Monday we spent most of the day preparing for the 8 new missionaries coming in from the MTC. What an awesome bunch. They all seemed like they were ready to go.
We had three sisters spend the night with us. We were in our bedroom getting ready for bed when we heard a loud crash. I ran down the hall because it sounded like someone had fallen off of the top bunk and I didn't want to be responsible for sending someone home. When I got down the hall, the girls were laughing. The single bed had broken and half of the mattress was on the floor. We couldn't fix it, so we just took the mattress out from the bed frame and put it on the floor. That is where she slept. She said she slept well.
We had dinner with the new missionaries that night in the mission home. Of course, we had chicken and rice. But the evening was fun.
Elder Garry stuffing his face. This is his last night as an Assistant.
Elder Ogar seemed to enjoy.
Wednesday morning, the President told the new missionaries about some of the customs here in Ghana and then they were ready to go.
Elders Tucay, Ogar, Fairbanks, Wilson and Tovela. Sisters Magopolo, Domingo and Willie.
Wednesday afternoon was very exciting and very sad. The missionaries going home tomorrow were very well known to us. It is hard letting them go.
We watched Theresa and John make the FuFu. It takes a long time to pound the Cassava and Plantain together to make this.
John pounds and Theresa turns it.
They just keep going.
Theresa has to add water also.
We didn't eat the Fufu at dinner. We just had the rice and chicken, again.
This is Elder Johnson, Elder Wadsworth, Sister Newton and Sister Zadi. Waiting to eat breakfast before we leave for Accra. Since there were only 7 missionaries leaving, we divided them up between the three couples cars.
Here they all are prior to them going in the temple. Elders Wadsworth, Johnson, Trey, Ekah, Gasolo and Sisters Newton and Zadi.
Just waiting to go in.
After the temple, Wayne and I took three of the missionaries that were leaving at 5:30 to the airport. We got them checked in and then went out to the van to eat some KFC.
They sure do like the flavor of KFC.
Wayne seemed to be enjoying it, too.
So I took Elder Ekah up the stairs to get him through immigration, when we heard his name called over the intercom. We had to go back downstairs to the check-in counter. They told him that something was buzzing in one of his checked in bags. We had to wait for them to bring it out and then open it up. It was a blue-tooth player or something like that. I looked at Elder Ekah and told him that I should take that from him. Church money well spent! I didn't tho. He put it in his carry on and then we headed upstairs again.
Three down and four to go. Wayne and I went back over to KFC where the others were waiting. Two of the missionaries were to spend the night in Accra at the Alma house, so that was our first destination. The streets over there are very small and when people just stop and park on the street, it makes it even worse. Wayne was trying to get past a parked car and there was another car coming towards him. He cut it too sharp and scraped the car that was parked. We stopped and he got out. The driver in the parked car just put it in gear and drove away. Oh well.
When we got back to the airport, it was very busy. So they wouldn't let us all in with the missionaries. I went in with them. We waited in line for 40 minutes to get their luggage weighed and their boarding passes. When we got upstairs, the line for immigration was completely full and there was a serpentine line forming. I told the elders good luck. They had about 60 mins. before their plane left. We took a selfie, tho.
Two wonderful missionaries going home.
The hotel we stay in at Accra is a wonderful place. We went down for breakfast the next morning with the other couples and took some pictures of their breakfast buffet.
We usually stuff ourselves so we can make the three hour drive home. Wayne and I went shopping before we came home, so we got home about three in the afternoon. We had both senior couples spend the night with us. It was fun.
Saturday we had to go into the office because the Area Doctor was coming from Accra to check on 4 missionaries that had some problems. President and Sister Stevenson were at a Stake Conference.
We were there most of the day. When we got home, I started cooking and baking in the heat of the afternoon.
We love you and miss you all.
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