Merry Christmas from Ghana

Elder Shirley with companion Elder Rowlan

The typical way Elder Shirley teaches discussions

Elder Shirley's Christmas tree made of family photos

December 24, 2018

Wow I cannot believe that it is Christmas time!! This last week was a lot of fun and there were some events that happened this last week. This last Tuesday we had our mission Christmas devotional where we got a short instruction and then we had a Christmas program with reading the Christmas story and singing songs between each verses. It was really good to have that program and to have an opportunity to feel of the Christmas spirit! I really do miss the snow but I guess lots of you guys probably miss the heat. We always will miss what we do not have haha!

After the Christmas program we got to sit together as missionaries and have some fun. We started by watching the Incredibles 2, a lot of the older missionaries were super happy to watch that movie and I was too because I knew it was a super good movie. After the movie we ate the best meal that I have had on my mission so far because we got to eat mashed potatoes and really nice chicken and beef, along with cake and rice and salad. It was overall just a really nice meal and it was good to be able to eat mashed potatoes even though they were nothing like the potatoes back home. After the meal we had a small talent show where our district performed a song called "How can I be" and it sounded really good. There were some other talents like the Polynesians did the haka which is their traditional dance so that was pretty good. Overall it was just an amazing time and we even got a gift from the mission!

This last Saturday we had a big stake social with around 350 people there and it was the craziest event that I have been at since I have been in Ghana!! They started it with a devotional type thing that lasted for around 2 hours and then they took everyone out and had rice, salad and chicken for everyone and then they hosted some games. This activity also gave us a great opportunity to bring some people that are not of our church and show them that the church has lots of fun too!! Then yesterday we met with 4 other elders, so there was a total of 6 of us and we went and did caroling in an area called Asikuma. The crazy thing was that there was this crazy drunk man who was following us and yelling at us and telling us that he was going to beat us so we just took some back roads and got lost from him. He was just trying to ruin the Christmas spirit but we were not going to let that happen!

Anyways today we went on a beautiful hike and everything is going great with me!! Mission is great and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!! I love you all!

~Elder Shirley

The Power of the Priesthood

December 17, 2018

This week I was truly blessed to be able to feel the power of the priesthood. Saturday we had two baptisms, one a boy named Richard and the other named Prince. The boys are both 11 years old. We also gave someone a blessing. Then on Sunday we had 3 confirmations to do and we also gave two more priesthood blessings. It is really amazing to be a part of all of these ordinances and blessings, it really shows me the power that the priesthood has and the truthfulness of this gospel. During one of the blessings that I gave last night, I could feel the presence of the Holy Ghost so strongly and it was as if the words were just put into my mouth. It was so cool! This last week we also had a fun YSA activity where we ate Jellof rice and chicken and fruit and had a really fun time with the YSA.

Christmas parties are a luxury over there for sure!! {We told him about how we went to several Christmas parties this past week} We do not have many of those around here although they are doing a stake social here which should be nice and they are planning on having a lot of food for us as well so it should be a pretty good party with the whole stake here at our chapel. I am very jealous of the snow back home, because even though it is a little more dry here the snow is so so so so hot! haha. Do not have too much fun during the Christmas season without me!!

I am beyond excited to call home this next week, you would not believe how excited I am!! I am excited for the boost that it will give me and to hear each of your voices! I am hoping all works out with video calling!! I love you so so much and I miss you lots! As well as the snow and the people back home!!

~Elder Shirley

Questions & Answers:

Q. What is your companion like? Where is he from? How long has he been out? Are you two similar in what you like?
A. His name is Elder Rowlan and he is from North Carolina, he is going home in May so he is kind of an older missionary. We get along good and he is just kind of a funny guy. he is a hard worker, but he is not a sports guy.

Q. Any fun activities scheduled for this week?
A. This week we have the Christmas devotional in Accra and I am super excited for it!! We get to enjoy a big meal and I think they show us a Disney movie as well!!

Q. What is the best meal that you had this week?
A. The best meal I had this last week was probably Jellof rice. It is a Ghanaian rice that they have here and it is nice, you will have to look it up.

Q. You have almost been out four months. Have you felt sick at all?
A. I have felt sick on 2 different days but it was only for the night times and I just push through on those days. Nothing like too bad,I am doing great so do not worry!

Q. What do most people do for a living there?
A. There are so many people that just go around selling things on their heads and in different shops. There are also a lot of farmers in this area. So the power outages are not a big deal at all, it is funny because when the light goes out it is just like a normal day, sometimes people do not even know if light is out because they do not care

Dry Season Begins in Ghana

December 5, 2018

This week has been kind of crazy and on Monday I did not have anything to email with because we have to use something called a modem which supplies the internet for us and we did not have one on Monday so we could not email. Secondly, I was going to email this morning but the power has been off until now so I have not been able to email anyone. District meeting for us starts in 20 minutes, so I will only be able to get this email out this week! Let everyone know that I am sorry but that I love them all and I wish I could have emailed everyone!!

Guess what though?? I got your package on Tuesday!! It came super super fast!! I have not opened it though and I am planning on saving it for Christmas, that is was I am supposed to do right?? As for how we wash our clothes, it is not as bad as I made it sound the first time, we have a working bathroom in our apartment so we have water that we can use just inside of our apartment and we actually moved the washer inside the bathroom this last week so it will be a lot lot easier to wash our clothes now! We got an electrician to come and put an outlet for us in the bathroom so now we have power there to plug the washer in. Also, last week on December 1st I put up all of the family pictures that you sent and I love having that so I can look at the whole family!! I miss and love you all!!

Our people are still not doing very well and this last week was a little discouraging because I thought that we were going to have people coming to sacrament meeting and then no one came so that was a little annoying. However, this week yesterday we found some people that I think will both progress towards baptism this month! So I am hoping and praying for that to happen! Everyday feels like the same hotness but now it is what they call harmattan which means that it is the dry season, so lots of dust along the dirty roads, but it is still just as hot. haha.That is so cool with the tree putting up and you guys carrying on the tradition of sleeping by the tree! Where did you put it up this year? and is it a real tree or a fake one? I cannot remember what we did last year. The scoreboard sounds legit and I am a little jealous, but I am excited to hear how the boys do this year!! Sounds like the boundaries did not change too much which is good, but that is sad that you lost the good family friends of the Redd's. Anyways I got to go to district meeting now, but I love you lots and I am sorry that I could not email anyone else but I thought I should email you! Love you so so so much mom and I miss you. Give everyone their love for me!! Talk to you in a short 5 days!!

~Elder Shirley

Guided By The Spirit

November 26, 2018

It has been a good week here in Odoben once again! As the missionaries in our apartment we are assigned to two different areas: the area that we stay in and the area called Kuntenase. Kuntenase is the area that we were given to start a new unit and the area is progressing slowly but surely.

Last Sunday we had our first sacrament meeting there with a very small group. My companion and one of the other companions from the apartment went to that sacrament meeting and me and Elder Villa stayed in Odoben so we could have an eye on both wards and so we could be able to check all 3 areas. In Kuntenase there were around 8 people there for the first week and I heard that it went good.

This Sunday we switched roles and me and Elder Villa went to Kuntenase while the other two missionaries stayed here in Odoben and it was really cool to experience a sacrament meeting that was just held outside in this little compound area. We had 14 people come so it was good to see an increase from the week before. Right before sacrament meeting started they asked me and my companion to each give a talk and I was kind of stressed out because they asked us to give a 10 minute talk right on the spot. This was a big testimony builder for me though of how much the spirit and the lord can work through a missionary because I was guided through that entire talk and I was able to give a 10 minute talk, which is something that I would never have been able to do back home without any preparation. The spirit was there throughout the whole meeting and it is really cool to see that area growing.

This last week we also enjoyed cocoa farming!! We did what they call weeding, which just means that we mowed the lawn with what they call cutlos. It is basically just a machete. Who would have guessed that I travel all the way around the world to be back in another farm! haha

As for me, I am doing really well and I am enjoying the opportunity to serve a mission! I cannot believe that Christmas is right around the corner either!! I am super super excited to be able to skype home!! I am looking forward to it big time!! I love love the peanut butter (we sent him a package recently) and I am trying to savor it, but you know I let the other missionaries eat some too so it will probably be gone here shortly in the next 2 weeks or so. I miss you and love you all!!

~Elder Shirley

Questions and Answers:

Q. What did you do for p-day this week?
A. We had a zone activity and went to Swedru and played games, it was a lot of fun

Q. How is the boy doing that you were teaching?
A. He is not progressing but we will are still working with him.

Q. Did you ever get to roast that chicken in lieu of a Thanksgiving dinner?
A. We did roast some chicken and we had a good meal, nothing like back home but it was still nice.

Q. What is your spiritual moment for this last week?
A. My spiritual moment this last week was the talk I gave in sacrament and how much I recognized the Lord’s hand.

Q. What kind of animal and bugs do you see there?
A. We see plenty of goats, chickens and bats. Literally goats and chickens free roam the whole area!! haha The bugs here are nasty but we get used to them. They are not like the bugs back home.

It's All In Your Perspective

Preparing a dish called ampesi

Ampesi

November 19, 2018

Week by week, the time goes by!! Man, it is crazy to think that I have been gone for almost 3 months!! It feels like I just left yesterday but I have already learned so much and changed so much for the better! I am realizing what is really actually important in life and the things that I need to change to become a better person!

This last week nothing too exciting happened and the missionary work did not progress very much but the positive thing is that the work can only get better!! Some days will go by where we maybe only get one lesson in in a day or maybe even 0, but then I just look at my companion and say, "well at least we know now who we do not need to see" haha. It is all about your perspective, you can always makes positive things about things that might not seem good at all! Plus out here on misison just walking around and the people seeing us can have an impact on their lives, so I try to just stay positive about everything!!

I am still doing great and I am still healthy! This place is sweet, but always super hot. Hopefully I have more interesting things to talk about next week but ya this last week, not much happened other than just normal proselyting days. So as you know it there is not any fast food like they have in America or anything even close to it in the area that I am in right now so sometimes I just dream of what a nice hamburger would taste like or think about how nice Wendy's 4 for 4 would be.So everytime you eat something like that just think of me and take a bite for me! haha

Anyways, I hope you all have a good week!! Love you all!

~Elder Shirley

Opportunity to Attend the Accra Temple

Elder Shirley & companion Elder Piutau at Accra temple

Elder Shirley making fufu by pounding cassava and plantains

Eating fufu

Fufu

Pizza place in a mall in Accra

Sunrise in Ghana

November 12, 2018

This week was a pretty good week! The work is coming along but the highlight of this last week for me was I got the opportunity to go to the temple in Accra. The temple is about 3 hours or so from where I am in my area, so we asked the mission president if we could go and he told us that we could so we went. We left Friday evening after we finished our day proselyting and we went to an area called Kasoa. We got to Kasoa around 9 and slept there, woke up and left that area at 6:30. That night we slept on the hard tile floor with no blanket so it was kind of a rough night with lots of tossing and turning trying to somehow get comfortable on a hard tile floor but I do not think it is possible to get comfortable in a situation like that! Haha.

The next day we traveled to the temple and arrived there around 8:30. The session started at 10:30 so we stayed around the temple and then checked in at 9:30. The session was great and it was so peaceful in that room, it was good to be back in such a beautiful place after not being there for a couple months!

After the session we traveled to a nearby mall..... Yes I said mall. I was surprised about this place, it literally looked just like a mall in America. Air conditioning and everything! It surprised me so much but I guess there are nice places in the city areas!! We also ate pizza and that was the first time that I have eaten pizza since I left home so that was really nice to be able to eat pizza!! We traveled back the rest of the night and got home around 8 p.m.

My week overall though was good. We are still continuing to build a unit in Kuntenase and they even found a place to worship in their town which will help a lot so none of them have to travel. I am hoping that because of this that more people will be willing to show their faith and come to church!

Good luck to everyone and their weeks! Love you all!

~Elder Shirley

My Testimony and Teaching Ability Have Increased So Much

Baptisms this past weekend; Elder Shirley confirmed the 11-year-old boy standing next to his companion

Elder Shirley and his companion with two of the boys who were baptized

November 5, 2018

Short email this week because it has not been too long since the last time that I was on but this last weekend we had another baptism to an 11 year old boy who has been coming to church for about 6 weeks now and showing his faith very strong each week!! I got to do his confirmation on Sunday and that was my first time ever doing a confirmation and I could feel the spirit so strongly!! I have to say I was nervous but it went well!!

I have finished reading the Book of Mormon and I challenged myself to finish the book in a month and I achieved that goal. It is amazing to see how that has increased my testimony and my teaching ability. The Book of Mormon is a powerful book and the truth of it is so sincere!! Anyways my week has been good!! Love and miss you all!!

~Elder Shirley

Questions and Answers:

Q. Do you have a new companion? If not, how is everything going with your companion?
A. I do not have a new companion because training lasts for 2 transfers. I should have a new comp. in December. We do have stuff in common, he is a good guy to be around.

Q. Does Ghana celebrate Halloween? What about Christmas? If not, what holidays do they celebrate?
A. They do not celebrate Halloween, but I am pretty sure they celebrate Christmas, not a white Christmas though.

Q. Will you get to video call home for Christmas?
A. I will be able to video call; the computer here has a camera on it.

Q. What is the funnest thing that you did this week?
A. This last week the most fun thing that we did was probably today going to Asikuma, but I think this Friday we will travel to Accra to go through a session at the temple which I am super excited for!!

Learning How To Survive With Little Things and Not a Lot of Light

A hot, sweaty P-day activity

Having fun on P-day

Elder Shirley walking with kids in Odoben

One of the church buildings

Elder Shirley's kitchen

Meat loaf made of canned corned beef

Elder Shirley with the missionaries from his district

Elder Shirley with his companion Elder Piutau

** Last week we didn’t get an email from Dan due to the ongoing power outages he is experiencing. It was good to get an email from him this week, although it was delayed a couple of days.

October 31, 2018

It has been a crazy last couple of weeks because of the light issues here in Ghana. For the last 3 weeks we have not had power on Mondays so we just email whenever we can, so I never know when I will get to email! It is all part of the adventure though and it makes for an exciting time! There has not been anything too exciting to report on though, just the normal proselyting everyday but lately we have also been traveling a lot to other places for different events so it has been pretty busy too.

The last 2 Mondays we have put together activities here at our chapel for our district and it has been a lot of fun to get to know everyone in our district a lot better! In our apartments we are not blessed with ovens but our chapel has an oven so the last two weeks during our activities we have used the oven. On the first week we made something called Pani Popo which is a Tongan dessert, it is basically the same thing as a cinnamon roll but instead of cinnamon they use coconut. It was so so good and reminded me of my favorite dessert back home which are cinnamon rolls. Also we played basketball for awhile and we played rugby for awhile so it was a lot of fun! Then this last week we got together again and made meatloaf! The meat loaf was super good and we also found potatoes in an area nearby and that was amazing because it reminded me of home and to me a potato has never tasted so good! haha! The meat loaf wasn't exactly made of the ground beef that you all are thinking of it would be made out of because we do not have that here in this area. We made the meat loaf out of canned corned beef, and it was still nice. I guess you just gotta do what you gotta do!

Yesterday was transfer day and so it was a busy day for all of those people getting transferred but I will probably be here for a little while so it will be awhile before I leave this area which is good! I am learning a lot here and I am learning how to survive with little things and not a lot of light!! Anyways I hope all is going well!! Love you all!

~Elder Shirley

Questions and Answers:

Q. We are hearing that you are without power almost every other day. Is it really that often? If so, how do you cook with no power?
A. It really is that often but it is OK because we can still cook by using propane. In fact, that is like the only way we can cook anyways. We have a propane stove and a microwave, no oven which is super lame but there is an oven at the chapel.

Q. What is a typical day like for you as far as meals go?
A. Meals are usually, rice, eggs, bread and some type of sauce on the rice. We also bought a blender which is awesome because I make smoothies very often. They have yogurt that is a lot different from back home but it tastes good and we put that in the blender with pineapple and banana so it tastes super good. You can get 20 bananas for 1 dollar so everything is really cheap. 5 pineapples for 1 dollar as well, so money usually goes pretty far. I feel like I am eating enough, and I do not feel like I am losing that much weight so I still feel healthy, do not worry! I am actually happy if I am losing some weight! It is good for me!! haha.

Q. How do you get around when you go to neighboring towns?
A. So the way we get from town to town is by using something called a tro tro which is basically a van that they stuff full of people. They fit like 15 people in a typical van! haha Look up a picture of a tro tro and I bet you can find what it looks like. I use a bike sometimes but the roads we walk on would be impossible to ride a bike! In other areas they use a bike a lot so maybe later on in my mission I will use bike more.

Q. How is the attendance at your ward?
A. Our ward is not attending church well at all which is sad because they just do not want to come. This last week, we had 5 people that came to church on time so church started 20 minutes late and we still only had 10 people. We might talk with the stake president and ask him to combine the 2 wards here in our area because both wards have about 200 inactive members! It is ridiculous!

Q. How is the work progressing?
A. The work is progressing well, but we need to start finding more people in our area. I think we will have 1 or 2 baptisms this week if the mother will let her child be baptized, but he has come to church 5 weeks now and wants to be baptized.

Q. Do you exercise every day? If so, what do you do?
A. I do not exercise every day because we walk so much and walk many miles but some days I do push-ups and sit-ups and things like that in the apartment.

Q. About how many miles do you guys do of tracting every day?
A. I am not exactly sure how much we walk but it is quite a bit each day but it is nice so I can stay in shape!! haha.

Q. How is it going with your youth activities? What are some of the activities that you have done with them?
A. The activities are going pretty good, the last 2 weeks we had a baptism at our chapel so that has been our activity, but when that does not happen we just play games with them or show them Book of Mormon videos and they seem to enjoy it all.

Q. Tell us how the work is going in the new area where you are trying to establish a new unit.

A. We will continue to go there 2 times a week because it was not enough time to start a unit, but there are people progressing already and they are excited to hear about the gospel in that area.

** In our emails, we described to Dan how quiet things are around the house in the evenings with him gone and how we often are all reading books while sitting near the fireplace. Here is his response to that:
“I cannot even imagine how quiet the house is, I do not think I would enjoy such a quiet house, I would get bored!! I finished the Book of Mormon this week though and that was a big accomplishment for me to be able to finish the Book of Mormon in 1 month, I would have never thought that I could do that. Now my goal is to finish it one more time before the new year!”

The Work is Progressing

Elder Shirley with some youth

Elder Shirley and his companion with the 5 youth who were baptized this week

The pig selected for the Tongan pig roast

Preparing the pig for the roast

Roasting the pig

** This week we didn’t hear from Elder Shirley until today (Tuesday). He said they didn’t have power yesterday so they were given permission today to email before they went out for the day. 

October 16, 2018

What a week!! This last week was a really good one! So last Sunday the stake president met with the missionaries in our stake which is about 18 and he told us that we needed to establish a new unit in an area! He told us that he would send us into the area on Tuesday and Friday for 2 weeks and then after those 4 times we would hold a baptism for all those who were ready to be baptized! Man this sounded crazy to me that we would convert people in 2 weeks and start a unit with those people!

So this last week we went into the town on Tuesday and Friday to start teaching those people in a town called Kuntanasi. These people have never heard of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints before but there was so many people just running up to us wanting to know what we were teaching! It was super cool! Just imagine a bunch of people in white shirts and name tags walking down a street that no one in that area has ever seen before, they all wanted to know what was going on. haha. We will continue to teach them this week and hopefully we can have some people ready to baptize this week or the next!!

Also this week we had our baptisms! We had 5 baptisms for me and my companion then the other missionaries that we stayed with had 2 baptisms and 1 other pair of missionaries that live close by had 1 baptism and I got to be the one who baptized them all!! Way cool! My first baptism I got to baptize 8 people!! Everyone that we baptized looked super excited and that was such a cool experience for me!!

Last cool thing that we did this week was yesterday for P-day we had a huge feast! We have 4 people in our district that come from Tonga and back home they do pig roasts over a fire where you spin a pig on a stick! Man that was a cool experience for me to watch them prepare a pig from it being a live to eating it! They killed it, gutted it, skinned it, seasoned it, and then cooked it over the fire! It was super good! We had a bunch of rice and stew and bread on the side and it was a really good meal!

Anyways that is it for me this week!! I hope everyone's week was great! Love you all!!
~Elder Shirley

Questions and Answers:

Q. How did you get the opportunity to perform all 8 baptisms? Did they all chose you to baptize or did the other missionaries just give you that opportunity?
A. The other missionaries gave me the opportunity because they said that they have all baptized plenty

Q. Where do you baptize at... a font?
A. Yes, it was at a font.

Q. Do you anticipate that they will stay active in the Church?
A. I hope they all stay active and I think that they will! They are all kids but they are loving coming to church so they should keep coming .

Q. How many people do you have attending church? Do you and your companion do a lot of responsibilities each week? How do you like the bishop? Do you work closely with him? And do you have very strong relationships with the ward members?
A. We usually have around 35 people come to church but this last week we had a lot more like 90, I think it was because we had a baby blessing though so lots of visitors. The bishop is nice, pretty old but we do not work super close with him. Things are just a little different out here in Ghana haha. We have some members that we see but not like any super close members. We try to see some of them to get a stronger relationship. We haven’t had any dinners from members yet.

Q. Can you give us some more details about your work in this new area that you are opening up?
A. Ya so we went two days last week and we had to first get permission from the chief in that place at his palace so we had a big meeting with a bunch of members and the stake presidency and he gave us permission. We have not been able to teach much to them yet but we are going again today and Friday and we will see how it works. We have about 16 missionaries over there each time we go so there is a lot of help over there. We had like 12 people come to church from that area this last Sunday.

Loving the Work and Adjusting to the Heat

Birthday wishes from Elder Shirley to his mom

Watching General Conference

At a youth activity this week

October 8, 2018

Man, to me the weeks are flying by and I cannot believe that I have been out on my mission for 6 weeks already! This week was not as successful in teaching and finding new people, but this upcoming week should be a really good one. We have 5 baptisms that should all happen on Saturday afternoon and we are just hoping and praying that they all happen. They are all under the age of 20 so a lot of them have to have parent permission to be baptized. We are really hoping that their parents will let them be baptized!

Ghana is still really hot but I am learning to adjust and it is normal to always be constantly sweating. The weird thing is though that sometimes I get cold in the night from the 3 fans we have going in our room! haha. If it was not for the fans then I would be sweating the entire night. I cannot wait for the air conditioning once I get back home. Also, the other thing that I miss a lot while I am out here on my mission is the chance to take a hot shower in the morning. I am still adjusting to taking cold showers each morning. Sometimes I will wake up in the mornings feeling cold and a cold shower is hard to take. Another crazy thing about Ghana is the roads that people drive on here. The only reasons people have to drive slow after they get out of the cities is because there are pot holes everywhere in the road. Drivers have to slow down or else everyone would get thrown through the roof when they hit a pot hole haha.

There are many things that you can find joy in around here though and most of the time the people are super nice. Everything is a lot cheaper than it is back home which is weird because I start converting money back into US dollars and everything seems so cheap. It is bad to do that though because that is how you spend all of your money each week! haha. Anyways I am doing really good this week and the work is moving along well.

Love you all!!
~Elder Shirley

Questions and Answers:

Q: What did you do for Pday this week?
A: We had a zone conference in a nearby town and we played soccer and ate fried rice, last night we slept in another missionary apartment so we could watch conference at their building since they did not broadcast it at our building.

Q: Are some of the foreign missionaries really good soccer players or are you one of the best ones?
A: Some of the missionaries around here have good skill but there is not an actual soccer field around here so soccer is a little different. More foot skill is required.

Q: Do you ever get to play basketball? If so, indoors or outdoors?
A: Ya there is an 8 foot hoop here outdoors that is pretty nice but it is not an actual height.

Q: In addition to the upcoming baptisms this next week, is there anything exciting coming up?
A: This next week the stake here wants us to go into a new area and try to establish a new unit in 2 weeks, so they are sending 10 missionaries into the city tomorrow and Friday and then again the next week for 2 days. We will hopefully be baptizing a bunch of people 2 weeks from last Saturday. So we have to prepare baptisms quickly and we have to extend a baptismal date on the first lesson! So we have to be intensely close to the Spirit so we can be guided to the right people in those 4 days there.

Q: Is it easy to stay close to the spirit just by being a missionary? Are there very many "disobedient missionaries" that you see in your district or zone?
A: I mean people can still get movies and music if they want to so some missionaries can still be disobedient but for me I want to be obedient because I only have 2 years to give back to Jesus Christ for everything he did for me.

Q: What has been your greatest adjustment? Food, water, the people, the environment, the schedule, or other?
A: My greatest adjustment has been living without technology and living in a new environment. I have also realized on my mission so far how important family is and how much more I will focus on our family when I get back home.

Q: Have you had hot water for washing your clothes and showers?
A: We just got a washing machine last week but it is a little different than a normal washing machine back home. We wash with cold water and we have to haul the water to fill the machine.