We are in Accra

 Jeffrey and I attended an official welcome meeting with the Area Presidency and the DTA. Currently, we are still in a hotel but Jeffrey is the acting ALC as of today. The Burtons will go home on Saturday and today they were packing up their house.

I have been saying hello to many of my old friends and it has been great! We are getting what we need  with technology and setting up communications. I met Michael from the tech office and our former Stake President on the same floor and several others as I moved around the office.

Yesterday we had a hello/goodbye lunch with the OGC (Office of General Counsel) to say hello to us and goodbye to the Burtons. We met the Powells who are are really hilarious, wonderful, and cool. For example, on April 1 they told the Burtons that another couple was coming in a couple of months to take their place and that they needed to leave immediately. The Burtons have almost but not quite forgiven them for the angst at the April Fools Joke.

 The others were on the other end of the table but we met the Whites - missionaries that I wrote to about coming to Ghana and what to bring and not to bring. It was so nice to see them personally! Then the Manwarrings at the far end of the table whom I am eager to get to know. While we were in the hotel restaurant, they stopped to talk to a man who wanted to know about the church. Amazing! I am looking forward to the next three years!

Lunch at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel

Elder and Sister Manwarring, Jeffrey and I, Dinah legal coordinator, The Burtons, Esther legal coordinator and Elder and Sister Powell.    The White's were talking and we didn't realize they weren't in the picture!

Elder and Sister White

Welcome from the Area Presidency

Alfred Kyungu Second Counselor, I, Jörg Klebingat First Counselor, Jeffrey, President Gifford Nielsen, and the DTA (Director of Temporal Affairs) Flint Mensah

Pick up and Warm Welcome by the Burtons

First night we arrived, dinner with the Emmy and Richard Burton at a favorite restaurant Moka's the night we arrived.