Transfers

Transfers are every 6 weeks.  They come around really fast and I guess that is a good thing.  We just send a group home, welcome another in and it then it is time to do it all again.  It is a lot of work for everyone, but it is a fun and exciting time.

Going home!!

Elder Belnap

Goodbye

Here we come!

Our trip to the kente village where they weave the kente and sell cool kente things.  They are a little weird about us taking pictures though, so we didn't get many.   We could try weaving kente if we wanted.  I didn't want to try.   Cooper took us, so these are pictures of Sister Cooper working the loom and Brother Cooper and their baby.

Sister Cooper weaving.  You use your hands and feet.  Too hard for me.

Man that works there

The next day he took us to the Central Market.  Sister Palmer and I shopped for more fabric.  We still didn't get very far in because it is so big.

This is medicine.  Something for whatever ails a person

Veronica works at the mission home.  She had twins in July.

I don't know how they get those babies on their backs without dropping them.  You can see that I was nervous so I was holding her on.

Piri-Piri

    We have a little "fast food" place where we go and eat every Saturday night.  We look forward to it because it is one day each week that we don't have to figure out something to fix for dinner.  They serve pizza, chicken and rice, chicken and fries and a variety of sandwiches and other things.  They have a T.V screen that plays the soccer games and sometimes if it is an important game it gets very noisy.  The pictures are from a night that we met President and Sister Holmes there and also the A.P.'s were there because it was just before the transfer and some of them were getting transferred so they were having a little celebration.  One Saturday night we decided to go the the Golden Tulip for a change.  It was quite a bit more expensive, but it was really nice!

Part of the Golden Tulip

More of the Golden Tulip

Some pictures of our last zone conference

Baptism at Nkawkaw with Elder Ubi and Elder Ward

Senior couple's apartment at Techiman

Kids in the neighborhood where we walk in the evenings

Stopped at their apartment to pick up E. Belnap's and E. Keifala's luggage.

Nkawkaw

We have been assigned to go to Nkawkaw to church on Sundays.  There are two branches in Nkawkaw and there are three branches in Konongo.  They have their own district and so they have a district president and counselors that preside over the district.  We are going up there to support them when the Stake is divided and Konongo with be put in the Stake leaving the two Nkawkaw branches under the mission again.  They are opening a new branch up the mountain by Nkawkaw and after the Stake division they become a district again.  All this takes time so we are just there to support the leaders and the missionaries.  We will probably only go twice a month since it is a l 1/2 to 2 hour drive. The first branch starts and 8:30 a.m. and the second branch starts at 10:00 a.m.  If we stay until the end it is at least 1:00 p.m. before we can start for home.  It makes for a really long Sunday, but once we get there it is worth is because we enjoy these branches.  They speak a lot of English and we appreciate that.

Elder Ward, Pennsylvania and Elder Ubi, Nigeria

Youth conference (Ghana's future leaders)

Mpraeso mountain

Elder Ubi and Elder Ward

Future priesthood leaders

Cocoa tree

The para-gliding mountain

Kalbasa tree, hollow balls

We drove up the mountain to see Mpraeso where the new branch will be opening soon.

Future meeting house and missionary apartment