I love this place! The Spirit here is like no other place. The flight alone, at first was hard, but I just slept my anxieties away like typical Andrew. When I got to New York, I was alone from 6:30 pm till about 8:30 pm. I finally found some Elders and it was wonderful to be with others. I had gotten some food just before I met with them and it was gross. Everything I could find just didn't look appetizing, plus it was also expensive. A little bit after 9:45 a group of 11 elders joined up with us and we all chilled and talked until the flight started to board.
And guess what! All of those papers I printed, out of all of them I only ended up using one of them, so I could get the address of the Ghana MTC.
The flight to Ghana was very long but I slept the whole way there and woke up about very other hour for a while, and every hour at the end of it. When we got to Ghana it took about an hour and a half to get through all of the testing and official things, and I still haven't needed any of the papers we printed. So you can imagine that I was a little bit annoyed with all the things we had stressed so much about.
We slowly all got out of the airport, and while we were waiting for the bigger part of our group to get out, the mission president found us and brought us to his truck (which I took a picture of, and wouldn't mind if you shared that with Freddy and Sam). After we waited for the rest of our group to be done we went to the MTC.
My group was the first group of new missionaries to come since Covid. When we got into the MTC, I took pictures of the art for you and Sara. We ate and did some orientation stuff. Just before everyone met at 8pm, a large group of missionaries from all over Africa came.
My companion, Elder Allison, was a part of that group. There is a small language barrier between us but it's not that bad and I'm super excited to have a native African companion. (He speaks English, just broken English.) He's from Liberia.
I love you so much!
Elder Alger
Leaving Phoenix! 5 hour flight to NY. It's getting real.
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