The message below was sent via e-mail on September 14, after Elder Thacker had left the MTC. Sorry this is being posted so late!
Africa is pretty busy and interesting: I have moved from Tema where I was in the MTC to Winneba, which is a very very poor area (second poorest in all of Cape Coast Mission). I have a cold shower every day. They speak Fante, Pidgeon English, and a few other languages. I am picking up Fante a little. haha. I eat the same three meals every day since I have $10 a week to live off of for food. I have oats for breakfast, banana and bread for lunch, and rice with tomato sauce at night pretty much every day.
I am hoping to be baptizing six people in a week and a half. My companion is Elder Akpapunam from Nigeria. He is quiet but nice. I live with two zone leaders. They are awesome: Elder Moloi and Elder Collins. I was burnt due to Doxy (Malaria Pill) for this week but I am doing a bit better now.
My area is very very tropical and right on the coast. Almost no one has cars here, mostly taxis. The driving here is crazy but very few wrecks. People are very poor here. (Pardon my spelling and grammar due to limited time I must cram to write you.) Tro tro's are crazy, mine broke down today. The way they work is they take a van and cram as many people as possible in. We had 20 in mine today. I have to take a taxi to my area each day because it is far from the apartment. We are finding a new one for in five weeks we have four new missionaries coming in. I was told by zone leaders I could possibly become a trainer in five weeks, meaning I would be the senior companion. President Sabey and wife are awesome, I love them. Zone conference this wednesday. We had 61 missionaries at the MTC, it was sooo crazy.
The filth here is abundant but the people are very nice. The sewer here is above ground and people throw trash everywhere. Sewer color varies from purple to black to green. It smells horrible. Everyone listens to music on blown out speakers everywhere. Lots of Bob Marley, remixed American songs, and African blasting all over. I have over 30 investigators with my companion.
I cannot send pictures home through the internet, it's too slow. Everyone: Do not send packages in boxes! It costs tooooo much for you and me, because they charge me for boxes. Use the $11 pouches to send stuff. They don't take duty on those. For ideas to send, I would like scripture stickers too, like they are little different colored circle stickers for marknig just the end of pages for different topics.
Winneba is like an Arabian City mixed with a Mexico city in my opinion, just on the sea shore it is over populated and crazy. All the children call me "obrunie," they love white people here. The power went out for the past two days. It was funny and kind of crazy.
The Lord has blessed my companion and I greatly to touch the hearts of our investigators. We had three show up for church Sunday and many are willing to listen to our discussions progressively. I have a lot I wuold love to tell you all but alas I have run out of time. Ask me questions and I will answer them.
I love you all very much and hope all is well. I do have e-mail, just limited to an hour a week and the internet is sloooow.
Love,
Elder Thacker
Elder Thacker
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