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| Aba is the head cook. She came by the office in this beautiful Africa dress. |
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| This is Aba in her work clothes. She is really accommodating and helpful. |
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| Patrick is the chief guy over the MTC with his cute wife and baby. |
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| This is Cyril and his wife and baby. He's wonderful to work with - over the building and maintenance. These two men are both bishops. |
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| The Evergreen market is a small store that we can walk to if we choose, but the walk isn't real safe or pretty. The store itself is fine. |
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| This is a street view of the MTC. |
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| Just driving down the street - you see a lot of little booths, trash, etc. |
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| This little roadside stand is selling funeral balloons. |
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| A soccer game we noticed driving by. The dirt will supposedly change to green when the rains start in March |
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| We went into Accra to see the temple one day. The Africa West area offices are in the same complex. We met a lot of the area office people while there. |
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| I love these fan palms. |
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| While in Accra, we went to Pinocchios, an Italian restaurant the other senior couples love. This is Dr. Hill and his wife singing a farewell song to the Malmroses while there. He's a huge help to me in my medical responsibilities - too bad he leaves in a week! His wife is an expert on things to do in Ghana. We will really miss them. They do the health lectures for the incoming missionaries and the ones departing into the field. They're very practical, efficient people. They have loved their mission and wouldn't have wanted to serve anywhere else. He does the immunizations and examines any missionaries with health problems. I record everything he tells me and put it into the eMED system here. |
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| Our lunch at Pinocchios. It was nice to have a little break from cafeteria food. |
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| Great gelato after lunch at the same place. We had a lot of fun with 7 senior couples. |
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| After lunch we walked around the corner to some shops - this is what the streets look like. |
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| This is how they repair the roads here - just stick a tire in it. |
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| The fabric stores are amazingly colorful and they will make you anything you want. I feel very drab here compared to everyone else's bright colors. |
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| This is called The Pit - little booths with tons of stuff for sale - I didn't like the way they would hound you to come in to their booth. I was afraid to even make eye contact. |
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| They carry everything on their heads. |
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| Me playing nurse - bandaging a big flap of skin that came off during a barefoot soccer game. I call her Dr. Paula. |
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| A new district that came in this week - two were from the US, one from Canada, and 4 Africans. They'll be with us for 6 weeks learning French. The night we took this picture was the day they arrived and they were falling asleep on their feet. |
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| This is how they carry their babies. |
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| Our first trip to the pharmacy to buy more supplies. Vesse drove us to two of them. |
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| Inside this little mall was a very nice grocery store. |
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| A very typical African dish called foo foo - a big doughy thing made out of cassava root? They grab pieces of it with their fingers and dip it in the sauce and eat with their hands. This was a meal prepared for the kitchen staff, not the missionaries. |
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| This is where Loel has spent the majority of his time. My desk is the one across from his. |
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| Today we said goodbye to the Malmroses. Now we're on our own!! |
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| The three men. |
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| The Obengs and the Acquayes - Pres Brubaker's counselors and their wives, who are the RS counselors. They teach the RS lessons - one teaches the French sisters and the other the English sisters. We're kind of in our own little world here in the MTC, but it feels very safe and secure, However, somewhat isolated. We have filtered water, AC, the cafeteria that we can eat at any time we want, wonderful staff members who help us with anything we need, drive us places, bring up food to us sometimes just to be nice, etc. Our apartment is on the third floor and our office on the first floor, so we're running up and down a lot - no elevators. The missionaries have amazing testimonies, are so proud to wear their missionaries badges, love the MTC, love us, and each other. They sing all the time. Anytime they don't have anything to do, they will gather around a piano and sing their rendition of hymns. They come and go pretty quickly. They want pictures with us, they want us to sign their journals, they give us huge hugs and cry when they leave. It's an incredible feeling. |
