When the Mission President's wife is not feeling well and it is transfer week, it definitely feels like there is an arm missing. Fortunately, Elder & Sister Garrison and Elder & Sister Moomey were here to fill in the gaps and with their help we made it through what was a very busy week. LaDawn … Continue reading Missing Arm

We have had what I would call a most unique week, different in so many ways from all of the other weeks we have been here. And as the saying goes, "a change is as good as a rest", although we may have enjoyed some of that as well. On Tuesday, we attended the district … Continue reading Water to the End of the Row

"For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, ... righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain … Continue reading Opposition

In our zone conferences this time around, one of the highlights was the instruction that LaDawn provided on Gossip. We don't know if all missions struggle with this horrible habit, but we know that the Ghana Kumasi Mission has improvement in this area that needs to be made. It was eye-opening for the missionaries to … Continue reading Don’t Pass It On

After the Techiman conference on May 15th, we headed north to Tamale for interviews and a zone conference on the 16th and 17th. We then returned to Techiman on the 18th and held interviews with the missionaries there before driving to Sunyani where we stayed the night, had zone conference the next day (May 19th) … Continue reading Road Trip

On Sunday of this week we traveled to Techiman. We left around 7 am and arrived about 9:15 am. In lieu of having four branch conferences which are difficult to schedule due to the distance and the fact they all meet at 9:00 am in different buildings, we decided to have a combined branch conference. … Continue reading Techiman

So many things happened this week, that it is hard to find a main highlight. We had missionaries completing their missions, new missionaries coming in, missionaries from member districts departing for their missions and a missionary who has returned with honor from a mission in Nigeria. In addition, we did leadership training for new missionary … Continue reading Press Forward, Saints

What is the best way to recharge when you are serving as mission leaders? The answer is to attend a mission leader seminar with the Area Presidency, stay in a hotel on a beach, enjoy the companionship of 16 other mission leader companionships, and eat food prepared by and cleaned up after by someone else. … Continue reading Recharge

Maxwell, Emmanuel, Godwin, Godwin, Catherine You might wonder why we have titled the post this week "The Army of Helaman" and then have a picture of 5 young single adults. It has never happened to me, and I believe it is quite unusual to experience what I experienced this week while in Tamale for a … Continue reading The Army of Helaman

There is something special about spending Easter in the mission field. There is a focus on the Savior that full-time service brings that is difficult to realize any other way. As I work out on the elliptical in the mornings when we have time, I like to watch Tyler Griffen and Taylor Halverson's Come Follow … Continue reading He is Risen!