What a great week it has been! With the completion of the zone conferences last week, we had the opportunity to spend more one-on-one time with the missionaries through interviews, a district council and our first proselyting experience. On Tuesday we attended the Dichemso District Council meeting with Elder Aidoo, Elder Barrowes, Sister Codjoe and … Continue reading Isaac and Angel

On Sunday we drove out to the Patriensa Branch to attend Church. Patriensa Branch is part of the Konongo District.  It will become a stake next week which will be a great thing to have the 5th stake in our mission.  It will join Bantama, University, Suame and Dichemso.  The reason we went to Patriensa was to get to … Continue reading Progress

This week we held our third set of zone conferences since arriving.  Tuesday was University and Konongo, Wednesday was Dichemso, and Thursday was Bantama and Asuoyeboa.  Next week we will drive to Tamale and Techiman/Sunyani to complete the circuit. University & KonongoDichemsoBantama & Asuoyeboa While our focus this week was on keys and bananas, they are only … Continue reading Keys and Bananas

The highlight of this week was our third Mission Leadership Council. It was spirit filled from the opening hymn to the closing prayer.  What a tremendous group of leaders. There were three main purposes of the meeting.  1) Build a shared vision as to where the MLC wants to take the mission.  2) Advance the concept of becoming … Continue reading Shared Vision

This week has been the largest transfer for the mission this year: 20 missionaries in and 9 going out. In addition, we did a reconfiguration of the zones along with a few districts, and called and trained new leaders and trainers.  Couple that with a Covid scare that delayed two of our American missionaries from returning home … Continue reading They Come and They Go

Our Happy Place On Monday morning, I again went and played some basketball.  This time Elder Muhlestein came and we played 2 on 2.  Elder Latapu and I lost 2 of the 3 games, but we had great exercise and fun.  Elder Yancey was unstoppable. I returned home around 8:30 am, got cleaned up, finished packing, finished some … Continue reading Our Happy Place

After a busy travel schedule last week, we appreciated having some home time this past week.  It didn’t mean we weren’t busy; we just did most of the work from the Mission Home and Mission Office.  We really appreciated the change in pace. On Monday I went and played basketball again with Elder Yancey and Elder Latapu.  Elder … Continue reading Vaccines!

Monday morning, I went over to the Mission Office at 7 am and played basketball with Elder Yancey and Elder Lapatu.  We played 2 games of HORSE and one game of 21.  Let’s just say I lost both games of HORSE – badly.  I appreciated that the Elders were soft on me for the game of 21.  It was … Continue reading End to End

As mentioned last week, we have changed the schedule of the mission so that means we needed to hold Zone Conferences within 3 weeks of each other instead of every 6 weeks.  This week we did 3:  University/Konongo on Tuesday; Dichemso/Suame on Wednesday and Asuoyeboa/Obuasi/Bantama on Thursday.  This week we will drive to Sunyani, Techiman and then to … Continue reading Zone Conference 2.0

On Tuesday we attended the Atonsu District Meeting at University Stake Center. The University Stake Center has been identified as a YSA gathering center. There were quite a few of them there engaged in an activity of football, exercise, photography and probably a few other things. It was a holiday here in Ghana so they … Continue reading Andy