Week of 26 September 2016

It was a rainy and very humid week this past week.  And when the sun does come out, it is horrible.  You start to sweat the minute you go out the door.  And yet these people work and play all day long in it.  Maybe we will get used to it also.

We have a school up near us and we heard that the parents were pulling their children out because of the road.  It was constantly muddy and the kids couldn't walk anywhere without getting their shoes coated with mud.  So when we came home on Tuesday, this is what we found.

It was piles of blocks of cement, tiles, pipes, logs, dirty diapers, clothing.  They must have gone to the dump and brought it over so that the mud holes could be filled up.

People from up in the area got out one day and shoveled all of this mess in the mud holes.  Wayne and I would  have helped but I'm sure we would have died of heat exhaustion.  The elders were out helping on Saturday.  And we supplied some water and told everyone thank you for their hard work.  They were very appreciative of the water.  So they are hoping the cars and trucks will smash everything down and make it a smooth road.

This is what it looked like when they were done with one of the pile of trash.

Here's our little lizard that joins us every morning for breakfast.  

 The President and Sis Stevenson were gone all week interviewing the missionaries.  So we received a call from Brother Kofie Bolley (Vehicle Coordinator) that told us we would be receiving a brand new Tro for our mission.  And it would be coming Friday.  The old Tro (van) was in bad shape and it was a stick, so most of the Elders had a hard time driving it.  Here is Elder Garry, hugging our old Tro.

And here is the brand new one.   Everyone wanted to be the first one to drive it, but Wayne said no one was going to drive it until the President got back.  

It is a very nice tro.  

So the Elders had to take the small car and when they went to start it, the battery was dead and also this is what they found underneath the hood.

 We were all jumping around try to kill it. And finally did.  

We had a baptism on Saturday.  Beautiful family and one special little 8 yr. old.  When she came up out of the water she started crying and hugged her daddy.  It was awesome!

Conference was wonderful.  We got to see four sessions live and the Priesthood session was recorded.  We had the four missionaries from our compound join us both Saturday and Sunday.  I went through 4 loaves of bread, a dozen eggs, 4 chicken breasts and a whole package of noodles and lot of cheese.  I made cinnamon rolls for them also.  They sure can eat.  

Anyway, the week was good.  We survived and all is well.  We love you and miss you all!