Monday

Hi mom,

The man over us, Bro. Buah, was in today but he leaves for a week.  He spent a fair bit of time with us explaining some things and giving us things to read over and projects to get familiar with.  Starting to realize how big this responsibility is and how much we need to learn.  We will be busy!   When Bro. Buah gets back we will go on a 2 day tour of some current projects in Ghana so that we can see them for ourselves and get a grasp of what is going on.  Projects in Ghana are our responsibility to see through and do more as we go along.  We will also be doing the ones in Benin and Togo and Ivory Coast.  The budget there isn't too large though. 

We approved 2 projects today, one in Sierra Leone and one in Ghana. 

Saturday night we went out for supper with the Findlays (from Kelowna), humanitarian specialists for wheelchair and immunization projects.  They are here for a couple of weeks (Ghana, Togo, Benin, Liberia) working on projects and then they go home.   We had a supper meeting with the partner to help with the wheelchair project here.  He is the head of the physiotherapy dept at a hospital.  A good guy who seems as though he will make sure the project works as it should.

Sunday we went to our assigned ward.  It is called La (pronounced law) Ward.  They meet in a house and it was full and hot (no A.C.) but there there fans.  I was doing okay until I had a hot flash or two.  The people were great.  The Church is more established here than Malawi and they seem to be doing well.  There were 3 confirmations and 3 baby blessings.   The Church building is near the ocean but we didn't go to see it yet. 

We are slowly finding our way around a little -- at least to the office, grocery shopping and to Church.  The temple is in the same complex as the Area offices where we work.  The couples try and go every Friday after work -- but not last Friday as the electricity had gone off and the generators were down too.  :(

We are doing fine.  Thank goodness for air conditioning though. 

Time for bed and I need to send this before we lose internet.  O yeah - mom, you are right - the pineapples here are really good! 
                                
 Love you,  Mom/dad, Nancy/Jim,  Elder & Sister Bullock