Moses the newest member

Today Moses was confirmed a member of the church . 

"Happiness in this life and happiness in the life to come are interconnected by righteousness."

- Elder Quentin L. Cook

Today finally arrives. The Baptism of Moses.

He was so excited he scrubbed the font , the church was sparkling , the gardens neat and well kept (he worked on it all week at the chapel) and water carried for the font.

Sister Kunbi on the left is probably the most instrumental part of his introduction to the Gospel and then being able to be released and come to learn more about the Gospel of Jesus Christ . 

Sister Kunbi is who requested  us,the mission, to go visit the prison and distribute reading materials a, treat and a christmas visit  and then see what other needs of the  prisoners we could attend to.

She works for ICRC in Liberia but is from Nigeria . She is a great member of the church.
Moses was a recipient of those materials  and after reading about Ezra Taft Benson wrote to the church asking for more reading materials (D &C, Pearl of great price, Book of mormon) . He had quite an experience the next month  (which I am sure is very sacred to him) which led to his conversion and then an unexpected release from prison.

President and Sister Carlson and Elder and Sister Kimball also a great support 

To the new members . This day was a very different baptism. It was so unusual that today there was only 1 baptism at this chapel usually there are multiple. 

This was a very special baptism and the testimony of this newly baptized member was amazing .

One of the branch presidents jumps into the  picture. I wish we had recorded his testimony . He has such an understanding of the doctrines and teachings of Christ and his church. 

Tomorrow he will be confirmed a member and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 

"Happiness in this life and happiness in the life to come are interconnected by righteousness."

- Elder Quentin L. Cook

New Missionary Day

Today we started by picking up this sweet sister in Paynesville to be a branch missionary . 

A hard separation for this mother and daughter !

Our day came to an end as we delivered these 4 out of the 14 newly arrived missionaries to their respective apartments .

Elder Oesi on the far right is one we met in Ghana while we were in Accra . He sought us out as he heard we were going to Liberia . He is from Kumasi Ghana and He had just received his call in November. He was so excited to serve in Liberia !  He is finally here.

The other
two elders are from Nigeria. and of course sister Freeman a branch missionary from Paynesville, liberia.

After delivering Missionaries we went back to the office.
We did a lot of computer work In-between missionary shuttles and we are Still writing projects into CHaS . 

Today was Liberia decoration day so the rest of the city was pretty quiet. 

A big holiday here like Memorial Day .
They honor their family who have died and fallen soldiers.
It is a very solemn day here.

“Teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you.”⁶

Now forget yourself and GO to WORK! 

here are some recipients of the wheelchairs brought into Liberia Just before the mission was evacuated for Ebola.

THese are some of the many recipients of LDS Charity Wheel chairs in LIberia during 2014-2016.
THese pictures are taken by Moses Salame of Doe Community. He is our wheel chair survey person for this project. It gave him an extra job to go around and interview several of the recipients and photograph them if possible. He never used a camera before this.
He became so excited about doing this and what he learned that he has found a new passion for helping the disabled in the community around him.
Hes a very sweet and honest branch President here in Liberia.

Missing home! From Grandpa!

Missing these things today and more!

Last of February and First of March. Time keeps marching on!

A fun week with sister Terry visiting to teach and train sister kimball in Literacy and Elder Terry getting all our computer systems up to date .

A couple of times we got to spend some time with them and what a treat.

It is fun to pick sister Terrys brain.

She is training Sister Kimball and so when I had a minute I would sneak up to their office and sit in on a little training like how to air drop pictures and use some new things on my iPad.

Learning to Airdrop and Pretzel toasting with our 14$ a bag pretzels.

I introduced them to the Falafel sandwich at Sajj and another night we all 4 couples (Kimballs, Allens,Terrys and Wollenziens) went to hear Shannon sing at the Royal Grand Hotel. President and Sister Carlson couldn't come due to mission work.

Sister Terry also went to see Quita's Orphanage one day and that helped give me some new insight into gathering information .

It's been fun to get to know sister Kimball better as well. We missed having sister Allen and Carlsen that time but we will do it again.

At the End of the week our Welfare Leader John Buah arrived!

We had one day to be with him and discuss projects and CHaS and he helped us a lot.
Saturday and Sunday we spent Doing Welfare training in each of the Three districts in Liberia.
Saturday two 3 1/2 hour trainings and Sunday after the three hour block meeting e did one last training in Bushrod Island District.
It was wonderful. It's so important . It was interesting the different dynamics of each district.
Some way head in some aspects of the training and some way be hind and some 1/2 and 1/2.
Just a great training. We got one picture with Prince Nyanforh and Brother Buah. Just to prove we really were busy...😉....Or to remind us we can do 3 -3hour welfare trainings (which usually ended up 4-5 hour meetings due to schedule adjustments and re-arranging buildings etc.) and go to our 3 hours of meetings and still come out smiling!!!!

Prince was one of the Freetown 8.  This next picture it shows the  Paynesville chapel he and his friend hid in and he went out looking for food.

Tomorrow we drive Brother Buah to the airport and head to Harbell to help shuttle miseries for transfers. Our missionaries are in increasing fast. We receive 14 new missionaries on Tuesday. So more Shuttling and fun mission things but the Terry's  will depart Monday as well.  I really like them. I'll miss her.Li

Liberian Woman on the way to the airport.

I'm so thankful for Sister  Kimball and Allen and especially
for sister Carlson who is our spiritual giant angel. We all need each other.
Smile and the world smiles with you !
Here goes March! 1-2-3-4

The Women. So Strong ! So Amazing!