Garrisons in Ghana

 A beautiful sunset taken from the balcony of the mission office.  Last Sunday we got to stop by the branch that we had attended every week for the past few months.  It was so funny how the two little kids in the front: Chloe and Prosper would not let go of Elder Garrison...one of them always had his hand as we were visiting.  The children here are just so lovable.  Grace is the one that he has his arm around.  She was our right hand gal in Primary as she would translate from English to Twi for us.  We sure do miss seeing these wonderful people each week as we now visit different branches each week.   I had to take a picture of our office elders (Elder Ison and Elder Beck) last week as they prepared for Zone Conferences. I asked them if they knew that they would become professional shoppers on their missions?  They are tasked to buy supplies for all the apartments that are in need of items like pans, bowls, mops, brooms, dustpans....you ...

This week was transfer week!  That means that there are missionaries leaving and missionaries coming.  It is always sad to see the missionaries leave, because for some of us, we will never see each other again.  In this group there were missionaries from Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Bostwana and just one from the United States!  We are grateful that we will see Elder Riley again because he lives up by our daughter in Utah, but we probably will not see the others.....so that is sad!   So with the missionaries leaving.....the flip side is that the very day that one group flies out, the new missionaries fly in!  This week we received 23 new missionaries!  We received  missionaries from Fiji, Malawi, DRC, Liberia, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire and the United States.  French is the language of 13 of the missionaries that came this week.....meaning that for training, we needed to have translators.  The missionaries that speak French did go to ...