Dear
Family,
Hello!
Happy Valentine's Day!
Whoah,
that talk sounds awesome! Especially that stuff about that investigator in Doe Community. Why? Because I've met that man. I was teaching him, but we were mostly teaching his wife. He's awesome. That's really cool stuff to hear about.
Widdison and Humphreys both served in Doe Community as well, but I'm sure you
figured that out. :) Sweet pictures! ahh thank you for including the returning
missionaries in this email! [Yesterday we attended Elder Zaugg's homecoming and shared stories from his talk and photos from before and after the meeting]
TRANSFER
NEWS!
For
Sekondi Elders... Nothing!!! Only a couple elders in our district are going;
Elders Nielsen and Joseph (Draper, UT and South Africa, respectively).
We are
getting a new zone leader, however. Elder Miskin is now transferred, and we are
receiving... Elder Judy!!!!!! I'm way pumped for that one. Our apartment is far
away from the zone leaders, so I still won't see them very much, but it will be
awesome to have him over here. :) Other notes from the transfer... Nothin'
really. We're glad that Elder Halterman is staying--he gets to continue
teaching B. and A. I'm glad too because there are still places that I
don't know too well. >.<
Other
updates:
As for the dumsor dumsor, it's going to be much better after today. :) That's because of some SWEET stuff that's happening for the Sekondi apartment. Originally we were having the rough schedule of that, but it's been keeping us on our toes lately. We can't really tell WHAT the schedule is anymore. I still have some of the solar stuff [he took with him], and I appreciate it dearly. Other elders like that I have it. We have rechargeable lights, but ours only lasts for about 30 minutes. I still have that inflatable light, and that one is by far the best thing that I brought, light wise. I also have two solar flashlights. The big black crank and solar lamp that I brought was left in Liberia, and the solar charging headlamp broke in Liberia. But, speaking of solar... We've gone solar!!! Or are currently going. We are being used as the test apartment for having two GIANT deep cycle batteries (they each look like car batteries, but are 3x the size), which will charge from the regular current that we get from Ghana as well as some solar panels that they are putting on our roof. It's going to be awesome. :) No light off! They are currently in the apartment installing it; the other Sekondi elders are stuck there until we return.
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| Solar panels and deep cycle batteries! |
I'm not
going to be sending a camera card with Elder Pearmain... Maybe with Elder Guymon. Elder Guymon is in a far zone, so he'll be sleeping at
our apartment tomorrow night before he goes to the mission home. I might send
an old one, but it will mean that I no longer have any Liberia pictures and
videos with me. But I guess that's okay. :) I haven't received my latest
package... I am eagerly awaiting it. :)
On
Tuesday we had a zone meeting! I mention it mostly because I wrote it in my
notes to email home... haha. I bought banana bread. It's not as sweet as the
stuff back home, and the heaviness is different, but it's not bad. It was a
nice treat for me. :)
Monday
night last week the missionaries going home from Western Region had a nice
party with the Julanders. That meant that Elder Guymon came all the way from
his zone, Tarkwa, to visit them! Because of the distance, a couple companionships
from that zone slept over at our apartment that night. It was fun to chat with
him for a bit! It was my first time seeing him since coming to Cape Coast
Mission.
I never
mentioned that I got a nice little sidebag from Elder Halterman! He bought a
new one, so I took his old one that has gone through quite a bit but is still
holding up fine. Just thought I'd let you know so you're not surprised when you
see pictures with me and that bag. [It may be a while. It seems most of his pictures are of his companion these days:]
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"We climbed down this thing, to the much laughter from the locals. :)
It's a sandstone like wall with a million goats. Shortcuts!"
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| "Looking over Sekondi from the same wall." |
This
past week we had a celebration for Elder Halterman and Elder Allen! They have 6
months until they go home. Crazy how time flies, I'm only one transfer behind
them. We celebrated making cake and
chicken curry (from packages that parents sent their kids. Curry came from my
companion, obviously [his family lives in Singapore]). We did this all up in the Julander's apartment and they
made a bowl of mixed fruit. Yum! :) We stayed up too late.
There was another random night
when Elder Halterman and I went up to collect some letters for us (I got one
from the young men of the ward) and Elder Julander made us candy corn, kinda
like caramel corn. It was really good. :)
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| "Left to right: Helena Boakai, Favor, Sarah, and Princess" |
I think
that's it for this week. It's been strange this past week to think about home
and what it's like. I'm not sad that I only have 5 transfers left,
but it feels weird. I'll be hitting my 18 month mark this transfer, I believe.
I'm trying to do my best! I'm still trying to change, despite being in the
downhill where it's harder to change. I'm doing well, and mission is good!
I love
you all so much!!!
Love,
Elder Price |
| "This kid is awesome. He's the 2nd counselor in the bishopric's son, and his returning from school routine goes like this: He gets home, changes out of his uniform, grabs food, eats the food, then sets up a stool and table with all his books and immediately begins to study. This was my first time to see such an impressive routine here! :) If only I'll be able to instill that in myself when I return." |
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"Looking
from a ridge over a bunch of stuff toward the chapel--the big white point in
the distance."
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"Random
road"
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| "Cat in
the chapel. >.< :D " |
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