Awe-gust doings

I wanted to add more pictures to this post, but kind of ran out of time and internet connection. I will do another post soon to let you know--The Rest of the Story. . . .

The couples and Assistants made a quick trip to Charlotte Falls. It is so beautiful, especially during the rainy season. The only problem is that the rocks become VERY slippery with algae, etc. Sorry about the splashes on the picture!!!


The sisters of Freetown Branch (Relief Society) gathered for a Relief Society meeting on tie-dying. It was very interesting to watch. The different patterns they created and the colors they used were beautiful. They were cooking the water over their charcoal fire. They had advertised the event as batique (?). We mentioned that to the sisters. They said they didn't want to do batique(?) because it wastes a candle. They have to watch every leone here.

We had the wonderful experience to have dinner with Solomon and Victoria Agbo. They are a very sweet and wonderful couple that we have come to know and love. He is the branch president of Goderich branch, which was our "home" branch while on our mission. They are both from Ghana. They had a wonderful dinner for us.

They then presented us with these beautiful Ghanaian dress and shirt made from country cloth in Ghana.

The first part of August, Elder Jones went with Mustapha Turay (the gentleman on the right) to do waterwell inspections prior to paying the final payment to the contractors. Elder Jones had a wonderful time driving through the bush.

This is at one of the well sites. You will note the fence that they have around the well. They are required to put a fence around the well to protect it. The posts that were used for the fence are indicative of most plants around here. You can take a plant out of the ground, it can have no roots, and you replant it and it grows--sometimes even when you aren't trying to make it grow

Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to . . . The first part of August we were cut off from Guma Valley water. We supposedly were attached to a line that was a private line. We had some problems trying to get water to Belliar Park (the location of the mission office). It presented even bigger problems when there were baptisms scheduled. There was no water in the tanks at the chapel, so they had to figure out how to get the water from the tanks up at the mission office. The senior elders ended up cutting the line that feeds up to the upper tank. They then attached some PVC pipe to a hose and ran it down to the baptismal font.

After they had gotten the water in the font, they then had to build a little fire in order to form a connection to re-connect the pipe that had been cut. We are nothing if not creative.

One of the solutions that the Church has come up with so that water doesn't continue to be a problem was to drill a water well. (This is not how they drill the wells out in the villages). Here is the water gushing out from the well. We got to watch it from the mission office window.

One of the faces from around Belliar Park---

Miatta

My piano students--Jeffrey, Jimmy and Joseph. You might think that you had to have a J name in order to take lessons. I am so proud of them. Joseph is particularly impressive. He started with me a year ago and has practiced on a paper keyboard except when he came for lessons. He played this past Sunday for the first time.