Sister Wood

Hi Karie

I found out about a month ago it was his birthday and I did tell him I would bake a cake to celebrate. He is one of my favourite missionaries .  We discovered it also was the birthday of Sister Nyembe on the same day, and another girl from their branch.  So we are having a combined celebration.  

I have  arrange with Elder Khumalo  to have the celebration in the morning for breakfast so we don't break your family tradition and hopefully he will get a surprise. 

Last week we did inspections of all the apartments in the Techiman, and Sunyani districts. We were incredibly surprise to find the Dwumoh apartment, where Elder Nelson is, was the cleanest by far of the seven apartments.  I did bake a banana cake for them as a prize.

We are loving  our mission.  The people of Ghana are mostly very friendly, devout  and humble.  We both wanted to try and help others, and to serve hands on where we could.  That has certainly been the case for my husband.  We  also go out to teaching appointments with the the young missionaries and we have loved those experiences.  I am teaching two temple preparation classes and also will start helping people with family history. In August a literacy program is being instigated and I am to part of that. 

Ghana is truly a third world.  We have been to China and traveled some distance there, also through Thailand and those places never prepared us for what is here. I I was shocked to see the squalor, poverty, filth, pollution of garbage everywhere, and the extremely hard lives of many people.  I forgot to add the heat and the hideous red dust that coats everything and is everywhere!  We am adjusting to it all. 

I hope you are enjoying being the Primary President. I have been twice in that calling.  Children are the most rewarding to teach.

God bless you and Brother Nelson for raising such an amazing son. He is so very lovely and respectful to the saints here and they love him as we do.   I wish you could see him playing the organ and singing on Sunday's as he plays. He is a delight. He comes every week to our temple prep class and has been blessed with the gift to explain things at the level of the hearer.  He has an amazing spirit and wears the mantle of a missionary one hundred percent. 

Arohanui  

Sister Wood