Miscellaneous Fun Pictures

Entrance to Teshie Stake Center.  The Church property is almost always the nicest property in the neighborhood.  But it, like any nice property, is always walled and gated with barb wire at top.

There are several designs the Church uses here but this is a fairly new stake center.  Note how few cars are here on Sunday.  The rule of thumb is to try to have buildings serve congregations (wards) within a 40 minute walk.  

Sunday Gospel Literacy Class Teshie 3rd Ward

"God is Good" on Tro Tro

This is 9 year old Hubert who plays the organ for Teshie 3rd Ward.  He and his 7 year old brother are  truly child prodigies on the organ!  He played beautifully with hardly looking at the book!

Hubert making us look like non-Africans!

Primary kids just beginning to settle down for their fun music time.

Tro Tro Fun!

Cool name for an African restaurant.....it didn't lure me in!!

Middle class suburbia!  Bucket is used for baths.  These are houses.

Laundry day in the hood.

These heavy wagons are all over the city.  They are used to move equipment or junk.  One guy pushes and one pulls......I think of it as an African little red wagon!

Birthday dinner for Doug Hadley.  Note fire on big dishes of Turkish food at the DNR Restaurant!! (real name and no, it is not "do not resuscitate")  Great food!!

Joseph works in our office who was an intern who has proven to be invaluable. He is displaying his paper to get his college diploma, which he was awarded that day.  He is also showing the certificate for being the top 2017 student of his class.  Very proud time and folks here gave him great praise.  He is much beloved; just a wonderful young man who is a very hard worker and extremely grateful.

Miscellaneous pictures

This is our Senior Missionary Family Home Evening group. We were singing "Love is Spoken Here," which has a men and women's part. Therefore, we had 2 directors, one for the men and one for the women. I was playing the keyboard. Chris took the picture from the back of the room. This is one of the conference rooms in the Area Office. We really enjoy our Family Home Evening group of friends. 

Bev Winegarden, Liz Liljenquist and me singing "Press Forward Saints" during our Zone Conference.on Oct. 17, 2017.   All three of our husbands serve in the Legal Department. Therefore, we call ourselves "The Legal Sisters." Unfortunately, Liz is leaving soon and will leave us without our soprano. Bev sings alto and I supply the tenor part.

Liz Liljenquist and me in our African fabric outfits. They were made by Bernice, our dear friend who sews beautifully.

Just finishing making a pie crust for a pecan pie. 

Chris and I helped these 2 sisters in their Sunday School Gospel Literacy class.  They were both so sweet and grateful for our help. 

This is Phyllis, my prize Literacy student! She is the sweetest  person and I love her to pieces! We meet every week and she has such a desire to improve in her reading and writing skills. Her confidence level has already improved just since I have been working with her. 

This is Ishmael, another one of my Literacy students. He is  such a wonderful young man!  He is always happy and has the brightest smile! I love working with him.

I couldn't resist taking these pictures of signs in public restrooms.  I found them very interesting!

Kasoa 3rd Ward - Kasoa Stake

This is the outside of the Kasoa 3rd Ward building. This was an hour drive from our apartment. The worship service takes place in the downstairs ground level and most of the classrooms are on the upper floor.

This is another angle of the building, showing the steps to the second level and the water storage tank in the background.

Chris took this picture from the back of the chapel.  By the time the service began, the room was full.

Here we have the baptismal font, outside the building. You can see the steps and the top is covered by a large metal lid.

This is another view of the baptismal font, from the second story of the church building.

Elder Wakild enjoying a fun moment with some of the guys after class.These are wonder Ward.ful men, who are leaders in the 

Relief Society Sisters before class began. I received a very warm and enthusiastic welcome.  

This is a soccer field located right behind the church building.

New Town Ward - Tema Stake

This is the outside of the New Town Ward building, which is in the background.  It is in the Tema Stake. We enjoyed our visit there. I played the keyboard for the worship service, since they had no-one to play. I have done that on a few other occasions. Our Sunday assignment is to oversee the Gospel Literacy in the Area.  We go to a different ward each Sunday and help the teacher with the class. We also supply Literacy books where needed. We had 4 students in the Literacy class on this day. They were all adult women, who are just learning to read a little. It is very humbling to see how much they desire to learn to read and write, but have never had the opportunity to do so. Many of them never attended school when they were children. They grew up speaking their tribal language, but just learned that by listening. They never learned to read or write it. Now they are trying to learn to speak, read, and write English. It is very difficult. We are grateful for the opportunity to help them.

These are the two young missionaries who are serving in this ward. The one on the left is from Nigeria and the one on the right is from Oregon. We got their parents email addresses and sent them the pictures. We told them what fine missionaries there sons were and that they were doing great. We received grateful responses from both sets of parents.

These are some of the cute children that became our immediate friends. They enjoyed having their picture taken with us.

These two young girls wouldn't leave our side. I think we could have taken them home with us.  Their names are Irene and Harriet. They were very sweet and wanted their picture taken with us.

This is Sister Howard, the Stake Relief Society President.  This is not the ward she attends, but she was kind enough to meet us at a designated location, so she could show us how to find the church building. We followed her and it's a good thing. I'm not sure we would have found it without her help. Many of the roads, (dirt paths) don't have signs and sometimes GPS doesn't work. Since we go to a different place every Sunday, it's always an adventure!

This is Bishop Azumah. He is an amazing man! In this picture, he is helping Chris  practice the  African  handshake, where you snap the fingers at the end. This man was born with crippled legs and walks on his knees and hands. His legs from the knees down are just small, short stubs. It's awesome to watch him get around. He uses the sandals on his hands. He has the best disposition and bright smile! They built steps leading up to the podium that a he can get up very easily. When he gets to the top, the seat slides over so he is right in front of the microphone. It's really something to see!

This is Bishop Azumah/s lovely wife and children. Such sweet people!

As we were leaving church, this young girl was taking care of her little brother. They were getting  ready to walk home. He was happy with his cookie he had gotten in nursery.

Fun Pics and Ben O'Brien

Stacking peanuts for sale from a tray on the street.  It takes about 1 hour to stack a tray.  They do it for presentation as they fill small plastic bags while they work the crowd.  Amazing!

Public bus...Ghanaians love car signs talking of Christ.

Sr. Wakild helping new arrival sister missionaries at MTC.

The first two missionaries from Senegal.

Public display of Christ's sacrifice.

Ben O'Brien and his companion about a week before they left the MTC for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

It is fun to be with such vibrant young missionaries!

Linda's Birthday

Picture of my birthday cake.

My birthday dinner with our friends Craig and Liz Liljenquist. 

Another opportunity to celebrate my birthday with several other friends. 

Sister Pierce's birthday was 2 days before mine, so we celebrated together with our friends.