Our Ghanaian Adventure

This week has been one of new challenges, new adventures, tender mercies, and miracles. As usual, we started the week going to district council, this time in Winneba.  We love interacting with these amazing missionaries and sharing in their discussions of what is going well and what they want to improve.   The more we interact with these missionaries the better we get at remembering their names, how to pronounce their names, and a little bit more about them. This week, the power has been off more than it has been on.  Elder Judd has had to make regular trips to the gas station to fill the gas containers for the generator.  He is now on a first name basis with several of the attendants there.  One of them, Martha, has had the missionary lessons before and has said that "one day" she will come to our church. Wednesday morning we left at 6:30 a.m. and headed up Crystal Palace Road, our"favorite" pot-holed, washboard, bumpy road to go inspect apartments in the Ofank...

We are grateful for the blessing of serving here in the Ghana Accra West Mission.  We love interacting with the missionaries, members, and the Ghanaian people.  In spite of the challenging life the Ghanaians live, they are a happy people and smile easily when they are acknowledged. Here are some photos and explanations from this past week. We went to the Buduburan district council on Monday.  The Elders living in the house within our compound are part of this district, so it was like being home after traveling to the far reaches of the mission the last several weeks. The Buduburam District On Wednesday, we drove 3 1/2 hours north to the north end of the mission.  Passing through one of the villages on the way, we were able to get this photo of a young boy sweeping.  Every morning you see the women and sometimes the children sweeping the dirt in the front of their houses and shops using a home made bundle of stiff stocks of a plant.  In the beginning, it see...

For this last week, we thought we would share pictures from the week rather than write a lot about it.   Driving through Bawjiase on our way to Abomosu. Typical of what we see in our travels to the apartments further out in the mission. Abomosu District Council in the Abomosu Zone (farthest north in mission).  Heavy rain looking from our front porch. A truck filled with farm workers and a typical taxi. Akrofufu apartment inspection (Abomosu Zone) with Elder Omerigwe and Elder Kroll. Asuom apartment inspection (Abomosu Zone) with Elder Anderson and Elder Rawlings. New Abirem apartment inspection (Abomosu Zone) with Elder Cichos and Elder Roche. Palm oil fruit bunches Below is a link to a YouTube video on how palm oil (popular Ghanaian cooking oil) is made.  In addition to how the palm oil is obtained from the palm oil fruit cluster, you will see what we see every day in the living conditions and daily life of the Ghanaians.  Also, Ghanaians in villages like this one u...