May 20, 2009

We went to Accra on Monday, had lunch with the Mattinsons and then they had to go back home to take two sister missionaries to their place... We had a great day shopping at the Art Center and then the area office and dinner with the Hales... they are the office couple...she has had tyfoid fever now for over a month and many tests to see why she is still sick one day and then feel okay and then sick again etc...they told her she had exstended tyfoid fever and will be like that for 6 months... she will not go home but keep working in the office when she can... they are great people about 56 yrs old and are extending as the office couple for l3 more months...they will go home for two and then come back...that will be hard....On Tuesday dad and I went to the temple and then to the area office, friends there...I had taken banana cupcakes to Ray Johnson's wife Jill, who has loved them so much when she came up here to visit and requested more...Jill is very helpful and a big asset to the area office people...she is very talelnted in music and writing and has helped write a literacy book for the church...it will probably be used all over Africa and other places to help people teach english...we had brought two more suitcases in the truck with us and ask one of the white men who had just come out of the area office, about taking a suitcase home for us and he said yes and steve could take the other....we could have hugged him right there... anyway two more suitcases, 7 and 8 will leave here sometime Friday night and they will call you on Sunday or Monday to pick them up...Marcus is from Salt Lake and Steve from Pleasant Grove just down the canyon road from us on the left hand side somewhere above the blue cylows (spellling). They are here doing auditing for the church... isn't it a small world? Can you believe how easy that was? I pray they will get home to you safely....Inside the black one, down in the middle area between the baskets is a white envelope.... hopefully it has the phone and address of Moody's ..... they are the mission couple from Orem that just went home.... he forgot to take his credit cards out of the mission office safe and I said I would send them in my suitcase....will you see that they get them? He also left a coat... I will see if I can get it in one of mine later...This couple has been on four missions, one of them to the Lindon Cannery and one to the conference center in Salt Lake and another one to Africa, I can't remember where..... they have l4 children from previous marriages, since the oldest child was l2 years, so that is a long time ha ha...tomorrrow we leave at 4:30 am and take 4 missionaries to Accra for an all Zone Conference, it will be so great because we will get to see all the missionaries that have been here in HO and we love them all and will be happy to talk with them since we will be leaving soon and might not get to see them again...It should be fun, but a long day.....we hope all is well with everyone and grats to Jayson on his graduation..... And HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all the birhday kids this month and my big son Randy. We love you all ... let us hear from you ...... Love mom and dad Can you send this on to all the others this time... I don't have time now to do it..... I have to make dozens of cookies tonight and take to conference tomorrow.... all is well and we are happy ........