Week of 17 April 2017

Monday was the official holiday for Easter in Ghana.  All the wards (or most of them) had beach parties.  Even our Stake met in Salt Pond at the beach.  The Stake President begged President Stevenson to let the missionaries come and participate.   Especially with investigators that would be coming.  Pres. Stevenson said it would be alright if they showed up in their missionary attire.  Don't know how many went, but on the beach in shirt, tie, good pants and shoes doesn't sound interesting to me.
President started Zone Conferences again.  They went out to Takoradi and worked their way back to the Coast.  Both him and the assistants were gone all week.  Kind of lonely without them here.

On Wednesday, we took Elder Oforikumah back to Winneba to the doctors.  The doctor didn't do much today and he didn't even change the cast.  We called the american doctor when we got home and he said to get the cast off as soon as possible and get his foot in a walking boot.  Well trying to find a walking boot was fruitless.  We then called the area doctor and asked him if he had one.  He said he would try to find one or get one from the US.  Hopefully, we get one soon.

Took some pictures on the way back from Winneba.

 This is one of the old castles (forts) that the British built.  The ocean is just down the other side.

They just build homes everywhere.  

These people were selling potatoes and that's all.

Some of the towns put up their own speed bumps to slow everyone down.  Between Winneba and Cape Coast there are 14 of them.  I tried to get a picture.  The speed bumps are about 8 inches high and almost the length of car.  You have to really slow down.

On Friday, we had 21 missionaries come to the Mission Home.  The President has the missionaries that will be going home in 2 transfers come and tries to reinvigorate them to finish their mission strong.  They makes commitments for new investigators and baptisms.  This group that came Friday is the first set of missionaries that we will have been with for a whole year when they leave in July.

Sister Danga is the only sister missionary in the group.

Two of the Mankessim branches were made into wards on Sunday.  It was neat to see all of their smiling faces.


This is the new Mankessim 1st Ward.



New Bishop Godfred Ninson is 3rd from the left and the Stake Presidency is on the right.  (Yamoransa Stake)



New Bishop of the 2nd Ward is Alex Tawiah.  3rd from the left.


This is the primary.  Lots of kids.


These are two of our beautiful Sister Missionaries.  Sister Kundundu and Sister Oladejo.


Here's some of the members from the 2nd Ward.  We were late.

We will be organizing another ward and new district next week.  Ghana is growing.
Wonderful!!

Have a wonderful week.
We love you and miss you all.