Starting life in the bush

 When we arrived at our new place the missionaries helped us move in.  They have been very helpful to us and have showed us around.  They are from left, Elders Nielson, Smith from SLC, Christensen from OakCity, Bakodi from Ghana, and Jensen from Glenwood.  They are such great guys and missionaries, we sure are enjoying their friendship.  In fact if they weren't here it would be way too hard for us to be in the bush alone.  The people are really nice and welcoming to us, they always say akwaaba, which means welcome.  The little kids think it's really fun to see an obruni,which means white people.

 The power usually goes off everyday for a while.   So hot when that happens!  My curly hair has always been my worst thing, but seriously it's about the only thing I have going for me!  It looks bad all the time now.
  To the right is a picture of the elders on their wash day.  They look like they are enjoying washing their clothes by hand in not clean water.
  Sunday we went to church and President Wellington ask me to be the District Primary President.  I haven't worked in primary for a while so I will need to study up on that.
The Elders also confirmed 2 sisters, ages 9 and 13 on Sat and confirmed them on Sunday.  At the baptism the power went out and so they were baptized by the lights of cell phones.  The youngest girl was so scared of the water, but she finally went through with it.
  Next 2 pics is of a place we went teaching to.  These people here have nothing, but always seem to be happy .  There are goats and other animals everywhere here, just walking around.  These people wanted their picture taken, but now I need to find a place to make a copy for them.
 

 Elder Bakodi is a native Ghanian, and it really comes in handy.  The people here speak twi (chree) especially way into the villages there's not much English going on, so it's good he can speak to them.  Even the ones who speak English it's really hard to understand, and usually church meetings are mostly in twi.  Anyway Elder Bakodi is pounding foo foo at a member's house.  They fed it to us, quite a different dish!  It is casaba root and plantain bananas pounded together to a dough then served with a soup of some sort,.  It is to be eaten with your fingers,  Then last night the same people fed us again!  This time it was rice with a spicy fish sauce on top.  Pretty good, but they give you soo much!
  Here we found a yummy little rice and chicken bar on our way up to take the elders to an appointment.  Big plate of food for 2 cidis (1 dollar)

 The jungle and the sunsets are very pretty, lots of green rolling hills and a vast variety of trees and plants.  This is on the road to Kada which is the town about 1 hour away from our house.  

 The elders are helping me put up my ham radio antenna,   Every house here has a 35 foot bamboo pole with a small TV antenna on the top of it.   I used one of these poles to mount my antenna to.    We just lashed it to the fence by the house.    This way I can get on the  amateur radio at nights and maybe talk to someone in the states.  We have goats and chickens and even wild turkeys walking around the yard all times of the day and night.   

This is the Ghana Temple, it is small but very nice.  We brought a missionary down to Accra who was sick so we decided to stay over night.   We got the same room in the building by the Temple that we had a couple of weeks ago.  We went to town to do some shopping with another senior couple that we knew from when we stayed here before and then we went to KFC and that was a real treat.   There are two KFC's here in Accra.   It sure tasted good.   Almost like home.  First french fries we have had in over a month.