Week of 12 December 2016

Once again a crazy week.  President and Sister Stevenson planned Christmas Zone Conferences for this week and next.  So every day starting with Monday, we had 20 or more missionaries here.  They had them decorate the tree, sing some carols, portray the nativity, talked about the temple and ate a huge lunch.  So Wayne and I got lunch every day and added more weight to our bodies.

All of them seemed to really enjoy it all.  The Africans don't celebrate Christmas like Americans do.

On Wednesday it was MLC again.  Wayne and I had to address some issues with the missionaries, specifically their luggage allowances when they fly home.  I gave them a print out of how many bags, size, and weight their luggage could be.  The President told them if their luggage doesn't meet the requirements, they would have to ship their things home.  And most of them don't have the money for that.

Visiting before the meeting starts.

Great bunch of missionaries.

Elder Adams.  He's the one that taught Elder Durrant when we first came.  He is now a Zone Leader.

President Stevenson was teaching them how to get the members to use social media to spread the gospel.  Our missionaries don't have the chance to use social media yet.

Once again, here is our chicken and rice!!!!  The red stuff on top is the spicy stuff.

Elders Hepworth and Smith talking about supply orders again.  No one seems to get it right.

Elder Garry in a very pensive mood.

Here's our Zone Leaders and STLs.  Good group!

We had to go shopping on Saturday for a few things and then went into the office.  Spent most of the day there.

Sunday was High Council Sunday.  Our bishop wasn't there and so the Second Councilor conducted.  He doesn't speak very good English, so it was all in Fante.  When the speakers got up to talk, the HC leaned over to the first one and told him to talk in English.  As did the other two.  When the HC got up, he went over the announcements again in English.  And then he made some other comments like:  we need to speak in English when in meetings.  You can use your native language when you are at home.  All of the speakers were men.  So he said that we should have a woman speaking also during sacrament meeting.  He was very direct and I liked it.

It was very hot on Sunday and looks like it will be getting hotter.  Oh well, that's Africa for you.

We love you and miss you all.

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas.