The week started off with another literacy class ranging from the old to the young. It's never too late to learn, right? This class is held in the Bishop's office.
The building wasn't where it was shown on the map, so we couldn't find it after searching in the craziest places. (The best/worst pictures never get taken.) We had to call Whitley on the left, the Stake Literacy Specialist for directions. She and the Sunday School President took a cab over to meet us and directed us to the church.
Just to the East of Ghana lies the country of Togo.
It is a French speaking country and we drove there on Monday to bring a French speaking Sr. missionary couple over for a humanitarian conference in Accra.
It took 3+ hours for them to get across the border, but we saw some new scenery and there are always interesting people to meet.
This man latched onto us and really enjoyed our brownies that we had planned to share at a dinner that night. But when it became clear that we weren't going to make it for the dinner, he and several others enjoyed them even more than we would have.
He gave us quite the history of the area, the tires are on the border.
Chuck loves the musical "Oklahoma" and although we don't see a lot of tall corn, the anthills are pretty impressive.
A miniature Mosque
And a few quick drive-by photos of the countryside.
A grass roofed home on the left and shoe shop on the right.
A kiln for making pottery
We had to wonder what his exit plan will be
when this load shifts or the truck tips over, which also happens.
People working in fields with hand tools.
We arrived back in town late, and got trapped behind a large, overloaded truck that had tipped over in the road after it's tires broke through the ditch covers. On the other side of the road was a broken down vehicle. It was total chaos AND mayhem!!
We didn't get pictures of it, once again, the best/worst pictures never get taken. But this was a couple days later when we went by there.
Two nights this week we were invited to sit in on coordinating council meetings with about 16 of the Stake Presidents in the area and discuss the Gospel Literacy Program. These leaders are so busy, but also committed and incredible! We are looking forward to helping them get classes started in their areas.
On Saturday we went with the Hunts to take a look at a very old slave fort not far from us called Ussher Fort built by the Dutch in 1649, and later used as a prison.
Such a sad part of history for many nations and still continues, human slavery!
Thank you soooo much for sharing your experiences and for your fantastic pictures! We got to spend some time with our visiting authority, Elder Vern Stanfill, at our Stake Conference last week. He spoke fondly of your mission and the wonderful people there. You must have just missed each other. When he learned Paul spoke french he asked if we were retired yet! haha
ReplyDeleteThat's no joke Patti, it is a topic of discussion here, WHO could come to the Africa West Area!
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