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| The Mission Home |
We made it to Ghana safe
and sound. The airport in Accra was
interesting, but there were a lot of really nice people to help us get our
flight to Kumasi. We got a new truck to
drive, but we didn’t drive for a couple of days. You kind of have to be mentally prepared to
take on the traffic, potholes, goats, motorcycles and people. It is every bit as bad as we had heard. Crazy
drivers. If they break down in the
middle of the road that’s where they fix them. The weather is not as bad as we
had expected. It warm and humid, but we
haven’t noticed any discomfort. The
people are very poor but are very happy.
They sit in their little food or whatever stands day after day. The women carry everything on their
heads. We saw a woman carrying a sewing
machine on her head. They do dress nice
though. Most of them make their dresses
and skirts. The sewing machines are hand
crank and sit out in front of their shacks that they live in and sew. The fabric is beautiful. Their hair is also beautiful. Most of them keep it really short and have
braid extensions or they wear wigs. There is a lot of garbage or
littering. They tend to throw wrappers
and stuff in the streets. Then they will
clean it up and burn it anywhere. You
will find little fires burning randomly
everywhere. Fixing meals is a challenge. We can get a few items that we are used to,
but we have to go to 3 markets and street vendors to find it. Only frozen chicken, no other meat. We get our chicken and frozen vegetables at
one store, our flour and rice at another and there is a 3-story store that is a
lot like Family Dollar that sells a lot of K-mart type stuff, pots and pans,
bedding etc. and a little food. We get
lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and that type of thing from the street vendors and
our bread at the bread place. We are losing
weight because it takes so much thought and work to plan our meals and get our
food. We met with the mission president
and got our assignments. We have 12
because we are the only couple here besides the office couple and they need a
lot of help. We visited our first branch
today. I will talk more about that
later.
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| Our door bar system |
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| Our apartment |
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| "Street" to the Mission Home |
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| Mission Home |
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| Our Truck |
