Broken pump = Bucket showers in dirty water! March 19, 2018

Well this week was a good week but we didn't get to see as many people as we wanted to. Mostly because of crazy rain all day and people just not being home but we still got to see the people we needed to. 
Our water pump broke so we've had no water since last Monday so we've been pulling water from a well.  This means bucket showers but I'm used to that, I think I've had more bucket showers than regular. The problem is the water from the well is super nasty so I hope we can get a new pump soon. We don't drink this water though so we can go a while like this if we need to.  All our drinking water is in little sachets that the mission supplies and delivers whenever we run out.  We can buy cold ones almost anywhere so we don't have to pack them with us. They cost 20 pesways or you can buy them for 3 cedis for 30.  That is less than $1 american money for 30.  I had fufu yesterday for the first time since I left Axim.  In Axim people are always pounding fufu, you can always hear the pounding and its everywhere but here in Tarkwa yesterday is the first I've seen it.  Here they eat a lot of banku and my favorite emo tuo which is like a rice ball and both are served with soup.  A lady in our branch feeds us every Sunday and this is where we get to eat all the good cultural food.  She is the Relief Society President, she's single and is raising her 7 year old nephew.  This is a very typical situation here in Ghana. 

This is our water sachet.  It is pretty much the only clean water in the whole country.

 This is a picture of Banku.  It is served with soup.

If we're not eating with a member then we cook eggs or indomie which is kinda like ramen noodles but we cook them and then fry them with veggies, like a ramen noodle stir fry.  Other than that I can't think of anything else exciting that happened this week but I'm still doing good and pressing on.