The Africa MTC is in Accra, Ghana

We were very fortunate on February 11 to see the MTC and take a short tour.  The MTC is still closed.  When it opens to receive missionaries is still up in the air.  Like everyone else, we hope it is soon.  

A couple in our MTC group last month were the Hills; Dell and Deni (Denise).  They are heading to the Philippines to be Humanitarian missionaries as soon as the country opens up.  They previously served in Mongolia and then in Ghana. they loved their Ghana experience working in the old MTC.  They returned from Ghana in 2018 soon after the new MTC was open.  They spent a short while there before completing their mission and coming home.  They were so excited to learn we were going to Ghana.  It is through the Hills that we met up with Solomon Amoah a supervisor or assistant manager there. the Hills worked with Solomon. He is a young man with a small family.  He and his wife have two children, one newly born. 

The MTC is such a beautiful building and so well constructed.  It really stands out to me after seeing so much of Accra which resembles the typical developing country construction (basically cement block sprayed with stucco) which is not up to US standards.  The local standards meet the local needs and I can understand why they do it. This MTC has beautiful tile and wood throughout.  Housing for a few couples and large facilities for the single missionaries, of course. This building is impressive in every respect, inside out, and up and down.  The weather allows for a large central garden and an open-air exercise facility.  Here are a few pictures.  The hand washing facilities are outside every church building; part of Covid 19 precautions.  We had to take a "selfie" in the lobby by the wall mural of the Savior and apostles.  It helps the new missionaries get the idea of what they are on their missions to do.

You can see the new missionaries are well taken care of.  l didn't take pictures of the infirmary,  the class and meeting rooms, the huge laundry, the cafeteria and dorms (those we didn't see. They are upstairs in the tower).  The missionaries are here anywhere from three to nine weeks depending upon where they serve and language they will speak.  I remember Solomon mentioning three languages taught that are spoken in African; one being Swahili.  Solomon was so gracious.  I think he is a great host to have the new missionaries first encounter in their MTC experience.

The MTC visit only took a few minutes and then we headed back over to the administrative building where we work.  The MTC is separated from the surrounding buildings by a wall and iron gate to drive through and is situated just south of the stake building which is south of the Temple.  Check out google earth.