Going to Africa

This is the story of how we came to Ghana

First there was the miracle of Deanne's neck. After we received her call and were getting ready to leave Deanne had a sharp and ongoing pain in her neck. (No, it wasn't Bob.) It turned out to be a herniated disk at C5-C6. After several major miracles she ended up in the office of Dr. Chuck Rich, Utah's pre-eminent neurosurgeon who managed to fit her into his schedule a month before our departure date. She was supposed to take six weeks to heal but we managed to leave on time.

This is Deanne with her neck brace on the plane on the way to Africa. When we landed she took off her brace and never needed it again.

Missionary work in Africa followed the change in policy which allowed all worthy men to hold the priesthood and allowed all families to be married in the temple.

We served in Ghana which is virtually half way around the world.

The founding member of the Church in Ghana was Billy Johnson who organized congregations so that when the missionaries arrived all they needed to do was interview and baptize the congregants. 

This is the building in which the congregation in Cape Coast met anticipating the arrival of the missionaries.

This is the interior of the Cape Coast building. The replica of the Moroni statue is now in the Church History Museum in Salt Lake.

This is a picture of people waiting to get baptized soon after the missionaries arrived.

This graphic shows how truly large Africa is. Africa is the future of the Church.

Here we have arrived at the airport in Accra, Ghana

Before we left Deanne ran into a friendly face shopping for shoes. President Monson bought his shoes from the same store as Deanne.