A tough week...so no traveling, back to Maamobi for Sunday meetings

Each day in the office we look at pictures of the Area audit team.  We have a big board that includes pictures of the Area Audit Committee, the Area 70s, and the A2AAs ("assistants to the area auditor", the area auditors who manage teams), and lastly the AAAs (the "assistant area auditors"). The Area auditors are assigned to a one or more Coordinating Councils which is lead by an Area 70. 

We had the six A2AAs come into Accra for an annual spring training (April 9-10, 2021).  One flew in from Sierra Leon, one from Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), two from Nigeria, and the last two drove in from parts of Ghana.  They came into town Thursday night and we had training meetings Friday and Saturday at the Area offices.  The Area Auditor, Atobora Brown, had Ross plan the training and create the agenda for the two days.  It was a big assignment.  It took gathering ideas, pulling together church training material to use, and then creating some PowerPoint presentations for specific subjects.  More than one week of effort.

By Saturday night both of us were out of energy.  We slept soundly all night long.  It made up for losing some sleep Thursday and Friday nights. 

We are super impressed with these guys.  They have so much experience and knowledge.  They are so dedicated to their assignments which is evident in their hard work and expressions of love and adoration for the Savior.  These people are not ashamed to talk about their beliefs and faith in everyday conversation.  It is inspiring to us.   Here they are:

Ross, Elaine, Godwin Udofia, Stanley Omorogbe, Felicien Mobio, Prince Akakpo, Solomon Agbo, Atobora Brown (the Area Auditor), and Kuadio Jean-Mermoz Amani.

In the words of our good friend Spencer Brown, "These men are stallions!  Hard-working servants of the Lord!"  And so they are.  We feel fortunate to be working with them.

Because it has been a long and tough week, we decided to stay close to home and not travel far for church meetings.  We stayed close to home and enjoyed the Maamobi ward.  Remember, the one with a lot of goats outside?  Here is a picture of some of them.

This is the first enclosure you go into from the "alley that wants to be a road".  There are some really cute goats running around!  Here is the picture from the first enclosure showing the way into the second enclosure which is the parking lot for the ward house which you can see on the right of the picture; the ward occupies the first floor of the building.  Straight ahead, the small flat building with the two doors visible is the bathrooms. 

We enjoyed the sacrament meeting.  When the sacrament hymn, "In Humility, Our Savior", was sung, you know you are in the right place.  It feels really good.  

Following the ward meetings, there was a baptismal meeting.  Four people were there dressed in white and looking good.  The ward has a small baptismal font just outside the building.  Here is a picture of it.

What a great treat for us to be there for this!  Two children, one young man in his early twenties maybe and a young woman in her late teens.  

It was a good decision to stay close to home being so tired from a long week, and then getting to see the baptism. 

We had a break-the-fast lunch at the other Senior Missionary apartment complex, Beaufort Ridge.  Everyone brought something to share.  It was good to see those people as we don't get to see them much outside of the occasional visit at the Area office.  There are only three couples where we live and the rest are living at Beaufort.