Sometime in August, Wayne had a tooth lose its filling. At the same time the President learned that one of our Sister's parents were being sealed in the Accra temple on the 5th of September. So the President asked us if we would be able to take Sister Stanley into Accra and he could visit the dentist at the same time. The appointment at the temple was at 2:30 pm so we made an appointment for 1:00 pm. On Friday the 1st, we learned that the sealing had been changed to November. So we called the President and asked him if he wanted us to cancel the dental appointment. No use in going to Accra for that. But he told us to wait because he may have someone else that needs to go into Accra. So we ended up taking 3 missionaries with us. Two Elders went home (one had only been here since July 26th) and one Sister had to go see the Area Office Medical missionary.
We left at 7:00 am and got home at 7:30 pm. We brought the sister back with us. It was lucky that she didn't go home too. It's a very long and stressful drive
President Hillam is making sure that these missionaries pay the consequences associated with the decisions they make, especially when they don't obey.
This is the sun setting when we traveled home.
Wednesday was MLC. I was really good. President talked about integrity and how he needs to be able to trust his leaders in the mission. He asked them right out, if he could trust each one of them.
It was interesting to watch their faces.
On Friday we had the trainers and their new trainees to a "follow-up" meeting. The President wants to know how the training is going and how much the new missionaries have learned. During their 12 week training, they are suppose to teach from Preach My Gospel every day and for 30 mins. They played a game of Jeopardy and all the questions were from Preach My Gospel. It was very interesting to see how much they didn't know.
Here's the group:
Saturday, Elder and sister Clements came over to celebrate Elder Clements birthday. We all finally went to the castle. This was a military fortress originally and then they turned into a slave prison. This is where they would sell the slaves and they would leave by ship to where ever the slaves were needed.
This is the inner courtyard where troops were presented when it was a fortress. Then the slaves were presented to prospective buyers.
These are the canyons
This is one of the rooms where they held the slaves. Those 3 windows was the only ventilation they had. The head sculptures on the floor showed the difference in hair cuts. Besides branding them they cut their hair a certain way to know where they would be going.
This s how thick the walls were. I took almost forty years for the British to build the castle.
It was depressing to learn how the these slaves were treated. And most of it was for money gain only.
On Sunday, we traveled with President and Sister Hillam to Assin Foso for Stake Conference. It was wonderful. They have one of the biggest buildings and it was packed. There are 17 units in the Stake. It will probably be split soon.
There were people in four other smaller rooms also.
The Stake President - President Fokua - asked Wayne and I to bear our testimonies. That part I didn't like. But we could understand everything. |It was awesome!
That's it for now.
Love you and miss you all.
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