New Companion!

Hello All!!!

This week has been another crazy week in the missionary life of Elder Brandt!! On Wednesday Brother Asamoah and I received a surprise phone call from President Cosgrave. When I answered the phone, he asked me if I liked my companion and if everything was going well with the two of us. I responded that the two of us are doing fine. He then apologized because he said that I receiving a new companion tomorrow and that they were going to release my companion as a stake (part-time) missionary.  They said that my new companion will be coming from the Ghana Accra Mission. The Accra Mission covers Accra and the South-Western part of Ghana also known as the Volta Region.  There was a missionary who was having Visa problems for where he was supposed to serve his mission, so they were going to be adding him to the Accra Mission. Because they were doing that, the Accra Mission would now have an Odd number of missionaries. So they decided to release my companion, and then bring one of the Accra missionaries to me so as to even everything out.  So the very next day, Thursday, is when one of the senior couples from the Accra Mission brought the missionary here to the Ghana Kumasi Mission.  Going from Accra to Kumasi, you have to go through our area; Ejisu. So Thursday afternoon they picked us up in Ejisu and then we directed them to the mission home in Kumasi to meet with President Cosgrave.  So we got there safely and everything went well and President met with each of the missionaries just to see how things are going. 

As we were preparing to leave, Sister Cosgrave asked me if I saw the drum in president's office.  Immediately, President Cosgrave turned around and grabbed a nice African drum from his office. He grabbed me a chair and everybody sat around and asked me to play for them! I have to admit I was pretty unreasonably nervous.... but I began playing and played for what seemed like about 5 min or so. After some congratulations, me and my new companion were taken back home to the apartment.

My new companion is Elder Asare. His home town is a village by Cape Coast. His favorite color is white. He loves to play the keyboard, and he even has his own! Previous to coming to the Ghana Kumasi Mission, he served in the Ghana Accra Mission for 16 months! He is an awesome missionary and I have a lot to learn from him!!

I love you all! I hope your week was not as crazy as mine! Let us love and serve God and our fellow men with all of our heart, might, mind, and strength! :)

Odo,
Elder Brandt