as well.
For the adults most are up and moving about with the sun which
rises consistently at about 6:13am everyday depending on cloud coverage.
Most go to bed when it gets dark around 8:02pm. That excludes the rising
generation of young single adults who like to stay up late and get into some
shenanigans.
A lot of people are seeking for employment. A lot of
people work in small provision shops selling this and that, things to get
by. What else? The main form of cooking is on charcoal. It
seems like in families the men go to work all day then come home eat, sleep and
do the same the next day. The women have to do way more than is their
share. They cook everything; they wash all the clothes and do everything
for the kids. That is the life mostly. Man you guys got a novel
today! I'll continue the saga next week.
Love you all!
Elder Clark
PS: I tried sending a picture to everyone
in this email. Hope it works out. It's my bed in the morning.
At 6am. :P
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