This is how banku and kind of kenkey get their beginnings.

It smells like silage when you are rolling the powder in water
and packing it tight to let the flavor kind of mix and add '
some fermentation.

This week was a pretty good one for all of us here. Our district meeting this week was pretty chill. Until out of no where our neighbors started having a fight. It sounded like dishes and maybe even the kitchen sink getting tossed around. This week I definitely re-realized that Ghanaian food isn't eaten because it tastes good they just want to put as much as they can cram into their stomachs. I ate lots of cookies and fanice just to try and get something that tasted good. We went to this neighborhood called race course. It is built in a circle and yeah maybe we treated it as a race course until Elder Frimpong almost fell over. I did get to sit in a leather chair this week. Too bad it was disgusting as a little kid, probably 6 or 7 just kept swearing like a sailor as he watched soccer on tv. I'm guessing he picked it up from his dad. The lesson wasn't too interesting for me since it was mostly in Twi. The lady named Mary speaks one one English so thankfully Elder Frimpong is Ghanaian.

We had a sweet experience this week of using a member to help us fellowship an investigator. We are teaching a lady and her son. We felt like talking to a Liberian named Tony to come with us to the appointment for the son and ended up that the mother happened to be in and that she use to be a nurse and that Tony had come to her to be treated for Malaria when his family first moved to Ghana. It was sweet to see all the quirky coincidences. A lady in the ward named Sis. Otoo invited all the missionaries in the ward over to her house and fed us a huge plate of rice and even threw in a mineral to boot. It was pretty sick especially since all our appointments had kind of disappointed us that day. Another member gave us fufu too and the soup totally made me think of blood. Picture definitely included. I crashed my bike again this week. I was riding at night through kind of a junkyard/mechanic shop area. Part of the place has kind of a small hill and didn't realize that a water pipe or barrel had broken and leaked across the road. I was clipping along and my front tire just dropped into the mud and I went over the handlebars. It was sweet cause I did a front handspring and was able to land on my feet right in front of frame from a tro tro. Glad I didn't get tangled up with that.

Next is a typical ghanaian table setting for a fufu dinner. This was the soup that reminded me of blood. It was pretty sweet I guess. When I first put it in my mouth I wondered if I hadn't bitten my tongue because it kind of tasted like blood. It is just oil and tomato paste, I think. Have a great week! Love ya!


Teaching this week we had a new investigator named Xena. Took me back to the Xena Warrior Princess show from when I was a small boy. So found out that Elder Anderson, as in the apostle, came to Ghana on Thursday. He met with the single adults and I guess the missionaries didn't fit into his schedule unfortunately. Maybe another time. Friday we had a really interesting lesson. A member girl said one of her schoolmates wants to come to church so we were shown the house and taught her. On our way back we were stopped by a group of Muslim guys wanting us to teach them. It was probably our sweetest lesson of the day. We talked about the similarities between the two religions and kind of left it at that. It was sweet to see a few of them coming to church, though they said they were just wanting to see how it was not that they were really interested in knowing more. Uh Saturday there was a baptism. One of the other wards was there with us and they had a woman so fat that she couldn't fit into any of the clothes we had so they had to rush and find something large enough. I think they took an old curtain and used it when I looked at her. Something that was really funny that I noticed today was how everyone kept asking us how the weekend was and I just wanted to tell them it hadn't started yet that our weekend was Monday and that was about it. Anyway that was most of our adventure for the week. Hope everyone is doing well.

For Halloween I think I'll just bust out this sweet orange and black tie that I bought a few weeks back and call that good. They don't actually celebrate Halloween here so yeah a small bummer.

love travis