i hope your week was good. my week was really good. we went to accra to send off the departing missionaries on tuesday. i had some good friends go home this transfer. but it actually ended up being one of the sweetest days of my mission.
we got to go to the temple on tuesday, which was soo awesome. then, afterwards, we had a little down time waiting for president to take care of some stuff, so we were just waiting around the temple for a bit. we had just finished our session, and elder adams and i were talking to elder lamb and the temple president's wife, when a woman from moree (sister mackay, actually) walked in really fast. she kinda glanced at us and quickly greeted us then continued on for a couple of steps before freezing. she turned and saw elder adams and i and was soo excited. then soon after her comes most of the leaders of moree ward. moree ward had their temple trip that day!
we went into where the young men and women were waiting to do baptisms and we saw more members, then went outside and saw more, then went to the area they have for the kids and saw a bunch of the moree kids. haha it was so cool. all in all, between elder adams and i, we probably had about 15 of our recent converts who were there. it just made me feel sooo good to see how these people are still strong and it made me feel like i actually made a difference in their lives.
among those finishing their missions were two of my companions. elder kamara and elder yapo. i'll attach pictures. elder yapo ended up going back to ivory coast on thursday morning with some other ivorians who've been stuck in the temple housing for about a month. i heard that they all left super early that morning, and i heard from a woman here in cape coast that her friend was among those at the temple and her friend got back safely. but as for elder yapo specifically, i havent heard anything. it's not easy.
we spent the night at the mtc then woke up early the next morning and left for cape coast with the two new missionaries coming to our mission (one ghanaian elder and one zimbabwein sister). we came back and did orientation then sent them off to their areas and companions. then we helped with transporting missionaries around cause that was also transfer day. there are two companionships in bakaano branch, and elder bahme is now in the other companionship with us so that is sweet.
the rest of the week we were able to spend doing some stuff that we haven't been able to do cause we'd been out of cape coast for like 6 of the last 7 days, and we got to spend a little time in our area.
well, i'm short on time. i did a little bit of signing up for classes this morning. didn't get all that far though. i've attatched my recording about my coming home date also. let me know what you think.
thanks for everything love you.
love, elder mackay
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| Saying goodbye to Elder Kamara - a great companion! 04-20-2011 |
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| And also to Elder Yapo - another great companion! 04-21-2011 |
