January 2 - January 22, 2017

It is mango season and we are buying some every week at a low price.  This one is ripening on a tree at the elders apartment in Dodowa.

 

Both of the missionaries at Dodowa have had malaria and part of the problem is that mosquitoes are getting in through the bedroom window that has inadequate screens.  Fred is putting screening across the entire window to keep them out using the new ladder that we bought.

There are are a number of missionaries from Tonga, Samoa and Fiji who like to cook a pig in an earthen

pit.  They collected sufficient money from the missionaries who wanted to be involved in a pork feed and cooked two small pigs.    The pork was tasty but quite tough!

We decided to add to the event by having a member bake a cake - which tasted like one of the ingredients was 1/2 cup of diesel fuel.

Elder and Sister Clark have been serving as audit missionaries but are going home early because he has been called to serve as a mission president for 3 years in Liberia!  No one was volunteering to take their place.

  

We often stop at the church building in Ashaiman to eat lunch because it has a convenient location and is a quiet setting in a busy town.

    

The sisters missionaries in Madina had bunk beds without ladders and were having difficulty  getting to the top bunk.  We went to a furniture store along the roadside and bought two ladders that fit perfectly.

Looks like the sisters were celebrating by making some good food.

 

 

This minivan seems to be overloaded with a suspension problem. 

We took a picture of the white van because it had a Canadian flag decal in the back window.  We later pulled up alongside and told him that we liked the decal and that we are from Canada.

 

 We attended church at the Cantonments ward and found that there were a lot of investigators in the missionary class.

 The chapel for this ward is located on the Accra Temple site.

 Ten new missionaries arrived from various parts of Africa and were assigned to their training companions on January 17.

  

Meg bought two new purses and also is getting four dresses made of some colourful material.

 

We treated Elder James to some chicken and rice while his companion was in the hospital getting a plate put in his broken wrist.  We had to go to a medical supply outlet and buy the plate along with the screws.  I hope we bought the ones that do not rust!

  

Elder Pace and I are waiting for church to start.

We have to wash all of our fresh food in bleach water to kill any germs. 

 

    On  my 64th birthday we went to a very nice restaurant and had a delicious bowl of butternut squash soup as part of the meal.

  

The Findlays live in Kelowna and are visiting Accra as part of their assignment in providing wheelchairs.  They joined the Paces and had lunch with us after church.

December 26-January 1, 2017

We attended the missionary district meeting in Nungua and had some 'fan ice" during the break,

which is like frozen vanilla ice cream - actually quite good for the low cost of 30 cents.

One of the missionaries from Liberia was looking down at the chain of his bicycle which was giving him problems when he hit a hole in the road and fell off the bike  breaking his wrist.  We spent 9 hours in the hospital to get a cast put on the wrist and making arrangements for surgery the following week.  

  

We knew we were in for a long wait when we saw the crowded waiting room.

This goat liked the view from this parked car.  There are always goats on the side of the streets.  We were asked if we had goats back home on the streets and when we said "no" we got a response of "why not"?

 New Year's Eve was spent at the Noble House restaurant with about 40 other senior missionaries.  

We shared East Indian and Chinese dishes which were very good - the best Chinese dishes we have ever had!  Happy New Year everyone!