On July 24, 2022 we will fly home to Utah from Accra, Ghana.  We are preparing everything needed so we feel prepared and complete to return home and be released as full-time missionaries.  We are not the same people we were in January 2021; eighteen months ago.  We are older, yes, anxious to leave, yes, sad to leave our friends, yes, happy to know much more than we did when we first came, absolutely.   The above picture is with Elder Jorg Klebingat (wife is Julia) in the Area Presidency Office ending our meeting with him.  He is the only member of the Presidency in Africa right now.  Elder and Sister Nuria Martinez have left for SLC where he will work out of Church Headquarters, and Elder Larry and Pauline Kacher are back in Midway, Utah.  He turned seventy and is now emeritus status. We would have had a picture with the full presidency but we did our welcome interview over zoom because of covid concerns in February 2021.  Not easy to ...

There is a library in Osu, a part of Accra.  It serves the people in that area so they can access books and experience the joy of reading. Kathy Knowles started this library and many others in other areas in Ghana. I believe she said she has 9 libraries around the area.  She is a Canadian.  The library is her passion and she is in charge, but her husband is very supportive. She has local people she trusts run the libraries and she visits a couple of times a year to make sure everything is running smoothly. The library is constructed of three containers joined together on one side, that comprise the library, and storage area for new books that she sells and an office for Joanne, one of the librarians, and a  single shipping container on the other side, for another office for Enoch and storage space for kids supplies and games, and a breezeway in between, for a classroom.  A roof was built over it all to give it a homey look. Senior Sister missionaries have, ...