The AP's talked about how each companionship needs to help lift each other. So they did a little role playing first. Everyone got a big laugh when they actually "lifted" one of the elders.
Of course, we had chicken and rice for lunch. You think they would get tired of it. I am!
So here is Elder Blay. He is the senior AP and he is one awesome missionary. He will be going home in January. And will sorely be missed.
And here's our missionaries goofing around.
Elder Johnson
Elder Simpson
So this is how transfers are going to work this time. Elder Havea will be coming into the Mission Home on Monday. He flies out on Wednesday. The three Senior couples will be driving each of their cars into Accra on Tuesday with Elder Havea. We will take him to the temple on Tuesday and then drop him off at the Alma House for a night's stay. They will also take him to the airport on Wednesday. The 7 missionaries in Accra MTC will board a bus Tuesday morning and come to Cape Coast for their interviews with the president and spend the night in the mission home. Usually the AP's meet the missionaries in Accra and have breakfast with them. But not this time. All of the couples will spend the night in Accra and at 8:00 am on Wednesday will go to the airport and pick up the 9 missionaries flying in from the states. Each truck will hold 3 missionaries. We will bring them back to Cape Coast and the mission home Wednesday afternoon. Meanwhile at the mission home on Wednesday morning, the 7 new missionaries will meet their trainers and leave to their assigned cities. Wednesday evening the other 15 missionaries going home will have the famous FuFu dinner and testimony meeting along with the 9 new missionaries that just arrived that afternoon. Thursday morning the AP's will take the 15 missionaries to Accra and the temple. President Stevenson will remain here and interview the 9 missionaries and send them with their first companion. I know this sound confusing, but it should work. It will be a busy week.
On Saturday, Wayne and I went to Accra to make sure we knew how to get to the Alma House and the airport and Kentucky fried chicken. We also did a little bit of shopping. And we found a Pizza Hut. So we ordered a small pizza for us and a medium to bring home to our elders. We laughed when our pizza came. The small was the size of a salad plate and the medium would have been a small in the US. Oh well, live and learn.
On Saturday night, the Zone leaders came over to see the transfer board and start making calls to the missionaries to tell them where they were being transferred to. We had ice cream and cookies for them. I had made four different kinds of cookies during the week. They sure enjoyed.
Kind of blurry. And Wayne was taking the picture.
Sunday when we were coming down the hill to go to church (it had rained all night), we got to the bottom and there stuck in the mud was the mission tro. And three of our elders trying to push it out. Elder Garry was turning around and thought the grass would hold him. Not so.
All four tires are in mud almost up to the axles. They had to come after church and pull it out with our truck as the tow. It added a laugh to the end of a long week.
And next week will be even longer.
Love you all and miss you.
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