Neighborhood friends

Practicing carrying her baby.

Home sweet home

See our broom by the door?

                           

The cute neighbor children at our front gate.  They like their "pikchuh" taken!

                                                 
     

Beauty!

Mole Game reserve

The first week we were here in Ghana, we went on a Mission tour to see the area included in our mission. We visited the missionaries in Techiman, Tamale, and then traveled up to a game reserve in Mole. The picture above is of one little community up near Mole. The farther north you travel, the more remote. Huts like these are not typical of the area in which we live. We live close to the mission home in Daban.

We were luck enough to to see elephants that day. Others told us they'd searched for three days before finally finding any. These are three males. The one in the middle is the youngest and is often more aggressive.

Pumba!

Mama baboon with her baby on board. 

These are called Kob. They're like an antelope. 

These men were our driver and guide. And yes, the gun was loaded just in case we needed it.

We have arrived!

We had the pleasure of attending our first Sunday meetings this week. The people are very friendly and welcomed us warmly.  I especially enjoyed these cute little ones!

This woman has her little child on her back. Everyone carries their little ones this way. They showed me how they wrap them on their bodies.  It looked pretty simple and I wondered how they keep the wrap fastened!  Apparently it works for them. 

  This shows some of the beautiful clothing worn here by the women. It's typical to see them dressed this way. 

They all carry their wares on their head. I've even seen them carrying laundry bags and huge bundles of wood. 

This gentleman was at the tollbooth. 

Here is one mode of transportation used here. Often they are way overloaded.  

Villages such as this are found in the upper northern area of Ghana. We had the opportunity to visit the northern area last week. It was wonderful!  I will post photos of some of what we saw later. We are very happy and so grateful to be serving here among these kind people. 

Our office group

These couples are going to different missions all over the world to help in the Mission offices. Places like France, Australia, California, North Dakota, North Carolina, Arkansas & Canada.  They are very dedicated and wonderful servants of our Heavenly Father. Some have already served missions and are on their second or third mission. What a wonderful example of service!

Welcome to the MTC Brendyn!

This was another excellent week at the MTC!  We were fortunate to welcome our nephew Brendyn Baker to the MTC. He will be serving in the Adelaide, Australia mission.
Also, we had another amazing group of people in our office training class.  We've met so many great people the past two weeks!  Just three days to go until we get on that flight to Ghana....

Our District at the MTC

Left to right:

Griffins, who are headed to New York, Mike, sister Nye who is headed to The Polynesian Center in Hawaii, me, Neilsens who will be working in Salt Lake, Sister Larsen who is going to Georgia, and our teacher Brother McCarthy. A very wonderful group to have worked with this week!

MTC

In the MTC is a huge map of the world. Ghana is located where I'm pointing.