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The innocence of Ghana's children

These children were playing jump rope one morning as I passed by. I stopped to watch a minute and asked if I could take their photos. They were having such fun and laughing as they played. Each took their turn and then let the next one have theirs without any quarrels. 

These Primary children are showing me their pictures they drew of Jesus Christ.  They are in our Branch in Agona. 

This is a neighbor lady of ours with her children. The woman is handicapped and her children help her to travel in her cart all over town. You can see the handles on the front of the cart which she turns to help move the cart forward. Her children push from behind. 

This group of Muslim children came down the road as we were leaving a business. They smiled and waved to is as we passed.  We see many children in groups walking along the roadside. Lots of things they are going to or coming from school. Many of the schools here require the children to wear uniforms. 

This is a photo I found on the Internet. I did not take it myself but I love the unity it depicts. 

Isn't she beautiful?  Sunday's can be long for little ones. ;)

This child's mama is a seamstress. He goes to work with her each day and spends the whole day the as she sews. 

Mary and Vincent are two cute little friends of ours. Their mother weaves baskets for us and is excellent in her work. 

I love these two quotes. 

Don't you agree?

Bathing babies

The neighbors behind us have twin baby girls. They bathe them twice a day. Once in the morning and again before bedtime. I thought the way they bathed them was pretty genius. They have a pan of clean water, lay the baby across their laps with the adults feet out and then wash the baby as in the photo. This actually works pretty good because the baby is not so hard to hold on to while bathing. I gave it a try on the second baby.  When you've finished the first side, you dry her and then turn her over and lay her lengthwise, centering her on your legs. They do use disinfectant in the water and they powder the baby's neck and body creases to keep away heat rash.  The yellow beads you see are to gage the babies growth and weight gain. Ingenious huh?

This woman is baby Alena's grandmother.  She will live with the twins mother for several months to help care for the babies. The mother has to work to provide for her babies. 

Mother and sleeping baby Alena

Isn't she beautiful?

Watching her grandmothers face.

All done!

Lake Bosomtwe

Coming up on Lake Bosomtwe (Bo-sum-tray)

We thought it was an old volcano similar to Lake Tahoe but turns out from Joni's sleuthing that it is a crater from a very large meteor impact.

Up and over the rim and down towards the lake.

Not quite there yet.

Had to do a little off roading! And it was much worse than this. 

Many small villages all around the lake.

Panorama view.

About 12  km across.

A lot of Maize, Coco and other local fruit and plants.

I really thought it was volcanic given the sharp hills and peaks around the edge of the crater.

We met a group of Christian missionaries from Canada while we were there.

They charged us $.50 a piece to use this beach. What a steal!

Sister Halladay and Sister Wardle checking out the WARM water.

Coco pods with coco beans inside. About 6-8 inches long, grow from the trunks of the trees.

Beans in the pod, stacked on top of each other.

One of the nicer hotels in Kumasi is named the Golden Bean, after the coco bean pod.

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Eating a coco bean, right before he told us to eat around the bean, then dry it before eating it!

On the way out the views were endless. Wish I had brought my binoculars.

Elder Ameworlor (Am-a-war-lore) leaving tomorrow with five Sister Missionaries. He was pretty happy.