Recently Eidul-Adha was celebrated here and we got an up close look on our drives home. We had been noticing an increase in the number of cows in makeshift corrals all along the main roads and wondered what was going on.
"Feast of the Sacrifice is the second of two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year. It honors the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God's command. But, before Ibraham could sacrifice his son, God provided a lamb to sacrifice instead. In commemoration of this, an animal is sacrificed and divided into three parts: one third of the share is given to the poor and needy; another third is given to relative and the last is kept."
"Feast of the Sacrifice is the second of two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year. It honors the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God's command. But, before Ibraham could sacrifice his son, God provided a lamb to sacrifice instead. In commemoration of this, an animal is sacrificed and divided into three parts: one third of the share is given to the poor and needy; another third is given to relative and the last is kept."
We actually tried not to watch, but some of it was hard to avoid when it's right on the side of the road and we are sitting in traffic. There is some part of a cow behind the men.
Here they are using a burner to singe the cow head, hide and other parts unknown. We asked one of our students at the library if they shared a cow but they said no, it was too expensive.
Sunday brought us about an hour out of town on the outskirts of the Ofankor Stake.
It was a cute arrangement of buildings, probably a former compound of houses, now used for classrooms.
We enjoyed a rain shower during Sacrament Meeting and cool breeze blowing in through the open louver windows. As sometimes happens, they asked us to speak.
This is a small branch, but the enthusiasm was high on literacy.
Mid week a group of the Seniors went to the GTP factory in Tema where they print fabric.
The factory itself was fascinating, but pictures weren't allowed.
They did however, allow us to wander the archives and take pictures of over 80,000 samples that they have printed in the past.
I couldn't help think how like these patterns we all are. Each unique and splendid, no two the same.
We're seeing lots of baby chicks again, (not sure if there is an actual season for that?) This mother hen and her chicks on our walk to the library, right on the side of a major 4 lane road.
From our apartment window, Chuck sitting with George at the gate to help him catch up on his reading lessons. He had Malaria and missed a couple weeks but continues to make good progress.
Although we've gone through 1,000 of the new manuals, they have still been under revision as we have consulted back and forth with the Heckels and Literacy group in Salt Lake about things we are struggling with here in the real application.
We gave out 140 of these at a training for the Adenta Stake, best attended so far with 9 of the 10 wards represented.
As a team with the Wakilds, we are feeling like each training is getting better and the teachers and leaders are understanding how to use the manuals to effectively teach their students. 
We met with two classes on Sunday at different times
in the same building, yes!!
The teachers had been at the training the day before and taught the majority of their classes.
They were amazing!!
Babies are so good at sleeping anywhere here!
At one of the Wards, a young man named Enoch Sarkodie, recently returned from Sierra Leone on a mission, came up to welcome us.
It turns out he was companions with Elder Dempsey Wheelock from our ward at home in Puyallup. It is such a small and wonderful world!!
