Another missionary! Adam has been called to serve in the Australia Adelaide mission. He will enter the Provo MTC on September 1st. He is one excited young man!

Adam's mission call came Friday morning and by 2pm Dad and I were headed to Provo. We all met at Nate and Brooke's and we got Shannon and Shane on speaker phone. We all tried to guess where Adam would go and Andy and Tori got it right! We had a fun weekend.

Nate Bracken and Brooke

Abby, Laura, Randy, Ashton

Nicole

Abby

Quinn, Ashton, Jack and Izzy. Joan had to work-we missed her.
Chad and Kelly
Andy and Tori

Aaron sent pictures! He wrote on the backs so I just copied what he wrote. Start clockwise at top L corner. 1) MTC Temple trip to Accra. The temple grounds are probably the most well kept and beautiful grounds in all of Ghana. 2)Recent convert, Abina, and I. 3)Pres. and Sister Sabey and I receiving my gift at the Christmas Zone Conf. 4)Ghana MTC 5)Kumasi Zoo. Haha, I didn't notice the two "zoo animals" at the bottom until afterwards 'cause there's so many bums in that area it is normal. That's Africa for you. 6)Bro. Odame.This guy makes soap for a living and he is one hard workin' dude.

Top L-1) Dontown Kumasi (Kajetta). Just imagine horns honking, people shouting and some Bob Marley music playing over the speakers. Welcome to Ghana. 2)I went to jump in bed one night, pulled the topsheet off my bed and out jumped this guy. He wanted to sleep with me!! No Joke. That is a regular writing pen next to him-he's big huh? 3)My main man, Mark, on his baptism day. This is by far my best friend in Ghana. 5)This cat came into the wrong backyard. We skinned him, gutted him, cooked him and ate him. Cat tastes good. 6)Elder Neupalau, a true Tongan, and I on the mountain. 7)Shanty town market. A crowded, fight, confusing maze of market places. Once you go in there, you might not come out-haha. You can buy everything from freshly slaughtered goat, to clothes, to car parts in there.

Top L(cloclwise)-1)Elder Blazzard, my Trainer, and I. Bunnies taste good. 2)My first time pounding FuFu. It's harder than it looks. (Notice the African Elder is already done).
3)This is the family that provided the FuFu for us. 4)A recent convert named cheif and his sister. 5)The great big feast. We cut their throats, gutted them, screwered them, and ate 'em.Around here we eat the head, eyes, tongue, ears, everything.
6) Lush plants and some flood water after the rain.

Most of you know we got some water in our basement at the old house last week. So we had Ronnie come put in a sump pump in the storage room. It was a mess to get it in, but we won't have to worry about water in the basement any more!

Thought Chad, Aaron and Adam would like to know that their work of art is still on the wall in the old basement. Since I was there for a couple of days messing with the water situation, I decided to paint the basement. I painted all the white space around the flag, but left the flag in tact! For those of you who don't know, years ago when those 3 were at home they painted this flag without my knowing what they were up to. (I must admit to painting that wall fushia pink-it's the only paint I had at the time and the wall needed a paint job badly-guess the boys never really liked the pink wall). Imagine my surprise when I happened down there one day and saw their masterpiece-it was so good I had to let it stay. When people look at the house that is one thing they all really like!