5 September-11 September 2016

This week we will post three blogs.  This first one is general and the next two are pictures of an annual festival in Eastern Ghana/Western Togo.

Here are some pictures of our last intake.  I'm asking each missionary about their health, any medications they're on, what immunizations they've had, etc.  We're in the big chapel with lots of other intake activities going on with the teachers.

These are new missionaries waiting around to be
processed.  I'll give a health talk and instructions
to them when I have the entire group together.
While this is going on, the Brubakers are
interviewing them one at a time.

Loel's station is right next to mine as we help each
new missionary.  

We both have our measuring tapes
for measuring sisters and elders for
their garments.

 

Solomon, one of our favorite teachers, helping
sisters email home.

A temple day on the steps of the temple.  This is a
group I traveled into the temple with on the MTC
van.  

We've been blessed to be proxy for several sealings
of missionaries to their parents.  This week we were
with Elder Effiom from Nigeria.

We went to the market this week and I was
able to get a picture of these two little girls.

Who says watermelon has to be red. This is melon
we purchased on the side of the road.  We had no
idea it was orange until we cut it. It tastes just like
watermelon is supposed to taste.

We stopped at a bead shop and I thought
this little girl helping us was so cute.  We
didn't last long as the power was off in
the whole town and it was stifling inside
this little booth.

At one stop, we noticed this little boy, just
taking a nap on the concrete floor.

We went on a 2.5 day trip to Ho with 10 other senior
couples.  I'm just relaxing in our 4 star hotel which
had holes in the tile, water that would periodically
go off, fake wood contact paper on the hallway
walls, very uneven stairs, no internet at times,

and a kind of lousy 

restaurant that was known to be the very best in
the town!  So funny.  

I think lots of people rent chairs for funerals and other gatherings - plus some DJ stuff, too?

A man carrying big branches on his head.