Week One

The school where we are working is a really a special place. The administrators of the school are interesting and and inspiring individuals. I already wrote a bit about Brigham (and I am sure I will write more in the future) but we are also having a great time getting to know the rest. Francis Baidoo is the Assistant Headmaster here at the school is a young guy like myself. His sister actually served in the mission with me. Francis, however, is not a member of the Church. Ever since we got here Kyle, Jen, Jayme and I have been talking to him about the Church and pushing him toward baptism. Today (we were told since we were not there) he met with the full time missionaries at church in Praso and has committed to read the Book Of Mormon and work towards baptism. I love how open to the gospel Ghanians are! If only the world could be a little bit more Ghanian in so many ways!

This week Jayme and I have been holed up in the Library for almost all of our time. We are inventorying and organizing the library here and we are going to train a teacher who has been hired to be a full time librarian. After combining this years shipments with the books that LDS Charities and an Eagle Scott donated to the school, we have a grand total of around 1600 books. Most of them are in the elementary school reading level and we hope in the future they can expand their Junior High and High School level books. This library blows the other local school's libraries out of the water and we are just hoping that we can get the kids reading and enjoying it.

We also spent a day working in the school's infirmary (they call it the Malaria Centre). We brought over a lot of medical supplies and added them to the ones that were left over from last year. They now have a pretty decent supply of medicines that the kids can take when they are sick with malaria or anything else. We are going to be training the teachers and administrators on how much medicine to give the kids etc. There seems to have been a bit of a problem with not giving out the meds last year since they think they will run out and they won't be able to get any more anytime soon. We are telling them that they need to use them or they will expire and never help anyone. This week looks like it will be more of the same for me but Jayme will also start training the teachers here too.

Also...one mouse, two spiders and a lizard have managed to penetrate our house so far. Jayme has been less than excited about welcoming the house guests so I have been taking care of their entertainment.