Thursday, December 07, 2006
November 20 group - refreshingly small
Four Sisters and 12 Elders - but with one catch - only one of the missionaries was going to a French Speaking mission - all the others were English bound. We foresaw the problem two months ago, but any changes or juggling were left to the last week and we just couldn't see telling the missionary he had to wait 6 more weeks to come - so we did our best!. He is the Elder in front of President Nielson - Elder Logbo from the Ivory Coast. We didn't know what we could do about a companion, but again, one showed up - one of the English bound missionaries spent a little time in the Ivory Coast and knew a bit of conversational french - so for the first week, Elder Logbo had a one on one teacher with our French instructor - and bunked and ate and studied with his partially French speaking companion - and we got him to the temple twice and sent him back to the Ivory Coast for his practical experience at the hands of President Ounleu. It was hard to see him leave without the full MTC experience, but I feel it was the best for him. The other 15 hail from various corners of the world - there is one American from Virginia who will fit in really well here in Africa, one South African, five from Sierra Leone, three from Ghana and five from Nigeria - All but three will be serving their missions in Nigeria. Small groups we get to learn names and faces much better than the larger groups. A nice break for us.# posted by Ghana Gazette @ 8:52 AM 
