Monday the President told us he would be out of town all week. There were two Zone Conferences he would be holding in Tarkwa and Mpintsin. Then he and his wife would be spending some time alone to celebrate their wedding anniversary. They will be back late Sunday night. After attending Stake Conference in Takaradi.
the Sorensen's drove down from Praso to get some things down in Cape Coast. So they stayed with us for two nights. We had to take them to the doctor's office to take their blood pressure and pulse so that the area office doctor knew they were alive and well.
This is the doctor's office we go to. All the rooms are open and it really smells, but they did what we told them we wanted.
I've been meaning to take a picture of this place where people come to wash their clothes.
After they are washed, they put them on the pile of gravel next to the hut to dry.
And here is one of the women bringing wood for the fire to heat up the water.
I don't know how they do it!
On Wednesday we got a call from the IT person in the Area office telling us he would be down on Thursday and Friday to install Windows 10 into our computers. We have 4 computers in the office and the president's computer in his home. So we knew it would take some time for him to do them all. I also got notification from the Missionary Travel in Accra that the seven Nigerian missionaries that are going home in a couple of weeks had their itineraries changed. So I had to contact all of the Stake Presidents from their stakes to let them know of the changes and to make sure there was someone there to pick them up from the off and let the parents know. None of parents have email addresses so the only way they know that their son or daughter is coming home is through the SP to the Bishop. Then I had to make a copy of the travel itinerary and send it to the missionaries via their lds.net email.
So Brother Mensah showed up on Thursday and started with my computer. I could do anything but sit and watch. We have a little room in the back for all of the supplies and there were boxes of bleach and dishwashing soap that the elders hadn't put on the shelves yet, so that's what I started to do. Since everything food wise that we purchase here has to be washed in bleach, the mission supplies that to the elders and sisters. We also have to wash our dishes in a combination of the soap and bleach.
It was our FM person's birthday on Thursday, so I made a cake for him. It was almost all gone by the time he got to the office. Between the AP's, supply elders, and three other elders that had come in to Cape Coast to get there non-citizen card renewed, I had to hide the pan. One of the elders that came in to the Cape from Dumkwa was an Elder Sullivan. He is from Page, Arizona. I happened to ask if he know the Gardener family (our daughter-in-law's family) and he said yes, very well. It is a small world.
On Friday when we got to the office, I couldn't get on my computer. Neither could the APs. And Brother Mensah was no where to be found. We kept calling and finally got a hold of him in the afternoon. He was able to connect us to the secured church line and finally I was able to get some things done. At 6:30 pm we were able to leave the office and go home.
So Saturday things got interesting at home. We had noticed that by our front windows, there was a lot of strings coming off of the curtains for about a week or so. We have the curtains tied up in knots, because they are too long. See picture below.
Anyway, we decided to spray the curtains with Raid. So Wayne started to untie the one you see in the corner and something jumped out at him, then ran up the curtain. He started swinging with the broom.
(We're getting pretty good with a broom) Then we saw something climb up the curtain and run across the rods on top. It looked like a little squirrel. It squeezed through a little hole between our wall and window. After we shook the curtain a nest made up of the threads dropped to the floor and there were 4 little baby squirrels. They were about an inch long. Out to the garbage they went and Wayne puttied up the hole.
Then that afternoon we went into the office and the computers wouldn't even hook to the internet. And Brother Mensah wouldn't answer his phone. So we got in the car and headed for Takaradi. Just to see some sights. Takaradi is larger than Cape Coast, but looks just same.
On the way there, we saw lots of villages where the huts were all made of clay. We tried to get some good pictures, but there were always people standing around. So here's a couple that we were able to get.
This is the entrance to one of the villages. There were probably 50 - 60 huts in there.
Also, the fishermen build their own boats out of trees they have cut down. I think I had another picture, but this shows the boat really well. They go out into the ocean in these things.
Scary!!!!
It took us about 4 hours to go and come back. So it filled up the afternoon.
On Sunday, the bishop had a newly returned sister missionary come up and stand next to him and read her release certificate to everyone. And then he told the young men in the ward that she was available and ready to settle down. Everyone got a good laugh, but how embarrassing!
During Relief Society, they had a cake for her and Elder Adams sang a song as he played his Uke. I snapped the picture just as the Bishop put his hand up. She really is a cute girl.
We love it here!
Love all of you and miss you.
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