We left Accra and started on our way to Cape Coast. It took us about 4 hours to travel. We arrived at the mission home at 6:00 pm. Just in time for dinner. President and Sister Stevenson are awesome. Dinner was stew and rice. It looks like everything here is put on rice. It was very good. They put us to bed about 8:00 pm. The beds here are one mattress and a hard foam pad over the top of it. And you get a fitted sheet and a top sheet. That's all you want anyway.
Here is the mission home.
There is a guard on duty 24 hours a day behind locked gates. We have to be let into the compound.
After breakfast, we got into our car and went to our house. Our house has 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a good size living room, kitchen and dining area. We have small air conditioning units and fans to keep us cool. What a blessing that is. Here is our home for the next 18 months.
Entrance. We too are behind a locked gate and the fence around our compound has razor wire all the way around. And we have heavy duty security lighting. Oh by the way, the four missionaries that are in the office with us, live in the compound also. There house is right next door to ours. It's very comforting to know they are there.
Here's the bedroom.
Our bathroom.
Living room
And the kitchen
This is the driveway, which is a very steep hill.
And this is the road to our house. When it rains, it is a mess.
We unpacked and got settled in and then went back to the office which is right next door to the president's home.
Outside
Inside
Inside
We spent the remainder of the day learning and doing. I work with Elder Jager and Wayne works with Elder Adams. Very nice young men. Also in the office are two Elders that handle all of the supplies for the mission. They are Elders Johnson and Simpson. And then the AP's come in quite often also. I will get pictures of them as soon as I can. My head is all full of trying to learn everything.
Thursday morning, the Elders took us into Cape Coast to show us where to buy groceries and the vegetable and fruit stands that are the best. I think because we were white, they tried to charge us more. So the elders did some bargaining and I think we are going to have to learn how to do that also. It's been raining all day today. And it rained all day on Friday, July 22 too.
We got Saturday off and really needed it. Did some laundry (I even have a dryer here) and cleaned the house and best I could. And prepared for tomorrow.
We met with the saints in the Nkanfoa Chapel. It was Ward Conference so the chapel was packed. There were people sitting outside also. There was no one to play the keyboard, so all the songs were acapella. Boy can they sing. Even the little kids were singing load. There was another church going on down the road and I think we were in competition with them. It was really awesome. It was hard to understand them at first, but that will come. They speak very soft, so you really have to listen.
Sunday school was in English (kind of) and Relief Society was in Twi. I didn't understand anything that was going on. Wayne said they taught Priesthood in English. After wards, we went with the missionaries to another chapel for a baptism. They have open fonts outside. We missed the actual baptism but got there in time for the talk on the Holy Ghost. We met the four Sister missionaries, but I can't tell you their names. I will learn them tho. When we get a chance, we will take a picture of the chapel we went to for the baptism. Especially climbing up to it. Well, it was quite the week. We learned alot and truly love it here. Once again, the people are wonderful.
