It's " Ghana " Get Better and Better

We have started our third week here in Accra, and all is well. Last Monday ( the 7th ) was our first day to be at the center on our own. We thought we would have two weeks to learn what we were doing ..but that changed.  So early Monday morning we journeyed out on our own.  We had not even drove over to the center on our own yet...but we made it.  I must say I am a bit more ( a lot more) at ease with Lynn's driving than Elder Cannons.  Let's just say that Lynn is more patient and is not in such a rush. Each day this picture shows the congestion at the round about.

    Here are A few of our morning views we see:

  

    Yes a full size goat on a moped!

                 Caught in action this morning, we even had a few rain drops. We are amazed

                 How everyone carries everything on their heads.

 This is the shopping area we pass by everyday, we go very slow here, so many people and they will dart across the street at any minute. You never could drive and talk on the phone here, both hands on the wheel are a MUST!!

  This day was a bit gray outside, it gets that way because of all the pollution and the fires people burn everywhere.  You can barely read what it says on the side, but it reads: " Keep Ghana clean". :)

    This is the building we go to each day. Here are some of the volunteers.

    Our yard " guests ", they come and go

These children stop by as we are leaving on their way home from school each day. Cute little family.

Those that are privileged enough to go to school wear uniforms. It's so sad to see those in uniforms each day as they pass the children on the street who are beggars not able to go to school.

We were asked to go to the Lartebiokoshie Ward for church, it's pretty close to where we come each day to the center. Here is a picture of the building . No air conditioning, but fans are everywhere, so if there is electricity we're in good shape. :) the silver honda civic is the one we were given. 63 miles on it when we were given the keys.

  Saturday is the day we do our grocery shopping . It's an all day adventure. I miss walmart &costco. The thing about here is, you like bread from one store, then you may find pace picante sauce ( if you are lucky) in another store.  The problem is though, remembering which store had what.:) and that they might not have the same food for 3-6 months again. You just grin and bare it. When we buy vegetables  after we get home this is what we do... Soak everything in bleach water..

   Pineapples are the best here! We eat a lot of it. We are waiting for the mangos to come in season. 

    These are  avocados, they didn't have much flavor,

  This is the milk we use. It has a shelf life of a year or so. It tastes just fine.  We were told that BYU is where this first was discovered in the lab. :)

This morning we saw a big flatbed semi truck with this sign on it, " a world for food" not sure what it was about. After a few minutes I heard loud music outside the building, it was this truck with people on the back playing really loud music. TIA this is Africa

I have gone shopping a couple times. This is my Christmas decoration that will be out all year. A nativity in a gourd. 

And Tuesday was a Muslim holiday so we went to the Art  Alliance Museum. They had a lot of very old things you could buy, or newer . They even had caskets that were out of the ordinary to say the least. They did not allow pictures but there was a casket that looked like a coke bottle, a Nike shoe, a fish. Anyway I just bought a basket, and some beads.

Before we left to come to Accra we had a meeting with Elder Satati and he showed us a couple of interesting facts about poverty I wanted to share. Here on our mission we are here to help ones that need to know how to interview for a job, or make a business plan, etc. It's very hard because this is so different than the US. These young adults ( or older ) have a dream but how to make it work is so difficult. They are great, humble people you just wish those dreams could come true for them. All we can do is show support and pray that all will go well for them. Here are the stats given to us three weeks ago.

All is well here in Ghana.  We have met so many nice people and missionaries that know many of our friends. We met the Cosgraves tonight, they are from Highland Utah , and know so many that we know, the Petersons are from Arizona and know John & Lucinda Lewis we know from years ago, talking with President Curtis yesterday, he knows Giff Neilson, and Joan & John Oldroyd very well. We know the Stokers' who live next door to Nancy Weavers brother Brad, in Dallas. It's a small world in the church.  It is fun to make the connections.  

And yes we do have  restaurants here in Ghana with normal food! The last two days we have gone out with a couple groups and it has been quite good.  

We feel very blessed to be among these wonderful missionaries, everyone is here for the same purpose to help those here in Ghana , we hope we can make a small difference.