Our Mission to Africa: Jealous Much?

As Rapunzel says to Fiona, so says Kelsey to her siblings..."Jealous much?" Looks like she is the only child to make it to Ghana for one reason or another. It sure has been a nice break for mom and dad. We wish all three could be here, but are happy Parker is doing well and now ENGAGED! Something like November 10, right after we get home. Brookie has been basking in the Florida sun and we hope to see them on our way home. This week has been a milestone on our mission, as we thought if we could make it this far, then we could have our batteries recharged and the rest would be down hill. We've done just that..now bring on the rest of the mission.

You know what they say...when in Africa, do as the Africans do. We took that to heart this week and now fell pretty well rested--like this man sleeping on his fishing nets in Cape Coast.

or this man, sleeping under the overpass in Tema...

or these men, sleeping in the castle at Cape Coast.

Well, we really haven't spent all of our time sleeping, it's just that Kelsey has a fascination with taking pictures of sleeping people, and there is plenty of them to see here in Ghana.

We drug her all across Ghana as we were so excited to share our country with her. We spent the majority of the first week in the car and had to take a few days just to let her catch her breath.

Here we are in the car somewhere in the middle of Africa with a little tro-tro wisdom to boot.

It didn't take long to figure out that Kelsey is a horrible back-seat driver. Gee whiz Miguel, I didn't realize how bad you actually had it with her. Did you want to give her back? Sorry, but no refunds, but while she has been here, I think I did fix the problem. After driving around Africa for the last 12 days, she is completely cured. She promises that she will never again complain about the way Miguel drives as she now knows how bad drivers can really be. Its kind of funny, she never actually drove, but she wore the horn completely out on our car. That's right...SHE wore out the horn. She kept reaching across and to 'give it' to some obnoxious taxi or tro-tro driver. Truth is, there wasn't one that didn't deserve it.

In the mean time we continue to be missionaries and we put her to work. It was fun having Kelsey here to help with all our little projects. She came to the MTC, helped with immunizations, and we put her to use doing dental screening on the missionaries. We saw a few sisters missionaries with concerns in Cape Coast.

At the beginning of the week the phones were somewhat quiet and we were allowed a little play time; but I don't think we had a busier day than this Friday, so at times I was a bit frustrated. First things really do have to come first. I had three missionaries in three missions needing to go home on Friday and it was quite hectic. Thankfully things got done that needed to get done and life in the mission field will go on.

After scooping her up from the airport, we whisked her away down to Cape Coast. We had dinner with the Shulz's and the Asays on the beach. We walked the canopy of the rain forest, and visited the slave castle. Momma was in heaven I think.

An evening on the Coast...

A day in the rain forest, swinging on a vine...

Same, only better...

Safari in Ghana? That is correct! We took President and Sister Graham out for a day away from the MTC on Wednesday. We had lots of fun and it really kinda did feel a little safari-ish. We saw gazelles...