It is Thursday morning. I took a walk this morning with Nick.  He and Irene are the Human Rights Missionaries who arrived just a few weeks ago.  They live in apartment #7.  This is their 3rd African Church Mission.  Nice people.  I will talk more about them sometime.  They are not the reason nor the subject of my short post.  He and I walk most mornings now.   We walked through part of the neighborhood and then headed over to the Koala store.  On the way, he wanted to see the Chinese restaurant in that part of the neighborhood so I took him that way.  Upon entering the gate to the place (many businesses and homes have gates), I noticed the security guard off to the left sitting on the bench.  It was way too early for the restaurant to be opened.  He mentioned something about that. We just wanted to get acquainted with the place and go for dinner sometime soon. He noticed my badge (we wear our missionary badges everywhere w...

 The Accra, Ghana temple, like all temples, was closed for many months.  Our temple reopened for living endowments a few months ago.  It is open now for all ordinances.  One needs to make an appointment, however.  The Area administration building is where our office is.  We park our car on the south side of "temple square" and walk to the north side toward our office, passing the Temple.  We do it just about everyday. Moroni's statue stands high above us.  A familiar and good feeling to see him.  Here are two pictures of the temple I took taken from the second floor of the stake center looking north toward the Area administration building. Elaine and I made an appointment on Thursday hoping to go to the temple the following week.  We were able to attend the 12:30 session on Friday, the next day.  Nice.  The Temple outside, and especially inside, is the most beautiful, and clean building in this part of the planet.  It is s...

Time to post something.  Something good and interesting.  Interesting to keep your attention.  They caught my attention. We see this billboard each day we drive north on Liberation Boulevard (aka Independence Blvd.). No, the car isn't the attention grabber.  We are glad we don't see a sign like this in the states.  It makes one think about how things could be. There are many Muslims here.  Ghana celebrates Muslim holidays even though the country has many Christians as well.  A mark of a good country one would say.  Ramadan, the ninth month in their calendar started April 12 and ends May 12.  Muslims refrain from certain things like food and drink from sunrise to sunset.  They eat just before the sunrise and just after the sunset they have a feast for the day.  Who could really fast for that many days, right?  Still, a good thing to do.  During the days one contemplates good things, reads the Koran and does good things like...