Garrisons in Ghana

This is a picture of some of the children and their mama's walking home after church a couple of Sunday's ago.  The members dress in their best and some walk quite a ways to come to church.  Look at the hill behind them.....up that long, somewhat steep  and rocky, ruddy road is where the church is. Now, look at this wheelchair/bike?  Imagine having to get to church using this on that road!  But that is what one brother does every single week.  People push him up this road and he parks it here and then walks the rest of the way with the help of a cane.  It takes him a long time, but he is there every single week.  That is the kind of devotion that we see week after week in the church here in Ghana.     We played pickle ball on Christmas Day with the office Elders and the AP's.  You will notice that Elder Yeboah has a BIRTHDAY HAT ON.  We are actually birthday twins, both having birthdays on Christmas Day.  President Ku...

 Really.....the children in Ghana have to be the cutest!  They just really have our hearts.💚💙 It's interesting to watch them take care of each other.  The little ones are usually on the mama's backs, but after that, it is all about "free range kids".  We see them all over in little groups just using their imaginations to play games and entertain themselves and their smiles just light up the world.  They go to school really early (like 7am) and are always dressed in their uniforms.....it is pretty amazing to see.   One thing that is very unique here in Kumasi are the billboards that they post for funerals.  As you can see, they post all the information about the burial, funeral etc. We have seen billboards as small as the size of a regular piece of paper and as large as a HUGE billboard.  When flying to Kumasi, the lady that I sat by that was from Accra said that Kumasi is known for elaborate funerals.  We see them as we are driving som...

Well the dreaded day finally came this week:  The Coombs finished their mission and went back home to Toquerville, Utah.  We had a good four weeks with them to try to learn all that we will need to know to run the office in the Ghana Kumasi Mission but we could have really used another 4 weeks!  There is so much to learn and I kinda felt like I did when my mom left after having my first baby.  I had no idea how I was going to manage without my mom and to be honest this is much the same!  I know that with the Lord's help that we will be able to do the work but we will miss these two like crazy!  They we so patient and kind with us and did such a great job as the office couple for the last year.  Here is a picture of the bulletin board in our office.   This picture is the day they left.  I had my sunglasses on because even though I was smiling on the outside, on the inside I was (and am) terrified and I was pretty tearful.  💙  ...