All Africa Day of Service
One of the most memorable
activities we have done here was with the Dodowa branch. The entire ward brainstormed
activities to do a month in advance and then planned the day. “If you want to
stand in holy places, you will be there”, said Branch President Yingura. This is his family.
Three couples came with us, the
Berretts (Denny and Lorene) from Liberia (and from our home Stake),our new
friends the Kirkhams,(Jan and John). and the Watsons, (Ed and Pat.) We
left at 6:00 am to get to Dodowa by 7:00a.m., and then drove to the town
further north to work at the police station there. We whacked weeds, cleaned
gutters, washed furniture, and swept and cleaned up garbage so that the new
police station could open it’s doors soon. The weed whacking champion was a lady named Gifty.
She spent the whole time bent over and whacking the weeds down to the dirt. They
use a knife or machete here called a cutlass to cut the grass.
Sister Watson
Everyone helped.
Priscilla is going to school and works
really hard. Being the only member of the
church in her family, she has learned everything she knows from the scriptures
and from attending church. She shines.
The light of the gospel shines in her face.
She is wearing the helping hands vest that we all wore for the All Africa Service Day.
I got an ant sting that felt like a bee sting but it did not damper the joy of working with such good people. The desks and chairs inside the station were ones that you might just
throw away – and no one at the DI would even buy them, but they were the ones
they would be using. We wished that we had some furniture to give them or at
least some furniture polish or shoe polish or something to help them out, but
all we were able to do is to wash them and get the wasp nests out of the
drawers.
"It is finished"
Two little neighbor boys passed by us on the road, taking their homemade stick controlled car with them for a drive.
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