Dog eat dog world

thanks for forwarding the email from last week. i was able to read it today. that was a pretty powerful first paragraph to that email, dad. it's actually kinda crazy that you decided to talk about it this week - i experienced exactly what you talked about in the last half of that paragraph this past week. thanks for the small sports update too.

mom, to answer your question about bakaano, it's actually in cape coast itself. the branch is named after an area of cape coast that is called bakaano. so that's why it wouldn't show up on a map. (just like summerlin wouldn't appear on a map of the u.s., but would appear on a map of vegas, i guess).

mom, you never cease to amaze me with how much you know about this mission. i'd say over 90% of the missionaries in the mission aren't even aware that the new senior couple is coming, yet you have managed to learn about it. my understanding is that they'll be coming in june, not may.

i normally see elder nzuki about once a week or so now that i'm in cape coast. he's such a good guy.

i saw elder ekaette last week for the first time in some months, it was pretty cool. he told me (again) how much he loves you, and that he wouldn't be able to write you this week. (i'm not sure if he's mentioned to you that his area odoben, is a proper village. it's far away from everywhere and there is no internet in the village. so he and his companion will go once every couple of weeks or so to email cause it's so much of a hassle to leave odoben).

so this week we had specialized training. we went with president and sister sabey around to each zone of the mission and did some training with all of the missionaries. president decided to combine the doctrine of Christ (part of the fundamentals of "preach" that the bretheren came out with last week) with our commitment pattern that we have developed in the mission and call it the "covenant training pattern". it's really powerful - we're excited about it.

it was cool to be able to see all of the missionaries in the mission. i met a few new people and saw some people that i haven't seen in a LONG time. i've started driving now, which is a whole 'nother experience in ghana. it's a dog eat dog world on the roads of ghana.

you don't have to take notes from general conference, but if you'd like you can let me know some of the parts that were powerful to you. also, maybe try to send the new ensign as it comes out if you have the time.

my companion is elder wright from thacher arizona. he's a grade younger than me, but came on his mission right after high school. we came to ghana on the same plane. he's an athlete - he did alot of wrestling and tennis in high school, and is good at most sports. he's a good missionary. he just does the right things for the right reasons. we're really enjoying being companions.
 
let me know if you have any more questions about anything. well, it's late here and i'm dead tired. we just got back from kumasi a couple of hours ago and i gotta get some sleep!

love you,

elder mackay