After the prior two weeks of zone conferences and interviews, this past week was much more manageable, focused almost entirely on missionary interviews. On Monday we held our monthly Missionary Health Council, a meeting with our Southern Mission Facilities Mission Manager, Aaron Allotey, a meeting with Lynn and Janice Pack who will be coming in … Continue reading Suame Noise

This post covers the two week period of April 24th - May 7th 2023. These two weeks cover the zone conferences for April and May. The title of the post is the focus of the zone conferences that we held. On Monday April 24th, I played basketball again with the missionaries in the Daban District. … Continue reading Pure Testimony

Picture from the top of the "hill" to when we hiked looking back towards Senchi. This post is for the week of April 17-23, 2023. We spent most of last week at our Mission Leader Seminar that was held in Senchi. It is a town at the base of Lake Volta. The "resort" we stayed … Continue reading Senchi

This post is for the week of April 10th - 15th. This past Sunday was another hallmark day for the Bibiani District. A group in Nyinahin held their first meeting in a school. Br. Daniel Osei Bonsu has been called to serve as the Group Leader (the man holding the camera). There were 17 in … Continue reading Nyinahin

So many changes this past week. The title of the post is Change 16.0 because this was our 16th transfer week since arriving in Kumasi. 25% of our Mission Leadership Council is new. That equates to 4 new zone leaders and 3 new sister training leaders. We had 8 missionaries complete their missions and 8 … Continue reading Change 16.0

This post is for the week of March 27 - April 1st. The title once again comes from this week's letter to the missionaries found here. The graphic titled "Parable of the Sower" explains the symbols of the parable comparing them to post-life destinations. The letter just expounds on the graphic. I will come back … Continue reading Planting Seeds

This post covers the week of March 20-25, 2023. The title of the post is in reference to the feeding of the 5,000 and the lad who so readily gave up his 5 loaves and 2 fishes to the disciples so that Jesus, unbeknown to the lad, could multiply the food and feed the multitude. … Continue reading It is Enough

This post will cover the two week period from March 6th - March 19th. It was within these two weeks that we held our 16th set of zone conferences. We don't really have a theme for each conference, only a series of instructions that we feel are what the missionaries need to hear. Since we … Continue reading Building Blocks

This blog post covers the period of February 26 - March 4. I am late posting it because the subsequent week was our busy travel week to the North. On Monday morning the office elders, the Assistants and the Aboabo Elders, Tom Rogers and I gathered for some games of basketball at the mission office. … Continue reading The Spirit of Prophecy

There is no better title for this week's blog post. On Sunday, I attended a meeting in Accra with Elder D. Todd Christopherson, Elder Paul V. Johnson and Elder Alfred Kyungu (Elder Kyungu is in our Area Presidency). In attendance were all of the stake, district, and mission presidents from Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. … Continue reading Priesthood Power