Ghana Gazette

What a joyous morning - well, part of it was - we got up early to try all our machines to see if we could load pictures - no! We removed our Logitech camera to see if that was the problem - no! We removed "live messenger" - no! We were depressed - yes!!!! Then I noticed each time I tried to down load a picture, the blocker sign came on - and even though we had (supposedly) told the program to allow popups on this one program, it must have been blocking them anyway - so in loading the Internet I keyed on the blocker ICON - and in small print at the bottom it said (press control to allow pop up on certain links - hurrah, this was a "certain" link and we've got pictures again. To those who are patient, thank you, to those we've lost forever - we regret - to parents waiting a month to see a picture of their Elder or Daughter - voila!!!
This group was highlighted by only one Elder from outside Africa - Elder Hannis from England. How well he fit in with the group and how very much they appreciated him. I believe you can spot him in the photo. It was our largest group of Congolese that we've had -9 of them from Kinshasa, Brazzaville, Kananga,, and Lubumbashi. Also highlighting this group was our first missionary from Ethiopia - Elder Megerssa - what fine young man. His conversion story is a good one - they don't have full time missionaries in Ethiopia so the branch missionaries were the ones who converted them. Their door opener was "Would you like to go to America?" - He says that that really interested his father, but once they went to the meeting with the missionaries the spirit took over, and going to America became a minor matter of little or no importance. His family is now a strong element in the church at Addis Abba. Other countries represented in this group are: South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe. We had to recruit one extra sister to come and be a companion with the only English speaking sister - Sister Mensah from the Tema 2 ward - she is preparing for a mission and we expect to see her here again during our stay at the MTC.