Garrisons in Ghana

 The last three weeks at church, I have had the delight of having a little "buddy" sit on my lap.  Ezekiel is just 16 months, but he will sit on my lap and sometimes fall asleep, sometimes he will play with my name tag, but he is always so good.  As I held him on Sunday and looked at his little hands, I couldn't help but wonder what his life would turn out like?  Thankfully he has a mommy and a daddy that were just recently baptized, so it is my hope that he will grow up learning about Jesus Christ and knowing that he is a child of God.  That he will have advantages in his life because of the joy and the peace that the gospel will bring to his family.  We are just so blessed to be able to teach these little ones each Sunday.  We are working towards the Primary President and her new counselor (who has been a member all of 3 weeks) teaching Primary and we will be their supports instead of the other way around.  It has been a slow process, but I feel...

Obuasi 4th Branch that we attend had 6 people get baptized on May 1st.  In this picture:  (left to right) are Elder Call, Haggar, Elder Price, Faustian, Joseph, Francis, Louisa, Phylix, Elder Kluse and Elder Kasongo.  It is a tender mercy that Elder Call and Elder Kasongo had to leave their area for 3 weeks because of a celebration of life for one of the chiefs that died 7 years ago.  Everyone in the town would have had to wear black for 3 weeks!  So the President moved them to Obuasi, and with their help, Elder Price and Elder Kluse could teach twice as many people and look at their results!  Truly, the Lord is in the details of this work.  Last Sunday after church we went with the Elders Quorum President and Elder Kluse and Elder Price to visit a couple of members that had not been to church for a while because of health problems.  It was surreal walking through the little neighborhood of rocky dusty dirt paths with people  sitting outside ...