Gone to Ghana!: Trip to Kumasi, New Companion and Weird Fruit!

Hello All!

First I will start by answering a few of my Mom's 1 million questions! My new companion Elder Ike (ee-kay) yes he is actually taller than me! Our companionship is going great! We get along very well and have over-acclompished a weeks worth of work in 4 days! He is powerful! Our branch is doing very well and Elder Ike really wants to help it grow! Since I have been here I have gotten pretty close with our mission president, President Cosgrave. He a fantastic man, with lots of wisdom and knowledge he loves to share with us missionaries!

First thing this week. On Monday we went to a members house because she wanted to feed my previous companion before he left.Traveling to and from is way too far for walking so we have to take a tro-tro. So we went there and she prepared us BIG Bhanku! I can honestly say that it was quite the struggle putting it all down! Then coming back, we got in a tro-tro and began coming home. The driver began going faster and faster. I am pretty sure he was in some rush because he was going soooooo fast! As we were coming, we hit a big dip without him slowing down. I came off the seat completely, hit my head on the ceiling and after I landed back on the seat, a bag of bananas that used to be in the trunk, landed on top of my head. That was pretty fun. haha. No worries. That is very uncommon.

On Tuesday I had to escort Elder Nortey-Annan to Kumasi to be trained as a District Leader. After his training, we went to KFC! It was a very nice taste of home! :) On the way home Elder Nortey-Annan wanted to stop and barber his hair. So I decided, I will try it to just to see how a Ghanaian barber will look on me. They actually did very well! They payed very close attention to detail, which unfortunately also made it take forever. haha.

Wednesday I got my new companion Elder Ike! He is from Nigeria and he is very cool! We get along great, enjoy all of the same foods, appreciate the same kind of humor, etc! Hopefully we will continue to work well together!

Odo,

Elder Brandt