We stayed up late Friday night (22nd) so we could be on facetime when our grandson, Logan, opened his mission call. He is excited to be going to the Australia, Brisbane mission. My dad and his 2 brothers served in Australia many years ago. We are happy for him.
Sunday I got a calling in our ward (La Ward). The Bishop ask us into his office just before the meeting started and ask Jim if I would accept a calling as 2nd counsellor in the Young Women's organization. He didn't even look at me. Jim suggested he should ask me, which he did, and of course I said I would. That is actually the first time I have worked in Ward Young Womens. I was a counsellor in the Stake YW once many years ago (with Pat Palmer and Cheryl Mathison). I attended teh YW class - there were 12 of them there. They stay together in one class. At the end of the class the teacher ask if they bathed each morning and night and if they washed their panties. They all said that they do.
The President and 1st counselor are nice girls (single - 33 and 27 yrs. old). They are both working and in school and wishing for a 'good' man to come into their lives. I will teach next week. Hope it goes well.
Last week we went to visit a hospital that has requested help from us. With our phone GPS and stopping and asking a lot of people we finally found the place. We decided that they don't need our help as they don't really cater to the poor, but more to the paying patients. It was a nice facility (private hospital). They had ask us for a transformer but they have already bought it themselves and also wanted an eye clinic but have changed their mind on that and used the room for a different purpose now. She ask what we could help them with and we explained that we like to help those that cater to the poorest of the poor.
On our way home we stopped at a Department store called 'Game' and bought ourselves a hammer to crack open coconuts and we stopped at Shoprite and bought a few groceries (mostly fruit and vegetables). We did try a red sweet potato but it wasn't that good. We found butternut squash though and we like that.
We are planning a humanitarian couple's seminar here in Accra in the middle of December. We will bring in the couples that serve in Sierra Leone and Liberia (our Nigeria couple finished their mission and have gone home -- they are debating about whether to replace them or not. They are quite limited as to travel and such since it is not alway safe.) We do desperately need a replacement couple for Liberia though - any takers?? They have lots of good projects going on there.
We are spending most of our time in the office doing paperwork and still figuring out our responsibilites. Tomorrow we leave for a 3 day tour of the Ghana projects. We are looking forward to that and seeing what is happening on the ground. It will give us a better idea. We will be staying in Cape Coast and venturing out from there to see the different areas where our water projects and others are.
We have started swimming in the mornings at about 6 a.m. or earlier. We do lengths for about 30 - 45 minutes.
All is well! Send us emails -- we love to hear from family and friends!!
Love, Elder & Sister Bullock/mom & dad/Nancy & Jim
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