Week of 11 December 2017

Here's our picture from last week.

You can tell it's getting close to Christmas.  the Supply Elders pick up the mail twice a week.  We had 27 packages this week.  All from the United States.  None of the African Elders and Sister get packages, but the American Elders share.  It's good to get packages from home, but each one of them have to pay a duty when it arrives.  We've had some duties as high as $40 US dollars.  It doesn't seem like a lot, but when they have to pay the equivalent in Cedis, it comes to 175.00 ghc.  Now that's a lot!

The New Trainers meeting was held on Wednesday.  11 new trainers.  An awesome bunch!

Plus we got a new Assistant to the President.  Elder Masame is going home.  So here is Elder Tovela and Elder Smith training the "New Trainers"



Weighing luggage.  This is always a headache especially for the Sisters.  Their luggage is always overweight and they have to repack everything.


Breakfast time at 6:00 am for the departing missionaries.  Elder Smith, Sister Tembo, Elders Rugundana, Chipapala, Bills, Masame, Goodsell, and Sisters Akintoke, Aruoma, Sekgetho and Elder Tovela.


Saying goodbye and wishing all a good life!

We drove the missionaries to Accra this transfer.  3 in each vehicle.  The President, Sorensens and us.  

When Wayne and I went to the Area Office to get the passports, we had all of them except for Elder Rugundana, and the travel people didn't know where it was.  So we sat there for about an hour and they came back and told us that the immigration office had it.  We told them we needed the passport by 3:00 that afternoon.  Guess what?  They didn't get it for us. So poor Elder Rugundana didn't go home on Thursday.  He had to wait to till Friday to fly home.  What an expense for the church! And President wasn't too happy either.  He had some chose words for them.  What a fun experience.

Temple picture!

Our new missionaries will arrive on Monday, the 18th. They will be coming by bus from Accra.

We had a baptism on Sunday in Kissi.  So wonderful to see these people joining the church.  They were from Komenda branch.

So just some fun pictures.  there is a street in Accra that has "bats" always flying around.  We finally got a picture of the trees.. Hopefully you can see them hanging upside down.

And, I don't know how they do it.  These women have to have the strongest necks in the world!

We miss you and love you all.