Jesse didn't get our e-mail this week : (

wow, this is the first time mom and dad have both not emailed me on a p-day for my whole mission i think. that's pretty impressive that you went a full 1 1/2 plus years with out missing ONE week. don't worry about it, my sisters emailed me this week so i still got mail.

well this week was a good one. on tuesday we were able to have most of the day in our area after district meeting, which was really nice. on wednesday we went on splits with some missionaries in ola, an area outside of cape coast. i was with a missionary named elder mcfarland, who is from new zealand. he's really sweet.

on thursday, we had to go to a place called swedru (about an hour east of cape) and pick up some stuff and drop some stuff off. then we came back and were able to spend a couple of hours in our area before driving out an hour west of cape to takoradi. we were there in takoradi from thursday evening to sunday afternoon. we stayed at the lambs house, and they took wonderful wonderful care of us while we were there. they are going home in like may, and we're gunna miss them alot.

on friday and saturday we went on splits with missionaries in the takoradi area. then on sunday we had a couple of sweet meetings that we went to. we first had an hour long meeting with the missionaries from sekondi and takoradi zone. the takoradi stake president (president davis) spoke to us for a bit, then elder mensah, who is an area seventy spoke to us. finally elder dicksen, from the first quoram of the seventy spoke. it was really cool. he talked about how much God loves each and every one of us, and how essential it is for us to have the spirit with us as we do this work.

after that, takoradi had their stake conference, so we stayed for that. the accra temple president and wife, stake presidency, and elder dicksen spoke along with others, it was cool. the best part of it, by far, though, was seeing all my old sekondi people. oh man i was just smiling the whole time as i saw some of my favorite people in ghana. joel ran up to me through a group yelling "this is my man!"

christy sackey was called as the secretary in the stake relief society. sarpong is preparing to put his papers in very soon. the niquay (nee-quay) family is all baptised (father, mother, and the three children who are old enough). they also brought a friend to church who was recently baptised, and that person brought a friend to the stake conference.

laud essle and his new wife emma were there all happy and holding hands (who is from moree but was on a mission and got back right after i left moree). it was a pretty fulfilling afternoon for me. after that we went back to cape coast and made some preparations for our instructions for our meetings we're having thisweek.

so you can see we're busy! it's cool though, and as you are well aware by now, i love ghana and i'm really happy here.

i think that's about all i have for today. thanks for the packages by the way (shauna and mom) i'm enjoying them. love you!

love, elder mackay